. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . niture in which wasall given by James I. ; while beyond is the dressing-room belong-ingtoit, and, still farther on, the old Billiard-room, containinga bil-liard-table of the&& t i m e of Charles I., very muchresembling o u rmodern t a b 1 e room is real-ly part of anotherlong gallery,called the Leicesnter Gallery, full ofmore seven-teenth-centuryfurniture, and ofsome excellentexamples of VanDycks art; con-taining, also, ala rge picture ofJames 1. (by My-tens), immediate-ly below which is the actual chair in which the King is repre
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . niture in which wasall given by James I. ; while beyond is the dressing-room belong-ingtoit, and, still farther on, the old Billiard-room, containinga bil-liard-table of the&& t i m e of Charles I., very muchresembling o u rmodern t a b 1 e room is real-ly part of anotherlong gallery,called the Leicesnter Gallery, full ofmore seven-teenth-centuryfurniture, and ofsome excellentexamples of VanDycks art; con-taining, also, ala rge picture ofJames 1. (by My-tens), immediate-ly below which is the actual chair in which the King is representedas sitting. Close by is a curiously illuminated pedigree of theSackville family (with small portraits of the more important mem-bers) from the Conquest to Elizabeth ; Herbrand de Sackevillehaving come over with William. At the end is a bedroom pre-pared for the reception of James II. : it is furnished with a table,two tripods, and two looking-glasses of ebony and silver; thefurniture is done up in green Genoa velvet. It is curious that in. KING JAMES THE FIRSTS CHAIR
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