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]