Note i. p. 9.

The Bedroom of a Rich Man in the Fifteenth Century Sir John Fastolfs contained in 1459 selour. Item j. coveryng.

In primis j. fedderbedde. Item j. donge of fyne blewe. Item j. bolster. Item ij. blankettys of fustians. Item j. payre of schetis [sheets]. Item j. purpeynt. Item j. hangyd bedde of arras. Item j. testour. Item j.

Item iij. curtaynes of grene worsted. Item j. bankeur [covering for a bench] of tapestre warke. Item iiij. peces hangyng of grene worsted. Item j. banker hangyng tapestre worke. Item j. cobbord clothe [presumably for a dresser or cupboard]. Item ij. staundyng aundyris [andirons]. Item j. feddefflok. Item j. chafern [chafer or portable stove] of laten.

Item j. payre of tongys. Item j. payre of bellewes. Item j. litell paylet [pallet bed ?]. Item ij. blankettys. Item j. payre of schetys. Item j. coverlet. Item vj. white cosschynes. Item ij. lytell bellys.

Item j. foldyng table. Item j. long chayre. Item j. grene chayre. Item j. hangyng candylstyk of laton.

The list is headed 'My Maister is Chambre and the withe draughte withe the Stable.'

Paston Letters, vol. i. p. 485, Gairdner's Edition, 1872."

Note ii. p. 14

In the Hall of Penshurst are two tables 27 feet long by 3 feet wide, of massive oak. Each has but three legs, but these are very solid. The bases are cross-shaped, with mouldings on the ends of the four projecting arms or feet. A square central pillar is reinforced by brackets shaped to suit the mouldings below, and bears up a corbel-like capital upon which the table top is laid. They date from the early fifteenth century.

Note iii. p. 62

The Duchess (of Marlborough) had also to relinquish for the use of her successors her apartments at St. James's Palace. She could only console herself by giving orders to tear down and carry away the brass locks from the doors, and the marble chimneypieces from the walls. It is gratifying to find that Marlborough disapproved the spoliation, and wrote from the Continent to forbid its progress. As it was, it had wellnigh exhausted the patience of the Queen, who threatened to stop the monthly payments for the works at Blenheim. 'I will build no house for the Duke of Marlborough,' she said, 'when the Duchess has pulled mine to pieces.'

Stanhope, Reign of Queen Anne.

Note iv. p. 161

Letter of Grinling Gibbons to Mary, Lady Newde-gate, at Harefield, about a monument to her husband: -

'I holp all things will pleas You wen you see it for I indevered it as much as in me lais, but If you should mislick enny thing, You may be shoer to comand yr ombell and obegent sarvant, Grinling Gibbons.'

Cavalier and Puritan, Lady Newdigate-Newdegate, p. 291.

Note v. p. 164

The Duchess of Portsmouths Glass-Lined Chamber Besides Nell Gwynne, the Duchess of Portsmouth - Louise de Querouaille - had a glass-lined room in which the Moorish ambassador, when on his visit to England, supped with her, 'the king being there . . . and 'the Ambr much wondered at the room of glas where he saw himself in a hundred places.'

Letter of Sir R. Newdegate, Cavalier and Puritan, Lady Newdegate, p. 169.