Dick, Stewart, Allingham, Helen Paterson, 1848-1926 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 98
i-cence. Stained glass filled the windows (the window-frames were often portable, so that they could becarried from house to house), fresco-paintings andcostly tapestries covered the walls. A fine example of the old baronial hall, dating fromearly Norman times, may be seen, still in a state… … THE EVOLUTION OF THE COTTAGE 45 oaken tables resting on trestles, are still there. Atone end is a gallery for musicians, and in the wallabove is a little loophole through which the lord,seated at ease in the solar, might still keep an eye onthe retainers below. But as time went on the whole system…
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