coverlet. Sharon Turner has given a list of the articles connected with the bed, mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon wills and inventories. In the will of a man we find bed-clothes (_bed-reafes_), with a curtain (_hyrfte_), and sheet (_hopp-scytan_), and all that thereto belongs; and he gives to his son the _bed-reafe_, or bed-cloth, and all its appurtenances. An Anglo-Saxon lady gives to one of her children two chests and their contents, her best bed-curtain, linen, and all the clothes belonging to it. To another child she leaves two chests, and “all the bed-clothes that to one bed belong.” On another occasion we read of _pulvinar unum de palleo_: not a pillow of straw, as Sharon Turner very erroneously translates it, but a pillow of a sort of rich cloth made in the middle ages. A goat-skin bed-covering was sent to an Anglo-Saxon abbot; and bear-skins are sometimes noticed, as if a part of bed furniture. [Illustration: _No. 33. Anglo-Saxon Beds._] The bed-room, or chamber, and the sitting-room were usually identical; for we must bear in mind that in the domestic manners of the middle ages the same idea of privacy was not connected with the sleeping-room as at the present day. Gaimar has preserved an anecdote of Anglo-Saxon times curiously illustrative of this point. King Edgar--a second David in this respect--married the widow of Ethelwold, whom he had murdered in order to clear his way to her bed. The king and queen were sleeping in their bed, which is described as surrounded by a rich curtain, made of a stuff which we cannot easily explain, when Dunstan, uninvited, but unhindered, entered the chamber to expostulate with them on their wickedness, and came to the king’s bedside, where he stood over them, and entered into conversation-- _A Londres ert Edgar li reis;_ _King Edgar was at London;_ _En son lit jut e la raine,_ _He lay in his bed with the queen,_ _Entur els out une curtine_ _Round them was a curtain_ _Delgé, d’un paille escariman._ _Spread, made of scarlet paille._ _Este-vus l’arcevesque Dunstan_ _Behold archbishop Dunstan_ _Très par matin vint en la chambre_ _Came into the chamber very early in the morning._ _Sur un pecul de vermail lambre_ _On a bed-post of red plank_ _S’est apué cel arcevesque._ _The archbishop leaned._