KENILWORTH. 237
NOTE TO CHAPTER XV.
Note, p. 236.—Furniture or Kenitworrn.
In revising this work, I have had the means of making some accurate additions to my attempt to describe the princely pleasures of Kenilworth, by the kindness of my friend William Hamper, Esq., who had the goodness to communicate to me an inventory of the furniture of Kenilworth in the days of the magnificent Earl of Leicester. I have adorned the text with some of the splendid articles mentioned in the inventory, but antiquaries especially will be desirous to see a more full specimen than the story leaves room for.
Exrracrs from Kenilworth INventory, A. D. 1584,
A Salte, ship-fashion, of the mother of perle, garnished with silver
and divers workes, warlike ensignes, and ornaments, with
xvj peeces of ordinance whereof ij on wheles, two anckers
on the foreparte, and on the stearne the image of Dame Fortune
standing on a globe with a flag in her hand. Pois xxxij oz.
quarters.
A gilte salte like a swann, mother of perle. Pois xxx oz. iij quarters.
A George on horseback, of wood, painted and gilt, with a case for knives in the tayle of the horse, and a case for oyster knives in the brest of the Dragon.
A green barge-cloth, embrother'd with white lions and beares.
A perfuming pann, of silver. Pois xix oz.
In the halle. Tabells, long and short, vj. Formes, long and short, xiiij.
Hangings.
(These are minutely specified, and consisted of the following subjects, in tapestry, and gilt, and red leather.)
Flowers, beasts, and pillars arched. Forest worke. Historie.
