 | Samuel Hibbert- Ware - 1822 - 70 pages
...along one side of the room, with the intention that it should accommodate the lord and his family, so that they might not be annoyed by the coarse rustic...during the hours of their conviviality. In a hall, then, of this kind, contrived in the manor-house of Assheton, we may imagine the large Yole fire to... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1868 - 190 pages
...along one side of the room, with the intention that it should accommodate the lord and his family, so that they might not be annoyed by the coarse rustic...during the hours of their conviviality. In a hall, then, of this kind, contrived in the manor-house of Assheton, we may imagine the large Tole fire to... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1868 - 190 pages
...aceommodate the lord and his family, so that they might not be annoyed by the eoarse rustie freedoms, whieh the tenants would be too apt to take with them, during the hours of their eonviviality. In a hall, then, of this kind, eontrived in the manor-house of Assheton, we may imagine... | |
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Lancashire, once dedicated to these annual scenes of festivity, may be observed an elevation of the floor at the extremity of the great hall, or, in the place of it, a gallery which stretches along one side of the room, with the intention that it should... 