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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… much restored. The spiked altar rails, pulpit with tester, and oak reredos in the north transept (furnished as a …
Middlesex county records
… have been careful to call attention to each of them. That "tester," the slang term for a sixpenny-piece, comes to us …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… lies in a bed covered with a fair fine white sheet, the tester of black satin, and the bed stock hanged round about …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… lies in a bed covered with a fair fine white sheet, the tester of black satin and the bed stock hanged round about to …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… canopies, 2. Green "say" canopies, 2. Silk quilts, 3. A tester of crimson velvet fringed with silk and gold. Taffetie …
Calendar of State Papers Foreign: Elizabeth
… a candle burning by her, being asleep, the curtains and tester took fire, and was like to have smothered her as she …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… asleep in bed, a candle burning by her, the curtains and tester took fire, and was like to have "smored" 7 her as she …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… of hangingis. Item, ane quilt of grene taffatye. Item, ane tester of grene veluet w th dowbill valuis frenzeit with … grene damask frenzeit with golde and grene silk. Item, ane tester of a bed of cramsene veluot fair imbroderit with … to the same freinzeit with golde and reid silk. Item, ane tester of cramsene velvot frenzeit with golde and ried silk. …
Calendar of State Papers, Scotland
… and inconstancy, I cannot advise her majesty to bestow one tester. 4. Her majesty means to live in good peace with her …