| Summary: | janny n Bristol was also the right place to arouse interest in spices. Everyone remembered how, forty years earlier [?1440], Robert Stormy, merchant of Bristol, had sent two ships to Levant in the hope of opening a spice trade at the end of the caravan route, and how one was wrecked on the coast of Greece and the other "spoiled by the Janneys" (The Genoese), who did not want Bristol cutting in one their middle- man's profit. Genoese GMS Not used Not used Not used janney, jenny, johnny, FOOL, MUMMER n., go out in the jannies, janny-night, janny-talk, jannie Checked by Adrian Young on Mon 01 Jun 2015; Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Wed 15 Jul 2015
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