The Royal Navy . and fourpence apiece were bought for the same number ofseamen, sent from Cornwall to Berwick to join the fleet actingin conjunction with Surreys army against Scotland. WhenI visited Japan the feudal system was still in force, and I havemyself seen the retainers of a Daimio, or feudal lord, wearingjacks similar to those of our seamen of the Middle Ages, withtheir lords cognisance and crest exhibited before and behindprecisely as it was ordered by Edward III. That the ship-men were not accustomed to wear this livery when engagedin their commercial avocations we know from Chaucer
The Royal Navy . and fourpence apiece were bought for the same number ofseamen, sent from Cornwall to Berwick to join the fleet actingin conjunction with Surreys army against Scotland. WhenI visited Japan the feudal system was still in force, and I havemyself seen the retainers of a Daimio, or feudal lord, wearingjacks similar to those of our seamen of the Middle Ages, withtheir lords cognisance and crest exhibited before and behindprecisely as it was ordered by Edward III. That the ship-men were not accustomed to wear this livery when engagedin their commercial avocations we know from Chaucer, who,in the fourteenth century, describes a sailor as garbed in agowne of falding to the knee. Falding was a kind of coarsecloth like frieze, and this garment was probably that whichunder the designation sea-gown, a rough weather cloakgirdled at the waist, continued in use until after Stuart times. SEAMANS DRESS, UNDER ANNE AND THE EARLY GEORGES Circa 1702 to 1750With Herbert and Russell, Vernon and Mathews. ! -n
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