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purpose. At their first introduction, fenders were placed straight acrossthe openings, and without any bowing.
35dls> were sometimes hung, connected with the hall, to “ warn todinner but the present convenient mode of bells hanging from everyseparate apartment had not then been introduced: nor were theyrequired when so many domestics constantly attended within hearing.Bells seem, indeed, to have been adopted as a succedaneum for thenumerous servants who were in readiness to appear to the callof “ Who waits V’
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The furniture of these apartments, in great houses, was of the samegorgeous character as that in the chief rooms; and the paraphernalia ofan ancient dressing-table yielded only in the splendour and costliness ofplate to the cupboard of the great chamber, or the altar of the chapel.Like the hall, the state bed-chamber had a high pace, on which wereplaced the “ standing-bed” and the “ truckle-bedon the former laythe lord, and on the latter his attendant. Shakspeare, as well asother poets, illustrates this practice. In his comedy of “ Merry Wives of Windsor, ” the host of the Garter , replying to Simple’s inquiry for Sir John Falstaff , says, “ There’s his chamber, his house, his castle, hisstanding-bed, and truckle-bed; ’tis painted about with the story of theProdigal, fresh and new.” The truckle-bed, on castors, was in the day-time rolled under the standing-bed, and drawn out at night:
“ In the best bed the squire must lie,
* Such a bell was hung at the north end of the hall at Richmond, in a turret, whichcorresponded in altitude and decorations with the louver.