The cupboards set in the walls held china, which was often very beautiful, especially that of the favorite Lowestoffe and Chinese makes. The glassware was finely cut, and some of the goblets had stems adorned with spiral threads of opaque glass. Pewter platters, plates, dishes and mugs were in daily use. '

"The bed-room furniture embraced an enormous four-post bedstead, the posts handsomely carved and supporting a canopy or tester hung with dimity or fringed chintz curtains and a fringed valance to match.* A sacking bottom was pierced at intervals

1 These pewter utensils were highly valued. One man, in 1690, leaves to his wife "her bed and some small reversions of pewter," and to his daughter " two great charges of pewter, two pewter platters next to them, two lesser platters, a flaggon and a cow." A widow, in 1688, relinipiislies her thirds in favor of her two sons, who promise her a certain yearly allowance-- "only her wearing clothes, witli her bed and what belonged to it and her ptweter-- those to remain to her and to be at her disposal."-- //i«(-)ry of Itije b>/ Hev. Cluti. W. TInird.

- One must have slept in a Dutch bed to understand the bliss or agony resulting from its peculiar arrangement. Going to bed in this case is a science. Tlie first difficulty for a novice is to let himself drop into the

with large holes, worked with coarse linen thread in button-hole stitch. Through these orifices a stout rope was inserted and drawn around the corresponding pegs in the bedstead by strong hands, and upon this foundation great feather beds were piled. In the guest chamber, over the blankets and sheets was spread a white quilt, which was often a work of art, so beautifully was it quilted and so well were roses and tulips delineated by the needle upon its surface.