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Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II to Henry VIII (1859)

Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford London, J. H. and J. Parker · leaf 130

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of the rudest form.In a curious manuscript of this period the duties of the e Sec MS. Harleian, No. 4,380. MS. Additional, Brit. Mus., No.10,109. e Ibid., fo.49. We often find pavingtiles mentioned in wills and other docu-ments of the period under the name of flaundrcstyll, as most of the coloured… … ZANWATH HALL, WESTMORELAND. THE HALL. marshal of the hall are thus described. He was to bringin the fuel, and In halle make fyre at eyche a mele,Borde trestuls and formes also;Ye cupborde in his warde schall go,The desurs, cortines, and henge in halle1. These few lines enumerate the usual garniture…

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