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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. 
