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The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 3 (of 6)

Note 174.1 — THE PASTON LETTERS Henry VI (continued 4)

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[From Archæologia, xxi. 252.] This roll and the preceding are both printed in the Archæologia from transcripts made by Blomefield, the Norfolk historian, for his friend Sir Andrew Fountaine. The original of this second roll we have not met with.

174.2 Trimmed. The word is more commonly written ‘purfled.’

174.3 Cromwell.

174.4 The chammer or shamew was a gown cut in the middle.—See Strutt’s Dress and Habits of the People of England, ii. 359.

175.1 A kind of mantle.—See Strutt’s Dress and Habits, ii. 363.

175.2 Figured or branched satin.

177.1 Dark or brownish red.

177.2 Silver twisted round the haft.

177.3 The schape or chape was the ferule of the scabbard.—Dr. Meyrick.

178.1 Probably representing the Adoration of the Shepherds.

178.2 Covering for a bench.

178.3 Hanging for a hall.

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