Page:A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages.djvu/518

 Hijiory of Domejiic Manners. features in its revolutions than by a gradual fucceffion of minute changes, and fafliions which muft be traced from day to day, is lefs capable ot being treated in the comprehenfive ftyle of thefe pages. Having now, therefore, brought down our Iketch of the Hiftory of the Domeftic Manners No. 319. A Mediaval Cahr'wkt. of our forefathers to the middle of the feventeenth century, we fliall here, for the reafon juft ftated, conclude it, and leave to fome worthier labourer, or to fome future occafion, the talk of tracing more minutely the hiftory of domeftic manners and fentiments during the period which followed the middle a";es.