A large early Victorian pine six-leg table, dated 1848 The six-plank top with cleated ends and raised on baluster-turned legs with block feet and square stretchers, with cabinet-maker's pencil inscriptions to the underside, 'J Elliot Jany 13 1849 and Jeremiah Wraight 1848' to the underside of the top within the leg recesses, the base retaining much of the original ochre paint, 361cm long, 122cm wide, 74cm high. Provenance: New Hall, Dymchurch, Kent. New Hall housed the Governors of the Marsh and was used as a courtroom for the Romney Marsh area; it is here that meetings were held by the Lords of the Level, Jurats and Bailiffs to discuss and rule the Marshland which was their domain. In 1797 a Gaol was built which was in use until 1866 when the New Romney constables were superseded by the County Police. New Hall, Dymchurch was last used as a local court house in1951 and is now a Museum. Although a Jeremiah Wraight is not listed as a cabinet-maker in G.Beard & C.Gilbert, Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, there is a John Wraight listed as working at High St, Folkestone, Kent in 1789, who is likely to be a relation (see p.1003/4).