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IV. An Account of the Presents received and Expenses incurred at the Wedding of Richard Polsted, of Albury, Esquire, and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William More, of Loseley, Esquire: in a Letter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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By the kindness of James More Molyneux, Esquire, of Loseley, I am enabled to lay before the Society of Antiquaries a transcript of another of the Loseley MSS. some of which have already appeared in the eighteenth volume of the Archæologia, and a collection from which was published in 1835 by Mr. A. J. Kempe, a Fellow of this Society. It is an account of the presents received and the expenses incurred at the wedding of the daughter of Mr. (afterwards Sir William) More, of Loseley, in 1567, and will, I think, be found of considerable interest as throwing light on the wedding customs among the landed gentry of that period, the more especially as I am not aware of any similar account having hitherto been published.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1855

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page 33 note a Kempe's Loseley Manuscripts, p. 261.

page 36 note a Sweetmeats.

page 36 note b Sir William More was Keeper of Farnham Park, a demesne of the Bishop of Winchester.

page 36 note c Bitterns—Botaurus Stellaris.

page 36 note d A species of Sandpiper—Tringa Canutus.

page 37 note a This name was applied to several of the varieties of the Sandpiper tribe.

page 37 note b Cygnets.

page 38 note a Snipes.

page 39 note a Anise seed.

page 42 note a Warden pears

page 42 note b For furmety.

page 46 note a Sic.

page 46 note b Yeast.

page 47 note a Presence.

page 49 note a A memorandum pinned on.