House and Garden 
A VILLAGE STREET, SHERE 
most of our coun¬ 
ties and terribly did 
our farmers of 
Berkshire suffer on 
account of the 
forced requisitions, 
the cows and 
horses, hens and 
ducks, which the 
soldiers took and 
forgot to pay for. 
But our forefathers 
took care to sur¬ 
round their dwell¬ 
ings with moats, 
not so much as a 
defence against 
such exceptional 
attacks, as against 
ordinary vagrants 
and thieves. A 
were erected, and the dangers of civil war 
were scarcely contemplated. Cromwell’s 
“ Ironsides” and Prince Rupert’s “Malig- 
nants” scoured the 
hills and vales of 
large number of the old farmhouses of 
Berks, Surrey, Kent, Sussex and Hants, 
have these moats. There are two in my 
AT THE END OF THE VILLAGE, SHERE 
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