...bad exposition of the houses, to the filthiness of the streets, and to the sluttishness within doors. The floors, says he, are commonly of clay, strewed...grease (?), fragments, bones, spittle, excrements [t. i. urine] of dogs and cats [ti men,] and every thing that is nasty, &c." (Life of Erasmus, i. 69,...

...bad exposition of the houses, to the filthiness of the streets, and to the sluttishness within doors. The floors, says he, are commonly of clay, strewed...collection of beer, grease (?), fragments, bones, spittle, excremente [t. i. urine] of dogs and cats [ti men,] and every thing that is nasty, &c." (Life of Erasmus,...

...professor of Greek at Cambridge during this reign — describes the floors of the houses "as being commonly of clay strewed with rushes, under which lies unmolested an ancient collection of beer, gease, fragments, bones, spittle, and everything that is nasty." The pound was first called a SOVEREIGN...

...sanguinary persecution. General prevalence of the Pestilence. " Erasmus ascribes the frequent plagues in England, to the nastiness and dirt and slovenly...fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and everything that is nasty.' . . . There scarcely was a chimney to the houses, even in considerable towns;...

...plagues in England were to be ascribed to the nastiness and dirt and slovenly habits of the nation." "Tho floors," says he, "are commonly of clay, strewed with...ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, and everything that is nasty. There are," observes Harrison, " old men yet dwelling in the village...

...about a third of our present price. Erasmus ascribes the frequent plagues in England to the Hastiness and dirt, and slovenly habits among the people ; "...commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which be unmolested an ancient collection of beer, grease, fragments of meat and flsh, bones, and everything...

...in which the agricultural labourers and others of the lower classes lived, says : — " The floors are commonly of clay strewed with rushes ; under which...collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, and everything that is nasty." From 1589 to 1590 inclusive, the daily wages, without board, of a ditcher...

...in which the agricultural labourers and others of the lower classes lived, says : — " The floors are commonly of clay strewed with rushes ; under which...collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, and everything that is nasty." From 1589 to 1590 inclusive, the daily wages, without board, of a ditcher...

...Henry VIII., gives no pleasant description of the floors of the poorer houses. He says: " The floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes ; under...collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, and everything that is nasty." To these uncleanly habits were owing the terrible plagues that fell...

...dirt and slovenly habits of the common people ; at the time above referred to, he says, " the floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which...excrements of dogs and cats, and every thing that ia nasty." Comparing the condition of the working men and the poorer classes, in the sixteenth century,...