By every one a pretty boy
Sat making quills with mickle joy.'
[[496]] The burler's business was to remove knots, loose ends and other impurities.
[[497]] The manufacture of these cloths was licensed in 1390, provided the quality was not improved.—Statutes, 13 Ric. II.
[[498]] Assize R.
[[499]] Liber Custumarum, ii. 549. Spanish wool is prominent amongst the imports at Southampton in 1310.—Customs Accts., 136, no. 8, n.
[[500]] Statutes, 4 Edw. IV.
[[501]] Statutes, 7 Edw. IV.
[[502]] An alkali, known as 'cineres,' possibly a kind of barilla or carbonate of soda (Rec. of City of Norwich, ii. 209) occurs fairly often: e.g. taxation of Colchester, Rot. Parl., i. 244.
[[503]] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 6.