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Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… To Thomas de Cobham his son he leaves all his armour. His black girdle with silver buckles he bequeaths to the crucifix … Manny, for the burial of those who fell victims to the Black Death in the years 1348 and 1349. There were at least …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… underground, and to be previously covered with ten ells of black or russet cloth of the value of forty pence the ell; …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Spain. 4 Roxwell, (?) co. Essex. 5 A house of Dominican or Black Friars was situate in this town, or rather in an … the cemetery devoted to the burial of those dying of the Black Death. (Cf. supra, p. 131 n.) 2 Little is known beyond …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… Bequests to the said church and ministers therein. A black cloth to cover his corpse at his funeral, the same …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… of the kitchen ( vadlet de la cousyne) four pounds, a black coat of worstede, a dublet, and two pairs of shoes ( …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… silver plate, and clothes, comprising a gown of blue with black fur, and a tunic with fur and hood. Dated London, 18 … hundred shillings. To Robert Broun a tunic and hood, party black cloth and murre, 18 and his best cloak ( collobium). To …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… stuff. In the former sense it represented a shade between black and russet, and is said to be derived from Fr. puce, …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… cupbord cloth of Tissewe," 12 all her wearing linen, two black aprons, two pairs of "Crepers," 13 a pair of and-irons, … Also to the aforesaid Timothy he leaves messuages in Black Raven Alley within Algate. Among chattels bequeathed … Leonard her best pair of "Spanish borders," enamelled black and trimmed with pearls, the upper border containing …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… a puke gowne forefaeed with conye and furred with black lambe." To John Starkye, citizen and fletcher, 6 his … his former servants, the deputy of his ward, and others, a black gown respectively. To William Laxton of Gretton, … Knt. and Alderman, and others, he gives respectively a black gown. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen to dine at his house …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… being at that time estimated at upwards of 600. A house of Black friars, and two hospitals dedicated to St. Mary … are arable, and 1100 meadow and pasture; the soil is a black loam, with a substratum of chalk. The village is … of mail armour and several monuments, one an altar-tomb of black marble to the memory of Sir Edward Cecil. In the east …