Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . their fish there to be sold ; but procuring license to setup sheds, they giew to shops, and by little and little,houses. So, a^ain, tJiesame chronicler tells ustliat in Cheapside, fromthe great conduit west,were many fair and largehouses, which houses informer times were butsheds or shops, with solars(that is, lofts or upperchambers) over them. Soin Edinburgh the rangecalled .at firstthe Booth-raw, and afterwards theLuckenbooths, arose inthe very center of the HighStreet. So, likewise, inEdinburgh and elsewhere,the
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . their fish there to be sold ; but procuring license to setup sheds, they giew to shops, and by little and little,houses. So, a^ain, tJiesame chronicler tells ustliat in Cheapside, fromthe great conduit west,were many fair and largehouses, which houses informer times were butsheds or shops, with solars(that is, lofts or upperchambers) over them. Soin Edinburgh the rangecalled .at firstthe Booth-raw, and afterwards theLuckenbooths, arose inthe very center of the HighStreet. So, likewise, inEdinburgh and elsewhere,the trader who for yearshad spread his stall underthe shelter of the samebuttress of the cliurch ortown-hall, began to rest afixed wooden B. against it,gradually transforming the timber beams into lath and plaster,or even into brick or stone, until at length the basement of tliestately cathedral, or hotel de ville, was incrusted all over with un-seemly little booths (or krames. as they were caHed in Scotland),like limpets on a rock. The B. which thus arose had often but to tall. Merchants Boothe:From an ilhiminated MS. rep esenting Venicein the 14th century. >> BOOTH—BOPP. 769 l> one apartment, which opened on the street by a narrow door, anda broad ungiazed window, closed at niglit by a wooden sliutter,dividing in the middle, and hinged at top and bottom, so that theupper half Iornied a sort of awning, while tlie lower half servedas a table for tin; display of the traders wares. It was at thiswindow that business was conducted, the trader standing within,the buyer without. Occasionally a flight of steps led down to acellar under the B., which served as a store-room. In othercases,a chamber behind was the wareliouse of the merciiants B., or theworlvsliop of the craftsmans ]5., or the sleeping-place of civilization advanced, a solar or chamber was raised abovethe B. for the dwclliug-house of the trader, occasionally witli astore-room in the roof, to which goods
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