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Cunny/coney/conie/cony skinns.
A coney was a rabbit - mentioned in Gervase Markham's The English Housewife written in the early 17th century (McGill-Queen's U.P., 2003,chapter 2, paragraph 54).
'A conie is so called because they make cuniculos, is little holes or burrows under the ground'. Quoted in Janet Arnold's Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, Maney, 1988, p.362.

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Black hoods

Black hoods, often of silk ('taffetie'), were a popular type of headgear for women. According to Mary Evelyn, daughter of the writer and diarist John Evelyn, a fashionable lady required: 'Hoods by whole dozens, White and black'. Mary Evelyn, Mundus Muliebris or The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd, (London, 1690), reprinted by the Costume Society, 1977. Wenceslaus Hollar (1607-1677) produced a number of finely detailed engravings of costume, some of which depict women wearing hoods. 'Winter' from his Four Seasons series provides a lovely example (The Four Seasons. Wenceslas Hollar, J.L. Nevinson and Ann Saunders, The Costume Society, London, 1979). The University of Toronto's online 'Hollar Digital Collection' shows several images of women wearing hoods.

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Norwich Stuffs

According to Ursula Priestley, who has written widely on the subject, 'the term Norwich Stuffs came into use in the early part of the seventeenth century to describe a specialist range of light-weight fabrics, usually of mixed composition, that evolved from the New Draperies'. Ursula Priestley, The Fabric of Stuffs: The Norwich Textile industry, c.1650-1750, Textile History, Volume 16, Number 2, Autumn 1985, pp.183-184. See also, Ursula Priestley, The Fabric of Stuffs: the Norwich textile industry from 1565, The Centre of East Anglian Studies, 1990. Norwich Stuffs were light-weight worsteds, made using long stapled wool which was combed to align the fibres - thus resulting in a smooth worsted yarn. Other fibres, particularly silk, were mixed with the worsted in order to add interest. Norwich master weavers were very skilled at making slight variations in the weave of the fabrics so that each could be promoted as a 'new' product. The main characteristic of Norwich Stuffs was their sheer variety - 'of infinite varietie and difference of Sortes, Figures, coullours and prices' (Priestley, Textile History, Volume 16, p.184). In order to try and avoid imitation, Norwich Stuffs were recognized by a Parliamentary Ordinance in November 1650: An Act for regulating the making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich, www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/acts-ordinances-interregnum/pp451-455.