Page:A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages.djvu/462

 442 Hijlory of Domejiic Manners In towns, domeftic architefture experienced no great change in the courfe of the fifteenth and fixteenth centuries. Small narrow flreets, with buildings chiefly of the clafs we term half-timber houfes — the beft of which had their lower ftory of ftone, while thofe above, each proje6ting beyond the one below it, confifted of a timber framework filled up with bricks — occupied the greater part of the town, and gave it a compa6t No. Z11. Hoiijes in the Streets of a Town, Fifteenth Century. appearance which was quite inconfiftent with our modern notions of fanitary arrangement. In the interior the rooms were generally fmall and dark, but domeftic comfort feems not to have been fo much over- looked as we are in the habit of fuppofing. Our cut No. 277, taken from an engraving in the Englifli edition of Barclay's " Ship of Fools," 1570.