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 io5 Hijlory of Domejiic Manners candle on the top of one of the fides {fpondiiia) of his bed. Another individual bought two fmall candles {candelas viodicas) for an ololus, but the value of the coin thus named is not very exadtly known. The candle appears to have been ufually placed at night in or on the chimney, or fire-place, with which the chamber was now furnillied. In Fierabras (p. 93), a thief, having obtained admifilon in the t night to the chamber of the princefs Floripas, takes a candle from the chimney, and lights it at the fire, from which we are led to fuppofe that it was ufual to keep the fire alight all night. IJnekmcnt et tofl I'icnt a la cem'm/e, Une chandelle a prinfe, aufu Pa alumee. On another occafion (p. 67), a fire is lit in the chimney of A Norman Floripas's chamber, and afterwards a table is laid there, and dinner ferved. Lanterns were now alfo in general ufe. The earliefi; figure of a lantern that I remember to have met with in an Englifii manufcript is one furnillied by MS. Cotton. Nero, C. iv., which No. 73. Occupations of the Ladies. is reprefented in our cut (No. 72). It diflers but little from the fame article as ufed in modern, times ; the fides are probably of horn, with a fmall door through which to put the candle, and the domed cover is pierced with holes for the egrefs of the fmoke. We