3 John Aston, “Diary,” in “Six North Country Diaries,” Publications of the Surtees Society 118 (1910), 31; for modern discussions, see R. W. Brunskill, “The Clay Houses of Cumberland,” AMST 10 (1962), 57-80; Christopher Stell, “Pennine Houses,” FL 3 (1965), 5-24; James Walton, “Upland Houses: The Influence of Mountain Terrain on British Folk Building,” AA 30 (1956), 142-48; Caoimhín ó Danachair, “The Combined Byre-and-Dwelling in Ireland,” FL 2 (1964), 58-75; Alan Gailey, “The Peasant Houses of the South-west Highlands of Scotland: Distribution, Parallels, and Evolution,” G 3 (1962), 227-42; M. W. Barley, The English Farmhouse and Cottage (London, 1961); Henry Glassie, Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (Philadelphia, 1968); idem, Folk Housing in Middle Virginia (Knoxville, 1975); Carl Linsberg, “The Building Process in Antebellum North Carolina,” NCHR 60 (1983), 431-56.

4 John Major, Historia Majoris Britanniae tam Angliae q. Scotiae … (Paris, 1521); tr. in P. Hume Brown, ed., Scotland before 1700 from Contemporary Documents (Edinburgh, 1893), 44.