Note 435 — Front matter (continued 4)

In Coventry the wool buyers appear to have been the clothmakers. The dyers in 1415, who were "great makers of cloth," took "the flower of the woad" for their own use (Rot. Parl., iv. 75). In 1435 we hear of the clothmakers employing combers to card wool (Leet Book, 182), and in 1512 we find that a searcher examined the wool to see that it was free from filth for the clothier (ib., 636).