In addition to the architectural details of which he had as yet obtained but glimpses, there was a great collection of old movables and other domestic art-work--all more than a century old, and mostly lying as lumber.

There were suites of tapestry hangings, common and fine; green and scarlet leather-work, on which the gilding was still but little injured; venerable damask curtains; quilted silk table-covers, ebony cabinets, worked satin window-cushions, carved bedsteads, and embroidered bed-furniture which had apparently screened no sleeper for these many years.

Downstairs there was also an interesting collection of armour, together with several huge trunks and coffers.

A great many of them had been recently taken out and cleaned, as if a long dormant interest in them were suddenly revived.

Doubtless they were those which had been used by the living originals of the phantoms that looked down from the frames.
This excellent hoard of suggestive designs for wood-work, metal-work, and work of other sorts, induced Somerset to divert his studies from the ecclesiastical direction, to acquire some new ideas from the objects here for domestic application.