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 and Sentiments. 137 nominibus uteri/ilium, llates that each chamber Ihould have two perches, one on which the donieftic birds, hawks and falcons, were to fit, the other tor iLifpenduig lliirts, kerchiefs, breeches, capes, mantles, and other articles No. 92. WJta- de IL.muntrjhjm attacked hy a Mob. of clothing. In reference to the latter ufage, one of the medi.Teval Latin poets lias the memorial line — Pert'ica di-verfos pannos rctinere fokbat. Our cut No. 93, taken from a manufcript of the Roman de la Rofe, written in the fourteenth century, and now preferved in the National Library in Paris (No. 6985, fol. 2, v°), reprefents a perche, with two gar- ments fufpended upon it. The one reprefented in our next cut (No. 94) is of rather a different form, and is made to fupport the arms of a knight, his helmet, fword, and Ihield, and his coat of mail ; but how the fword and helmet are attached to it is far from clear. This example is taken from an illuminated manufcript of a well-known work by Guillaume de Deguille- ville, Le Pelerinage de la Vie huma'me, of the latter end of the fourteenth century, alio preferved in the French National Library (No. 6988) : T another