Mahogany, the chief designers of, of the golden age, 104 Marlborough, Duchess of, and her intrigues, 158 Marquetry bureaus in coloured woods, 169 Marquetry, woods used in, 169 Minor cabinet-makers' work lacking harmony, 212 Modern office-chair, derivation from Windsor type, 263 More, Hannah, and the agricultural classes, 175 Morris, William, his influence on furniture, 111 "Mule" chests, 52 Norfolk, oak furniture, 283 Normandy dressers, 134 Normans, furniture, styles of, introduced by, 37 North, Roger, quoted, 170 Oak, erroneously used to carry out walnut designs, 212 Oak, general in its use, 55 Oak supplanted by walnut in fashionable furniture, 207 Oak the chief wood employed, 33 Office-chair, derivation from Windsor type, 263 Oriental patterns in chintzes, 333 Panelling, bevel of, indicating date of, 204 Panels, sunk, Jacobean style, 62 Patterns, wood, used for firebacks, 300 People, changing habits of the, in seventeenth century, 72 Pepys's _Diary_, quoted, 79 Pleasure gardens, eighteenth-century, 249 Pot-hook, the, 294 Pot-hooks, fine examples, where exhibited, 294 Prince of Wales's feathers, 227 Provincial furniture many decades behind fashion, 50 Queen Anne, cabriole leg, 129 Queen Anne dressers, 122 Queen Anne flap tables, 89 Queen Anne period, the splat of the, 217 Restoration period, chests of drawers, 62 Ribbon designs, introduction of, 179 Roads in provinces, bad state of, 79 Rush-bottom chair, the, 233 Rushlight holder, the, 288 Scandinavian origin of Elizabethan chair, 37 Scotland, Union with, proclamation by Queen Anne, 161 Scottish types of ironwork, 277 "Seaweed" marquetry in clock-cases, 312 Settle, Lancashire form, 278 Settle, Queen Anne style, 167 Seventeenth-century, chronology of, 45-48 Seventeenth-century settle (Lancashire), 278 Seventeenth-century sideboard, typical style, 56 Seventeenth-century styles, 49-82 Seventeenth-century styles, types of, 72 Shell ornament, early eighteenth-century, 167 Sheraton clock-cases, 312 Sheraton influence on country makers, 234 Sheraton influence in Windsor chairs, 259 Sheraton style, provincial, 221 Sideboard, typical seventeenth-century style, 56 Sixteenth-century chests, 34 Sizergh Castle, oak room at, 55 Spanish foot, its use, 104, 107 Spanish Succession, War of the, 161 Spindle-back chair, the, 234 Spindle-back chairs (Lancashire), 278 Spinning-wheels, 153 Spitalfields weavers, complaint as to chintz fashions, 326, 330 Splat, the Queen Anne, 217 Staffordshire pottery and cottage furniture compared, 31 Stands for chests of drawers, 67 Stockholm, collection of farmhouse furniture at, 38 Stools, children's Jacobean, illustrated, 77