. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . is in this one thingabsolutely right about art: they cannot live and work together, orthe one under the other, one feels some belated indignation at thesavage foolishness of the Roundheads towards all that savoured oftaste or learning when reading, for instance, that—in defiance oftheir promise to do no damage to the furniture and goods, if LadyArundel would surrender—the besiegers of Wardour Castle not onlyburnt all the wearing apparel not in actual use, but demolisheda magnificent carved chimneypiece (valued by contemporaries
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . is in this one thingabsolutely right about art: they cannot live and work together, orthe one under the other, one feels some belated indignation at thesavage foolishness of the Roundheads towards all that savoured oftaste or learning when reading, for instance, that—in defiance oftheir promise to do no damage to the furniture and goods, if LadyArundel would surrender—the besiegers of Wardour Castle not onlyburnt all the wearing apparel not in actual use, but demolisheda magnificent carved chimneypiece (valued by contemporaries at£2000) with their vandalistic axes. It is some corroboration of thetheory that Cromwells private tastes—though he is credited with desiring hisportrait to be emphatically realistic, with the warts — were not acridlyutilitarian, to find that the staircaseof the house he built at Highgatefor his daughter, upon her marriageto General Ireton, was ornamentedby figures of the various grades ofsoldiers in her husbands army. Nevertheless it was with Crom- 26. SABBATH-BREAKING GOLFERS SEAT OF CHURCH, ST. ANDREWS. 198 DECORATIVE FURNITURE wells approval as Lord Protector that the furniture, hangings, pictures,and other art efiects of nineteen royal palaces were destroyed or sold toforeigners. One is not sui-prised to find, therefore, that no Tudorexamples are left at Windsor Castle of all the items mentioned in theinventory in 1547. Many a noble old piece of furniture was doubtlessdestroyed in sheer iconoclastic wantonness, revenge, or for firewood, orfound its way into homes incapable of valuing such luxuries. Theconfiscations and dispersals of delinquents belongings were enormous. Fines said to have amounted to more than a million pounds werepaid by the Royalist families for the privilege of retaining the remnantsof their property : the would-be neutrals at times faring worst, somesharing the fate of the owner of Bramhall Hall, who was fined, raided,and re
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