The inscription reads 'RARE & EVER TO BE WISHT MAYE SOWNDE HEERE / INSTRVMENTS WCH FAINTE SPRITES & MVSES CHEERE / COMPOSING FOR THE BODY, SOVLE, & EARE / WHICH SICKNES, MADNES & FOVLE SPIRITS FEARE'.
This is part of the Job: 2K/13877 Fireplaces And King James I Statue, Apethorpe Hall, Northamptonshire; within the Volume: BF061840 Apethorpe Hall, Apethorpe; within the Series: EHC01/002 EH Architectural Requests; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive
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Photographer: Payne, Patricia
Fireplace, Carving
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