The Past At Our Doors Or the Old in the New Around Us
The Past At Our Doors Or the Old in the New Around Us
Skeat Walter William
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" One such hall-cupboard, which was used at the wedding of Prince Arthur, son of Henry VII. , contained plate worth £20, 000, and was built in five stages or steps, which were covered with a cloth, and had the cups displayed upon them. So too abroad, in a German book of 1587 there was a similar picture of one of tliese ancient cupboards, wliich was used during VI THE STOIJY OF OUK HOMES 14. 3 the ceremonies at Prague, when the Grand Duke Ferdinand of Austria invested the Emperor and the Grand D...ukes Carl and Ernest with tlie order of >C0^k- '■^J mm: Fig. 40. -A l^uyal iLui, . I li, ^ iuu. Lc^u^i u. NurruLH century, showing a " Dresser " or " Cup-Board " in five tiers, the prerogative of royalty, for dispKay of plate. [Note the use of the steeple-hat in all stages, and similarity of dress worn both by some of the men and women— the women's hats have veils. ] the Golden Fleece. This latter cupboard also had five steps, and this leads us to the fact that by a strange rule of etiquette, cupboards of five such 144 THE PAST AT OUE DOORS chap.
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