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EETURN OF SILK DEESSES IN THE EEIGN OF QUEEN 

 ELIZABETH. 



Communicated by E. H. W. DUNKIN, Corresponding Member. 



CoRNEWALL. — All Iiiquisicon Indented taken at Trewro, in the 

 conn' aforesaid the ix"' day of October, yn the flowrth year of the 

 Eainge of o'' Sou'inge Lady Elizabeth, by the grace off God off 

 Englond, ffraunce, and Ireland, Quene Defendor of the ffayth, 

 &c., Before John Trelawny, John Reskymer, and Henry 

 Chyverton, esqniers, Commissioners by vertu of the said Quenes 

 ma*^ comission to them & to S'' Willm GodoUphyn Knight, 

 directed To enquyre what wyffe or wyffes w*"" in the said conn' 

 dyd wear Sethens the xv*'' day of Augusta laste paste any Gowne 

 of Sylke, ffrenche hode or bonet of vellvet w*^ any habylyment 

 paste or Edge of gold aboute here or there Neekes or in here or 

 there partelettes*' or in or appon any parcell of there Boddye. By 

 the othes of John Langdon, John Trevanyon, Thomas Kendall, 

 esquiers, Phellip Mayow, Richard Gyll', Willm Poj^pe, Eoo-er 

 Coppin, Ric' Hoblyn, John Browne, John Lauxton, Eobt. Code, 

 Eic' Braye, Stephin Lampen, WiUni Marten, John Langdon of 

 Warlegan, John Daryte, John Carpenter, & John Garrett, which 

 appon there said othes saye, 



That the wyffe of S'' Willm GodoUphyn Knight, hath sins the 

 said xv*** day of Auguste laste paste woren a gowne of Sylke 

 and hath Trottinge gelding w*'' armor and ffurnyture for the 

 same. 



And that the wyffe of John Arondell of Lanherne, esquier, 

 hath sins the said day woren a gowne of Sylke and hath a 

 trotting gelding w*''- armor & ffurnyture ffor the same. 



And that the wyffe of Heugh Trevanyon, esquier, hath sins 

 the said day woren a gowne of Sylke, and hath a trotting gelding 

 w*'' armor & ffurnyture ffor the same. 



And that the wyffe of Pears Edgecomb, esquier, hath sins the 

 said day woren a gowne of Sylke, and hath a trotting gelding 

 w*** armor and ffurnyture ffor the same. 



* Partletts— A ruff or band formerly much worn about the neck by both 

 sexes " wyth partelettes and pastis garnished wyth perle."— Mores Supplycacyon 

 of Soulys, sig. L. ii. 



