In its younger days it used, probably, to stand in the hall of the earl's castle.

Do not you see the coat of arms of the family of Lincoln carved in the open work of the back?
But when his daughter, the Lady Arbella, was married to a certain Mr.Johnson, the earl gave her this valuable chair." "Who was Mr.Johnson ?" inquired Clara.
"He was a gentleman of great wealth, who agreed with the Puritans in their religious opinions," answered Grandfather.

"And as his belief was the same as theirs, he resolved that he would live and die with them.
Accordingly, in the month of April, 1630, he left his pleasant abode and all his comforts in England, and embarked, with Lady Arbella, on board of a ship bound for America." As Grandfather was frequently impeded by the questions and observations of his young auditors, we deem it advisable to omit all such prattle as is not essential to the story.

We have taken some pains to find out exactly what Grandfather said, and here offer to our readers, as nearly as possible in his own words, the story of the Lady Arbella.
The ship in which Mr.Johnson and his lady embarked, taking Grandfather's chair along with them, was called the Arbella, in honor of the lady herself.

A fleet of ten or twelve vessels, with many hundred passengers, left England about the same time; for a multitude of people, who were discontented with the king's government and oppressed by the bishops, were flocking over to the New World.