Draft of a paper concerning the history of dress, undated (Series 87.02) - No. 0048

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Pocket a little Poke Tudor Guildsmen  Pick pocket is not to be found in Either Dictionary  Pick purse is
in Ben Johnson Time Pockets seem to have been newly brought into use  his Pickpockets are Constently Stile Cut purses or Pick purses  Edworth  the Cutpurse in Barthems Fair says would he had another Purse to Cut  a man might Cut out his Kidneys
in another Place he is Exhibited tickling Copes Ear with a Straw to make him take his hand from his Pocket &c
1530      a Purse of the Spanish Fashion  Palsgrave / was not this a Purse worn on a Belt over the Shoulder instead of a Girdle
a big Leather Purse worne by men, Right before their Cod peice  Cotyr  Boursault

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