English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485 -- Sources
_Item_. Whether Fishpole made the two long garments of sarcenet down to
the ground, and one green gown to the fall of the leg, with wide sleeves
of sarcenet, and whether every of them contained not 7 or 8 yards of
sarcenet, and whether every of them were not better than 20s. apiece,
and whether if such garments were made of new stuff, would not have cost
almost twice as much money.
_Item_. Whether that Fishpole made not a woman's gown of sarcenet of
small pieces, and whether it was not worth 20s. and better.
_Item._ Whether he made not two other garments with wide sleeves of
small pieces, and whether they were not worth 20s. or a mark apiece.
_Item._ How long Fishpole was a-making of them, and whether he had not
the while 4d. a day and meat and drink, and whether Rastell's wife hath
holp him to sew them.
_Item._ Whether Walton hath not the same garments lent to him by
Rastell, and whether Walton hath not continually this 4 year let them to
hire for stage-plays and interludes, above 3 or 4 score times, and what
he used to have for a stage-play, and what for an interlude, and how
much money he hath won thereby.
_Item._ What the short spangled garment of blue satin of Bruges was
worth, and what every other garment and piece was worth.
V.
_Interrogatory ex parte_ RASTELL.
_Item._ Whether about 3 or 4 years now past, about which time the King's
great banquet was at Greenwich, which this deponent saw, the said
garments were occupied there, some in divers stage-plays and interludes,
by the letting to hire by Walton, as it was reported, and at that time
they were fresh and new, and seemed little the worse for any wearing of
them before.
VI.
_Depositions for the part of_ JOHN RASTELL _against_ HENRY WALTON.
[_Deposition of_ WILLIAM FISHPOLE.]
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