nd short boots orbuskins, or shoes with high fronts and backsthat turned over each way, all of them longtoed, (some in the extremity of the fashionbeing fastened to the knee by a chain) andthese were called Poulaines (figs. 11,12,13)Paradin says, When men became tii*ed ofthese pointed shoes, they… … of shoes and boots should not be more thantwo inches in length, any shoemaker or cob-bler making them longer, forfeiting twentyshillings, to be paid, one noble to the king,another to the cordwainers of London, andthe third to the chamber of London. Thishad the effect of widening the shoes and to S6…
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