Page 174, 1578-9:
For making of a straight bodied gown of chamblet for Thomasina, a woman dwarf, garded with velvet, laid on with lace of crimson and white silk ... a paire of sleves of Carnation taffata cut [for her], lined with sarcenet; a peticoat of red mockado striped with copper gold, laid over with lace ... a straight bodied gown of watched taffeta with hanging sleeves laid with lace of counterfeit silver and silk ... a paire of sleeves of orange collored Taffata ... a peticoat of stamell coloured cloth garded with velvet laid on with lace of crimson sylke with bodies of crimson taffata.
The materials become richer as the years go on. 1580:
A gowne of blacke wrought vellat, the grounde yellow sattin, for Thomasina the dwarfe, layde with counterfeit silver lace ... a straight bodyed gown of yellow satten striped with silver ... a gowne of orrendge coloured chamblet garded with blacke vellat ... 3 paire of sleves of white satin (p. 239).
She was in mourning in 1585.
From the other series of accounts in Latin an even fuller description can be gained of the increasing gorgeousness of “Thomasina, our Woman dwarf”:
a toga of white satin with gold lace and ribbon, the sleeves jagged and lined with carnation satin.
In 1589 she had a
gown of carnation and black fygured satin lined with silver lace, a stomacher and sleeves of white satten cut and lined with silver lace; a gowne of changeable silk grograine with 2 paire of sleeves, and a stomacher and sleeves of white sattin, fringed with gold lace; a petycoat of changeable tuft-taffeta with 3 gold lace about, the bodyes carnation satin.
The following year she had a similar gown of tuft taffeta laced about with Venice silver, the bodice and sleeves wrought all over with like lace. The next gown for “Thomasina Muliercula” was a variety