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chest or the accident, whatever it was, that caused his cousin Elizabeth's death.
The oak chest now at the Castle, Tiverton, was described by the late Sir William Cope as follows: " The chest is one of those called in Italian ' Cassone/in which the bride's trousseau was enclosed and conveyed to her future home. It is about seven or eight feet long; about three feet high and the same in breadth. The ex-terior and the interior of the lid are inlaid with ornamental designs. The front is divided into three panels. The subjects of these panels are landscapes, in one of which is a man cutting down a tree ; the stiles dividing and enclosing the panels are each ornamented with the figure of a man with the legs of an animal (a satyr). The two on the exterior stiles are carrying goats, the other two on the dividing stiles are blowing horns; one carrying a trident, the other a club. At the foot of one of the satyrs is a tortoise; of another, a serpent; and of the other two, dogs or some similar quadrupeds. The frame is de-corated with arabesques. The inside of the lid, which has three hinges the long straps of which end in fleur-de-lys, is decorated. In the upper centre is the globe, supported by two' amoretti' and below these are arabesques. On one side in a landscape are two unarmed figures kneeling
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