The village community : with special reference to the origin and form of its survivals in Britain . amilymansion of a grand squirearchical race four hundred years Baring-Gould goes on with his description of such housesin a manner which for my purpose does not bear curtailing,and I must quote a rather lengthy passage from him about afifteenth-century example. He says it has stained-glass coats ofarms in the hall window. This house has been used as a farm-house for three hundred years at least, but it was originally theseat of an influential county family. Now, what are itsarrangements?
The village community : with special reference to the origin and form of its survivals in Britain . amilymansion of a grand squirearchical race four hundred years Baring-Gould goes on with his description of such housesin a manner which for my purpose does not bear curtailing,and I must quote a rather lengthy passage from him about afifteenth-century example. He says it has stained-glass coats ofarms in the hall window. This house has been used as a farm-house for three hundred years at least, but it was originally theseat of an influential county family. Now, what are itsarrangements? There is a porch; from the porch you enter^- Alheiutum, November 21, 1S85 ; September 25, i886^ ii8 THE HOMESTEAD OF THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY. the hall, with a huge fireplace and stained-glass in the windows;but do not imagine a baronial hall, but a low room, 7 feetto the rafters, unceiled. Behind this a lean-to back kitchen,which, I suspect, is a later addition. Beside the porch a dairyand larder. A winding stair of stone, and you reach thebedroom. I say the bedroom, because positively there was. A MANOR HOUSE, EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. {From a MS. in the Record Office.) only one, with a huge six-light window opening into it, over theporch, dairy, and hall. In the hall the family sat—squire,ladies, serving-men, and maids; upstairs—let us trust withsome sort of screen between them—the whole communityslept in one room. In Queen Annes time this arrangementwas too primitive even for the farmer, and an additional wing THE LORDS HOMESTEAD. II9 was erected, with a drawing-room below and a second bedroomupstairs. But no, I am, perhaps, wrong in thinking andasserting that the entire family of squire and retainers piggedupstairs in one room; on further consideration, I believe thatthe serving-men lay on the benches and in the straw on thefloor, and slept about the fire of the hall; and very probably sodid the sons of the squire. Upstairs he had his four-posterwith curtains round, b
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