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THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
curious to notice how much the furs of our own native island were used and
appreciated in days gone by. Riley, in his Memorials of London Life, gives
two charters granted by Edward III., viz., first, 1327, and thirty-ninth, 1365,
addressed to " "
our well-beloved men of the city of London called Pellipers
(or Pilterers : the Church of St. Mary Axe was called St. Mary Pelliper,
from a plot of ground near, where the Pellipers dressed their skins). In
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the former it is stipulated that every fur (i.e. set of furs) should contain a
certain measure, viz., every fur of minever of eight
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tiers should contain
1 20 bellies; a fur of bishes (a
fur made from some part of the skin of the
hind) of seven tiers, 60 beasts ;
a fur of popelle (i.e.
the back of the squirrel
in spring) of seven tiers, 60 beasts ;
a fur of stranlynge (i.e.
fur of the squirrel
between Michaelmas and winter) of six tiers, 22 beasts; a fur of scurella
(i.e. squirrels of other kinds than those named), 60 beasts ;
a fur of beaveret