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Old Country Life

Chapter 20: Transcriber's Notes
By S. Baring-Gould
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About This Book

The book collects illustrated essays on rural life, profiling county families, their manor houses and gardens, local clergy, village customs, dances, roads, musicians, servants, hunting, and the social rhythms of the countryside. It contrasts resident gentry who sustain parish life with trends toward absentee ownership, describes architectural and domestic features of country houses, and traces traditional entertainments and occupational roles that shaped village society. Interwoven are observations on continuity and change, material culture, and the everyday exchanges that linked estates and communities.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Foster, Baronetage, 1880. See Chaos, p. 653.

[2] Examples of Carved Oak Woodwork, by W. Bliss Sanders. London: 1883.

[3] Mr. Bliss Saunders gives details of one of these in the work above referred to.

[4] Hare, Walks in Rome.

[5] Having got rid of the wall, and finding that flowers now suffer from the wind, gardeners are fond of sinking beds, and not a few gardens are thus furnished.

[6] A Reflective Tour through Part of France. London: 1789.

[7] From Songs of the West: Traditional Songs and Ballads of the West of England. Collected by S. Baring Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard. London: Methuen & Co. 1889.

[8] The Flying Horse is a peculiarly dangerous throw over the head, and usually breaks or severely injures the spine of the wrestler thus thrown.

[9] From Songs of the West, by S. Baring Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard. Methuen & Co.: 1889.

Transcriber's Notes

Minor punctuation errors have been corrected.

Some inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been left as printed.

  • p 18. "seventeeth century" to "seventeenth century."
  • p. 46. "old and risty". may be a typo for rusty. Left as printed.
  • p. 71. "plate glass" to "plate-glass"
  • p. 161. "Mrs Chowne" to "Mrs. Chowne"
  • p. 184. "peform" to "perform"
  • p. 186. "brauls" to "braules"
  • p. 187. "Duke of Monmoth" to "Duke of Monmouth"
  • p. 228. The decade of the marriage date of AB is unclear in this edition, but visible as 1638 in an alternate source.
  • p. 312. "Wipe you shoes" to "Wipe your shoes"
  • End pages (publications). "finger's en" to "finger's end"
  • In the text both teetotaller and teetotaler used and have been left as printed.