Undertakers

John Howland became one of the 42 colonists, called the Undertakers, who assumed Plymouth Colony's debt owed to the Merchant Adventurers of London, who had financed their trip on the Mayflower.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

These men were called the Undertakers, and Richard Warren was one of them.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

This plate is designed, with much humour, according to the rules of heraldry, and is called The Undertakers 'Arms, to show us the connexion between death and the quack doctor, as are also those cross-bones on the outside of the escutcheon.

The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler

The House was enraged at the supposed project (then much misunderstood) of the "Undertakers"; objection was taken to Bacon being elected or serving as a member while holding office as attorney-general; and, though an exception was made in his favour, it was resolved that no attorney-general should in future be eligible for a seat in parliament.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

The Stuarts had their "Undertakers," and the only Parliament of Tudor times which consisted mainly of

Henry VIII. 1908

The conditions of this sordid exchange were the ground of the first important Anglo-Irish political struggle in the eighteenth century, when the English Viceroy, Townshend, succeeded in 1770-71, at the cost of half a million, in transferring the bribing power, and therefore the controlling power, from the "Undertakers," as they were known, direct to the Crown.

The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896

The other stories, the 'White Seal' and the 'Undertakers' and their companions, stand on a lower level; they are good stories, no doubt, -- very good, indeed, one or two of them.

Inquiries and Opinions Brander Matthews 1890

'Undertakers' gloves seem to me as if they're made for mutton fists, 'remarked Welbeck; upon which Kilne nudged Barnes, the butcher, with a sharp' Aha! 'and Barnes observed:

Evan Harrington — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

'Undertakers' gloves seem to me as if they're made for mutton fists, 'remarked Welbeck; upon which Kilne nudged Barnes, the butcher, with a sharp' Aha! 'and Barnes observed:

Evan Harrington — Complete George Meredith 1868

'Undertakers' gloves seem to me as if they're made for mutton fists, 'remarked Welbeck; upon which Kilne nudged Barnes, the butcher, with a sharp' Aha! 'and Barnes observed:

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868