merchaunte

Updated: July 29, 2025

There comes before the eye a picture of the five grave men Holbein, his two executors, the one a goldsmith, the other an armourer, and his two witnesses, a "merchaunte" and a "paynter" hurrying along the plague-infected streets to get this document legalised as some protection for two motherless babies, in the event of their father's death. No man knew whose turn would come within the hour.

Beatrice Fortescue - Holbein