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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
There are as many different modes of writing the history of each country, as there are differences between one country and another in all those various qualities which contribute to constitute the character of a nation. Some histories treat on the laws and constitution, some on the political contentions, some on the commercial enterprises, and some on the natural productions, of a country. That, however, which appears to me to be the most important and the most interesting department of history relating to any country,—that which comes home nearest to our hearts and feelings,—is its domestic history, embracing an account of the manners and customs, the pursuits and habits, and every-day life of the people at large. This, however, strange as it may seem, is one of the most neglected portions of history, not only as regards nations in general, but more particularly as regards our own.
page 145 note * The Anglo-Saxons possessed boiling vessels for the purpose of cooking their meat. Strange, however, to say, these vessels were made, not of iron or brass, but of leather.—Pictorial History of England, vol. i. p 326.
page 147 note * A.D. 1085.
page 147 note † In one of these contracts it is specified that there shall be “a heaven made of timber and stained cloth,” and “a hell made of timber and iron-work, with devils in number thirteen.”—Cunningham's History of British Painters, vol. i. pp. 4–18Google Scholar.
page 150 note * Lord King's “Life of Locke,” p. 134.
page 151 note * A.D. 1087.
page 151 note † A.D. 1124.
page 155 note * So late, however, as the year 1786, during the month of January, it is recorded by Mr Horace Walpole in one of his letters, that the mail was stopped in Pall Mall, close to the Palace, and deliberately pillaged, at so early an hour as a quarter past eight in the evening. —Wright's England under the House of Hanover, vol. ii. PP. 333, 334Google Scholar.