jan 1, 1547 - hearse

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A frame set over a tomb, designed to carry numerous candles or tapers and usually of metal. 1393 <i>I wyte to Richard my brother ... the blak herce with the Ewangele and iiij torchese of grene wyth the Judase</i>, York (SS4/185); 1436 <i>sine aliquali serie candelarum, Anglice herce</i>, Riccall (SS30/14n); 1485 <i>I will that there be byrnyng on herse v serges, ilkoone of a pownde of wax</i>, Ripon (SS64/277); 1547 <i>I will haue a serge of waxe sett opon the herse ouer me the spaice of one yere</i>, Saxton (Th19/200).

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