Pictures of Old England

THE } following Pictures of Old England were originally "^sketched by the author with the view of more clearly^illustrating to his countrymen his History of England in the Middle Ages1, a work which is admitted by all who are capable of forming an opinion on the question to be characterized by impartial truthfulness and by indefatigable industry in the research of minute documentary evidence. T…

The manse garden, or, Pleasant culture of fruit trees, flowers, and vegetable…

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