. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . room in thispart is the Chapel-room, which contains some old furniture, twoquaint Dutch dummy-board figures used formerly as fire-screens, and a screen worked by Queen Elizabeth, the walls beinghung with tapestry, and many of the window-panes tilled withtalc, from which is obtained a glimpse of some quaint smallercourts. The Organ-room, which is next, derives its name fromthe curious old instrument which stands in it and bears the date1621. There are also in this room several black-jacks and cu-rious old wine-bottles found in the cellars
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . room in thispart is the Chapel-room, which contains some old furniture, twoquaint Dutch dummy-board figures used formerly as fire-screens, and a screen worked by Queen Elizabeth, the walls beinghung with tapestry, and many of the window-panes tilled withtalc, from which is obtained a glimpse of some quaint smallercourts. The Organ-room, which is next, derives its name fromthe curious old instrument which stands in it and bears the date1621. There are also in this room several black-jacks and cu-rious old wine-bottles found in the cellars. Passing on to theBrown Gallery, a curious collection of chairs and stools is to beseen, while on the walls is a long row of portraits representing allthe famous men of the sixteenth century. These portraits arepainted on panels, and have been thought to have been givenwith Knole by Elizabeth. Opening out of this gallery are twocharming little rooms used in the last century by Lady Betty Ger-maine, who has filled them with samples of her needlework ;. THE SPANGLE ROOM, KNOLE 47 48 Iknole ant) its flDemones from the windows there is a lovely view of the gardens. Oppo-site, there is another state bedroom, the furniture 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 i
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