1653 will - COMPLETED

[grantleydawn]

Hi,

I am having trouble working out what the word "seeleing" could be. Can anyone help me please.

Regards
Grantley

said Daughter Lyddas Legacie Item I give to my sonne Thomas my greate
Truncke the Longe Table and forme and seeleing in the hall Item I give to

[Novak20]

It might refer to a decorative screen that was in the hall.
OED gives a couple of archaic usages:
'ceil', verb -- to furnish with hangings
'seele' noun -- a canopy.
However, both are C15th so rather early for a 1653 will.

[Bookbox]

OED also has a separate entry under ceiling, which includes 16th/17th-century forms and usages ...

ceiling, n.
Forms:  ME celyng, (15 seling, siling, syling), 15–16 seeling, 16 ceeling, 16–17 siel(e)ing, 15– cieling, 16– ceiling.
II. concr.
†3. A screen of tapestry, a curtain. Obsolete.
c1450   in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 626   Celynge, velamen.
1548   Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxiiv   The French kyng..caused the lord of Countay..with the lord of Argenton..to stande secretly behynd a selyng or a hangyng in his chamber..so that what soeuer were purposed to hym, they standing behynd the clothe, might easely se, & facile heare the same.
1577   H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. v. sig. Ff.vijv/1   He is the curtaine and seeling, the rafter & ornament of his Church.
1632   R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 343   Creepeth in betweene the walls and seelings.

[grantleydawn]

Thank you very much, both of you.

I looked and looked but obviously not in the right place.

Regards
Grantley