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 476 Hiflory of Domejiic Ma7iners fame county, in 1559, there were — "one iron chimney, two tables, one counter, two chairs, one cupboard, fix forms, two old carpets, and three old hangings." In 1564, Margaret Cottom, a widow of Gatefliead, had in her parlour — "one inner bed of wainfcot, a Hand, a bed, a preffer of wainfcot, three chefts, a Dantzic coffer;" a confiderable quantity of linen and cloth of different kinds, and for different purpofes ; "tallow candles, and wooden dilhes, a feather bed, a bolfter, and a cod {pillow), two cover- lets, two happgings (coverlela of a coarfer kind), three blankets, three cods {pillows), with an old mattrefs ; five cufiiions, a fteel cap, and a covering; a tin bottle, a cap-cafe with a lock." In the houfe of William Dalton, a wealthy merchant of Durham in i^^6, the parlour niufl: have been very roomy indeed to contain all the " houfehold fluff" which it holds in the inventory, namely, "a chimney, with a pair of tongs ; a bed- ftead clofe made ; a feather bed, a pair of fiieets, a covering of apparels, an 'ovefe' bed, a covering wrought of filk 3 a cod (pillow), and a pillow- bere; a trundle-bed, a feather bed, a twilt (quilt), a happing (coverlet), and a bolfter; a ftand-bed, a feather-bed, a mattrefs, a pair of blankets, a red covering, a bolfter, and curtains ; eight cods, and eight pillow-beres ; feven pair of linen fheets; eight pair of ftrakin (a fort of herfey) flieets ; fix pair of harden (hempen) Iheets ; thirteen yards of diaper tabling; ten yards and a half of table-cloth ; twenty-one yards of towelling; four hand towels; two dozen napkins; five pillow-beres ; two head flieets ; a pair of blankets ; two 'overfe' beds, and three curtains; a cupboard; a table, with a carpet ; a counter, with a carpet ; a Dantzic cheft ; a bond cheft; a bond cofter ; an ambry; a long fettle, and a chair; three buffet ftools ; a little ftool ; two forms ; red hangings ; a painted cloth ; three chefts; a ftand-bed, a pair of blankets, two flieets, a covering, and two cods; an .' ambre call.'" In 1567, the parlour at Beaumont Hill, a gentleman's houfe in the north, contained the following furniture : — " One trundle bed, with a feather bed ; two coverlets, a bolfter, two blankets, two carpet table cloths, two coverlets, one preffer, a little table, one cheft, three chairs, and three forms." In other inventories, down to the end of the century, we find the parlour continuing to be ftored in this indifcriminate manner. This