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166 SINGULAR ORDER OF COUNCIL.
practice, devise, or put in ure or exercise, or cause, pro-
cure, counsel, agree, assist, or consent to be used, devised,
or practised, or put in ure or exercised, any invocations
or conjurations of spirits, witchcrafts, inchantments or
sorceries, or any thing whatsoever touching, or in any
wise concerning the same, or any of them, to the intent to
get or find any money or treasure, or to waste, consume,
or destroy any person in his members, body or goods, or
to provoke any to unlawful love, or to know, tell or de-
clare, where goods lost or stolen become, or for any other
purpose, end, or interest whatsoever. So help you God
and the holy contents of this book.” After taking this
oath, they were led through Westminster Hall, and by
the special command of the queen and her council, were
set in the pillory before the queen’s palace below the same
hall.
SINGULAR ORDER OF COUNCIL.
The following Order of Queen Elizabeth’s Council, describing the dress of a
Page who had absconded with some valuable effects, serves to place in a
very striking light the contrast between the dress, manners, and habits of
that age, and those of the present.
These are to praye and requier you to make present
serch within your ward, and charges presently to macke
hew and cry for a yong stripling of the age of xxij yeres,
the coler of his aparell as followeth. One doblet of ye-
low million fustion th’ one half thereof buttoned with
peche colour bottons; one payer of peche colour hose,
laced with smale tawnye lace, and th’ other halfe laced
downewards; a graye hat with a copper edge rounde
aboute it with a bande, pcell of the same hatt a payer of
watched stockings. Likewise he hath twoe clokes, th’
one of vessey collor garded with twoe gards of black
clothe,
practice, devise, or put in ure or exercise, or cause, pro-
cure, counsel, agree, assist, or consent to be used, devised,
or practised, or put in ure or exercised, any invocations
or conjurations of spirits, witchcrafts, inchantments or
sorceries, or any thing whatsoever touching, or in any
wise concerning the same, or any of them, to the intent to
get or find any money or treasure, or to waste, consume,
or destroy any person in his members, body or goods, or
to provoke any to unlawful love, or to know, tell or de-
clare, where goods lost or stolen become, or for any other
purpose, end, or interest whatsoever. So help you God
and the holy contents of this book.” After taking this
oath, they were led through Westminster Hall, and by
the special command of the queen and her council, were
set in the pillory before the queen’s palace below the same
hall.
SINGULAR ORDER OF COUNCIL.
The following Order of Queen Elizabeth’s Council, describing the dress of a
Page who had absconded with some valuable effects, serves to place in a
very striking light the contrast between the dress, manners, and habits of
that age, and those of the present.
These are to praye and requier you to make present
serch within your ward, and charges presently to macke
hew and cry for a yong stripling of the age of xxij yeres,
the coler of his aparell as followeth. One doblet of ye-
low million fustion th’ one half thereof buttoned with
peche colour bottons; one payer of peche colour hose,
laced with smale tawnye lace, and th’ other halfe laced
downewards; a graye hat with a copper edge rounde
aboute it with a bande, pcell of the same hatt a payer of
watched stockings. Likewise he hath twoe clokes, th’
one of vessey collor garded with twoe gards of black
clothe,