A sampler by Salley Swift Slaighwaite 1799 worked in coloured silks in cross stitch and Algerian eye, the centre with an elegant house with spot motifs including crowns and pavilions in the field, with alphabets and numerals above and a verse, "As education rules our will" below, within a stylised floral border--19in. (48cm.) square, framed and glazed

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A sampler by Salley Swift Slaighwaite 1799 worked in coloured silks in cross stitch and Algerian eye, the centre with an elegant house with spot motifs including crowns and pavilions in the field, with alphabets and numerals above and a verse, "As education rules our will" below, within a stylised floral border--19in. (48cm.) square, framed and glazed

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