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134 GOODRICH CASTLE AND COURT.
weapons from the iflands of the Pacific, including a grand
war-cloak of feathers, brought from the Sandwich Illes by-
Captain Cook. Thefe rooms are curious and inftrudtive,
but they are the leaft of all like what you are looking for in a
Britifh baronial hall: you enter with a more fatisfied feeling the
oppofite fuite of rooms.
The Banquetting Hall ftrikes you as perfect. It is fifty
feet long. Over the entrance is the Minftrels’ Gallery, and
on the dais or raifed floor at the upper end is a billiard table,
on one fide of which folding doors conduct to a covered way
leading to the Hables ; on the other fide other folding-doors
lead to the Hastilude Chamber. The roof is of oak, high
pitched, refting on Hone corbels ; the floor and panelling are
alfo of oak, and the chimney-piece is elaborately carved in
Painfwick Hone, bearing on its pediment an alto-relievo of
Aylmer de Valence, the owner of the caftle in the time of
Edward II., copied from his monument in Weftminfter
Abbey. From this window there are fine views of Goodrich
Caftle, and of the valleys of the Wye and of Lea Bailey.
Amongft the paintings in this room are Phillip II. of Spain,
by Coello, the Spanifli Court painter ; his daughter Ifabella and
her hufband Ferdinand; Lord Howard of Effingham; the
Queen of James IL, and Henry, Prince of Wales ; Villiers,
Duke of Buckingham, in armour, by Cornelius de Neve; a
trooper of the Commonwealth, faid to be Cornet Joyce, and
portraits of Sir Samuel and his fon.
In the Hastilude Chamber you find yourfelves in the
midft of a tournament,—men, fteeds, fpecftators, lifts, heralds,
the royal box, and the whole coftume and appurtenances of the
fame. You have alfo, in the fame room, if our memory ferve
us right, the proceffion of Sir Samuel himfelf when high
fheriff, with all his javelin-men in his livery. Near this is a
weapons from the iflands of the Pacific, including a grand
war-cloak of feathers, brought from the Sandwich Illes by-
Captain Cook. Thefe rooms are curious and inftrudtive,
but they are the leaft of all like what you are looking for in a
Britifh baronial hall: you enter with a more fatisfied feeling the
oppofite fuite of rooms.
The Banquetting Hall ftrikes you as perfect. It is fifty
feet long. Over the entrance is the Minftrels’ Gallery, and
on the dais or raifed floor at the upper end is a billiard table,
on one fide of which folding doors conduct to a covered way
leading to the Hables ; on the other fide other folding-doors
lead to the Hastilude Chamber. The roof is of oak, high
pitched, refting on Hone corbels ; the floor and panelling are
alfo of oak, and the chimney-piece is elaborately carved in
Painfwick Hone, bearing on its pediment an alto-relievo of
Aylmer de Valence, the owner of the caftle in the time of
Edward II., copied from his monument in Weftminfter
Abbey. From this window there are fine views of Goodrich
Caftle, and of the valleys of the Wye and of Lea Bailey.
Amongft the paintings in this room are Phillip II. of Spain,
by Coello, the Spanifli Court painter ; his daughter Ifabella and
her hufband Ferdinand; Lord Howard of Effingham; the
Queen of James IL, and Henry, Prince of Wales ; Villiers,
Duke of Buckingham, in armour, by Cornelius de Neve; a
trooper of the Commonwealth, faid to be Cornet Joyce, and
portraits of Sir Samuel and his fon.
In the Hastilude Chamber you find yourfelves in the
midft of a tournament,—men, fteeds, fpecftators, lifts, heralds,
the royal box, and the whole coftume and appurtenances of the
fame. You have alfo, in the fame room, if our memory ferve
us right, the proceffion of Sir Samuel himfelf when high
fheriff, with all his javelin-men in his livery. Near this is a