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    1. Final Word on Candle Problem
    2. Bruce E. Carpenter
    3. The folowing quote from An Encyclopedia of London will put to rest the meaning of 'chaundeler'. Happily the information comes from Town Clerk John Carpenter himself. "The name given (chaundelers) to these early merchants of grease (for that is what they were) is "unctuarii." When cataloguing the entry in the Liber Albus a little over a century later, John Carpenter, Town Clerk, had no hesitation in rendering "unctuarius" by "candelarius" or "chandler". Yours, Bruce E. Carpenter

    07/14/1999 02:00:14