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goes still higher, and says, Ralph Stratford, Bishop of London, enclosed
the burial-ground in the Charter House for those that died of the plague
in 1348, with a wall of brick. Considerable doubt must attach to these
latter accounts; for although we find many houses of brick of Henry the
Seventh’s time, that material was not brought into general use for the
superior mansions till the succeeding reign; nor for the houses of the
“ commonaltie,” as Harrison says, till nearly the middle of the reign of
Elizabeth.
We meet with tiles as early as Richard I., when the houses in London
were ordered in Fitzalwyn’s mayoralty to be covered with slate or brent
tile, instead of straw.* Their size was settled by law in the 7th of
Edward IV. In Thoresby’s old MS. of Corpus Christi plays, among
the trades are tylle-thakkers. Tylle-thakkers must mean the workmen,
or, as they were afterwards called, tylers.
This kind of roofing seems to have been well known when Chaucer
wrote. In his Dream, speaking of the singing-birds that awoke him,
he says they sate
“ nw cbambre rofr foitfjout,
Wpon tlje tgles ober al about.”
For paving floors, tiles were used at a very early date; they were
ancestors. The Romans seem to have had a brick-kiln at every stationary town. Their clay
is generally found to be well tempered and well kneaded, beautifully red, and completely
burnt; and their bricks were about sixteen English inches and three quarters in length, and
eleven and a quarter in breadth. But the Romans of the first century never raised any
structures of these materials, because they wildly supposed a wall, that was merely the length
of their bricks in breadth, to be unequal to the support of a story.”—History of Manchester,
book i. chap. x. Mr. Whitaker’s numerous authorities are mentioned.
* The reader is referred to the History of Manchester, before quoted, for much curious
and learned information regarding ancient roof-covering.
the burial-ground in the Charter House for those that died of the plague
in 1348, with a wall of brick. Considerable doubt must attach to these
latter accounts; for although we find many houses of brick of Henry the
Seventh’s time, that material was not brought into general use for the
superior mansions till the succeeding reign; nor for the houses of the
“ commonaltie,” as Harrison says, till nearly the middle of the reign of
Elizabeth.
We meet with tiles as early as Richard I., when the houses in London
were ordered in Fitzalwyn’s mayoralty to be covered with slate or brent
tile, instead of straw.* Their size was settled by law in the 7th of
Edward IV. In Thoresby’s old MS. of Corpus Christi plays, among
the trades are tylle-thakkers. Tylle-thakkers must mean the workmen,
or, as they were afterwards called, tylers.
This kind of roofing seems to have been well known when Chaucer
wrote. In his Dream, speaking of the singing-birds that awoke him,
he says they sate
“ nw cbambre rofr foitfjout,
Wpon tlje tgles ober al about.”
For paving floors, tiles were used at a very early date; they were
ancestors. The Romans seem to have had a brick-kiln at every stationary town. Their clay
is generally found to be well tempered and well kneaded, beautifully red, and completely
burnt; and their bricks were about sixteen English inches and three quarters in length, and
eleven and a quarter in breadth. But the Romans of the first century never raised any
structures of these materials, because they wildly supposed a wall, that was merely the length
of their bricks in breadth, to be unequal to the support of a story.”—History of Manchester,
book i. chap. x. Mr. Whitaker’s numerous authorities are mentioned.
* The reader is referred to the History of Manchester, before quoted, for much curious
and learned information regarding ancient roof-covering.