. Vanishing England . ued and prized the house that theyhad reared, or added to, or improved. Hence they lovedto carve their names or their initials on the lintels oftheir doors or on the walls of their houses with the the stone houses of the Cotswolds, in Derbyshire,Lancashire, Cumberland, wherever good building stoneabounds, you can see these inscriptions, initials usuallythose of husband and wife, which preserved the memorialof their names as long as the house remained in thefamily. Alas ! too often the memorial conveys no mean-ing, and no one knows the names they represent. Butit w
. Vanishing England . ued and prized the house that theyhad reared, or added to, or improved. Hence they lovedto carve their names or their initials on the lintels oftheir doors or on the walls of their houses with the the stone houses of the Cotswolds, in Derbyshire,Lancashire, Cumberland, wherever good building stoneabounds, you can see these inscriptions, initials usuallythose of husband and wife, which preserved the memorialof their names as long as the house remained in thefamily. Alas ! too often the memorial conveys no mean-ing, and no one knows the names they represent. Butit was a worthy feeling that prompted this building forfuturity. There is a mystery about the inscription re-corded in the illustration 1678. It was discovered,together with a sword {temp. Charles II), between theceiline: and the floor when an old farm-house calledGundrys, at Stoke-under-Ham, was pulled down. Theyear was one of great political disturbance, being thatin which the so-called Popish Plot was exploited by. Staircase NewelCromwell House, Highgate 200 VANISHING ENGLAND Titus Oates. Possibly was fearful of beingimplicated, concealed this inscription, and effected hisescape. Our forefathers must have been animated by the spiritwhich caused Mr. Ruskin to write: When we build,let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be forpresent delight, nor for present use alone ; let it be suchwork as our descendants will thank us for, and let usthink, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to comewhen those stones will be held sacred because our handshave touched them, and that men will say as they look
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