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GOODRICH CASTLE AND COURT. T35
Chapel, fitted as all chapels were at the fuppofed date, the
time of our Edwards, in the Roman Catholic Ryle. The
carvings and figures are many of them of thofe times, others
of Henry VI. The rich altar-cloth, the large candlefticks, the
croziers, the reading defks, and other fittings, are all ancient
and curious from their hiftories. But the efpecial room of the
houfe is The Grand Armoury. It is eighty feet in length,
and you have the hiftory of ancient armour before your eyes on
the backs of figures reprefenting known warriors, ten of thefe
figures on horfeback. You have alfo ten glafs-cafes, containing
a feries of arms and armour, down from the Greek and
Roman and the Ancient Briton, to the time when armour was
exploded by that terrible explofive, gunpowder. Above thefe
are ranged banners of many famous men ; and in the intervening
fpaces are eighty-four halberds, arranged in groups according to
their refpedtive periods. The oaken columns fupporting the
gallery are covered with weapons of all known kinds, including
the moft complete collection of the kind in the world. It was
the pofTeffion of this unrivalled aflemblage of arms and armour
which enabled Sir Samuel to write and illuftrate his fuperb
work on the fubjedt. We believe that it was from this
armoury that the Auftrians adopted the fame arrangement in
the great armoury in one of the palaces in Vienna.
It is an odd feeling that haunts you when walking amongfl
this extenfive collection of inflruments of death. You
feem to have Repped out of the Chriftian world altogether,
and entered one of animals, bent above all things on mutual
defirudtion. What a wonderful exertion of the faculties, from
age to age, to devife fome newer and more efficient means of
fending people out of the world ! What an inveterate race of
Reel porcupines in the fliape of men! If any one ever
doubted of the fall, and that u the heart of man is deceitful
Chapel, fitted as all chapels were at the fuppofed date, the
time of our Edwards, in the Roman Catholic Ryle. The
carvings and figures are many of them of thofe times, others
of Henry VI. The rich altar-cloth, the large candlefticks, the
croziers, the reading defks, and other fittings, are all ancient
and curious from their hiftories. But the efpecial room of the
houfe is The Grand Armoury. It is eighty feet in length,
and you have the hiftory of ancient armour before your eyes on
the backs of figures reprefenting known warriors, ten of thefe
figures on horfeback. You have alfo ten glafs-cafes, containing
a feries of arms and armour, down from the Greek and
Roman and the Ancient Briton, to the time when armour was
exploded by that terrible explofive, gunpowder. Above thefe
are ranged banners of many famous men ; and in the intervening
fpaces are eighty-four halberds, arranged in groups according to
their refpedtive periods. The oaken columns fupporting the
gallery are covered with weapons of all known kinds, including
the moft complete collection of the kind in the world. It was
the pofTeffion of this unrivalled aflemblage of arms and armour
which enabled Sir Samuel to write and illuftrate his fuperb
work on the fubjedt. We believe that it was from this
armoury that the Auftrians adopted the fame arrangement in
the great armoury in one of the palaces in Vienna.
It is an odd feeling that haunts you when walking amongfl
this extenfive collection of inflruments of death. You
feem to have Repped out of the Chriftian world altogether,
and entered one of animals, bent above all things on mutual
defirudtion. What a wonderful exertion of the faculties, from
age to age, to devife fome newer and more efficient means of
fending people out of the world ! What an inveterate race of
Reel porcupines in the fliape of men! If any one ever
doubted of the fall, and that u the heart of man is deceitful