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Bills & Receipts
- A Shrewsbury Tradesman's Invoice (1594)
- Lady Jane (Stanhope) Townshend's Bills, Receipts and Accounts ( 1580s-1590s)
- Mr Orme's Bills from Tailors, Haberdashers, etc. (c. 1590)
- Shoemaker's Bill for Catherine Parr (1545)
- Tailor's Bill for a Gown, Kirtle and Bodies (1604)
- Tailor's Bill for Amy Dudley (1566)
- Tailor's Bill for Doublets and Men's Gowns (1594)
- Tailor's Bill for Lady Elizabeth Saye, (1530s?)
- Tailor's Bill for Robert Spencer's Daughters' gowns (1601)
- Tailor's Bill for the Earl of Essex (1577)
- Tailor's Bill for William Cecil (1556)
- Tailor's Bills for George Choworth, 1621
- Tailor's Bills of Sir Richard Boyle (1604-1607)
- Tailor's Expenses of a "Gentle Youth", 1614-1615
- Wedyng apparell bought for Elizabeth Draper (1550)
Books of Account
- Account Extracts for the Farmor Children's Clothing (1580-1590)
- Account for Sir Claud Hamilton's Suits of Cloathes (1614)
- Accounts for Poor Relief in Ipswitch (1580s-1590s)
- Clothing given to Welsh Servant Ellin Vawr (1600)
- Petre Household Accounts
- Sandwich Account Book of Orphans (1588-1606)
- The Account Book of William Wray, Haberdasher (1588-1597)
Dictionary
Dress in Literature
- A Poste with a Packet of madde letters. The second part.
- A dialogue both pleasaunte and pietiful (1564)
- A Discourse of some troubles (1603)
- A merry dialogue between Band, Cuff, and Ruff
- A Neaste of Waspes (1615)
- A Summons for Sleepers.
- A true discourse concerning the certaine possession of... one familie in Lancashire
- Bill of complaint in condytt vs chubbe
- Collectanea chymica a collection of ten several treatises in chymistry
- Comfortable notes vpon the bookes of Exodus and Leuiticus
- Descriptions of foreign European fashions from Coryats Crudities
- Deux Dialogues du Nouveau Langage Français Italianizé
- Discours Nouveau Sur la Mode
- Don-Quixote
- Epistolæ Ho-elianæ familiar letters domestic and forren
- Essayes of Montaigne
- Galateo espagnol, or, The Spanish gallant
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Holinshed's Chronicles
- If you know not mee...(1606)
- In Defence of Conny-Catching
- Kempes Nine Daies Wonder
- Moryson's Itinerary
- Pasquils mistresse
- Poetaster
- Relations des Ambassadeurs Venetiens
- Stubbes' Rants on Clothing from his Anatomy of Abuses
- The French Garden (1605)
- The French-man and the Spaniard
- The Golden Grove
- The rogue: or The life of Guzman de Alfarache
- Wits bedlam where is had, whipping-cheer, to cure the mad.
- Wits trenchmour in a conference had betwixt a scholler and an angler
Inventories
Letters
Special Collections
Statutes & Legal Documents
- 16th c. French Statutes of Apparel
- A Petty Chapmen explains where he got his wares (1598)
- Custom Rates, 1643
- Fabric lengths, weights and prices for New Draperies (1578)
- Fabric lengths, weights and prices for Norwich fabrics (1592)
- Lex Mercatoria (1629)
- Seizure of Clothing at Dutton
- Statute Regulating London Wages
- Statutes of Apparell
- Women wearing illegal velvet in Wiltshire (1542)
Textile Dyeing and Cleaning
- A Little Dye Book (1677)
- A Profitable Booke of Dye Receipts (1602)
- Allerley Mackel (1532)
- Dye recipes from the Leyden Papyrus X, c. 300 AD
- Dye Recipes from the Mappae Clavicula, c. 800 AD
- Dye Recipes from the Stockholm Papyrus, c. 300-400 AD
- I Segreti de Colori (15th c.)
- The Innsbruck Manuscript
- The Secrets of Alexis of Piedmont (1580)
Textiles and Clothing
Wardrobe Warrants
Wills
