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)
in withthe dais or raised platform at one end, on which the hightable was placed lengthwise, or across the end of the hall;in the centre was the seat for the lord, sometimes againraised in a separate chair or throne ^; the principal guests high and good, . . . and a great louvreover the said… … FiEE-PLACE IN THE HALL. MEARE. SOMERSETSHIRE. THE DAIS. 41 were seated on either side of him, facing the rest of thecompany; no one was placed in the front part of the dais,that side of the table was left entirely open, that the lordand his chief guests might sec and be seen by the rest ofthe…
Architecture, Domestic
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