Grain and Chaff from an English Manor

by Arthur Herbert Savory

Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Keith M. Eckrich, and the Project

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GRAIN AND CHAFF FROM AN ENGLISH MANOR

By ARTHUR H. SAVORY

OXFORD

BASIL BLACKWELL

1920

PREFACE

As a result of increased facilities within the last quarter of a century for the exploration of formerly inaccessible parts of the country, interest concerning our ancient villages has been largely awakened. Most of these places have some unwritten history and peculiarities worthy of attention, and an extensive literary field is thus open to residents with opportunities for observation and research.

Such records have rarely been undertaken in the past, possibly because those capable of doing so have not recognized that what are the trivial features of everyday life in one generation may become exceptional in the next, and later still will have disappeared altogether.