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 and Sentiments. 4TI from London on the 28th of Oftober, 145.'), gives the following ftill more pertinent account of the robbing of a man's houl'e : — " Alfo there is great variance between the earl of Devonlliire and the lord Bon ile, as hath been many day, and much debate is like to grow thereby; for on Thurf- day at night lall pall, the earl of Devonihire's fon and heir came, with fixty men of arms, to Radford's place in Devonlliire, which (Radford) was of counfel with my lord Bonvile ; and they fet a houfe on lire at Radford's gate, and cried and made a n(jife as ihough the}- had been lorry for the lire ; and by tliet caule Radlurd's men fet open the gates and yede {went) out to fee the lire ; and forthwith the earl's fon aforefaid entered into the place, and entreated Radford to come down of his chamber to fpeak with them, ]iromiling him that he Ihould no bodily harm have 3 upon which promife he came down, and fpoke with the laid earl's fon. In the mean time his meny {retinue) rob his chamber, and rilled his hutches, and truffed luch as they could get together, and carried it away on his own horfes." As foon as this was done, Radford, who was an eminent lawyer refiding at Poghill, near Kyrton, and now aged, was led forth and brutally murdered. In the llories and novels of the middle ages, the favoured lover who has been admitted fecretly into the chamber of his millrefs is often concealed in the hutch or clieft. Our cut No. 262, taken from the fame manufcript of the Bible A'hich furniflied our lad illultration, reprtfents the hutch alfo in its place at the foot of the bed. I'his Iketch is interelling, both as lliowing more diftinttly than the others the rings of the bed-curtains, and the rods attached to the celure, and as a particularly good illullration of the habit which Hill continued in all claires and ranks of fociety, of lleeping in bed entirely naked. The fame practice is Ihown in feveral of our other cuts (fee Nos. 256, No. 262. A Lady in Bed. 260,