72 TUDOR HOUSES IN DORSET. 



Very ornate iron treasure chests with complicated locks and 

 bolts were in frequent use, the finer make being usually foreign. 

 Dealers call them Armada chests; but they are too numerous 

 to have been all derived from that source, though a fine 

 specimen belonging to the Commissioners of Customs at 

 Weymouth, said to have been taken out of a Spanish flagship 

 which was captured and brought into the town, may be 

 genuine. It was loaned to the Armada Tercentenary Exhibition 

 atPlymouthin 1888 (Western Antiquary VIII, 1.) See illustration 

 of another Spanish one left at Wolfeton in 1506 by Philip 

 King of Castile (D.F.C. Proceedings XXXV, 5). Another 

 specimen is in the Museum at Dorchester. 



In later times chairs and settees were often richly upholstered. 



The inventories attached to wills, or made by the owner in 

 his lifetime, give one the best idea of the furniture and rooms. 

 And of these I will select four, viz., those of a great prelate, a 

 poor priest, a squire and a yeoman. 



The inventory of the household goods of Archbishop 

 Parker, deceased, taken at Lambeth House in 1575, was 

 written on a roll of skins 17 feet long, each item priced ; but I 

 have omitted the figures. The following are the chief rooms 

 and buildings : 



Great chamber Chamber by chapel 



Hall Grene gallery 



Great parlour Schole house 



Waiting chamber Vestrye 



Chamber of presence Kitchine 



Chapel Store house 



Gallery Chaundrie 



Compting chamber Wine seller 



Middle chamber Granary 



My lord's chamber Pantrie 



Pantry parlour Laundrie 



Chamber over waiting Stables 



chamber 



The furniture generally consisted of standing and truckle 

 beds, joyned tables or boards on trestles, joyned forms and 



