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The Court of Chivalry 1634-1640
… will and mind is that my hearse be covered with a pall of black velvet with so many scutcheons as shalbe fitting with … roome in Grocers' Hall wherein the mourners sat there was black bayes hung about the roome, and ten scutcheons and not … he believeth that the woemen did themselves provide the black gownes which they wore at the funeral. And he believeth …
19th April 1624
Proceedings in Parliament 1624
… Use their trade in such a sort as intolerable. In dying black silk, gain half in half. Committee desired to have a … St. John to bring in his patent as it was desired. In black silk the dyers use such ingredients as make it double … a complaint in the Exchequer termed London's heavyweight black silk dyed with steel, etc., doubling the weight. An …