gentles of the Historic Costume List, I greet you well. While happily reading my way through a transcript of the Exchequer Pipe Rolls of the Reign of King Henry VII, - I bethought me of the volatile discussions we had when founding the Company of the Duke's Leopards in "old" Jersey - about what textiles would have been available for Sale in England in the laet-15th century. So I thought that it might be helpful to those of you who have also wondered thus, - to copy for the List from that transcript from the Rolls Series, - a list of the fabrics bought to make a fresh Wardrobe for Henry Tudor and his immediate Household, to clothe them suitably in the days directly following their Victory at Redemore Fight [ Battle of Bosworth, 22nd August, 1485] - for their triumphal Progress towards - , and entry into London.
In the Transcript of the Bills paid to Raynauld Bray by the Exchequer on Henry's direct order under his privy Seal, each item is listed by type of cloth, yardage, price per yard, for whom bought, for what to be made, and total cost. Enjoy! Cloth of gold, riche, Cloth of gold, riche purpille Cloth of gold, grene Satene, blak Satin, crymesyne Brodereban for gurdilles Satin, blak Canvas Lynen Velvet, blak Velvet, crymesyne Fyne chamlet, blakDemi-chamlet, blak, blew, & redde Sarcenet, chaungeable Crymesyne inne grayne Violet inne grayne Blak inne grayne Bokeram Hawestrete Medley Fyne straite Blak [for hosen for the Kinges Grace] Fyne straite Redde [for hosen for the Kinges Grace] Light Tawney Blak Kersey White lynyng [for hosen] Fyne Skarlet of Florence The garments listed to be made with these fabrics include "clokes, doblets, gowns, demi-gowns, short gowns, and hosen" Velvet, sarcenet, and lynen are also listed as being used for linings to garments, as well as for the garments themselves. I hope this exactly-datable, Exchequer Roll-derived, entries-transcript will prove useful to some of you. In service to the medieval Dream, Julian Wilson _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
