EVERY man's proper mansion-house and home, being the theater of his hospitality, the seate of self-fruition, the comfortablest part of his own life, the noblest of his Sonne's inheritance, a kinde of private princedom, naye, to the possessors thereof, an epitomie of the whole world, may well deserve by these attributes, according to the degree of the master, to be decently and delightfully adorned."

Sir Henry Watton.