480 Hijlory of Domejiic Man7iers lady Catherine Hedvvorth, in 1568, the following furniture is enume- rated : — " One truffing bed, one feather bed, one pair of blankets, one pair of Iheets, one bolfter, one pillow with a houfewife's covering, four pillows, two Flanders chells, one almery, two cupboards, three coffers, two cupboard ftools, three buffet forms, one little buffet ftool, two little coffers, five mugs, three old cufliions." The principal chamber of Thomas Sparke, fuffragan bifhop of Berwick, whofe goods were appraifed in 1572, was furnilhed with the following articles : — " A fland-bed, with a teflron of red faye and fringe, and a truckle-bed 3 a Cypres cheft, a Flanders cheft, a defk, three buffet fiools 5 the faid chamber hung with red faye." At Crook Hall, in the fuburbs of Durham, in 1577, the principal chamber No. 304. yl Bed of the Seventeenth Century. contained three beds ; another chamber contained four beds ; and a third two beds. Thefe lifls furnifli good illuflrations of the various prints from which we have already given fome Iketches. Our cut No, 304 repreients the ufual form of the bedfiead in the feventeenth century, and the procefs of " making" the bed 3 it is taken from a print by the French artifi, Abraham Bofle, of the date 163 1. Another
