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light windows are of a different pattern with smaller mullions 
more sharply champered, which seem earlier ; there are also in 
North wall two high Elizabethan windows crossed by transoms 
dividing them into two large and two smaller lights. There is 
also an oval one of Jacobean design, such as we often find in 
gables. 
I do not see any of the little plain windows of one light about 
2 ft. by 15 in. which are much earlier, bevelled off to the casement 
dating to 15th century. 
Most likely the earlier windows were altered and enlarged till 
we reach the 1610 date. Later windows have been inserted, 
which do not add to the picturesqueness, but give more light. 
I wish I had been able to give more definite information as to 
‘the dates at which alterations were made and as to the people 
who made them. 
Of those who inhabited this house I am ignorant, except the 
Hunts who put up the inscription and who were evidently 
upholders of the change of Government at the Revolution ; 
but it is known that Mrs. Elizabeth Forrester, daughter of Sir 
‘Thomas Tyrell, of Bucks, relict of Hon. William Forrester, Capt. 
in Royal Navy, lived here for many years. She was buried at 
Didmarton in 1776. 
The Manor Farm and buildings connected with it were sold by 
New College in 1873. 
I hope that I may have aroused some slight interest in the 
-old Manor and other houses, which we have about us. Any 
house of 150 or 200 years old is bound to have had a history 
-of its own, it may be but a very ordinary one, but generations 
will have lived in it and died there, and it takes some colour in 
-our minds from its former owners or occupiers. When the house 
has been a Manor house, its importance must have been greater, 
for it was a centre of life in its district. 
May I hope that as our Members go about they will look kindly 
-at any old house that shows signs of having seen better days. 
