Chapter I: Front Matter

EDITION IMPORTED BY
NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY
156 FIFTH AVENUE, : NEW YORK

AN OLD ENGLISH HOME

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

IN THE ROAR OF THE SEA
THE QUEEN OF LOVE
URITH
CHEAP JACK ZITA
MRS. CURGENVEN OF CURGENVEN
ARMINELL
KITTY ALONE
MARGERY OF QUETHER
JACQUETTA
NOÉMI
THE BROOM-SQUIRE
DARTMOOR IDYLLS
THE PENNYCOMEQUICKS
GUAVAS THE TINNER
BLADYS OF THE STEWPONEY

AN
OLD ENGLISH HOME
AND ITS DEPENDENCIES

BY
S. BARING-GOULD

ILLUSTRATED BY F. BLIGH BOND

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET, W.C.
LONDON
1898

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. PATERNAL ACRES 1

II. THE MANOR HOUSE 29

III. THE DOMESTIC HEARTH 49

IV. OLD FURNITURE 68

V. CEILINGS 85

VI. THE PARISH CHURCH 98

VII. THE VILLAGE INN 153

VIII. THE MANOR MILL 175

IX. THE FARMHOUSE 190

X. COTTAGES 216

XI. THE VILLAGE DOCTOR 243

XII. SCAPEGRACES 269

XIII. HEDGES 290

XIV. UNDERGROUND RIGHTS 307

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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An Old English Home _Frontispiece_

Marianne's Cottage 3

The Cottage of the "Savages" 11

The Manor House, South Wraxall, Wiltshire 31

Chateau de Tumilhac 41

Battlemented Transom 45

A Chimney-piece (End of Seventeenth Century) 51

The Settle 57

The Chimney-top, Ancient and Modern 63

Fireplace and Chimney-piece, York 65

Chair (1840) 69

Chair (Sixteenth Century) 70

A Chest of Drawers (1652) 75

The Livery Cupboard 77

Portion of an Old Plaster Ceiling near Leeds 85

The Drawing-room, Dunsland, Devon 87

The Old Pulpit, Kenton 101

The Modern-Gothic Pulpit, Kenton 104

Staverton Rood Screen 131

Inside the Village Inn 155

The Old George Inn, Glastonbury 169

Old Mill in Cornwall 183

Plan of Buildings at Anseremme 193

Anseremme, on the Meuse 197

An Essex Farmhouse 207

Old Cottages at Henbury 219

Wonson Manor 279

Alabaster Slab with Footprints, Vatican, Rome 295

Devonshire Hedges 306