The list contains Turkish carpets, sumptuous bed hangings, woollen blankets and numerous tapestries (including a piece with the story of Moses, a piece of “Our Lady” and twelve pieces called the “Ragged staffe” depicting the months that use the heraldic symbol associated with Warwick as a border motif). Amongst the list of tapestries are four pieces “of Alexander”. The ‘Wars of Alexander the Great’ were a very popular set of tapestries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The inventory listing of the Alexander hangings may be the reason why Lord Curzon chose to purchase three Flemish tapestries of the same theme, to adorn the walls of the newly restored Audience Chamber in 1914.
Also included in the inventory is a tester for a bed “of the richest purple velvet, roses and percullesses” i.e. the Tudor rose and the portcullis. It is therefore assumed that this bedding was left from when Margaret Beaufort, King Henry VII’s mother, was owner of the castle; the Tudor rose and the Beaufort Portcullis being prominent symbols of power and propaganda in the sixteenth century.