DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.9697#0229
DESCRIPTION OF THE TENTS.
I65
with massy gold, as the floor likewise was where my Lord
had his audience ; the bolsters and cushions were suitable.
Behind this was a partition wall made of canvas, the ground
and the flowers of bits of cloth ; the covering of all these
tents was on the outside a pale green canvas; on the inside
the ground satten flovver'd with bits of divers colours, some
satten, some fine cloth, and all the edges and seems were
wrought with gold and silver twist. All the flowers and
Kiosks, etc., wrought are fancyes not at all according to
nature, and though all together showes very glorious and
stately, yet in the particulars it is very bungling and
blockish. They often bring in round bits of satten or
cloath patch't one upon the other in their fruits and flowers,
and being of divers colours, represent so many Crescents.
They make likewise the figures of some antick birds, few
beasts, but no men. The panes of the inside are all arch't
as the wall tents belowe ; at bottom a fring as on the side.
The vallance was of the same make, and were of various
sorts and fancyes in several tents of party colours. Passing
through the Partition wall we came to the Gr. Sr. sleeping
tent, or bedchamber, which they call odd1; it is square, with
a ridge above like a house, which is supported with two
long posts, four shorter being at the corners under the eves,
which hang over like a pent-house, as the wals which were
made lattice fashion, and richly gilded and painted, with
doors to open on thre sides; it was about 12 or 13 foot
square, for we were not suffer'd to enter neither here nor
at Adrianople. When it is very hot these lattices alone are
used ; if it be cold it is wal'd round with red cloth lined
with flower'd damask. We looked in ; it is floored in like
manner with the rest, sometimes richer, sometimes not ;
there is a bed stand crosse the door at upper end, bolster'd
at each end ; the bed stood plain, but they can set it out
Oda = sleeping-room.
I65
with massy gold, as the floor likewise was where my Lord
had his audience ; the bolsters and cushions were suitable.
Behind this was a partition wall made of canvas, the ground
and the flowers of bits of cloth ; the covering of all these
tents was on the outside a pale green canvas; on the inside
the ground satten flovver'd with bits of divers colours, some
satten, some fine cloth, and all the edges and seems were
wrought with gold and silver twist. All the flowers and
Kiosks, etc., wrought are fancyes not at all according to
nature, and though all together showes very glorious and
stately, yet in the particulars it is very bungling and
blockish. They often bring in round bits of satten or
cloath patch't one upon the other in their fruits and flowers,
and being of divers colours, represent so many Crescents.
They make likewise the figures of some antick birds, few
beasts, but no men. The panes of the inside are all arch't
as the wall tents belowe ; at bottom a fring as on the side.
The vallance was of the same make, and were of various
sorts and fancyes in several tents of party colours. Passing
through the Partition wall we came to the Gr. Sr. sleeping
tent, or bedchamber, which they call odd1; it is square, with
a ridge above like a house, which is supported with two
long posts, four shorter being at the corners under the eves,
which hang over like a pent-house, as the wals which were
made lattice fashion, and richly gilded and painted, with
doors to open on thre sides; it was about 12 or 13 foot
square, for we were not suffer'd to enter neither here nor
at Adrianople. When it is very hot these lattices alone are
used ; if it be cold it is wal'd round with red cloth lined
with flower'd damask. We looked in ; it is floored in like
manner with the rest, sometimes richer, sometimes not ;
there is a bed stand crosse the door at upper end, bolster'd
at each end ; the bed stood plain, but they can set it out
Oda = sleeping-room.