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the same inn. A piece of latticing is also visible in the 

 " Talbot," an illustration of which appears in Plate V., 

 fig. 6. This lattice or trellis will be referred to again. 



The courtyard surrounded by these galleries was often 

 used for a place of assembly : and the scene described in 

 the book of Acts, where the young man Eutychus fell 

 down " from the third loft," doubtless refers to such a 

 place. He had probably been sitting on the baluster of 

 the upper gallery, Hstening to the preaching of the Apostle 

 in the "Chamber," or, it might be, from the lower gallery 

 opposite, when he fell asleep and lost his balance. Shakes- 

 pear's and other plays used to be performed in the courts 

 of London inns ; and a picture of such a performance in 

 Queen Elizabeth's time is given as a frontispiece to the 

 second volume of Cassell's " London." 



Typical examples of the open pillared market-houses 

 which are so frequently met wnth in the specially Roman 

 parts of Britain are given in Plate VL : Tetbury [fig. i], 

 Minchinhampton [fig. 6], Dursley [fig. 2], and Ross 

 [fig. 5]. Those at Whitby and Luton [figs. 4 and 7] are 

 shown for comparison ; and their similarity is striking. 

 In each of these the building is of stone ; but beautiful 

 market-houses were built of timber-framing in Hereford- 

 shire : three of them by the same architect, John Adam, 

 at Hereford, Ledbury, and Leominster, respectively. The 

 town-hall of Leominster has been removed to the Grange, 

 where it is now altered to a private dwelling-house ; but 

 the illustration in Plate VL, fig. 3, shows its original state. 



Nearly all these old market-houses kept till a recent 

 period the two-fold character they inherited from the 

 Roman basilica, of places of business and rooms for the 

 administration of justice : even the miniature but pictur- 

 esque timber-framed one at Newent has its " magistrates' 

 room " in the upper storey. It will be observed that one 



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