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London Consistory Court Wills, 1492-1547
… with its hangings, a joined bedstead with selar and tester, curtains, settles embroidered in satin, cushions, … when not in use. The bedstead was often provided with a tester and curtains and sometimes a valance. The bed was …
Calendar of wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Husting, London
… curtains round a bed and covering in the top with a tester or half-tester ( silur or demi-silur) prevailed in former days more … (II. 305), or boars' heads (II. 214). The coverlet and tester were frequently made to match in colour and …
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
… was very hot)without any cloth of estate or sparver (tester) over the same, made for the easement and staying of …
The medieval records of a London City church
… and a bolster viij s viij d It em, a nolde seler w it h a tester, payntyd ij s It em, a nolde broken cou eryng of … 24 yerd es, at ij d the yerde, Some iiij s It em, a tester of the bede w it h a seller ij s It em, a fetherbede w …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… Torel, 1291. Above the effigy is a flat 15th-century 'tester' of oak with a moulded edge returned down the … plate and effigy on the top, iron grate and wooden 'tester.' The tomb, executed by Richard Crundale, has a … is finished with a chevaux-de-frise. The 15th-century oak 'tester' is generally similar to that over the tomb of Henry …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in London
… etc., 14th or 15th-century. Miscellanea: oak ' tester' in middle E. arch of chapel, 14th or 15th-century. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… on a pedestal inscribed 'Templu(m) So(lis)' beneath a tester inscribed ' (Al)ma Redemptoris Mate(r)'. The scene is … the Virgin, all in an architectural setting and with the tester over the Virgin inscribed 'Ecce ancilla domini fiat'; …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… visible. Pulpit: hexagonal, carved and panelled body, with tester, 17th-century, one side modern. ConditionGood on the …
Langford Parish: Little Faringdon
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, Bampton Hundred (Part Four)
… of school mistresses was appointed, including Mary Tester (who was assisted by her niece) and Anna Pike, who was … 318. TNA, HO 107/1687, s.v. Holden; ibid. RG 9/728, s.v. Tester; RG 10/1258, s.v. Hales; RG 11/1278, s.v. Pike; ibid. …