^^^ COMPANIONAGE.
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The
The Companion
Tailop.s.
tailors prepare a table in one of the
two chambers
;
a cloth inside out, a
a salt-cellar, a cup on three feet, half full, three great king's whites \hlancs de roy, a
was a greater and a lesser], and three needles, and after
species of silver coin, of which there
receive to swear on the gospels, and to choose a sponsor, they
caused him whom they
loaf,
having
teach
him
the story of the
first
referred the signification of
Holy
Trinity
is
three Companions, which
what
is
in this
is full
chamber and on
of impurity, and to which
this table.
The mystery
is
of the
also profaned several times.
The Cutlees.
The Companion
cutlers kneel before an altar,
and
after
having caused him who
is
about to
be received, to swear on the gospels, the sponsor takes the crumb of a loaf with a