Archaeologia cantiana . d at the Castle. We have an old lease, dated 23rdMay, 1429, by which Thomas Brook, Lord Cobham, letsto John Smith of Cowling, two houses, with a marshcalled Leth .... for four years from Michaelmas next,at £5 per annum. One of the clauses in this lease iscuriously indicative of the scantiness of furniture neededin those days. Among the conditions is one, that thetenant or his executors straminabunt aulam et cameras 102 COWLING CASTLE. de Castro de Coweling, cum cirpis de novo colligatis,contra qucmlibct advcntum predict! domini ad Castrumprcdictum. To strew the floor wi
Archaeologia cantiana . d at the Castle. We have an old lease, dated 23rdMay, 1429, by which Thomas Brook, Lord Cobham, letsto John Smith of Cowling, two houses, with a marshcalled Leth .... for four years from Michaelmas next,at £5 per annum. One of the clauses in this lease iscuriously indicative of the scantiness of furniture neededin those days. Among the conditions is one, that thetenant or his executors straminabunt aulam et cameras 102 COWLING CASTLE. de Castro de Coweling, cum cirpis de novo colligatis,contra qucmlibct advcntum predict! domini ad Castrumprcdictum. To strew the floor with fresh rushes was nearly all thepreparation needed to receive the lord on his arras, the costers, dorsers, and bankers, and coverlets,etc., were shifted and brought with him; a few benchesand stools, and steddles, and a few chairs formed thestanding furniture of the house; and he could migratefrom one mansion to another with his other furniture asreadily as a soldier shifts his tent and its gear. L. B. 103 NOTES OF BRASSES, MEMORIAL WINDOWS, ANDESCUTCHEONS, FORMERLY EXISTING IN ASH-FORD AND WILLESBOROUGH CHURCHES. (from the surrenden collection.) by herbert l. smith, esq. The Englishman whose span of existence was allottedduring the middle of the fifteenth century, or the thirtyyears wars of the Roses, had but little settled he were prince, noble, or plebeian, the buck-ling on of his armour was not for the mere parade ofchivalry or ornament of the gallant. The violence ofpartisanship cut asunder the dearest ties of family circleand friendly board. It was through this period that he whose effigy liesbefore us lived. Sir John Fogge, Knight, Privy Councillor, Treasurer,1Comptroller of the Household, personal friend, faithfuladherent, and, by the Woodvilles, a family connection ofEdward IV.,—for his first wife, Alice Haut, was firstcousin to the Queen, her mother having been ElizabethWoodville, a sister of Lord Rivers.—According to theevidence o
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