The ladies chamber, 14th century. Woman sleeping in bed with rich bedclothes , the Woman menaced by the Seven-Headed Dragon, Rev. 12: 4-5, in the Welles Apocalypse, Royal MS 15 D II. Nursemaid with baby in swaddling clothes, , from a Scholastic Bible by Petrus Comestor and Guyart Desmoulins, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 211. Handcoloured engraving by Joseph Strutt from his Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, Henry Bohn, London, 1842.

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