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Bamff Charters 1232-1703: With Introduction, Biographical Summary and Notes (1915) - Couverture rigide
Présentation de l'éditeur
Of English country life in the Middle A ges Uvely pictures have been handed down to us from the time of Chaucer. To most persons country life in Scotland during the same times is shrouded in mystery. Chronicles and official records throw httle light on the life of the Home. Scotland is not too rich in pub Hcdocuments, and is still poorer in private documents given to the public To many the glimpses of social life afforded by my charters will be thought revelations. Few, I fancy, will be fully prepared for the extreme simplicity of life found in the houses of lairds of substantial property. The furnishing of a sixteenthcentury manor house is simply that of a modem bothie. The plenishing of many a married ploughmans cottage at the present day would be found very comfortable in comparison. For establishing in life a young couple about to marry provision is simply found by the assignment of so many measures of oatmeal and barley per annum, and that in the earher times at least not commuted for money, as might be supposed, but simply doled out in kind. Porridge washed down with home-brewed beer must have been the staple diet. But again with this primitive simplicity we have to the full the old Scottish rard for birth. The certificate thought necessary to qualify the yoimg scion of Dalhousie for military service under a fmtdgn king is very instructive.
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