. Memoirs of the Verney family . eshed, but it must be seen that the cullor of theboards be not hurt. The odd things in the roomemy mother keept herself, the iron closet, the littleroome betweene her beds head and the backstairs —evidently a secret place— the little and greate Frip-peries [ hanging closets for gowns] your ownegreene wrought velvet furniture, the red velvet fur-niture, the looking-glasses (there should bee at leastfour), leather carpets for the dinmge and drawingerooms, the stooles with nailes guilt, the great cabanetlike yours, the tapestrv, the great branch candlestick,al
. Memoirs of the Verney family . eshed, but it must be seen that the cullor of theboards be not hurt. The odd things in the roomemy mother keept herself, the iron closet, the littleroome betweene her beds head and the backstairs —evidently a secret place— the little and greate Frip-peries [ hanging closets for gowns] your ownegreene wrought velvet furniture, the red velvet fur-niture, the looking-glasses (there should bee at leastfour), leather carpets for the dinmge and drawingerooms, the stooles with nailes guilt, the great cabanetlike yours, the tapestrv, the great branch candlestick,all such wrought ^vorke as my mother had fromLondon and was not finished, the booke of martirsand other bookes in the withdrawing-room, the pre-serving-room, the spicery with furnaces and brewingvessels, plat left fur the childrens use, all the lockesthat are loose in the closet —such was the interior ofthe old house in 1( The house is situated on a gentle slope shelteredfrom the cast and north—our ancesttjrs showed a. ^^,\J^4^f^A^-^^ CLAYDON HOCt.£ IN THE —NOItlH mONTIfiom an oU Icnnt JJrauiii.}.) HOUSE-ICEEPIXG AT CLAYDOX / strange dislike to wind in the positions tlicy chose fortheir dwellings (as opposed to castles intended fordefence), and none at all to damp, which is to iismore objectionable ; the difficnlty of obtaining fuel mayaccount for their preference of what seemed to themwarm—and to us low situations. To the east of thecourtyard and stables which bear the modern date of17G4, lies a straggling mass of buildings of everypossible description. A great house provisioneditself, with little help from the oitter world ; theinhabitants brewed and leaked, they churned andground their meal, they bred up, fed and slew theirbeeves and sheep, and brought up their pigeonsand poultry at their own doors. Their horses wereshod at home, their planks were sawn, their roughiron work was forged and mended. Accordingly themill-house, the slaughter-h
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