. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - furnished and adoinedwith a flreplace. Thence the lord, his lady, and their friends,no matter what their occupation, couhl witness the elevationof the host in the chapel below. Writers have noticed the tendency of the Jliddle Ages to The Train-confoimd the major and minor morals—to make as much of cmidreu-a breach of etiquette as of a sin against one of the Ten This is aptly illustrated
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - furnished and adoinedwith a flreplace. Thence the lord, his lady, and their friends,no matter what their occupation, couhl witness the elevationof the host in the chapel below. Writers have noticed the tendency of the Jliddle Ages to The Train-confoimd the major and minor morals—to make as much of cmidreu-a breach of etiquette as of a sin against one of the Ten This is aptly illustrated in a number ofrhyming treatises of the fifteenth century, written for theinstruction of the yoiuig in the rules of good of them are concerned merely with behaviour at table,and with such important branches of the art of living ascookery and the cai-ving of joints. The precepts of one of these Collected by Mr. K. .1. Funiivall in Maiineis ami Meals iu Olden Time,published for the Early English Text Society (No. 32). 56 178 77/& CUXSnLlDATION OF THE lioVS sriliHii, (MS their modem editor illustrates by reference to a book ofdirections to footmen, ])ulilisliod in the earlier part of thenineteenth ccnturv. ]\hiny of these directions are of precisely similar tenor to thoseliiiind in the fifteenthcentiny treatises. But, forthe present purpose theinstructive part of thesetreatises lies in the factthat they were not, likemodern books of etiquette,written by a sociallysujjerior class fiir the in-formation of their inferiorswho ministered to theirmaterial comforts (ir whoseliie was cast among sur-ronndinns superior to theirbirth. ibuiy of the oldtreatises in (jucstion areriincerned with the conductof the wliule of life, and all arc written for the young at aperiod when one of the most important duties ot the gentlynurtured youths was to wait at their lords table and ministergenerally to his material wants. The triviality of the directionscontained in some of th
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