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)
stated, were laid upon trestles.In Richard Coeur de Liong we read that Knyghtes and ladys com hem agene,Severne score and mo I wene,Welcomyd him al at on worde,They sette tresteles and layde a borde. It is evident that the usual custom was to remove thetable after meals. On the heiress of Calabria… … DINING TABLE.From the MS. of the Romance of Alexander in the Bodleian Library. It will not be altogether out of place here to noticesome of those customs which have made the halls of theolden time so famous. It was in this apartment that thehousehold gathered together, and the lord and his…
Architecture, Domestic
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