Bedstead, oak Elizabethan, with carved back, dated 1560, and small cupboard fitted with secret sliding panel, and further having carved and inlaid panelled top with inlaid panels, the whole surmounted with heavy cornice. C. W. Provis & Son, Manchester, May 9, 1904 33 0 0 Sideboard, Elizabethan old oak, 6 ft. 2 in. wide by 7 ft. 6 in. high, with carved canopy top; also fitted with gallery shelf, supported by lions rampant. C. W. Provis & Son, Manchester. May 9, 1904 60 0 0 [1] By the kindness of the proprietors of the _Connoisseur_ these items are given from their useful monthly publication, _Auction Sale Prices_. [Illustration: _By kindness of T. E. Price Stretche, Esq._ ELIZABETHAN OAK TABLE.] III STUART OR JACOBEAN. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY [Illustration: _By permission of Messrs. Waring._ GATE-LEG TABLE.] III STUART OR JACOBEAN. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY James I. 1603-1625. Charles I. 1625-1649. The Commonwealth 1649-1660. 1619. Tapestry factory established at Mortlake, under Sir Francis Crane. ---- Banqueting Hall added to Whitehall by Inigo Jones. 1632. Vandyck settled in London on invitation of Charles I. 1651. Navigation Act passed; aimed blow (1572-1652) at Dutch carrying trade. All goods to be imported in English ships or in ships of country producing goods. With the advent of the House of Stuart the England under James I. saw new fashions introduced in furniture. It has already been mentioned that the greater number of old houses which are now termed Tudor or Elizabethan were erected in the days of James I. At the beginning of a new monarchy fashion in art rarely changes suddenly, so that the early pieces of Jacobean furniture differ very little from Elizabethan in character. Consequently the Court cupboard, dated 1603, and mirror of the same year (illustrated on p. 70), though bearing the date of the first year of the reign of James, more properly belong to Tudor days. In the Bodleian Library at Oxford there is preserved a chair of fine workmanship and of historic memory. It was made from the oak timbers of the _Golden Hind_, the ship in which Sir Francis Drake made his adventurous voyage of discovery round the world. In spite of many secret enemies "deaming him the master thiefe of the unknowne world," Queen Elizabeth came to Deptford and came aboard the _Golden Hind_ and "there she did make Captain Drake knight, in the same ship, for reward of his services; his armes were given him, a ship on the world, which ship, by Her Majestie's commandment, is lodged in a dock at Deptford, for a monument to all posterity." [Illustration: _By permission of the proprietors of the "Connoisseur."_ OAK CHAIR MADE FROM THE TIMBER OF THE _GOLDEN HIND_. COMMONLY CALLED "SIR FRANCIS DRAKE'S CHAIR." (_At the Bodleian Library._)]