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The cushions or "quysshens" for the chairs, of embroidered velvet, were also very important appendages to the otherwise hard oaken and ebony seats, and as the actual date of the will of Alderman Glasseor quoted below is 1589, we may gather from the extract given, something of the character and value of these ornamental accessories which would probably have been in use for some five and twenty or thirty years previously.
Sixe quysshens of tapestree xxs. And others of velvet "embroidered wt gold and silver armes in the middesle." Eight pictures xls. Maps, a pedigree of Earl Leicester in "joyned frame" and a list of books.
A little side table upon a frame ijs. vd. A pair of virginalls with the frame xxxs. Sixe joyned stooles covr'd with nedle werke xvs. Sixe other joyned stooles vjs. One cheare of nedle worke iijs. iiijd. Two little fote stooles iiijd. One longe carpett of Turky werke vili. A shortte carpett of the same werke xiijs. iijd. One cupbord carpett of the same xs. Sixe quysshens of Turkye xijs.
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