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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Londo(u)n(e, Lundoun(e. The name of the English capital, used attrib. Chiefly of varieties of cloth.(1) 1435 Exch. R. IV. 628.]
[Pro … octo ulnis panni nigri de Londoniis(a) 1501 Treas. Acc. II. 30.
For v quarteris Londone scarlat to lyne the samyn [doublet] lx s. Ib. 35. 1586 Ib. MS. 83 b.
Tobe … ane pair of sockis … fyve quarteris and ane half of Londoun broun at viij li. the eln 1594 Argyll Acc. 10 Jan.
Mair four elles of Londoun brown to be … ane slevit clok 1600 Tailors Acc. Bk. 4 b.
Sad olive cullored Londone claith to be ane pair of soikis 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 308.
English fusteanes called Londoun or Norwitch fusteanes 1621 Edinb. Test. LI. 139 b.
Six elnes Loudoune steming at iiij li. vj s. viij d. the elne 1629 Dumfries Test. I a. 214 b.
Ane gray Londoune claith cloak 1640 4th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 512/2.
[A bed of] incarnatt London cloath(b) 1546 Acta Conc. & Sess. XXI. 53.
Ane gowne of Lundoun russett barrit with weluot a1568 Sempill Bann. MS. 125 b/5.
Bayth Pareis blak and Inglis broun, Lundoun sky quha lykis to by 1569 Canongate Ct. Bk. 78.
Ane gowne of Lundoun broun garit with velvot 1569 Treas. Acc. MS. (1567–9) 162.
Fyne Lundoun grene tobe ane burdclaith Ib. 237.
ij elnis … of Lundoun claith tobe ane cloke the elne iiij li. 1595 Edinb. Test. XXVIII. 9.
xlij elneis of argentie Lundoun braid claytht 1610 Ib. XLVI. 166.
Four ellis … broun Lundoun claith at x li. the ell(2) 1507 Treas. Acc. III. 257.
For iij^m London pinnis … and other small thingis to the King himself(3) 1587-99 Hume 30/147.
Sume likes the reamand [MS ryme and (? read rymeand, ‘reaming’)] London beare The bodie to refresh