Name of a town in Somersetshire; hence short for Taunton cloth, a woollen cloth formerly made there.
1499. in Somerset Medieval Wills (1901), 379. To William Busshop halfe a packe of Tauntons.
1607. Act 4 Jas. I, c. 2 § 7. Every Broade Cloth … called Tauntons, Bridgwaters, and Dunsters made in the Westerne partes of Somersetsheire.
