Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)
ung a bell, to call the monks towash before dinner, and in closets towels were kept, whiteand clean to dry their hands upon ^. It was by no means an un-common circumstance for the bed-chamber to be supplied with theluxury of a bath. In William andthe Werwolf we are told, Thar bi held thei the bath… … Ageyn ye evyn ye kyng gagt dyztA bath for ye gentyll knyzt *. And in Syr Bevys of Hamptoun we are told that, In to chaumber she gan him take.And riche bathes she let him make ^. In the romance of William and the Werwolf we aretold. There were beddes busked for any burn riche,And two bathes were…
Architecture, Domestic
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