1 new greene carpett for ye Court-roome. 1 chest with silk flaggs, ensigns, &c. In the Chest of Lynnen. 2 damaske table cloths. 6 diap table clothes. 5 diap towells. 1 plaine carvinge cloth. 1 plaine carvinge cloth for ye yard. 1 fringed cloth. 1 skreene cloth. 11 dozen and 8 diap napkins, 9 wanting. 2 dozen and 1 napkins, whereof 1 doz. and 7 worne. 1 long window cloth. 1 dresser cloth for the chitchen. 1 cupboard clothe. 1 short diap clothe. In the Press of Pewter. 10 seaven-pound dishes, 14 platters of the 2nd sort. 45 platters 3a sort, 5 of the 4th sort, and 50 of the 5th sort. 35 platters of the 6th sort, 24 of the 8th sort, 19 of the 9th sort, and 8 pastry plates. 37 round plates, 10 dozen of trencher plates, 6 flaggon potts. 10 dozen of sawsers, wanting 11. In the Greate Chest. 5 peeces of tapestry hangings for the Hall. 1 peece of tapestry for the upp end of the parlo", of Sir Jamest 3 Cambell's guift. greene cotton coochers. 11 old crescitts. In the Gallary. 3 wooden moulds for the playstering. In the Armory. 10 russett armors, 10 head peeces. 20 long pikes, 40 swords with belts. 40 russett murrions. 30 musketts, 30 moulds, 30 bandaliers, and 30 rests. * And-irons, or fire-dogs. Many specimens of these ornamental castings are given in a paper by Mr. M. A. Lower, entitled, "Historical and Archæological Notices of the Iron-works in the County of Sussex," and printed in the 2nd volume of the Sussex Archæological Collections, Lond. 1849. "The series of the Sussex andirons ranges from the end of the fifteenth century to that of the seventeenth or later." The devices are various, and sometimes elegant; some terminate with a human head and human bust: most of the andirons are decorated with one or more shields, which, previous to the Reformation, are charged with the sacred monogram, and after that period with the armorial bearings of the families for whom they were cast, and other devices. Fosbroke mentions a pair of andirons at Machen Place, in the county of Monmouth, that weighed 300 lbs., " which were sometimes employed in roasting an ox whole, with a large table on which it was served."-Vide Encyc. of Antiq. vol. ii. p. 728. 6 great skutchins and fifty small. 2 carpetts of Mr. Eastes and Mr. Brown's guift. 2 greene silke curtaines for the window. 1 wainscott seate for the wardens. 21 joynte stools, 2 shorte formes of deale. 1 bench cloth fringed on both sides. 7 pictures of benefactors. 2 pictures, one of the king and another of the queene. 4 wainscott formes, 4 new hatches. 1 livery cupboard of wainscott. In the Parlor over the Court Roome. 1 long table with a frame and tressell. 1 long settle made faste to the wainscott. 2 old forms covered with new cloth. 12 low stools of blew cloth with buckrome covers. 6 chaires of red Muscovia lether with buckrome covers. 1 new suite of course tapestry hangings, of the guift of Mr. Robert Cambell, ald", deceased, cont. 5 p3. In the little house neere ye Parlor. 1 standard wth 1 yard and 1 ell therein. 1 iron beame wt scales, and 1 pr of scales more. 2 piles of brasse weights compleate. 2 2-q1 and 2 seaven-pound waights of leade, and 1 qo of hundred in brass. Wooden mallett, 1 p2 of iron andirons, and 1 p2 of tongs. In the Buttery. 1 bread beame wt 2 pticons and cover. 1 old wainscott table wth a board at the bottome. 4 shelvs by the side of the buttery. In the Counting-house. 1 great chest wt 4 locks and keyes. Boxes containing writings, &c. A box wth the supscripcon of Woodstreete, 9t. 16 ps.* #i. e. containing sixteen pieces. A box with theis Writings: A charter from King Henry the 4th. A charter from King Phillipp and Queene Marye. A charter from Queene Elizabeth. A box with 2 charters from King Henry 8th of 12 houses of Sir Willm Denham. A box concerning St. Giles 9t. 4 ps. A box wtin where leases in force are. A box wherein is written Allhallows Steyning, Love Lane, Old Jurye, and Silver Streete. 53 evidences concerning the Hall. 13 acquittances and pap for rent. A box with 4 bonds. A box with the pattent of the Compas armes. A box written upon Sainte Olave, Bread Street, 9t. 55 p3. A box wt this supscripčon: St. Leonarde, Eastcheape; and it is the will of Mr. Pend, butcher, wt a copy thereof, 9t. 17 ps concerning the Xpofer in Eastcheape. An exemplificačon upon a pleading tempore Phil. & Mary. A little money-box for the poore. A booke of parchment wherein the Compas ord's are written. Then follows an enumeration of the Company's plate, with the names of the donors, and in most instances the weight attached, amounting altogether to upwards of seventeen hundred ounces, and consisting of the following articles: 4 basins and ewers parcel-gilt, 1 white basin, 2 livery pots, 2 stopes, 12 gilt cups and covers, 6 gilt salts and covers, 1 white salt, 1 gilt tankard, 5 nests white beer bowls, 6 nests white wine bowls, 2 flat bowls, 1 alepot which came from the lottery, 1 small white trencher salt and cover, 41 gilt spoons, 11 white spoons with lions' heads, 16 spoons parcel-gilt with heads, 8 spoons parcel, gilt with arms, 2 flat gilt bowls, 1 small gilt cup and cover, 1 caudel pot, 1 spout pot, and 1 white beer bowl. The calls made upon the Ironmongers' Company by the government of the country for contributions and loans of money compelled them on several occasions, as we have before noticed, to dispose of almost every article of plate in their possession. The only ancient specimens which have been preserved are represented in the subjoined engraving. One of these is a mounted cocoa-nut fitted as |