BEDSTEADS,WITH THEIR FURNITURE.
(These are magnificent and numerous.I shall copy VERBATIM the deion of what appears to have been one of the best.)A bedsted of wallnut-tree,toppe fashion,the pillers redd and varnished,the ceelor,tester,and single vallance of crimson sattin,paned with a broad border of bone lace of golde and silver.The tester richlie embrothered with my Lo.armes in a garland of hoppes,roses,and pomegranetts,and lyned with buckerom.Fyve curteins of crimson sattin to the same bedsted,striped downe with a bone lace of gold and silver,garnished with buttons and loops of crimson silk and golde,containing xiiij bredths of sattin,and one yarde iij quarters deepe.The ceelor,vallance,and curteins lyned with crymson taffata sarsenet.
A crymson sattin counterpointe,quilted and embr.with a golde twiste,and lyned with redd sarsenet,being in length iij yards good,and in breadth iij scant.
A chaise of crymson sattin,suteable.
A fayre quilte of crymson sattin,vj breadths,iij yardes 3quarters naile deepe,all lozenged over with silver twiste,in the midst a cinquefoile within a garland of ragged staves,fringed rounde aboute with a small fringe of crymson silke,lyned throughe with white fustian.
Fyve plumes of coolered feathers,garnished with bone lace and spangells of goulde and silver,standing in cups knitt all over with goulde,silver,and crymson silk.[Probably on the centre and four corners of the bedstead.Four bears and ragged staves occupied a similar position on another of these sumptuous pieces of furniture.]
A carpett for a cupboarde of crymson sattin,embrothered with a border of goulde twiste,about iij parts of it fringed with silk and goulde,lyned with bridges [That is,Bruges.]sattin,in length ij yards,and ij bredths of sattin.
(There were eleven down beds and ninety feather beds,besides thirty-seven mattresses.)CHYRES,STOOLES,AND CUSHENS.
(These were equally splendid with the beds,etc.I shall here copy that which stands at the head of the list.)A chaier of crimson velvet,the seate and backe partlie embrothered,with R.L.in cloth of goulde,the beare and ragged staffe in clothe of silver,garnished with lace and fringe of goulde,silver,and crimson silck.The frame covered with velvet,bounde aboute the edge with goulde lace,and studded with gilte nailes.
A square stoole and a foote stoole,of crimson velvet,fringed and garnished suteable.
A long cushen of crimson velvet,embr.with the ragged staffe in a wreathe of goulde,with my Lo.posie DROYTE ET LOYALLwritten in the same,and the letters R.L.in clothe of goulde,being garnished with lace,fringe,buttons,and tassels of gold,silver,and crimson silck,lyned with crimson taff.,being in length 1yard quarter.
A square cushen,of the like velvet,embr.suteable to the long cushen.
CARPETS.
(There were 10velvet carpets for tables and windows,49Turkey carpets for floors,and 32cloth carpets.One of each I will now specify.)A carpett of crimson velvet,richlie embr.with my Lo.posie,beares and ragged staves,etc.,of clothe of goulde and silver,garnished upon the seames and aboute with golde lace,fringed accordinglie,lyned with crimson taffata sarsenett,being 3breadths of velvet,one yard 3quarters long.