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Tridarn cupboard
‘Throughout the early modern period, marriage agreements formally recorded what a wife was to bring to the house and how she was to be maintained during her widowhood. The wife often brought furniture and textiles to furnish a chamber. In Welsh, these marriage goods were called stafell, literally ‘room’ or ‘chamber’. Marriage agreements bound the bride’s family to provide ‘suitable’ or ‘competent’ chamber furniture as part of the dowry…Although the stafell was technically the husban’d property, it was property that might return to a wife during her widowhood or devolve to a daughter. When a wife came to an established farmhouse the, marriage goods furnished the couple’s chamber, which would have been specially decorated for the occasion.’ (Inside Welsh Homes)