Very similar in general style, and of the same period, perhaps later, is the coin cabinet (Plate xlvi.) belonging to Mrs. Edmund McClure. This is a much more elaborately finished specimen. It is of oak and cedar inlaid with rosewood. Within there are ten drawers on one side and thirteen on the other.

Plate XLVI. Coin Cabinet, Oak And Cedar Inlaid With Rosewood 17th Century

XLVI. Coin Cabinet, oak and cedar inlaid with rosewood. Seventeenth century. Mrs. Edmund McClure.

The last but one (Plate xlvii.) of our examples, communicated by Messrs. Gill and Reigate, introduces a type which is not very uncommon, and for which some are inclined to claim a foreign origin. It is roughly inlaid with ivory and mother-of-pearl, the carcase being of oak panelled with other woods. Upon comparison with the preceding specimens and with Mr. Crowther-Beynon's bracketed chest of drawers (Plate lxii.), it will be seen that there is very little in it either of moulding or ornament to preclude its being English. I have seen a specimen from the outlying coast village of Worth, in Dorset, which was inlaid in exactly the same manner, and had pairs of plain pilasters split and applied upon the stiles in a shape and arrangement which was entirely English. Worth is but three or four miles from Corfe Castle, where, as I have mentioned elsewhere, there was inventoried in 1643-4 a trunk covered with mother-of-pearl. It is possible that this piece of furniture also was part of that which disappeared when Corfe fell into the hands of the Parliamentarians.

Plate XLVII. Cabinet, Oak, Inlaid With Mother Of Pearl, Etc. 17th Century

XLVII. Cabinet, oak, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, etc. Seventeenth century. Messrs. Gill and Reigate.

Plate LXII. Chest Of Drawers, Oak

LXII. Chest of Drawers, oak. With tube handles on upper drawer. V. B. Crowther-Beynon, Esq.

From Mr. J. W. Hurrell's useful book of measured drawings, chiefly of Lancashire furniture, we may conclude that oak court cupboards and cabinets fitted with applied pilasters and half-pendants were popular in that and neighbouring counties. One combines freehand carving with applied work. Many rely for their ornamentation upon geometrical arrangements of mouldings, as on the chest of drawers No. 70 in the Victoria and Albert Museum. One in particular is a court cupboard much adorned with prism shapes, oval bosses, and nail-heads or buttons applied. Some cabinets, or chests of drawers, rather, are found upon raised stands or with cushioned friezes, bulging outwards, such as prove them to belong to the very end of the seventeenth century, and one has a bulging bracket foot (as on the Welsh dresser reproduced in Plate xliii.2) which, if original, would place it later still. Plate XXIX. in Mr. Hurrell's book shows a chest in Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire, fitted with the tapering half-pendant fastened by the 'strap,' exactly in the manner which, I have suggested above, is of Flemish origin. Though it has not the quasi-fastening nail-head or button, the end of the 'strap' is rounded by way of compromise.

Plate XXIX. I - Oak Coffer, In The Lower Part Of The Front Are Two Doors Early 17th Century 2 - Oak Coffer First Half Of 17th Century 3 - Oak Coffer; "This Is Esther Hobsonne Chist, 1637 "

XXIX. (1) Chest, oak. In the lower part of the front are two doors. Early seventeenth century. V. & A. M.

(2) Chest, oak. First half of seventeenth century. V. & A. M.

(3) Chest, oak. 'This is Esther Hobsonne chist, 1637.' V. & A. M.

A cabinet of the general type of those described, and belonging to the Rev. F. Meyrick-Jones, is reproduced on Plate xlviii.

Plate XLIII.

1 - Dresser, Oak 17th Century

2 - Welsh Court Cupboard, Oak Late 17th Century

3 - Welsh Dresser, Oak, Inlaid With Mahogany 18th Century

XLIII. (1) Dresser, oak. Seventeenth century. Rev. F. Meyrick-Jones.

Length 60, Height 29, Depth from front to back 18½ inches.

(2) Welsh Court Cupboard, oak. Late seventeenth century. Shows the ' raised and splayed' panel, and three tiers or stages. The property of the author.

Dimensions: Height 77¼, Breadth 54⅝, Depth from front to back 21⅛ inches.

(3) Welsh Dresser, oak, inlaid with mahogany. Eighteenth century. The property of the author.

Dimensions: Height 89¼, Length 83⅜, Depth from front to back 19¼ inches.