England’s Immigrants 1330 – 1550 Resident Aliens in the Late Middle Ages

Palett Boskyn [18158]

Surname: Boskyn
Forename: Palett
Gender: Female
Place of Residence: Bildeston, Cosford hundred, Suffolk
Place of Origin: (Italy)
Occupation(s): servant to John Stansby, clothmaker
Taxation Status: non-householder
Original Document: E 179/180/111, rot. 4 (tax assessment, 6 August 1483)
Notes: Part of a group of 11 clothmakers working for John Stansby in Bildeston. Document states they were all born in Italy, but most of the names sound Dutch.
Biographical Notes: See Nicholas Amor, 'Merchant Adventurer or Jack of All Trades: the Suffolk Clothier in the 1460s', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute for Archaeology and History, 40 (2004), pp. 426-427.
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