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The Ladies dress appears anciently to have Consisted of according to Randle Holms blazers
1 Ruff Set out with Setting Sticks or Perkin sticks Sheet &c
2 Gorget findon a Piccadille standing up supported by wyers & a kind of Roll Calld a Piccadille
3 Kirtle
4 Fordingale Set out on a Rowle
5 Gown, broad Shoulderd, narrow waisted, wide breechd, Set out with a Broad Rowle Called a fordingale & gathered up in Plaits & Trusses to make it Full in the Skirt Randle Holm
6 Bon grace attire round the head
7 Sleeves round & Full Set out in the manner of Ruffs or wreaths Randle Holme
8 Surcoat
9 Piccadille
10 Gloves
in 1564 The wife of Q Elizabeths Coachman a dutch woman first starchd for her M
2 a gorget or stomacher mamillara Gouldman: Gorged: Heraldic Term
3 a Kertle Submanica Do Queen A Boleyn had on at her Coronatioin a Kirtle & mantle
4 a Fordingale Cineticulus Do.
6 a Bongrace cousin umbraculum umbella Do.
5 The Lieut untying her Gown: Lady Janes Execution 1554 Speed p 844
10 The Queen E had a Pair of perfumd gloves Trimd with 4 Roses of Colored Silk Howes 560
1 Ruggs were reduced by Proclamation in Q Elizabeths Reign from ¼ to a [neigl?] of a yard in depth
a Payr of Paste [une Pases?] }
a Payste for a Ladys or womans head unes Pases }
a Pollycock Pella veran Peltock?
1605 The Robe of Murray Silk embroiderd with Amber Leather given by the Queen of Spain to Anne Queen Consort of James 1st had in Front 48 Tags 3 inches long of beaten gold hollow within & filld with ambergris Baker
head sheet
1381 in making their beds our ancestors usd a sheet folded backwards over the bolster under which they could Lay their heads Strutt Vol 2 pl 7
Edwd 1st They do not Seem to have usd night Caps
Description of a Princesses bed wartons English Poetry Eenr
your Blankettes Shal be of Fussyane
your shetes shall be of cloths of Rayne See much about the head Sheet
your head shete shall be of navy Pyght The fustian blankette & all things with Dyamonds set & Rubys bright about the making of King Henry
When you are Layd in bed so soft the 8th bed in the archeologia -
a cage of Gold Shall hang alofte by Burke 1776
wythe Longe paper fayre brenning
an Cloves that be Swete Smelling