. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . ans ground, a line to be there drawn, a trench to be cast, afoundation laid and a high wall to be builded. My father had agarden there, and there was a house standing close to his southpale; this house they loosed from the ground, and bare upon oilersinto my fathers garden twenty-two foot ere my father heardthereof; no warning was given him, nor other answer when hespake to the surveyors of that work, but that their master, SirThomas, commanded them so to do. No man durst go to argue the
. Old England : a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal, and popular antiquities . ans ground, a line to be there drawn, a trench to be cast, afoundation laid and a high wall to be builded. My father had agarden there, and there was a house standing close to his southpale; this house they loosed from the ground, and bare upon oilersinto my fathers garden twenty-two foot ere my father heardthereof; no warning was given him, nor other answer when hespake to the surveyors of that work, but that their master, SirThomas, commanded them so to do. No man durst go to argue thematter, but each man lost his land; and my father paid his wholerent, which was 6s. 8d. the year, for that half which was adds quietly, but severely, This much of mine ownknowledge have I thought good to note, that the sudden rising ofsome men causeth them to forget themselves. Not the leastinteresting part of this story is the fact that a house could be movedin the sixteenth century with as much ease and success apparentlyas in the nineteenth, and with a great deal less noise and wondvr 2 12. ?A 2ICG.—bio« = Monument, in the Church of it. A i rew Undershaft.
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