Excerpt from Old Manor Houses The Manor house was the house built on these estates, recorded in Domesday, in which the lord of the Manor lived; and in many cases that Manor house remains to -day, architecturally, at any rate, very much in the same state as it was in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From these houses I have selected but a few, not because there was a dearth of subject, but because, as I stayed at each, I found such an enormous mass of material for the making of pictures, and so much that I hope will interest the reader, that it was impossible to include more than six of them in a book the size of which had already been fixed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.