English Industries of the Middle Ages / Being an Introduction to the Industrial History of Medieval England

by L. F. Salzman

[[514]] Plunket appears to have been a pale blue, half the quantity of woad sufficing for plunkets that was used for azures, which in turn took half the amount required for blues.—V. C. H. Suffolk, ii. 258.

[[515]] Liber Custumarum, i. 129.

[[516]] There were no doubt the 'browne blewes' of later records: e.g. a Benenden clothier was fined in 1563 for 'a browne blewe, being a deceiptfull color.'—Memo. K. R., 7 Eliz., Hil., m. 330.

[[517]] Liber Custumarum, i. 125.

[[518]] Alkermes, an insect resembling cochineal.

[[519]] Statutes, 24 Hen. VIII.; cf. 4 Edw. IV.

[[520]] Little Red Book of Bristol, ii. 8, 9.

[[521]] Rec. of City of Norwich, ii. 119.

[[522]] Statutes, 4 Edw. IV.; 3 Hen. VIII.

[[523]] V. C. H. Essex, ii. 255.