Femble

... with nettles and other rubbish, sowed hemp on six acres three roods; he got two last and one half of seed , without taking the advantage of picking the femble hemp; after threshing he stacked it, and in the spring watered and dressed it.

two linen table clothes, one femble tablecloth, two linen towels, […]

The next year 65 stone of "femble" hemp1 were bought" […] ¹ There were three buyers of cloth and one of tow in 1622. ² "Femble" hemp was the term applied to the fibre as prepared for use. (Vide Oxf. Dict.)

Sometimes also 'femble' sheets were listed. Often in the chests in which the bed linen was kept were towels, napkins, table-cloths and carpets (here a table and not a floor covering). Robert More (d. 1559) added variety by having a salting trough in his parlour, presumably kept under the bed, […]

John Parish of Beltoft, who died in 1590, left linen cloth, femble, and harden cloth worth £3 5s. 4d., femble yarn and harden yarn worth ten shillings, heckled line and femble worth two shillings and sixpence, braked hemp worth six shillings and ...