1567. Harman, Caveat, or Warening for Commen Cursetors, p. 86. Man.
We wyll fylche some duddes of the Ruffemans, or myll the ken for a
lagge of dudes.
1610. Rowlands, Martin Markall, p. 39 (H. Club’s Repr. 1874). Lagge
of dudes, a bucke of clothes.
1661. Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, v. 1. Tell us If it be milling of a
lag of duds, The fetching-off a buck of clothes, or so?
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Lag-a-dudds. We cloy the Lag of
Duds, Come let us steal that Buck of Cloths.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lex. Bal., s.v.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.