. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ave made wickets in every quarter of the house to shoot out at,botli with bows and with handguns: and Die holes that be made for liand-giuis they be scarce knee high from the plancher (floor) ; and of such holes 1450-14S5.] TIMBER HOUSES-CONSUMPTION OF TIMBER. 119 be made five ; there can no man shoot out at them with no liand-bows. *Most ot these houses were of timber; and it appears that in some eases they?were framed upon the spot where the wood was In pop
. The popular history of England : an illustrated history of society and government from the earliest period to our own times . ave made wickets in every quarter of the house to shoot out at,botli with bows and with handguns: and Die holes that be made for liand-giuis they be scarce knee high from the plancher (floor) ; and of such holes 1450-14S5.] TIMBER HOUSES-CONSUMPTION OF TIMBER. 119 be made five ; there can no man shoot out at them with no liand-bows. *Most ot these houses were of timber; and it appears that in some eases they?were framed upon the spot where the wood was In populous districtsthe demand for building timber was great; and this circumstance, whichindicates how certainly the value of landed property is enhanced by theincrease of an urban population, added largely to the revenues of the tenants-in-fee. The necessities, however, of the landed proprietors often compelledthem to sell at a great reduction of price. If I should sell my woods now,says Margaret Fasten, there will no man give so much for them by near anhundred marks as they be worth, because there be so many wood sales in. Ockwells Manor-houae. Norfolk at this time. J The demand for fire-wood and charcoal for thetowns was also gradually thinning the remotest coverts, and making way forthe population that was to convert the dense forests into pastures and corn-fields. One of the richest prospects of southern England is from Leith hiU,its highest eminence, where the eye ranges from the Downs of the coast tothe chalk hills of Eeigate, and luxuriates in the variety beneath—corn-lands,meadows, parks, mansions, villages, plantations—but all indicating a tractwhich man has subdued into fertility. That was once the Weald of Surreyand Sussex—the Coit Andred of the Britons, the Andredes-weald of theSaxons ; the immense forest formerly inhabited only by the wild hog and thestag, till the charcoal-burner there lighted his fires, and the iron-smelter builthis forge. Before pit-coal came
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