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74 THE GROWTH OF THE CITY national costume. [furniture was scarce; there were few beds. Straw and rushes were on the floors, and the wealthy kept out draughts with costly but coarse hangings. There can have been no window-glass in common use, and but little even in the 7 churches. q If we care to make one more such excursion = through old London, let 7 us choose a date well on in the fifteenth cenie aap el 7 al tury, say two hundred years later than 1266. Edward IV is on the throne, and Elizabeth, his eldest daughter, afterwards the Queen of Henry VII, has just been born. There is a temporary lull in the long Wars of the Roses, but in the city every preparation is kept up, and the citizens, who were foremost in
