FOOTNOTES:
[1]English Villages, P. H. Ditchfield.
[2] Also between Hitchin and Cambridge, at Clothall, in Herts, on the Chiltern Hills, on the steep side of the Sussex Downs, in Clun Forest, in Carmarthenshire, and in Wilts.
[3] See p. 10.
[4] W. Long, in the Wilts Arch. Mag., p. 121.
[5] A furrow, or furlong, was, roughly speaking, the distance the plough would travel up or down the field before it was turned.
[6] Spinneys are plantations of trees growing closely together.
[7] A diocese is the district over which a bishop rules.
[8] In the Fens.
[9] The Cistercian houses here in England, however, were always known as abbeys, though Citeaux, their head-quarters, was in France.
[10] Commonly called Verulam, but Verulamium was its Roman name.
[11] feaden, that is, feed.
[12] pullen, that is, poultry.
[13] Notice a fine specimen, written before the Conquest, given on p. 103, and the illustration facing p. 88.
[14] In the "Lancet Windows", shown in the illustration on p. 94, you have a specimen of that thirteenth-century or Early-English style.
[15] See "Fourteenth-century Doorway", on p. 94, for a specimen of this style.
[16] The Jews were expelled from England A.D. 1290.
[17] This was built in the fifteenth century; but of course it has been restored since then. At the end of the eighteenth century the authorities of the city actually sold it to a gentleman who proposed to place it in his own pleasure-ground; but the people of the city drove away the workmen who were sent to remove it, and so it had to remain in its ancient place.
[18] Such a Butter Cross is seen in the view of Dunster, facing p. 105.
[19] That is, whipped at a cart's tail.
[20] Terra-cotta is a compound of pure clay, fine sand, or powdered flint.
[21] See the picture on p. 144.
[22] Jacobean means of the time of James I and on to James II.
Transcriber's note:
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