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diff --git a/44894-h/44894-h.htm b/44894-h/44894-h.htm index e01d79e..7c7ffe2 100644 --- a/44894-h/44894-h.htm +++ b/44894-h/44894-h.htm @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg's eBook of Social Life in England @@ -205,44 +205,7 @@ hr.c15 </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Social Life in England Through the Centuries, by -H. R. Wilton Hall - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: Social Life in England Through the Centuries - -Author: H. R. Wilton Hall - -Release Date: February 13, 2014 [EBook #44894] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOCIAL LIFE IN ENGLAND *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Mary Akers and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44894 ***</div> <div class="transnote"> <p>Transcriber's note:<br /> @@ -833,7 +796,7 @@ of "relative values" it may be truly said:—</p> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="#the_shambles_york_a_street_that_preserves_its_narrow_mediaeval_character"><i>The Shambles, York; a street that preserves its narrow,</i><br /> - <span class="i2"><i>mediæval character</i></span></a></td> + <span class="i2"><i>mediæval character</i></span></a></td> <td class="tdr2">81</td> </tr> <tr> @@ -1160,7 +1123,7 @@ the world.</p> <p>The illustration on p. 5 shows two of these very early stone weapons. You will find collections of these, and also of later weapons, in any good museum. These -earliest sorts are usually labelled "Palæolithic Stone +earliest sorts are usually labelled "Palæolithic Stone Implements". The curator of such a museum, we may almost certainly say, would be willing to help you to see the specimens which he has under his care, and @@ -1273,7 +1236,7 @@ ploughing and preparing the land for crops.</p> <p>You must not suppose that we can fix a date when these men first appeared, as we can fix an exact date for -the landing of Julius Cæsar, or the sealing of Magna +the landing of Julius Cæsar, or the sealing of Magna Carta. Neither can we say for how many centuries <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">7</a></span> they occupied land in what we now call Britain. It was @@ -1881,7 +1844,7 @@ where they settled Uffinggaston, or Uffington—and the name stuck to the place long after the family itself had died out. The sons of Rede settled at Reading; the sons of Billinge, the Billings, at Billingham; the sons -of Hôc at Woking and Wokingham; the Ardings at +of Hôc at Woking and Wokingham; the Ardings at Ardington; the Thurings at Thorington—and so on. You must not, however, conclude that every name you come across with "ing" in it has the same meaning; @@ -3878,10 +3841,10 @@ Elizabeth a countryman's house is thus described:—</p> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> <div class="line">"Of one bay's breadth, God wot, a silly cote,</div> -<div class="line i0h">Whose thatchèd spars are furred with sluttish soote</div> +<div class="line i0h">Whose thatchèd spars are furred with sluttish soote</div> <div class="line i0h">A whole inch thick, shining like blackmoor's brows</div> <div class="line i0h">Through smoke that down the headlesse barrel blows.</div> -<div class="line i0h">At his bed's feete feaden<a name="FNanchor_11" id="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> his stallèd teame,</div> +<div class="line i0h">At his bed's feete feaden<a name="FNanchor_11" id="FNanchor_11" href="#Footnote_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> his stallèd teame,</div> <div class="line i0h">His swine beneath, his pullen<a name="FNanchor_12" id="FNanchor_12" href="#Footnote_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> o'er the beam."</div> </div></div></div> @@ -4107,7 +4070,7 @@ mostly went on horses or mules.</p> <div class="figcenter"> <img class="mw" src="images/i_104.jpg" alt="" /> <div class="caption"> -<p><i>The Shambles, York; a street that preserves its narrow, mediæval character</i></p> +<p><i>The Shambles, York; a street that preserves its narrow, mediæval character</i></p> </div></div> <p>No doubt the tradesmen were expected to clear up @@ -4203,7 +4166,7 @@ danger; some to "make up" for some wrong that had been done and could never be put right, and to show that the founder was "really sorry"; some were built for good reasons, others for selfish reasons. Nowadays -we arrange fêtes and demonstration, whist drives, entertainments, +we arrange fêtes and demonstration, whist drives, entertainments, bazaars, sales of work, jumble sales, dances, for our hospital funds, Red Cross funds, and orphan funds, and we are asked to buy tickets because "it's a @@ -4858,7 +4821,7 @@ good it may have been at the first, was dreadfully abused in the course of time. What at first had been merciful and just became in time mischievous and dangerous. The great struggle between King Henry II -and Archbishop Thomas à Becket had to do with the +and Archbishop Thomas à Becket had to do with the power of these two sets of courts, the King's Courts and the Church Courts—it had to do with government, <em>not</em> with religion and religious matters.</p> @@ -5366,7 +5329,7 @@ of provision was quite common. There was some chance, even in those days, for a lad with "brains" to get on in the world. In fact, we know that in those Middle Ages a good many men rose "from the ranks" to hold high -office in the state. There was, for instance, Thomas à +office in the state. There was, for instance, Thomas à Becket. He was born in London, and not ashamed to be known as Thomas of London. Then there was Thomas Scot, who rose to be Archbishop of York and @@ -6059,7 +6022,7 @@ the older barons had.</p> <img class="mw" src="images/i_163.jpg" alt="" /> <div class="caption"> <p><i>Part of the House called Plas Mawr, Conway, Wales</i></p> -<p><i>It illustrates the architectural change from the mediæval fortress to the Tudor +<p><i>It illustrates the architectural change from the mediæval fortress to the Tudor mansion which took place in the sixteenth century</i></p> </div></div> @@ -6429,7 +6392,7 @@ to them again.</p> <p>The Great Fire of London, which swept away almost <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">146</a></span> -every mediæval building in the city, gave a great +every mediæval building in the city, gave a great <em>impetus</em>, or push forward, to building. You can quite understand that, with so much building going on, the work would be somewhat hurried and very much @@ -6532,7 +6495,7 @@ in Westminster Abbey, and in almost every old town church one or more can be seen.</p> <p>It became a very common practice for one of the old -chapels, built on to the parish church in mediæval times, +chapels, built on to the parish church in mediæval times, to be set apart as the private burial-place of a great landowner. Many new chapels were built for this special purpose. In them we may see specimens of the @@ -8482,381 +8445,6 @@ Page 200 "Modern Industry."</p> <p>A paragraph break has been inserted on Page 143 after the diagram "Diagram of a Large House."</p></div> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Social Life in England Through the -Centuries, by H. R. 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