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ElizabethHerts
31-05-15, 17:44
I am transcribing a will from 1621 and have come across a phrase that looks suspiciously like: "It’m I give to my sister Dorothy my olde broad cloth gowne & to her iij youngest daughters a dowlace kircher a peece".

Comments would be welcome!
Sue from Southend
31-05-15, 18:20
Apparently it's a coarse linen fabric - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/traded-goods-dictionary/1550-1820/doublet-dozens#h2-0015

Hope the link works!
ElizabethHerts
31-05-15, 18:40
Apparently it's a coarse linen fabric - http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/traded-goods-dictionary/1550-1820/doublet-dozens#h2-0015

Hope the link works!

Thanks, Sue, the link did work. That is very interesting.
I wonder if I have the second word right? The will was written in Cornwall and I'm well aware that terminology varied according to geographical area.
Merry
31-05-15, 18:54
kircher

The only similar word I can think of is kirtle.
Janet
31-05-15, 19:04
Kerchief?
ElizabethHerts
31-05-15, 20:04
It's a PDF document and I have taken a snapshot of the phrase but can't copy it across. Photobucket won't upload it, unfortunately.
Uncle John
31-05-15, 20:23
Kerchief?

The context suggests you may be right.