But both the clothes and the cloaks were of the same colour.

The colour of each of them was either drab or grey.

Other people who followed the fashions, wore white, red, green, yellow, violet, scarlet, and other colours, which were expensive, because they were principally dyed in foreign parts.

The drab consisted of the white wool undyed, and the grey of the white wool mixed with the black, which was undyed also.

These colours were then the colours of the clothes, because they were the least expensive, of the peasants of England, as they are now of those of Portugal and Spain.