"Fine white or nun's thread is made by the Augustine nuns of Crema," writes Skippin, 1631.
From the Great Wardrobe Accounts the price appears to have been half a crown an ounce.
"Eidem pro 2 li. 4 unc.' fili Sororis, ad 2s. 6d. per unciam, 4l. 10s."—Eliz. 34 & 35.
State Papers Domestic. Eliz. Vol. 84. The sum total amounts to 4,287.
See Burgundy. "The naturalized French residing in this country are Normans of the district of Caux, a wicked sort of French, worse than all the English," writes, in 1553, Stephen Porlin, a French ecclesiastic, in his Description of England and Scotland.
1559. Oct. 20. Proclamation against excess of apparel.—State Papers Dom. Eliz. Vol. vii.