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 and Sentiments. lb called from the lubjefts of the paintings with which they were deco- rated ; and a ftill more curious illufl;ration of the foregoing drawing is tur- nilhed by an old houfe of this period Hill exilling in New Street, Salilbury, a room in which preferves its painting in diftemper, occupying the upper part of the wall, like the ftory of Lancelot in the piftures of the room of Morgan le Fay. We give a Iketch of the fide of this room occupied by the painting in the accompanying cut (No. 243). It occupies the fpace No. 1. Wall-Pamtingi jtill remaining hi a Houfe at Salijhury. above the fireplace, and the windows looking into the fireet, but it has been much damaged by modern alterations in the houfe. The fubjeft, as will at once be feen, was of a facred charafter — the offering of the three kings. The window to the left of the fireplace, which is one of the original windows of this houfe, has a deep fill, or feat, which was intended as one of the accommodations for fitting down. This was not unfrequently made with a recefs in the middle, fo as to form a feat on each fide, on which two perfons might fit face to face, and which was thus more con- venient both for converfation, and for looking through the window at what was going on without. Tliis appears to have been a favourite feat with
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