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 and Sejitiments. 365 the fame purpofe of throwing over the feats ; fix culliions ; three bafins of brafs ; and three wafliing-bafins. A gentleman at Northallerton, in Yorkfliire, who made his will in 1444, had in his hall, thirteen jugs or pots of brafs, four bafins, and two ewers (of courfe, for wafliing the hands), three candlefticks, five (metal) difiies, three kettles, nine vefl^els of lead and pewter, " utenfils of iron belonging to the hall," valued at two lliillings — probably the fire-irons, one dorfer and one banker. An inventory of a gentleman's goods in the year 1463, apparently in the fouthern part of England (printed in the "New Retrofpe£tive Review"), gives, as the contents of the hall, — a ftanding fpear, a hanging of fiained work, a mappa-mundi (a map of the world) of parchment — a curious article for the hall, a fide-table, one "dormond" table (a permanent table), a beam with fix candlefticks. A vocabulary of the fifteenth century (" Volume of Vocabularies," p. 197) enumerates, as the ordinary furniture of the hall, a board, a treftle, a banker, a dorfer, a natte (table-cloth), a table dormant, a bafin, a laver, fire on a hearth, a brand or torch, a yule-block, an andiron, tongs, a pair of bellows, wood for the fire, a long fettle, a chair, a bench, a ftool, a culLion, and a fcreen. The permanent or dormant table, is lliown in the fcene given in our cut No. 238, taken from the beautifully illu- minated manufcript of the "Roman de la Violette," at Paris, fome fac- fimiles from which were privately diftributed by the comte de Baftard, from whom I had the honour of receiving a copy. We have here alfo the feat with its back, and the buftet with its jugs and difiies. In our ciit No. 236, we had the waits or trumpeters, who were always attached to the halls of great people to announce the commencement of the dinner. Only perfons of a certain rank were allowed this piece of oftentation ; but everybody had minlh-elly to dinner who could obtain it, and when it was at hand. The wandering minftrel was welcome in every hall, and for this very reafon the clafs of ambulatory mnficians was very numerous. In the fcene given in this cut (No. 238), the wandering minrtrel, or, according to the flory, a nobleman in that difguife, has juft arrived, and he is allowed, without ceremony or fidpicion, to leat himfelt at the fire, apparently on a ftool, befide the two individuals at dinner. The