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Acts & Proceedings of the General Assemblies of the Kirk of Scotland
… crosse in the mort claith, lang gownes with stroupes, and torches; quher ansuer was, That it was not a crosse, and grantit the gownes, and denyit the torches; alwayes desyrit the Kirk to direct two to sie, if …
The Diary of Henry Machyn
… p. 63) this festival was kept with goodly processions, and torches garnished in the old fashion, and staff torches burning, and many canopies. All these particulars are … alle gilte iiij s. Item, payde for garnysshyng the iiij torches for Corpus Christye day, and the cariage of them from …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… of women-servants; ordering candle and lanthorn in lieu of torches to be used in the vicinity of cane fields or other …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… security. (8.) Women servants inveigled. (9.) Instead of torches, lanthorn and candle (against the use of torches for crabbing, or smoking tobacco near any canes or …
The Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book, 1462-1511
… 4d., and the said anniversary to be accompanied with torches and the ringing of bells. And if the rector and his … and in exoneration of my soul 12d. 5. And I leave two torches, at the discretion of my executors and to the same …
Survey of London Monograph
… Translation and Nativity, and to find and sustain two torches of wax about the corpse of each of the dead borne … or other goods and chattels, beyond the wax made into torches and candles for the aforesaid work, nor have they had …
Survey of London Monograph
… form, without any worldly pomp. Item, I will that all the torches and tapers that shall be occupied about my body, as … mind be full done and finished, than I will that vi torches of the same torches be delivered by my executors unto the said church of …
Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors
… of St. John, 19 s. 3 d. Flourishing with green "bolles" 3 torches before the image of St. John in the Hall, 16 d. 2 … Lord Mayor being there, 7 l. 18 s. [See p. 522.] Two staff torches to light the Company from Paul's, the morrow after … every of the said psons to have a footman, with two Staffe Torches, to wait and attende upon him on foote, in Cornhill, …
Memorials of the Guild of Merchant Taylors
… 3 d. Crockets to support the arras. 24 fathom of cord for torches, 6 d. Wire for torches. A hook to John Schad's door, etc. Total, 30 s. 5 d. … the Hall, 3 days at 13 d. a day. Bast ropes to hang the torches. A stoklok key to the priest's chamber next the gate, …