From 24 Hour Museum:

A chessboard of black ebony, the tusk of a sea bear, curtains of crimson satin with gold and silver lace… No, it’s not my Christmas wish-list, but some of the luxury items owned by Robert Dudley, Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite, in the 16th century.

English Heritage has just published, for the first time, details of these and hundreds more items as found on a 1578 inventory of the Earl of Leicester, Dudley’s Warwickshire residence, Kenilworth Castle.
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Dr Elizabeth Goldring of Warwick University, an expert on Elizabethan court culture and English Heritage consultant, transcribed and annotated the inventory, which has been published in the second English Heritage Historical Review. The original manuscript is owned by the British Library.

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