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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), 452–475Google Scholar.