EDITION IMPORTED BY NEW AMSTERDAM BOOK COMPANY 156 FIFTH AVENUE, : NEW YORK AN OLD ENGLISH HOME BY THE SAME AUTHOR IN THE ROAR OF THE SEA THE QUEEN OF LOVE URITH CHEAP JACK ZITA MRS. CURGENVEN OF CURGENVEN ARMINELL KITTY ALONE MARGERY OF QUETHER JACQUETTA NOÉMI THE BROOM-SQUIRE DARTMOOR IDYLLS THE PENNYCOMEQUICKS GUAVAS THE TINNER BLADYS OF THE STEWPONEY [Illustration: AN OLD ENGLISH HOME] AN OLD ENGLISH HOME AND ITS DEPENDENCIES BY S. BARING-GOULD ILLUSTRATED BY F. BLIGH BOND METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET, W.C. LONDON 1898 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. PATERNAL ACRES 1 II. THE MANOR HOUSE 29 III. THE DOMESTIC HEARTH 49 IV. OLD FURNITURE 68 V. CEILINGS 85 VI. THE PARISH CHURCH 98 VII. THE VILLAGE INN 153 VIII. THE MANOR MILL 175 IX. THE FARMHOUSE 190 X. COTTAGES 216 XI. THE VILLAGE DOCTOR 243 XII. SCAPEGRACES 269 XIII. HEDGES 290 XIV. UNDERGROUND RIGHTS 307 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE An Old English Home _Frontispiece_ Marianne's Cottage 3 The Cottage of the "Savages" 11 The Manor House, South Wraxall, Wiltshire 31 Chateau de Tumilhac 41 Battlemented Transom 45 A Chimney-piece (End of Seventeenth Century) 51 The Settle 57 The Chimney-top, Ancient and Modern 63 Fireplace and Chimney-piece, York 65 Chair (1840) 69 Chair (Sixteenth Century) 70 A Chest of Drawers (1652) 75 The Livery Cupboard 77 Portion of an Old Plaster Ceiling near Leeds 85 The Drawing-room, Dunsland, Devon 87 The Old Pulpit, Kenton 101 The Modern-Gothic Pulpit, Kenton 104