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APPENDIX 3 INVENTORY TAKEN AT WARWICK CASTLE, 22 JANUARY 1644

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2024

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WCRO, CR1886 BL2711.

References

2 Murrey: a colour resembling that of mulberry: OED.

3 Velure: velvet: OED.

4 Used attributively of products of Lucca, Italy: OED.

5 The Wooer: character in the Old Testament Book of Hosea, Ch. 2.

6 Meleager: the leader of the Calydonian boar hunt in Homer's Iliad and Greek mythology.

7 Antick: ancient or antiquated: OED.

8 The case or cover containing feathers, flocks, or the like, forming a mattress or pillow: OED.

9 Brazil: the dye stuff and dye yielded by the hard brownish-red wood of an East Indian tree, known as Sappan: OED.

10 Witney, Oxfordshire.

11 Stammel: a coarse woollen cloth: OED.

12 Possibly gimp: silk, worsted, or cotton twist with a cord or wire running through it: OED.

13 Watchet: a light blue colour: OED.

14 Tentwise: in the manner or shape of a tent: OED.

15 Buckram: ‘A kind of fine linen or cotton fabric’, or, ‘A kind of coarse linen or cloth stiffened with gum or paste’: OED.

16 Saye: a light, twilled woollen fabric resembling serge, used for aprons, bedding, curtains and commonly green in colour: OED.

17 Pintado: a fine cotton cloth painted or dyed with patterns of flowers, imported from India, used especially for cupboard cloths, quilts, and curtains: OED.

18 Massy: of metals, esp. precious metals, and metal objects: occurring in mass; solid and weighty; wrought in solid pieces; not hollow, plated, or alloyed: OED.

19 Possibly alembic: an early apparatus used for distilling: OED.

20 Dornick: a fabric initially manufactured in Tournai: OED.

21 Kimnel: a tub used for brewing, kneading, and salting meat: OED.

22 Probably the mechanism for raising and lowering the gatehouse's portcullis.

23 The Vineyard was a large house of 13 hearths in Warwick, where wounded parliamentarian soldiers were cared for in 1643: Stephens, W.B. (ed.), A History of the County of Warwick, Vol. 8: The City of Coventry and Borough of Warwick (London, 1969), 452475Google Scholar.