Excerpt from The Antiquarian Repertory, Vol. 4: A Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography, History, Biography, Customs, and Manners; Intended to Illustrate and Preserve Several Valuable Remains of Old Times; With a General Index to the Whole Before I quit this head of things provided, I cannot but observe that some of the articles appear to us now extremely unaccountable, as the hire of rough pewter vessel at the same time that a smaller quantity was ordered to be bought As the Earl and his family ordinarily used wooden trenchers, pewter must have been a very ornamental addition on great holidays, and especially the garnish or services of counterfeit vessel'; which, I presume, was some metal gilt or washed over. It is remarkable that they should be obliged to carry all the beds, hangings, and furniture along with them, whenever they removed. Indeed the usual manner of hanging the rooms in the old castles, was only to cover the naked stone walls with tapestry or arras hung upon tenter books, from which they were easily taken down upon every removals. On such an occasion the number of carts employed in a family of this size, must have formed a caravan nearly as large as those which traverse the deserts of the east. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.