The Dutch Home
£4; another China quilt stitched in checquer work
with yellow silke, the ground white, £4; and a China
carpett of several colours, the ground white and weaved
in with antiques of several colours lined with watchett
taffata, £4.
"A China guilte cabonett upon a frame, £1 10s.; a
large square China worke table and frame of black
vernishe and gold, £6; one faire crimson velvet chaire
richlie imbosted with copper and spread eagles and blewe
and white flowers China worke, the frame painted with
gold and my Lord's crest upon the same; one small
table of China worke in golde and colours with flies and
wormes upon a pillar suitable, £1 ; a little gilded couch
carved and cutt, 15s. ; an ebony cabinett inlaid with
mother-of-pearle, 13s.; a very large bedstead with
wreathed pillars ballastars for head, side and feete,
all coloured blacke and gold, £7; a foldinge Indian
serene, £3 4s."
The bonds between England and Holland were very
close in Puritan days, and the household belongings of
the two countries, both in hall and cottage, were practi-
cally identical. In Holland, the Puritans found a refuge
and congenial surroundings before sailing for the New
World. The homes of the prosperous burghers of New
Amsterdam, now New York, faithfully mirrored the
comfort and taste of those of Amsterdam and The Hague ;
and here we may pause a moment to examine a couple
of inventories of early dwellers in what is still the most
important city in the Western Hemisphere.
Mrs. Margarita van Varick died in 1696, and her
bequests to her children are eloquent testimony of the
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