drawers, or given away as soon as the lapse of time or fashion hadimpaired their value. On the contrary, they were hung up on woodenpegs, in a room appropriated to the sole purpose of receiving them; andthough such cast-off things as were composed of rich substances wereoccasionally ripped for domestic uses, (viz. mantles for infants, vestsfor children, and counterpanes for beds), articles of inferior quality weresuffered to hang by the walls till age and moths had destroyed whatpride would not permit to be worn by servants or poor relations.” Thecommentator adds, that when he was a boy, he saw, at an ancientmanor-house in Suffolk, one of these repositories, “ which — thanks to asuccession of old maids — had been preserved with superstitious reverencefor almost a century and a half.”

Besides such rooms, there were 023clt*tiroI)tSi, formed like small four-post bedsteads, with curtains to draw, within which wearing apparel waskept from dust. Dr. Whitaker, in his History of Craven, calls these“ livery-cupboardsbut his reason for so designating them does notappear, nor is there the slightest ground for the conclusion, that theywere what ancient writers meant by that term. Massy oak frames,enclosed by doors, were also used for holding clothes; but CritS0UtQ>CfyfStS—the invariable furniture of bed-rooms — were the usual de-positories.

As appendages to the standing-beds, JjcUTCOUrs! —sometimes written“ bancoves”—should be noticed: they were short benches by thebedside, having embroidered cloths, called costers, hanging upon them,in the same manner as cloths were thrown over tables, and, occasionally,a dorser. But the best sleeping-rooms, and to these of course suchfurniture was restricted, abounded in seats of almost every kind: we findgreat chairs of black velvet, embroidered all over with gold; scrolledchairs, embroidered with cuts of gold upon black velvet; chairs of