Archaeologia cantiana . The plastering was cleared away, and the pic-tures were visited by many of the curious. As might beexpected, they were very dingy, and few placed much valueupon them, though their antiquity gave them some old house has since been pulled down. I may mentionthat another room in the same house had been decoratedwith tapestry, but only mere rags and traces of it remainedwhen the house was demolished. Shortly before his death, in 1856, Mr. Standley, whosewife had formerly been in the employment of Lady Ash-burnham, presented the pictures to her ladyship, thenres
Archaeologia cantiana . The plastering was cleared away, and the pic-tures were visited by many of the curious. As might beexpected, they were very dingy, and few placed much valueupon them, though their antiquity gave them some old house has since been pulled down. I may mentionthat another room in the same house had been decoratedwith tapestry, but only mere rags and traces of it remainedwhen the house was demolished. Shortly before his death, in 1856, Mr. Standley, whosewife had formerly been in the employment of Lady Ash-burnham, presented the pictures to her ladyship, thenresiding at Southwood House, St. Lawrence, Thanet, andthey were removed thither. At Southwood House theyremained until after her ladyships decease, when the house,with its furniture, including these pictures, was purchasedby Admiral Jolliffe. At his death they passed to his widow,who for a time removed them to London. The Eev. A. M. Chichester, Vicar of St. Clement andSt. Mary, Sandwich, having seen these pictures at N° 1. PAINTED PANEL AT SANDWICH. PROCESSION PASSING THROUGH CANTERBURY GATE,RICHBOROUGH HILL IS SEEN IN THE BACKGROUND ON THE LEFT. OLD PAINTED PANELS AT SANDWICH. 143 Jolliffes, suggested to her that, connected as they werewith the history of Sandwich, their proper place of depositwould be the old town. At his suggestion Mrs. Jolliffe, inDecember 1882, on the application of the Mayor, Mr. W. , very kindly presented them to the Corporation, whoare now arranging one of the rooms in the Guildhall fortheir fitting exhibition. About two years ago, Mrs. Jolliffehad them carefully cleaned, and they have now a very dif-ferent appearance from what I can remember them to havehad formerly, the colours being in capital preservation. They are thirteen in number, painted upon fir panels,all but one being about 4 feet high and 3 feet wide. Fourof them shew three-quarter-length life-sized portraits ofCharles II., his Queen, Katharine of Braganza, his brotherJames, Duk
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