The Narrative of the "Lord of Grauthuse," edited by Sir F.Madden, specifies the hangings of cloth of gold in the apartments in which that lord was received by Edward IV.; also the hangings of white silk and linen in the chamber appropriated to himself at Windsor.
But long before this period (to say nothing of the Bayeux Tapestry),--namely, in the reign of Edward III.

(in 1344),--a writ was issued to inquire into the mystery of working tapestry; and in 1398 Mr.
Britton observes that the celebrated arras hangings at Warwick Castle are mentioned.

(See Britton's "Dictionary of Architecture and Archaelogy," art.

"Tapestry.")] then was rare, even among the wealthiest); but the colours were half obliterated by time and damp.

The bedstead on which the wounded man reclined was curiously carved, with a figure of the Virgin at the head, and adorned with draperies, in which were wrought huge figures from scriptural subjects, but in the dress of the date of Richard II.,--Solomon in pointed upturned shoes, and Goliath, in the armour of a crusader, frowning grimly upon the sufferer.
By the bedside stood a personage, who, in reality, was but little past the middle age, but whose pale visage, intersected with deep furrows, whose long beard and hair, partially gray, gave him the appearance of advanced age: nevertheless there was something peculiarly striking in the aspect of the man.