jan 1, 1546 - celure

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This was a canopy over a bed, an item found in the houses of the well-off. The word is on record from<i> c</i>.1340 and seems certain to have passed into the language via Old French, although no evidence for that has been found in French sources: 1378 <i>ovesqe un testre e un selour entier de soy rouge</i>, York (YAJ15/480). One later Yorkshire example, in a will of 1546, is worth quoting just to put the word in context and demonstrate a typical spelling: <i>I give to my frende Mathue Tompson … a carved bedde steide … togeders with the fether bed, one bolster, too pillows, a cownterpoynte of Tappesserie warke of Imagerie, with the Celor and teaster and valaunces …</i> (Th19/179). The testator was Lady Scargill of Lead Hall and the will included details of several other beds. One of these had a <i>selor and testor</i> and a <i>counter poynte of Tappesserie of the Storye of sancte George.</i>

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