for the lamp-stand, as figured in our last cut. In the inventories we have mention of _ge-bonene candel-sticcan_ (candlesticks of bone), of silver-gilt candlesticks, and of ornamented candlesticks. [Illustration: _No. 32. Anglo-Saxon Beds._] A bed was a usual article of furniture in the bower or chamber; though there were, no doubt, in large mansions, chambers set apart as bedrooms, as well as chambers in which there was no bed, or in which a bed could be made for the occasion. The account given by Gaimar, as quoted above, of the visit of king Osbert to Beorn’s lady, seems to imply that the chamber in which the lady gave the king his meal had a bed in it. The bed itself seems usually to have consisted merely of a sack (_sæccing_) filled with straw, and laid on a bench or board. Hence words used commonly to signify the bed itself were _bænce_ (a bench), and _streow_ (straw): and even in king Alfred’s translation of Bede, the statement, “he ordered to prepare a bed for him,” is expressed in Anglo-Saxon by, _he heht him streowne ge-gearwian_, literally, he ordered to prepare straw for him. All, in fact, that had to be done when a bed was wanted, was to take the bed-sack out of the _cyst_, or chest, fill it with fresh straw, and lay it on the bench. In ordinary houses it is probable that the bench for the bed was placed in a recess at the side of the room, in the manner we still see in Scotland; and hence the bed itself was called, among other names, _cota_, a cot; _cryb_, a crib or stall; and _clif_ or _clyf_, a recess or closet. From the same circumstance a bedroom was called _bed-clyfa_ or _bed-cleofa_, and _bed-cofa_, a bed-closet or bed-cove. Our cut (No. 32), taken from Alfric’s version of Genesis (Claudius, B. iv.), represents beds of this description. Benches are evidently placed in recesses at the side of the chamber, with the beds laid upon them, and the recesses are separated from the rest of the apartment by a curtain, _bed-warft_ or _hryfte_. The modern word _bedstead_ means, literally, no more than “a place for a bed;” and it is probable that what we call bedsteads were then rare, and only possessed by people of rank. Two examples are given in the annexed cut (No. 33), taken from the Harleian MS., No. 603. Under the head were placed a _bolstar_ and a _pyle_ (pillow), which were probably also stuffed with straw. The clothes with which the sleeper was covered, and which appear in the pictures scanty enough, were _scyte_, a sheet, _bed-felt_, a coverlet, which was generally of some thicker material, and _bed-reaf_, bed-clothes. We know from a multitude of authorities, that it was the general custom of the middle ages to go into bed quite naked. The sketchy character of the Anglo-Saxon drawings renders it difficult sometimes to judge of minute details; but, from the accompanying cuts, it appears that an Anglo-Saxon going into bed, having stripped all his or her clothes off, first wrapped round his body a sheet, and then drew over him the