242 NORBURY MANOR HOUSE AND THE FITZHERBERTS. 
mort, the only exception to simple lettering. Here are two other 
of the texts:—‘“‘Principium sapientiz timor dni. Pro. 9 ;” also, 
“Qui audit et no facit similis est hoi edificanti domu sua terra 
sine fudamento. Luc. 6.” Thesize of the Study is 19 ft. by 
The Oak Parlour down-stairs is 
also. panelled in a_ remarkable 
reticulated way, as will be seen on 
Plate XVIII. The small door- 
way in the south-west corner, which 
communicates direct with the outer 
air, is represented standing open, 
and shows the substantial character 
of the masonry on that side of 
the building. In the room marked 
“larder” on the plan, at the back 
of the Oak Parlour, in the wall to 
the west, are traces of old foundations. Probably the lower part, 
that piece of the east wall which runs from the larder angle, to 
where it turns at right angles a little before the outer door of the 
oak parlour, is another 
part of the house built by 
Sir Henry, ¢emp. Edw. I. 
These wood-cuts of sections of the panelling of the Oak 
Parlour, and of the massive beam in the ceiling, will interest 
those who study old wood-work. 
The eldest son of Sir Anthony was Sir Thomas Fitzherbert, 
the whole of whose latter years were embittered by the Elizabethan 
persecution, dying a prisoner in the Tower. His wife, being the 
daughter and heiress of Eyre, of Padley, brSught him a rich estate. 
His contribution to the beauties of his ancestral home seems to have 
been chiefly heraldic, for he filled the windows of the Great Hall, — 
as well as ‘those of the principal apartments, with the blazonry of iz 
his ancient family and their numerous important alliances. In the 
year 1581, Lawrence Bostock, who seems to have been in the — 
