Excerpt from Shropshire Houses: Past Present, Illustrated From Drawings The passing away of Feudal Society is indicated by the ruins of the Feudal Castles. The displacement of old names by new, marks a course of natural development which nothing can resist, and which has always pre vailed. Of the fifty houses represented in this first volume, eight only can claim a date earlier than 1500, and of these, four are uninhabited; five are of the sixteenth century; six of the seventeenth; fifteen of the eighteenth; and sixteen of the nineteenth. 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.