The English house, how to judge its periods and styles (1909)
Sparrow, Walter Shaw, 1862- · New York, J. Lane Co. · leaf 258
n for a long span of oxen, whenstabled four abreast, as they worked in thefields. Thus a house in one bay shows the in-fluence of farming on peasant customs. Thatis, a poor family was content to live in a hallno bigger than the space given to four oxenin a byre or shippon. Apply this to the… … HALLS OF THE POOR 165 their modest home, their shelter against mis-fortune.* The manner in which the old foot measurewas ascertained for a rood of land is explainedby an Elizabethan writer on surveying, Val-entin Ligh by name. After prayer on Sundaysixteen men were stopped at the church door,just…
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