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 and Sentiments. 471 CHAPTER XXII. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. THE PARLOUR. THE CHAMBER. >4 S fecial peace and fecurity became more eftabliOied in the country, -^^^- people began to be more lavilh in all the articles of houfehold furniture^ which thus became much more numerous during the period of which we are now treating. It alfo went through its fafhions and its changes, but in the progrefs of thefe changes it became lefs ponderous and more elegant. Until the middle of the fixteenth century, and perhaps later in fome parts of the ifland, where focial progrefs was flower, the old arrangements of a board laid upon trellles for a table ftill pre- vailed, though it was gradually difappearing; and, although the term of "laying" the board in a literal fenfe was no longer applicable, it has continued to be ufed figuratively, even to our own times. Richard No. 295. Table of Sixteenth Century. Kanam, of Soham, in the county of Cambridge, whofe W. was proved lb late as the 12th of April, 1570, left, among other houfehold furniture, " one table with a payer of trelfels, and a thicke forme." The firft Hep in