. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . less than sevenguns, and sufficient steel-mounted pistols, screw-barrel pistols, andpocket-pistols to fill nine cases, besides hunting poles mountedwith bayonets and daggers. In my ladys dressing-room thefurniture resembled that of a boudoir, excepting a dressing-glassin a swinging frame, which is said to have been diamond-cut. The drawing-room was then known as the great dining-room, but was furnished as a drawing-room. Over the chimney-piece was the Prospect
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . less than sevenguns, and sufficient steel-mounted pistols, screw-barrel pistols, andpocket-pistols to fill nine cases, besides hunting poles mountedwith bayonets and daggers. In my ladys dressing-room thefurniture resembled that of a boudoir, excepting a dressing-glassin a swinging frame, which is said to have been diamond-cut. The drawing-room was then known as the great dining-room, but was furnished as a drawing-room. Over the chimney-piece was the Prospect of the House of Howth, and over thedoors landscapes by Pdchard Carver, a Dublin painter of thatperiod, which still remain. On the walls there hung a whole-length portrait of Swift by Francis Bindon, unique amongstportraits of him, in that its history is determined with absolutecertainty, and nine family portraits, all, with one exception, stillin the Castle, besides a pair of tine carved branches, London gilt,at the chimney-piece, and two pier sconces. The furniture in-cluded two large Italian marble tables on walnut frames, for. X OX Q O < o
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