Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 119
and value—so thick that six threads of silk or hemp were inthe warf—was called samite. I^ater, when the cloth of gold was more in use,and the name had changed from ciclatoun to bundekin, and from that to tissue, to keep suchfine cloth from fraying or tarnishing, they put verythin sheets of paper… … RICHARD THE FIRST 57 A curious survival of this time, which has a con-nection with costume, was the case of AbrahamThornton in 1818. Abraham Thornton was accusedof having drowned Mary Ashford, but he wasacquitted by the jury. This acquittal did notsatisfy popular feeling, and the brother of…
Costume -- Great Britain
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