Shropshire houses : past & present ; illustrated from drawings

CO^HOUSESSHROPSHIREPAST ^ PRESENTFROM DRAWINGSILLUSTRATEDBYF.S.ASTANLEY M.P.,LEIGHTON,LETTERPRESSWITH DESCRIPTIVEBY THE ARTISTc)^LONDON : GEORGE BELL AND SONSYORK COVENT GARDENSTREET,1 190LloCCHISWICK PRESS : CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO.TOOKS CHANCERY LONDON.COURT, LANE,PREFACE*' of remnants ofthis illustrated record of the Houses theShropshire,"old habitations will side side with residences which haveIN appear onlybythe builders' hands. There is no definite ofleft separationjust pointso has been the ofbetween ancient and andmodern, gradual process decayin theirand that there is no association.renewal, incongruitythose of were nine hundredsimilar toChanges, to-day, taking placethe but did not makeThe Normans ousted Anglo-Saxons, theyyears ago.nor was the new order of effecfled forcea clean things bysweep, only.to do with the harmonioushad a deal relations whichMarriage great grewbetween the the Saxon and the Celt.Norman,upThe of Feudal is indicated the ruins of theSocietypassing away byThe of old names marks aFeudal Castles. course ofnew,displacement bynatural which can and which hasresist,development nothing always pre-vailed. Of the houses in this first canvolume,fifty represented eight onlya earlier than and of fourclaim date are uninhabited;these,1500,five are of the sixteenth six of the seventeenth fifteen of the; ;centuryand sixteen of the nineteenth.eighteenth;How have the owners come into ?present possessionThe transmitters ...