WINCHESTER COLLEGE 53 less 1 nail (2 1/4 ins.) : both were woven in pieces 100 ells long and in half-pieces. The piece was thus the length of a crest cloth of 25 crests each of 4 ells or 5 yds. Both lock¬ ram and dowlas were bought throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at rates similar to ordinary canvas. Guernsey cloth, a linen similar to, though perhaps wider than crest cloth, was bought in the fifteenth century at rates analogous to better quality lockram. In the fifteenth century linen from the Low Countries was frequently undescribed, except for holland which was in use from 1394. Flemish linen was purchased until 1465 for albs, towels, cupboard and tablecloths under such names as Flemish, raw Flemish (unbleached) and Brabant

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53 WINCHESTER COLLEGE less 1 nail (2 1/4 ins.) : both were woven in pieces 100 ells long and in half-pieces. The piece was thus the length of a crest cloth of 25 crests each of 4 ells or 5 yds. Both lock¬ ram and dowlas were bought throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at rates similar to ordinary canvas. Guernsey cloth, a linen similar to, though perhaps wider than crest cloth, was bought in the fifteenth century at rates analogous to better quality lockram.