The village community : with special reference to the origin and form of its survivals in Britain . ELIZABETHAN COPYHOLD HOUSE.{From a MS. in the Record Office.) Such being the lords homestead, we will now note those ofthe other villagers. Mr. Hubert Hall has reproduced fromMS. sources elevations of old copyhold houses and barns fromwhich it may be seen that the red-tiled, pointed roofs of ourcountry villages are descendants of the earlier homesteads.^ ^ These facts may be further tested by reference to some well-knownworks on architecture, and I would refer to Mr. Nivens notes on houses inSha
The village community : with special reference to the origin and form of its survivals in Britain . ELIZABETHAN COPYHOLD HOUSE.{From a MS. in the Record Office.) Such being the lords homestead, we will now note those ofthe other villagers. Mr. Hubert Hall has reproduced fromMS. sources elevations of old copyhold houses and barns fromwhich it may be seen that the red-tiled, pointed roofs of ourcountry villages are descendants of the earlier homesteads.^ ^ These facts may be further tested by reference to some well-knownworks on architecture, and I would refer to Mr. Nivens notes on houses inShaksperes time, in Furnivals edition of Harrisons Description ofEngland. ^ Halls Elizabetlian Society, p. 36, 122 THE HOMESTEAD OF THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY. In southern and middle England these houses are all situatedin villages. Thus an old agricultural writer says, in North-amptonshire, as well as in the greater part of England, thefarmers still live crowded together in villages or townships. ^. 1 r P O «. C l-l S^ F». 1 plan 0- s- a_^.jBr ?? b Mm f 9 m ^^^- ^^8 1 lO NO. 2 COTTAGE N° I COTTAQ E: PLANS OF SURREY COTTAGES. In Wiltshire the houses are crowded together in yard-land has its farm-house, its yard for cattle, its barnsand its stables, and the owner resided upon it. ^ In Rutland Donaldsons Agriculture of Northamptonshire, pp. 38, 43.^ Davis, Agriculture of Wilts, p. 9. THE VILLAGERS HOMESTEAD. 123 the houses are situated in townships, not upon the farms. ^In Surrey the houses were always detached from the farm In Lincolnshire the inhabitants were collectedin villages and hamlets, and almost every house you see isinhabited by a farmer, the proprietor of his farm, scatteredabout in the o{)en fields surrounding the What thesevillage houses were in construction may be gathered by turningto Mr. Nevills recently published w^ork on Surrey cottages, fromwhich it appears that the normal plan of the oldest cottageswas a simp
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