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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1566-1638
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Mantua, -tuay, -tew, n. attrib. Chiefly of bonnets, also, of hose: Made or as made in Mantua, the city in northern Italy. —1566 Treasurer's Accounts MS. (1566–7) 120.
xiiij mantuay bonettis the pece xiij s. iiij d. 1568 Edinb. Test I. 196.
Foure mantew bonettis price of thame xxxij s. 1572 Ib. II. 223, 1575 Ib. III. 362 b. 1575 Ib. 383 b.
Sex mantua bonettis price of the pece … x s. 1581 Ib. IX. 186. 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 291.
Mantua bonnettis and English bonettis the dozen … xii. li. 1638 Adamson Muses Thr. 5.
Here hings an auncient mantua bannet —1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 315.
Hose … of cruell called Mantua hois … the pair xlviii s.
