 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1779 - 566 pages
...Elizabeth, defcribes the rudenefs of the preceding generation in the arts of life : " There were very fevf " chimneys even in capital towns : the fire was ** laid to the wall, and the fmoke iffued out at the " roof, or door, or window. The houfes were " wattled and plaiftered over with... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 464 pages
...Hollingshed's account, who was contemporary with Elizabeth ? " There were very few chimnies even in the capital capital towns : the fire was laid to the wall, and...roof, or door, or window. The houses were wattled, and plaistered over with clay ; and all the furniture and utensils were of wood. The people slept on straw... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Ethnology - 1802 - 220 pages
...defcribes the rudenefs of the preceding generation in the arts of life : There were very few chimnies, even in capital towns: the fire was laid to the wall, and the fmoke iflued out at the roof, or door, or window. The houfes were wattled and plaiftered over with... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 708 pages
...was not whollysold •off in three years. . * la the age next preceding Queen .Elizabeth there were few chimneys -even in capital towns; the fire was laid to the wall, and the smoke issued at> the roof or door, or window. The bouses were wattled and plastered •over with clay; and all the... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 800 pages
...not wholly sold off in three years. In the age next preceding Queen Elizabeth there were few chimney* even in capital towns; the fire was laid to the wall, and the smoke issned at thereof or door, or window. The bouses were watlled and plastered over with clay; and all... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...departed, enchanted with this scene." CHIMNEYS. In the age next preceding Queen Elizabeth, there were few chimneys, even in capital towns : the fire was laid to the wall, and the smoke issued at the roof, or door, or window. The houses were wattled, and plastered over with clay; and all the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1831 - 232 pages
...the manners of a century later than the period we are describing, says " There were very few chimnies even in capital towns : the fire was laid to the wall, and the smoke issued * Edeu's Table of the Convertible Value of British Money, in bis History of the Poor. out at the roof,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 pages
...was scarcely a chimney to the houses, even in considerable towns: the fire was kindled by the side of the wall, and the smoke issued out at the roof, or door, or windows ; the houses were constructed of wattling, plastered over with clay; the people slept on straw... | |
 | 1853 - 446 pages
...English of the preceding age were for some of the most common comforts of life. He observes, " that there were very few chimneys, even in capital towns...and the smoke issued out at the roof, or door, or windows. The houses were wattled, and plastered over with clay ; and all the furniture and utensils... | |
 | William Pulleyn - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 474 pages
...substantiate what they write. Holinshed, who wrote in the reign of queen Elizabeth, informs us there were few chimneys, even in capital towns : the fire was laid to the wall, and the smoke issued at the roof, or door, or window. As the general class of houses at that period did not exceed one story... | |
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The houses were wattled, and plastered over with clay ; and all the furniture and utensils were of wood. The people slept on straw pallets, with a log of wood for a pillow. 
