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stools, court and livery cupboards, presses, chests, coffers and 

 a few chairs. Old Turkey carpets were numerous, also carpets 

 of Bramage and window carpets; but these were strips used 

 for covering tables, stools and cupboards. There were no 

 floor carpets; even Queen Elizabeth's presence chamber was 

 daily strewn with rushes. There were many sets of hangings, 

 quyshions of velvet or damask and richly embroidered. Other 

 materials were sattin of bridgs [Bruges], dornix [Tournay], 

 grene saie (sagum, fine woollen cloth), grogram [silk and 

 mohair] and tapistry. Of lynen and napery there were table 

 cloths of various sizes from 1 to 12 yards in length, napkins and 

 holland shetes. There were fether and straw beds, matresses, 

 bolsters, pillows, white and red blankets, and coverlets. 

 Clothing included the usual gowns, doblets, cloaks, chymmers 

 and a parliament robe of scarlet faced with mynever. Andirons 

 of latten, iron chests barred or plated, basons and ewers, 

 buckets of leather are all listed. In the kitchen were a great 

 cistern of lead, and the usual utensils. [SeQ under Metal]. In 

 the chaundrie were candlesticks and torches. In the wine 

 seller 5 ton of Gascoyne wine and a butt of Sacke. Fish 

 comprised 16 great linges, 221 lesser linges and 400 haberdines 

 [salt cod cured at Aberdeen]. There were only 1 hour-glass 

 and 1 clock, and but 2 coaches, one covered with lether 

 [introduced in 1564] and 10 saddells. 



Of musical instruments there was a pair of organs in the 

 chapel, and several pairs of virginals about the house. The 

 pictures were mostly portraits of sovereigns, nobles and 

 worthies of the Reformation. Maps, but no names of books, 

 occur. Armour included : corslets, almain rivets, pikes, long 

 bows, sheaves of arrows, steel caps, black bills, harquebuts, 

 salletts, calyvers, morians, brigandines and skulles. The plate 

 was gilt and parcell gilt and included a lyverie pott with 

 cover of 91 ozs., many boulls and standing cupps, trencher 

 plates, saltes, and several dozen spones. The total sum was 

 2766. [Archaologia XXX, pp. 1 30]. In contrast to the above 

 is the inventory in 1568 of John Ace, priest of Wimborne, 44. 

 [Hutchins III, 261]. Wm. More, Esq., of Losely in Surrey 



