Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England, from Richard II to Henry VIII: With Numerous Illustrations of Existing Remains, from Original Drawings, Volume 1John Henry and James Parker, 1859 - Architecture, Domestic |
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Page 40 - Another blissed besines is brigges to make, There that the pepul may not passe after greet showres. Dole° it is to drawe a deed body oute of a lake, That was fulled in a fount stoonP, and a Felow of cures.
Page 40 - Wente forthe in the Water wist no man whare. Fyve Wekys after or they were i founde, Her kyn and her knowlech* caught hem uppe with care.
Page 42 - Abendon, and many oon moo. For now is Culham hithe i com to an ende, An al the contre the better and no man the worse. Few folke there were coude that wey wende, But they waged a wed d or payed of her purse.
Page 94 - The Camera usually contained a bed, and the ordinary furniture of a bed-chamber; but it must be remembered that it still answered the purpose of a parlour or sitting-room, the bed being covered over during the daytime with a handsome coverlid, as is still the custom in France and other foreign countries to this day.
Page 46 - ... the work was Edward Strong (not Thomas, as stated on p. 213), and to his memory there is a monument in St. Peter's Church, St. Albans. He was an ancestor of an old friend of mine, Capt. WH Nares, RN, who possessed a fine portrait of him by Sir Godfrey Kneller, with the cipher GK on one side. He held in one hand a pair of compasses, and in the other a plan of the cathedral. Of this I once had a pencil sketch, but gave it a friend. In all probability the original portrait now belongs to Sir George...
Page 86 - ... près d'eux, en sont meilleurs et vigoureux. Au demeurant, deux assez bonnes chambres pour les survenants et...
Page 86 - ... et autres engins de chasse. Et sous le grand banc de la sale, large de trois pieds, la belle paille fresche pour coucher les chiens, lesquels, pour ouïr et sentir leur maistre prés d'eux, en sont meilleurs et vigoureux.
Page 81 - Commande 36," says Bishop Grosteste, in his rules for the ordering of a family, "that youre almys be kepyd, and sende not to boys and knafis, nother in the halle, nother outh of ye halle, ne be wasted in soperys ne dyners of gromys, but wysely, temperately, and withoute bate or letyng be hit distributed & deportyd to poure men, beggers, syke folke & febullf.
Page 42 - And of the pore penyles the hiereward e wold habbe A hood or a girdel, and let hem goo withoute. Many moo myscheves there weren I say. Culham hithe hath causid many a curse. I blyssed be our helpers we have a better waye, Withoute any peny for cart and for horse.