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Essex, were built partly of bare bricks, tegel, partly 

 with cross-beams, Korss-verke, and bricks between, 

 and partly they were of cross-beams with boards nailed 

 over them, partly of cross-beams with laths thereon, 

 which were plastered and daubed over with clay and 

 lime. These last were only those which were inhabited 

 by peasants, torpare, and other poor labouring people. 



The houses of the farmers, Farmernas eller 

 Bondernas, themselves were so well built that they 

 might well be taken for beautiful gentlemen's houses, 

 Herregardar. 



Taken. The Roofs were partly covered with tiles, 

 partly with straw. 



Uthusen. The outhouses, such as lada,* the lathe, 

 loga,f the ledge, &c, also the poor people's stugor,J 

 cottages, were commonly thatched with straw, tackte 

 med halm, in the manner before described at Little 

 Gaddesden (T. I. p. 202 orig.). This straw-thatch was 

 here made very high and very steep, so that the rain and 

 wet could not stand thereupon, but ran quickly off, for 

 which reason the thatch rotted less, and could conse- 

 quently stand many more years than a flatter thatch. 

 They were made also thick enough, viz., sometimes 

 1 foot and sometimes 18 inches thickness. The walls 

 of some of the lathes were also of flint. 



In some places they were now very busily engaged in 

 thatching. 



Bag. Rye was in Kent scarce enough, so that there 

 were few places where any parcels of land appeared to 



* Laith, Lathe, shed, O.N. Hlatha, Swed, Lada, Dan, Lade, a barn. 



Gloss, to Studies in Nidderdale. [J. L.] 



f Lodge. In Sussex, an open shed in a farmyard. (J. L.] 



% Stuge, 'stuggor hvari folket-bod.de,' 'cottages in which the 



people lived.' [J. L.] 



