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mustviler (1396)

mustviler (1396)

mustredevillers  
  FEW:  monasterium *6/iii,72a Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  mostier (*)  DMF: TLF: OED:  musterdevillers n.  MED:  muster-de-vilers n.  DMLBS:

s.

textiletoponymkind of grey, woollen cloth, originally from Montivilliers Abbey (Normandy)
( 1396; MS: s.xv1 )  Auxi je vuil que vous en alés [a] un drapere et achatez vous de lui [...] .viii. vergez de mustre de villers et de melley et atant de rouge  Man lang ANTS 5.35-36
( 1423 )  Item, .i. remenaunt de mustvilers contenant .v. ulnes, pris ulne .vi. s. .viij. d.; .xxxiij. s. .iiij. d.  Rot Parl1 iv 234.805

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See also:

muster1 
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