According to Leake, writing about 1577, 'About 1528 began the first spinning on the distaffe and making of Coxall clothes....

These Coxall clothes weare first taught by one Bonvise, an Italian.'-- Quoted _V.C.H.
Essex_, II, p.

382.
_Notes on Illustrations_ PLATE I._Bodo at his work_ From an eleventh-century Anglo-Saxon calendar in the British Museum (MS.
Tit., B.V., pt.

I), showing the occupations of Bodo, or of his masters, for each month of the year.

The months illustrated are January (ploughing with oxen), March (breaking clods in a storm), August (reaping), and December (threshing and winnowing).