[96]It is pleasant to have to add that the present noble owner, the Duke of Buccleuch, has shown not only good taste and judgment in the restoration of the guest-house and the excavation of the church, but a wise liberality in throwing the grounds open to the public. [97]In Parker’s _Glossary of Architecture_ is given a list of some of these old barns. Vol. i. pp. 240, 241. [98]Some curious leaden pipes, soldered only on one side, were dug up close by, which are worth seeing, as they show how late the process of running hollow lead pipes was invented. The earthenware pipes found with them are as good as any which are now made. At Otterwood Farm, on the other side of the Exe, pavement and tiles have also been discovered. [99]The chapel was standing in Warner’s time. _South-Western Parts of Hampshire_, vol. i. pp. 232, 233. [100]In Brit. Mus., Bib. Cott., Nero, A. xii., No. vii. f. 20 _a b_, is a copy of a Bull from Alexander I., giving permission to all the Cistercian Houses to hold service at their granges. [101]Even Layton saw their kindness, and pleaded for the poor wretches whom they had protected. Letter regarding Beaulieu Sanctuary from Layton to Cromwell, _Ellis’s Letters_, third series, vol. iii. pp. 72, 73. [102]Blount’s _Fragmenta Antiquitatis_. Ed. Beckwith, p. 80, 1815. _Testa de Nevill_, p. 235 a (118). We know, however, that our forefathers, long before this, possessed beds, or rather cots, hung round with rich embroidered canopies. For their general love, too, of comfort and personal ornament and dress, we need go no further than to Chaucer’s description of “Richesse,” in his _Romaunt of the Rose_. Englishmen, however, were still then, as now, ever ready to lead a rough life if necessary, and to make their toil their pleasure. [103]In that portion of it which comes under the title of “In Forestâ et circa eam.” See chap. iii. p. 31. [104]All over England did the church towers serve as landmarks, alike in the fen and forest districts. Lincolnshire and Yorkshire can show plenty of such steeples. At St. Michael’s at York, to this hour, I believe, at six every morning, is rung the bell whose sound used to guide the traveller through the great forest of Galtres; whilst at All Saints, in the Pavement, in the same city, is shown the lantern, which every night used to serve as a beacon.