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Domestic Every-day Life, Manners, and Customs in this Country, from the Earliest Period to the End of the Eighteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

George Harris Esq.
Affiliation:
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Extract

Having in my last paper endeavoured to trace the influence upon society, manners, and civilization of the Norman conquest through the influence of new blood and the introduction of new customs and modes of living, as also of a system of jurisprudence in many respects different from that which had before prevailed; I shall now proceed to describe the manners and customs and mode of life prevalent in this country at the period following that of the Norman Conquest—embraced by the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries,—and to point out the successive changes which then occurred, and the influences that effected them.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1880

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References

page 37 note * Liber Aldus.

page 37 note † Thompson's Illus. vol. iv., p. 114.

page 37 note ‡ Liber Albus.

page 38 note * Selden's “Table Talk.” Diagrams are deposited in the archives of the Society, representing the style of house building in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in accordance with what we have been describing, in which, moreover, we may particularly observe the different stories overhanging those below them, a custom which was abandoned when the extensive use of timber was given up for more solid materials.

page 38 note † Liber Albus.

page 38 note ‡ Ibid.

page 39 note * Liber Aldus.

page 39 note † Ibid.

page 40 note * Liber Albits.

page 40 note † Ibid.

page 40 note ‡ Baker's Chronicle.

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page 43 note * “Pict. Hist. Eng.,” vol. i, pp. 830, 831, 832.

page 43 note † Thompson's, 111. Gt. Brit.,” vol. ii., p. 290Google Scholar . A representation of some ships in the thirteenth century, copied from valuable drawings in the Harleian Collection of the British Museum, is contained in another diagram, also among the archives of this Society. One of them seems to be of considerable size. From the other some armed men are about to disembark.

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page 47 note † ibid. vol. ii., p. 237.

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page 62 note * In reply to certain strictures which have been made upon these papers, the reader may be reminded that in the paper which Dr. Harris some time ago read before the Society, entitled “Materials for a Domestic History of England” (Vol. III.), he enumerated the principal sources of original information which ought to be resorted to in the preparation of a series of papers of the nature which he has since read to the Society on Domestic Every-day Life in this Country. Dr. Harris, while so engaged, has carefully examined the various Celtic remains in this country and on the Continent, illustrative of the earliest period of our history, and has made numerous drawings as well as ample notes. As regards the Anglo-Saxon period of our history he examined the original manuscripts and missals in the British Museum, and prepared accurate drawings from the illuminations in the latter, which were exhibited as diagrams in connexion with his papers. Respecting the period of the Norman Conquest he has paid successive visits to Normandy and carefully examined the Castle of Falaise, the remains at Caen, and also the Bayeux tapestry, making notes upon them, and also drawings from which diagrams illustrative of the papers of this period have been prepared. In preparing his papers on the Middle Ages, he has consulted the valuable missals and manuscripts in the British and other Museums, and prepared diagrams illustrative of his subject from the illuminations contained in them; he also undertook several journeys to examine objects of historical interest which might throw light on his subject.