2. Little Parlour.
3. Great Parlour.
4. Nursery.
5. Chamber over Kitchen
6. Pantry.
7. Parlour.
The gallery, was panelled with oak gilt, and on the panelling were Latin inscriptions, so aptly selected that it was considered worth while to collect them in a small volume, illuminated with much beauty. In the orchard was a banqueting-house, which in its turn was adorned with busts and inscriptions. These all related to specific subjects—grammar, arithmetic, logic, music, rhetoric, geometry, and astrology; and each subject was not only depicted on the walls, but was further illustrated by appropriate verses and the pictures of such learned men as had excelled in it.[13] Although most of them were selected from the ancients, yet Sir Nicholas Bacon was sufficiently catholic in his taste to admit such modern names as Lilly, the grammarian, and Copernicus, the "astrologer," the latter of whom had only been dead some thirty years.
[13]Nichols' Progresses of Queen Elizabeth, Vol. II.
Plate XXVI.
