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for the dogs, the wall is sunk, forming an invisible boundary; and overthe feediug-room is a sleeping-chamber for the huntsman, or man whoseduty it maybe to attend the hounds at night,* with windows lookinginto the lodging-rooms on either side. In other respects the Plan ex-plains itself.

Plate IX. — (Sf'tfrior £>f tl)C BoCpIiflUtfL — “ The greatest part ofour building in the cities and good townes of England,” says Harrison,“ consisteth onelie of timber, for as yet few of the houses of thecommunalitie, 1 (except here and there in the west countrie townes), aremade of stone, although they may (in my opinion) in diuerse otherplaces be builded so good cheape of the one as the other. In old timethe houses of the Britons were slightlie set, with a few posts and manyradels, the like whereof almost is to be seene in the fennie countriesand northerne parts vnto this daie, where, for lacke of wood, they areinforced to continue this ancient manner of building. It is not in vaine,therefore, in speaking of building, to make a distinction betweene theplaine and wooddie soiles : for as in these, our houses are commonlie strongand well timbered, so that in manie places there are not above foure, six,or nine inches betweene stud and stud; so in the open champainecountries they are inforced for want of stuff to vse no studs at all, butonly franke posts, raisins, beames, pricke-posts, groundsels, summers,

* “ If your hounds be very quarrelsome, the feeder may sleep in a cot in the kenneladjoining; and if they be well chastised at the first quarrel, his voice will be sufficient tosettle all their differences afterwards. In a kennel in Oxfordshire , the feeder pulls a bell,which the hounds understand the meaning of; it silences them immediately, and saves himthe trouble of getting out of his bed .”—Thoughts on Hunting.