Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 33
hichartists love to depict. The making of tiles is anancient handicraft. At onetime fines were levied in theform of tiles. A curious by-law was made in 1443 in thetown of Reading that no barbershould open any shop or shaveany man after ten of the clockat night, under a penalty ofpaying 300 tiles to… … ■^•^jfErif-. — A BACK GARDEN Methods of Construction tion wisely determined to encourage the em-ployment of a safer material. One JohnBristol was fined 2,100 tiles forshaving seven persons contrary to the order. OneJohn Bristow, in treign of Henry VI..was fined 4,000tiles for disobedi-ence to the…
Architecture, Domestic
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