Date published: 1981-01-01
Source: The King?s Coffer (ID83)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID32)
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1607-01-01 - 1607-12-31

Prices for articles of clothingedit

A manifest for the Nuestra Senora del Rosario out of Seville gives the prices asked in St. Augustine around 1607 for ready-made articles imported from Spain. Linen shirts with collar and cuffs of Holland lace cost 48 or 60 reales; doublets of heavy linen were 29, 40, and 52 reales; hose of worsted yarn cost 28 reales a pair; a hat was 34 to 42 reales. Breeches and other garments were made by local tailors and their native apprentices out of imported goods, with the cheapest and coarsest linen running six reales the yard, and Rouen cloth, 10 and 18. Boots and shoes were made by a part-time cobbler from hides prepared at the tannery. [Note 65: Cargo manifest 1607; act against Fr. Alonso del Moral, included with Gov. Marques Cabrera 6/28/1683; Gov. Hita Salazar 9/6/1677; Francisco Menendez Marquez, Juan de Cueva, and Francisco Ramirez 1/30/1627.] The cheapest suit of clothes must have run to 20 ducats (27.5 pesos). (Bushnell KC)

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