† Tavistockn.
Obsolete.
A woollen cloth formerly made at the town of Tavistock.
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1535–6 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 12 §3 Any clothes called Tavestockes, Westerne doseyns, Friseys, Kendalles, Cottons, and all manner of course clothes made for lynynges.
1545 Rates Custome House sig. diijv vj. Tauestockes for a clothe.
1551–2 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6 §29 Any Clothe or Clothes made in the Towne of Tavestoke in the Countie of Deuon..commenlye called Tavestoke Clothes.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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