Terminology help please

[betty_boouk]

Can anyone tell me what tje following are please?

1) Yeoman?
2) Buried in woolen?
Thank you
Jane

[behindthefrogs]

Buried in woollen.  This was a law passed in 1668 and 1678 to support the wool trade that all bodies must be buried wrapped in wool.  The alternative adopted by the rich was to pay a fine.  The act wasn't repealed until 1814 but it had fallen  out of use long before then.  An affidavit had to be sworn by a relative that the law had been conformed with, and some parishes recorded these in a book; a very few of which have survived and will be found in local record offices.

A yeoman was originally a knight's servant.  At that time there were a class of freemen called franklins who culivated the soil either as freeholders or tenants.  By the time of the Tudors these were being called yeoman.  They in general had more land to cultivate than a husbandman.

Even later the term bagan to be used for members of the local volunteer force who were mounted on their own horses as distinct from the militia who were infantry.

David