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Stemming, Stamyn(g, n. Also: stemmyng, -ying, -yne, -ene, -ein, steming, -yng, -en, -eme, stemeing, stemnyn, staming, -eine, stoemeing, stenning, -yng, stenyng, -yne, stenneyn, steinyng, stannyng, -yne, staining. [ME and e.m.E. stamin (Ancr. R.), stamyn (Chaucer) a coarse garment; stamyn (Prompt. Parv.), stamen (1495), stamyng (north., 1553), stamine (1594) woollen or worsted cloth, OF estamine (1155 in Larousse), late L. staminea, L. stamina.] A woollen cloth suitable for the manufacture, esp., of hose, also, various other garments, and used as a furnishing fabric. b. pl. c. attrib.(1) ?1438 Alex. ii 6783.
In myddes the palace, quhare thay sat On purpour stemming and veluat 1525 Treas. Acc. V 254.
For j eln and half j quarter of blak stemnyn to be ane pair of hois for the king xxij s. viij d. 1541 Treas. Acc. VII 465.
For twa peces of hosing of stemmyng 1548–9 Treas. Acc. IX 279.
Quhite stemmyng to be schankes to my Lorde Gordounnes hois of quhite welwote 1550 Treas. Acc. IX 419.
Tua elnis purpure stemmyng to be tua hors housis 1555–6 Edinb. B. Rec. II 365.
Ane elne of blak stemming, for the coppye of the gild lawis 1565 Hay Fleming The Reformation in Scotland (1910) 611.
Twa gounes … ane of freis and ane of stemmyng a1568 Sempill in Sat. P. xlviii 30.
It meites lyk stemmyne to ȝour theis 1569 Soc. Ant. VI 52.
Blak stemmyng to be ane buriall cleyth upoun my Lordis beir 1580 Treas. Acc. MS 43(2)b.
Grein stemming to cover his maiesties drystule 1583 Perth B. Ct. 19 Nov.
Ane pair of breikis of gray stemmyng chekkerit with veluot 1584 Laing MSS 51.
The grene stemmyng the best cullourit he can get for money & the fynnest 1604 Misc. Maitl. C. I 402.
The cleyth fixt to the pulpet of grein stemmyne 1611 Stirling B. Rec. I 128.(b) 1560 Admir. Ct. Bk. (St. S.) 183.
Ane pece blew stemmyng 1580 Aberd. B. Rec. II 37.
Sex pair of schankis, tua pair of silk, pryce of the pair x lib., four pair of steming, pryce of the pair iii lib. 1600 Crim. Trials II 237.
Half ane elne and ane quarter grene steming, to be him ane pair of sokis(c) 1558 Mill Mediæv. Plays 185.
vj elnis of yallow staming 1559–60 Treas. Acc. XI 5.
Stamyng 1565 Treas. Acc. XI 358.
Stamyng — 1566 Treas. Acc. MS 110.
xj elnis ij quarteris of blak stamyng tobe ane burdeclaith to cuuer twa chiris [etc.] 1583 Edinb. Test. XII 280b.
Stamyn 1591–2 Burntisland B. Ct. 17 March.
Stameine 1595 Edinb. Test. XXVIII 9.
lvj elneis in remaneis of broking stamyng 1599 Glasgow B. Rec. I 194.
Sa meikill reid stamyng as wilbe ilkane of thame ane mantill(d) 1541 Aberd. B. Rec. I 175.
Ane galkoit of stenyng, the price x s. 1557 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. I 155.
Four pair of hois … the feird pair of stannyng 1562 Coll. Rebus Alban. 144.
Staining 1566–7 Reg. Privy S. V ii 248/1.
Stenning 1594 Argyll Acc. 10 Jan.
xiiij ells and ane half of fyne blak stannyne to be your lordships page and laquie clothis 1614 Rec. Earld. Orkney 381. 1634 Innes Sketches 373.
Fyne reid skarlett steinyng(2) 1535–6 Treas. Acc. VI 275.
To be the kingis grace ane pair of hois, iij½ quarteris of blak stemmyng of Mylane, price thairof xxxv s. 1538 Treas. Acc. VI 398.
For schankis to thame of Carcransoun stemmyng of Mellane, xx s. 1538 Treas. Acc. VII 107.
Ane pair of hois of quhite Inglis stemmyng 1539 Treas. Acc. VII 253.
Blak stemmyng of Melane to be ane pair of haill hois to the kingis grace 1550 Treas. Acc. IX 456.
Send to covir my lord governouris burdis in Hammyltoun, vj elnis grene stemmyng of Myllane 1552 Treas. Acc. X 114.
Reid stemmyng of Myllane … to be ane vilecoit and hois to Lady Anne 1552–3 Edinb. Old Acc. II 16.
Ane pair of hois of stemmying millane 1561 Treas. Acc. XI 66.
l elnis of Franche blak stamyng to be xv cloikis and skirttis to hir gracis ladeis 1561 Treas. Acc. XI 68.
ij elnis of blak stamyng of Florence 1565 Treas. Acc. XI 388.
v elnis ij quarteris of Inglis stamyng to lyne ane coffer 1573 Edinb. Test. III 30b.
Tua pair of galay brekis of Frenche stemming 1581 Treas. Acc. MS 82².
Reid Inglis stemmyng to be calȝeit bordis to work the bordar of the said scheittis 1589 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. viii 104, 105.
Stemen … Stememe 1615 Thanes of Cawdor 238.
3 quarteris Inglis stenning … for stinting to his dublat and clok nek(3) 1562 Treas. Acc. XI 180.
To Johnne Levingstoun, maister stabillar, viij elnis stamyng of serge, the elne iij li. 1587 Treas. Acc. MS 85.
Sex quarteris … of tanny cannellie stemming 1590 Edinb. Test. XXI 232b.
Fyve elnis of madin hair stemming 1605 Edinb. Test. XL 185b.
Twa ellis of cairschaw stemmyng at xlvj s. viij d. the ell c1642 Tailor's Acc. Bk. B 47.
Ane govne & stoemeing of moyhairb. pl. 1580 Cochran-Patrick Coinage I 104.
The best stemmyngis wer sawlde at iij li. v s. the elne 1587 Acts III 507/2.
That the saidis strangearis ar cum within this realme to exercise thair craft and occupatioun in making of searges growgrams fusteanis bombesies stemmingis beyis covertouris of beddis and vtheris 1599 Reg. Privy C. VI 32.
The derth … of Inglis claith and stemyngis within this realme 1600 Reg. Privy C. VI 135. 1603 Glasgow Weavers 86.
His Majestie, for the bettir setting fordwart of that … interpryse of the making of claith, fustianis, stemmyngis, grewgranis and all uther kynd of stuffis, hes expreslie prohibit … the transporting … furth of this realme of woll 1603 Dundee B. Laws 536. 1621 Reg. Great S. 44/2.
Pro importatione de lie cloithis, stemingis, freisis, cottounes, stuffis, stokingis &c.c. attrib. c1560 Acts & Decr. XV 78b-79b.
Ane pair of blak stemmene hois 1571 Sempill in Sat. P. xxviii 52.
Quhill I was cowit, and cled vp lyke ane fule, In stemming rokket, riches to ressaif 1571 Sempill in Sat. P. xxviii 69. 1575 Inverness Rec. I 243.
Stenyne 1582 Kennedy Aberd. Ann. I 183.
Brown staining breeks 1589 Glasgow B. Rec. I 142.
Twentie ane schilling vj d. for ane pair of stemyng hois 1589 St. A. Test. II 109.
Ane pair of gray stemmein schankis price x s. 1589–90 Lanark B. Rec. 96.
Ane ryd wylle coit of gray steming bodyis 1590 Waus Corr. 463.
Ane stenneyn cloig, for his vther cloik is vorne 1595 Brechin Test. I 128.
Ane gray stemeing petted 1615 Haddington Mem. II 289.
Ane stand of reid steming courteines 1632 Inv. Newark 3a.
Ane yellow steming bed 1636 Comm. Univ. I (Edinb.) App. 27.
Lie stemming stuffes et stockingis 1664 Misc. Maitl. C. II 509.
2 steming petticoatis — 1574 Reg. Privy C. II 374.
Ane hors laid of Inglis steming clayth 1588 Waus Corr. 426.
Als meikill of the langest and fynest as will be ane stane [of weill] washine wool becaus it man be fynnit to be my stamyng [clayth]