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 and Sejitiments. 409 the origin of our name of drawing-room for the falon) that ye had before, thereat ye fliall lye to yourfelf ; and when your gear is removed out of your httle houfe, the door lliall be locked, and your bags laid in one of the great coffers, fo that they Ihall be fafe, I truft." The hucches {hutches) or chefts, and coffers, in the bed-chamber, are frequently men- tioned in old writings. The large hutch feems to have been ufually placed at the foot of the bed. In one of our preceding cuts (No. 257) we have feen it mo-ed from its place to make a temporary feat before the fire. The cut annexed (No. 261), taken from a manulcript Latin e> @ Q © e^ © © o ~l No. 261. A Bedroom Scene. Bible in the National Library in Paris (No. 6829), fhows us the hutch in its ufual place, and opened fb as to expofe its contents to our view. It is here evidently filled with money, and the perfons who have entered the chamber feem to be plundering it. In a very popular old flory, the fame in fubiiance as that of ^lacbeth and his daughters, an old man, on the marriage of his daughter, weakly gives up all his property to the young married pair, trufling to their filial love for his fufienance. and 3 G they