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VIII., but the statute remained in force, and marks an approach at least to their ordinary salary.^[1] The

1.  The rudeness of the furniture in English country houses has been dwelt upon with much emphasis by Hume and others. An authentic inventory of the goods and chattels in a parsonage in Kent proves that there has been much exaggeration in this matter. It is from a MS. in the Rolls House.
   
   The Inventory of the Goods and Catales of Rich^d. Master, Clerk, Parson of Aldington, being in his Parsonage on the 20th Day of April, in the 25th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII.
   

   Plate.

   Silver spoons, twelve.
   

   In the Hall.

   Two tables and two forms.
   Item, a painted cloth hanging at the upper part of the hall.
   Item, a green banker hung on the bench in the hall.
   Item, a laver of laten.

   In the Parlour.

   A hanging of old red and green saye.
   Item, a banker of woven carpet of divers colours.
   Item, two cushions.
   Item, one table, two forms, one cupboard, one chair.
   Item, two painted pictures and a picture of the names of kings of England pinned on the said hanging.

   In the Chamber on the North Side of the said Parlour.

   A painted hanging.
   Item, a bedstedyll with a feather bed, one bolster, two pillows, one blanket, one roulett of rough tapestry, a testner of green and red saye.
   Item, two forms.
   Item, one jack to set a basin on.

   In the Chamber over the Parlour.

   Two bedsteads.
   Item, another testner of painted cloth.
   Item, a painted cloth.
   Item, two forms.

   At the Stair's Hed beside the Parson's Bedchamber.

   One table, two trestylls, four beehives.