Now hath each rich a rule
To eaten by themselve,
In a privy parlour
For poor man sake,
Or in a chamber with a chimney;
And leave the chief hall,
That was made for meals
Men to eaten in.
The “Vision of Piers Ploughman.”
[145] Of which there is a description and drawing in the Records of the Archæological Society of that county, vol. ii. p. 251.
[146] In those days the rooms of a house were not massed compactly together under one roof; the hall was the primitive house, and additions to it were effected by annexing distinct buildings, each of which was called a house.
[147] Newcourt’s “Repertorium,” ii. p. 350.
[148] “Transactions of the Essex Archæological Society,” vol. ii. part ii. (New Series), p. 141.
[149] Alfred Heales, “Kingston-on-Thames,” p. 17.
[150] Newcourt’s “Repertorium,” ii. p. 103.
[151] Newcourt’s “Repertorium,” ii. 281.
[152] Ibid., ii. 284.
[153] “Hist. of England,” i. p. 41.