Daysman

Perhaps the following may be of some use in clearing up this point. In the *Graphic Illustrator*, a literary and antiquarian miscellany edited by E.W. Brayley, London, 1834, at p. 14, towards the end of an article on the Tudor Style of Architecture, signed T.M. is the following:— "This room (talking of the great halls in old manor-houses) was in every manor-house a necessary appendage for holding 'the court,' the services belonging to which are equally denominated 'the homage,' with those of the king's palace. The *dais*, or raised part of the *upper end* of the hall, *was so called*, from the…