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pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The name of the royal house of Plan-tagenet is said to be derived from that circumstance.*

Cl)t jTurntturt Of tlK consisted of but few articles; such asclumsy oak tables covered with carpets, benches or “ joined forms” ofthe same material, and cupboards for plate, pewter, “ treene,” leatherjugs, glass, &c.; with a reredoss or fire-iron in the centre of the floor,against which faggots were piled and burned, the smoke passingthrough an aperture in the roof; the fender, formed by a raised rim ofstone or tile; and a “ fier-forke,” and tongs.f

“ a mptitfc tfje Salle flowa fere sterke nntr store,

SSJas ant) hrenhc brg?t.”— Syr Libeaux Diasconios.

At Easter the hall fire was discontinued. Easter day was called“ Godde’s Sondaye: ye knowe well that it is the maner at this daye todo the fyre out of the hall, and the black wynter brondes, and allthynges that is foule with fume and smoke shall be done awaye; andthere [where] the fyre was shall be gayly arayed with fayre floures,and strewed with green rysshes all aboute.”J

Specimens of the best sort of hall CabltS and £>catS , are shown in

* In 1513 “ the king kept a solemne Christmasse at Greenwich, with danses andmummeries in most princelie maner. And on the Twelfe Daie, at night, came into the hall amount, called the rich mount. The mount was set full of rich flowers of silke, andespeciallie full of broome slips full of cods; the branches were greene sattin, and the flowersflat gold of damaske, which signified Plantagenet ."— Holingsiied.

t Where the hall had a chimney, there was, in addition to the dogs, “ a cradle for sea-coal, and a sholve, made like a grate, to seft the sea-cole with.”—See History of Hengrave.

1 The Festival, 1511.