Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)
bedsteads, as repre-sented in the paintingsof contemporary manu-scripts, are often suppliedwith a tester or canopy,and hung with tapestryrichly embroidered andtrimmed with fringe ofgold. During the stay ofEdward in. at Wark cas-tle, the countess of Salis-bury, says Froissartj ledthe king first into… … Bedstead and Cradle from the MS. of theRomance of Alexander in the Bodleian Library. b line 879. c line 3735. d In the Liberate Rolls the bed-cham-ber is occasionally mentioned distinctly from the other chambers, but in thefourteenth century this distinction be-came more common. THE BED-CHAMBER. 97…
Architecture, Domestic
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