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houses. About the reign of James I., or, perhaps, a little sooner, architects began to perceive the additional grandeur of entering the great hall at once. This apartment subsequently gave its name to the whole house.—See an interesting paper on Old English Halls,
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Hist. Middle Ages, vol. iii., p. 423.—The most remarkable fragment of early building which I have any where found mentioned is at a house in Berkshire, called Appleton, where there exists a sort of prodigy, an entrance-passage with circular arches in the Saxon style, which must probably be as old as the reign of Henry II. No other private house in England can, I presume, boast of such a monument of antiquity.
7
Vide Introduction to Owen's Translations of the Elegies of Llywarch Hen.
8
Gaelic Antiquities, p. 21.
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Vide Richard of Cirencester.
10
Herodotus describes the subject more minutely.
11
See also "the Druids and their Times," from the German of Wieland, p. 20 of the present volume.