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house ; an old, but roomy and convenient edifice. It faces 

 very agreeably to the morning sun, and is divided from the 

 village by a neat and cheerful court. According to the 

 manner of old times, the hall was open to the roof ; and so 

 continued, probably, till the vicars became family-men, and 

 began to want more conveniences ; when they flung a floor 



THE VICARAGE HOUSE. 



across, and, by partitions, divided the space into chambers. 

 In this hall we remember a date, some time in the reign of 

 Elizabeth ; it was over the door that leads to the stairs. 



Behind the house is a garden of an irregular shape, but 

 well laid out, whose terrace commands so romantic and 

 picturesque a prospect, that the first master in landscape 

 might contemplate it with pleasure, and deem it an object 

 well worthy of his pencil. 



