Also 6 wol-, volskyn(g. [SKIN sb.] A sheepskin with the fleece on it.
c. 1440. Lydg., Hors, Shepe & G., 361. The wolle skynnys makith men to rise To gret richesse in many sondry wise.
1482. Acta Audit. (1839), 103/1. Þre hundretht & foure skore woll skynnes.
1531–2. Durham Househ. Bk. (Surtees), 109. Expenduntur 448 wolskyns. Ibid. (1533–4), 313. Vocatæ volskyngs.
1612. Sc. Bk. Rates, in Halyburton’s Ledger (1867), 340. Woll skins the hundreth, xx li.
1643. Docq. Lett. Pat. at Oxf. (1837), 370. Lettres Patentes … for the collectinge of the Custome of wooles hydes woolskinnes … in the Porte of … Southampton.
1903. Flemming, Pract. Tanning, 64. Woolskins are also very cheaply tanned in the following manner.
