CHAPTER V 



THE COURTS, TERRACES, WALKS 



The advice given by the earlier seventeenth- 

 century writers as to sites does not precisely 

 agree with the instances still in existence. 

 Markham, in his Country Farm, advises that 

 the house and garden should be placed on high 

 ground, just under the brow of a hill for 

 preference, with an east aspect, or a south 

 aspect " borrowing somewhat of the east, for 

 the winds blowing from those quarters are drie, 

 more hot than cold, but very wholesome, as 



