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Old and New London
… masquers were preceded by twenty footmen in silver-laced scarlet liveries, who carried torches and cleared the way. … to the wall was lined with the Reader's servants, clad in scarlet cloaks and white doublets; while above them stood the …
Old and New London
… of my purpose. My garter was made of a broad piece of scarlet binding, with a sliding buckle, being sewn together … guineas. Two days before her execution she dressed in scarlet, and sat to Hogarth for a sketch, which Horace …
Survey of London
… of the second tier. All the draperies were of bright scarlet cloth 'of which our army officers' uniforms are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… it could be described as 'Saint Georges posterne'. 68 The Scarlet Pit of the earliest reference was apparently a pool …
A Survey of London
… Alice wife to Balstred daughter to Kniffe, William Scarlet Esquire, Iohn Golding, Hugh Waltar Gentleman, and the … Lawrence Warcam, Iohn Dagworth, William Porter, Robert Scarlet Esquiers. Next to this Church is a fayre and large …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… elsewhere. No scarlets or cloths dyed partly in the costly scarlet grain seem to have been made in the Salisbury region. …
Old and New London
… hoods seem finally, in 1568, to have settled down to scarlet and puce, the gowns to blue. The Merchant Taylors' …
Old and New London
… that the cloths sold by such drapers were red, green, and scarlet cloths, made in Flanders. In the next reign English … in gowns fac'd with Budge and livery hoods. In gowns and scarlet hoods thirdly appears A youthful number of Foyn's … Budge Batchellors the triumph crowns, Gravely attir'd in scarlet hoods and gowns. Gentlemen Ushers which white staves …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… skilled workmanship as in 'a toilet of clear lawn, with a scarlet lining' [Newspapers (1790)]. This is now usually …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… 99 originated in temporary buildings erected during a scarlet fever epidemic and occupying 19 a. on the south side …