[…] forty trumpet banners of sarsenet; seven hundred and forty pensills; three hundred and fifty pensills of tarter; four standards of sarsenet with boars; […]
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Pencel
//ˈpɛnsəl//
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Lances were ornamented with a banderole near the point, which gave them a handsome appearance, these were also called pencells.
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The preceding extracts shew that, in some instances, each of the Judas torches was ornamented with three pencels, or little banners, fixed upon as many small spears; […] .
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A "pencel" is a small banner usually assigned to squires,[…]But Launfal's characteristically ingenious use of the pencel makes it an object that participates in two distinct systems of registration: the fine, small object that is the sign of amorous devotion in a chivalric context and the somewhat ambiguous index of armigerous status.
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