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stead and settle of 1589, 4is. ; and the beds for the President 

 and his servant in 1647, 55^. 



There are inferior bedsteads. Truckle beds are at $s. in 

 1587 and 1603, at $s. 6d. and $s. id. in 1605, at 14^. 6d. and 

 $s. in 1607, at 14^. and 12s. %d. (All Souls College) in 1608 (the 

 dearer articles being purchased in London), at us. in 1613 (also 

 at All Souls College), at 55. in 1614, at 6s. 6d. in 1623 (with the 

 cords), and at 6s. in 1636 ; after which they are not found. 



Boys' beds are bought at 4^. in 1587, at i6s. in 1588, and 

 at i6s. 6d. in 1659. In 1605 a 'sponda,' by which I presume 

 is meant a bedstead, is bought at 175. and 8s., and in 1608 at 

 8s. 6d. The term is used in the Oriel College accounts. A 

 French bedstead and screens at 2OJ. is bought by Master in 

 16^4, when he had just left Cambridge. The furniture of his 

 bedroom, in which there is no press or drawers, costs him 

 i i 4s. 4d. It consists of a feather bed, bolster, and 48 Ibs. 

 of feathers, a bed rug and two best blankets, curtains, vallance, 

 etc., andirons, etc., and four Russia leather chairs with the bed- 

 stead. To these we may add a child's cradle at js. 6d. in 1667. 



The most obvious convenience in a bed-room was a clothes 

 press. This is found in early times. It costs 26s. in 1589, 

 2os. in 1593, 2 5r- in 1594, 33*. 4^. in 1595, and 435. in 1604. 

 It is indeed highly probable that, even in considerable houses, 

 clothes were stowed away in chests of oak or walnut, such 

 chests being constantly to be found to the present day in old- 

 fashioned houses. Again, it is very possible that the cup- 

 boards at 30^. in 1607, at 285. and 26s. in 1614, at 25^. in 

 1615, and at i8s. 6d. in 1636, were purchased to stow clothes 

 in. In 1611, a cupboard of boxes at 405. is almost certainly a 

 chest of drawers, a term which appears at 26s. in 1667. 



A feather bed is 4Os. in 1615, a pillow $s. 6d. in 1628. In 

 1609 a featherbed and bolster cost 90^. ; in 1620, 68s. ; in 1654, 

 90*. A bolster for a groom costs 6s. 8d. in 1589. A bed-tick 

 in 1605 is bought for 25^., a flock bed for a servant 19^. in 1603, 

 and i o.f. in 1632. AtWirn ' ollcge the beds of the founda- 



tion boys were stuffed with straw. A quilted wool mattress is 



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