Hist. [FELL sb.1] = WOOL-SKIN.
1422. Rolls of Parlt., IV. 173/2. All sakkes of Wolle and Wolle felle yshipped by Marchants English.
1543. trans. Stat. Staple 27 Edw. III., c. 1. The staple of wolles, lether, wolfelles, and leade growynge and commyng forth within our sayd realme.
1612. Davies, Why Ireland, etc., 41. Wooll and Wooll-fels were euer of little value in this Kingdome.
1675. Hobbes, Odyssey, XVI. 39. To which [seat] Eumæus a Wool-fell apply’d With Rushes under it.
1765. Blackstone, Comm., I. viii. 304. The duties on wool, sheep-skins, or wool-fells, and leather, exported, were called custuma antiqua sive magna.
1829. R. Thomson, Magna Charta, 389. A half mark upon every 300 wool-fells, or undressed sheep-skins.
1888. Dowden, Transcripts, 196. Chaucer loved the woolfells and leather of the Petty Customs only because they helped to save his purse from getting light.
