A History of England for the Use of Schools And Academies
The book A History of England for the Use of Schools And Academies was written by author J N Josephus Nelson Larned Here you can read free online of A History of England for the Use of Schools And Academies book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A History of England for the Use of Schools And Academies a good or bad book?
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MEDIEVAL LIFE IN ENGLAND. 193 and fourteenth centuries, were furnished in an extreinely scanty way. " Glass, though by no means excessively dear, appears to have been rarely used. A table put on trestles, and laid aside when out of use, a few forms and stools, or a long bench stuffed with straw or wool, covered with a straw cushion, . . . with one or two chairs of wood or straw, and a chest or two of linen, formed the hall furniture. A brass pot or two for boiling. Furniture. and two or three b...rass dishes ; a tew wooden platters and trenchers, or more rarely of pewter ; an iron or latten ^ candlestick ; a kitchen knife or two ; a box or barrel for salt ; and a brass ewer and basin, formed the movables of the ordinary house. The walls were gar- nished with mattocks, scythes, reaping hooks, buckets, corn measures, and empty sacks. The dormitory con- tained a rude bed, and but rarely sheets and blankets, for the gown of the day was generally the coverlet at night." 2 In construction and arrangement, as well as in furni- ture, both castles and manor-houses were slowly im- proved.
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