A boy who carried a torch, called a link, to light the way for people at night.
"So homewards and took up a boy that had a lanthorn, that was picking up of rags, and got him to light me home, and had great discourse with him, how he could get sometimes three or four bushells of rags in a day, and got 3d. a bushell for them, and many other discourses, what and how many ways there are for poor children to get their livings honestly. So home and to bed at 12 o'clock at night."
Samuel Pepys, Diary (March 25, 1661).
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