Liveries

Lords and Liveries. by the Authoress of “Dukes and Dejeuners,”

Novels by Eminent Hands 2006

Paris had sold her Charms to such profit that she appeared in the most costly and splendid Equipage in the whole Row: six of the finest horses in the Kingdom, the most costly Coach that could be built, more numerous Servants and richer Liveries than any of the Nobility or Princes.

John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

Carriages with a multitude of Servants in Liveries.

John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961

Nature had lent and endowed him with one Noble Suit only; on the other side, the King, when he hath received his Aides and Contributions from his Subjects, can then distribute possessions, and permanent Liveries, that the Lord and Servant may remain both together; and do not think it strange, that the King needs to borrow of his Subjects, because their

Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented. Basilius Valentinus

Liveries and silver plate persisted mainly in the very exclusive circles of Philadelphia and New

Expansion and Conflict William E. Dodd

Liveries, and Attorney of the Duchy; and of these Readers are Serjeants elected by the King, and are, by the King's writ, called _ad statum et gradum servientis ad legem_; and out of these the King electeth one, two, or three, as please him, to be Serjeants, which are called the

The Customs of Old England

It is an honourable object to see the reasons of other men wear our Liveries, and their borrowed understandings do homage to the bounty of ours: it is the cheapest way of beneficence, and, like the natural charity of the Sun, illuminates another without obscuring itself.

Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923

It is an honourable object to see the reasons of other men wear our Liveries, and their borrowed understandings do homage to the bounty of ours: it is the cheapest way of beneficence, and, like the natural charity of the Sun, illuminates another without obscuring itself.

The Second Part 1909

The Humble, Meek, Merciful, Just, Pious and Devout Souls, are everywhere of one Religion; and when Death has taken off the Mask, they will know one another, tho’ the divers Liveries they wear here make them Strangers.

Part I. Religion 1909

At this Entertainment, of which I was a Spectator, something very particular surpriz'd me: The noble Guests at the Table happening to be more in number than Attendants out of Liveries could be found for, I being well known in the Lord Devonshire's Family, was desired by his Lordship's Maitre d'Hotel to assist at it: The Post assign'd me was to observe what the Lady Churchill might call for.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889