Not sure if you are still interested but recently found this... nice knie detail

Annibale Carracci ca 1580 - Butchers

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rracci.jpg

Another image of a portable forge this time from 1601 - Showing Dutch on Maurtius doing various things. Looks like this forge is on legs and in a (metal?) box, incidentally is also the first depiction of a Dodo published.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Het_Tweede_Boeck.jpg

Bevis

Hello follow Tudor woodsman. When we are doing coppice/charcoal making at Grayhill water is an issue as we a a fair walk from the nearest well. We have used in the past a lovely 5 litre wooden barrel from Matuls in Poland to hold our drinking water, refilling it once a day. This is available from ht...

Inter library loan and a scanner - for strict personal research purposes only of course, a lot cheaper

Found a bit in the elizabethan underworld by gamini salgado after i had posted.

Glad to have been of help

B

Christabel, The most famous pedlar of the period is perhaps the fictional Autolycus from Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale in Act IV Scene IV he enters stage thus: Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing AUTOLYCUS Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses; Masks for...

For a 1580s image of boots here is a detail of Phillip Sydney's funeral procession showing some booted London Trained Bands officers...

A point to bear in mind is that in the Tudor State Papers the words ensign and company can be interchangeable. So it could be be a reference to the coat colour of his companies. Sorry to muddy the issue. "Their Ensignes also they will not call by that name, but by the name of Colours . Which t...

Not eactly the Midlands, there is always Kentwell in Suffolk

http://www.kentwell.co.uk/Re-Creations/Tudor

Nothing on until next Easter mind....

Did you go to Mary Arden's Farm near Stratford?

http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/visit-the ... -farm.html

Good living history working farm set in 1570s

James

Wow that was 2 years that I last posted on this thread. Since then I've done a lot of research. There is no evidence for laced start up style boots or the low laced boot that has appeared in the last few years. All the pictorial evidence shows a pull on boot, at present I'm in the process of doing ...

I have not bought any clothing from these chaps but the standard of their work is usually outstanding. Though primariy a medieval supplier they have recently started a line of early C17th men's clothing that looks supurb.. http://www.matuls.pl/index.php?IDP=1&Lng=en&IDKategoria=36 http://i24...

Glad you like it, found it by accident

I have recently come across the quote referring to equipment to be got for levies being sent to Ireland from Lancashire in 1584: they shoulde be furnished with swordes and daggers, and lykewise conveniente doblettes and hose, and allso a cassocke of the same motley or other sad greene color, or russ...

Not directly related to Butchers but the article "The Leather Crafts in Tudor and Stuart England" http://www.bahs.org.uk/14n1a2.pdf does mention butchers as a source of leather. Might have a few useful bits in the notes/bibliography?

Bevis

You might be best joining the 'Chirurgeons' Yahoo discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chirurgeons/ and asking them the question The group describes itself as 'History of Medicine Group for Living History and Re-enactment Medical Practitioner' - I have been a member for a few years and ...

Found this whilst looking for something else, as is often the case. It is a Gazeteer of Military Levies from the City of London, 1509-1603 by Dr. Ian W. Archer, Keble College, Oxford. It is very detailed and well worth a look at. http://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/site/human/modhist/personnel/785598/research/...

er...looking at the picture again what you have there is a portable bellows: I would assume the actual hearth is a pile of turf. Sorry to be a pain! I agree the forge looks quite substantial. In fact looking at the picture they have built two house like structures so building a forge would not be t...

Found it. It is a view of Port Desire in Patagonia by De Bry dated 1603 (in 'The Sea Dogs' by Neville williams page 208) Of course De Bry may never have seen a portable forge I doubt he ever went to Southern Argentina! whole picture (spot the penguin competion): http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg...

Can anyone point to evidence of knitted garters in the C16th? There is the line from Taming of the Shrew "let their heads be sleekly combed their blue coats brushed and their garters of an indifferent knit" act 4 scene 1 This is a reference to servants (also a nice reference to the wearing...

Oh now I saw a picture in a book the other day of a portable forge from the early 1600s. It was a wood cut of some explorer types in the New World.... problem is I flit between books so much I can't remember where is was. I will have a look and see if I can find it.

B

Though slightly more expensive than Aidan Campbell you can get very good fabric from HMA Ltd - http://www.stuart-hmaltd.com/historical_fabrics.php and they also publish Jane Hugget's book "Clothes of the Common Man 1580-1660 part 2: Making the Garments" which is inexpensive and a good reso...

Thanks Dahti great link

Velund wrote:O, yes! That's a hit)!
Thanx, I'll know where to look for it when I need it.

Does this mean we will be seeing some late C16th pieces of armour for sale on your site soon?

Great detail of English soldiers of the period, I paticularly like the soliders on the march - http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/about/bgallery/Gallery/researchcoll/pages/bg0060_jpg.htm Plus an insite into the 16th C Irish art of buttock warming too :? - http://www.lib.ed.ac.uk/about/bgallery/Gallery/research...

Apologies if this is a well known site but found it this weekend whilst researching the 1590s Brittany campaign. This site gives a lot of great detail about english military in early 1590s. Well worth a look some great pages about finds - copper musketeer bandoleer 'boxes - refered to using the mode...

Done a quick search on the good old interweb and found a recently published book 'Bristol: Ethnic Minorities and the City, 1000-2001' by Madge Dresser and Peter Fleming. Hear is the blurb on the publishers web page Our project paperback 'Bristol: Ethnic Minorities and the City 1000-2001' is now avai...

The Anglo-Spanish war was between 1585-1604 so between 1570 and 80 there would be no reason for Iberian or Italian merchants not set up in Bristol, except perhaps an English mistrust of Foreign Catholics; that said giving it's situation as one of the major trading ports in England I would imagine th...

A friend has sent me a page from a 1609/10 City of London proclamation to the size of sacks that Charcoal was to be sold in the city. They should be 54 inches (yard and a half) long and 27 inches wide (three quarters of a yard) and should hold four bushels. Nice picture of collier too: http://i249.p...

Below are a couple of shots of Charcoal related stuff going on at the Plimoth Plantation museum in the states, slightly out of Tudor (1627) but still relevant: http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/gg228/camarada_j/66225066cvPBoIjVPPresizedstackingwoodandthenmakingcharcoalatplimothplantation.jpg Stacki...