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" ... there are old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain, which have noted three things to be marvellously altered in England within their sound remembrance. One is, the multitude of chimnies lately erected; whereas, in their young days, there... "
Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and ... - Page 49
by John Pinkerton - 1804
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Memoirs of the Verney Family: Memoirs of the Verney family during the civil ...

1892 - 446 pages
...altered in England within their sound remembrance. One is the multitude of chimnies — in their younger days there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish " towns " in the realm (the religious houses and manor places of the lords excepted),...
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Shakespeare the Boy: With Sketches of the Home and School Life, the Games ...

William James Rolfe - 1896 - 304 pages
...marvellously changed within the memory of old people," includes among these "the multitude of chimneys lately erected, whereas in their young days there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm (the religious houses and manor places of their lords always excepted),...
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Shakespeare the Boy: With Sketches of the Home and School Life, the Games ...

William James Rolfe - 1896 - 312 pages
...memory of old people," includes among these " the multitude of chimneys lately erected, whereas fa their young days there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm (the religious houses and manor places of their lords always excepted),...
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The Outlines of Literature, English and American: Based Upon Shaw's Manual ...

Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 pages
...be marvelously altered in England within their sound remembrance. One is the multitudes of chimneys lately erected; whereas in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many, in the most uplandish towns of the realm (the religious houses and manor places of their lords always...
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Shakespeare the Boy: With Sketches of the Home and School Life, the Games ...

William James Rolfe - 1897 - 348 pages
...memory of old people," includes among these " the multitude of chimneys lately erected, whereas fa their young days there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm (the religious houses and manor places of their lords always excepted),...
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The Outlines of Literature, English and American: Based Upon Shaw's Manual ...

Truman Jay Backus - 1897 - 508 pages
...their sound remembrance. One is the multitudes of chimneys lately erected ; whereas in their yonng days, there were not above two or three, if so many, in the most uplandish towns of the realm (the religious houses and manor places of their lords always...
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Gleanings After Time: Chapters in Social and Domestic History

George Latimer Apperson - 1907 - 250 pages
...statement on this point, for he says that old men living in the village where he resided remarked on " the multitude of chimnies lately erected, whereas...there were not above two or three, if so many, in the most uplandish towns of the realm." As an exception to this general statement it is mentioned that...
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Chronicle and Romance

Jean Froissart, William Harrison, Thomas Malory - 1910 - 420 pages
...sound remembrance, and other three things too too much increased. One is the multitude of chimneys lately erected, whereas in their young days there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm (the religious houses and manor places of their lords always excepted,...
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Vanishing England: The Book

Peter Hampson Ditchfield - 1910 - 430 pages
...the village where I remayn, which have noted three things to be marveylously altered 13 in Englande within their sound remembrance. One is, the multitude...of chimnies lately erected, whereas, in their young dayes there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish townes of the realme (the religious...
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Readings in Medieval and Modern History

Hutton Webster - 1917 - 408 pages
...things to be marvelously altered in England within their remembrance. One is the multitude of chimneys lately erected, whereas in their young days there were not above two or three, if so many, in most towns of the realm. . . . Each one made his fire against a reredos in the hall, where he dined...
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