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 13^ Hijiory of Domejiic Manners another copy of the fame work, preferved in the fame great colleaion (No. 7210), but of the fifteenth century, gives a ftill more perfeft repre- ! fentation of the perche, fupporting, as in the laft example, a helmet, a Lk^^vV^ No. 94. Another Perche. Ihield, and coats of mail. In the foreground, a queen is depofiting the flaff and fcrip of a hermit in a cheft, for greater fecurity. This fubjeA is reprefented in our cut No. 9/^. Furniture of every kind continued to be rare, and chairs were by no No. 95. Scene in a Chamber. means common articles in ordinary houfcs. In the chambers, feats were made in the mafonry by the lide of the windows, as reprefented in our