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GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



ENTRANCE. 



writers have discerned traces of the thirteenth century 

 in this manor house, hut the experienced eye fails to 

 detect them, though there may well be foundations of 

 the time. It seems more safe to ascribe the earlier 

 portions ot the present house to Robert Long, 



its 



first-recorded possessor, who was on the Commission 

 of the Peace in 1426, and was Member of Parliament 

 for the shire in 1433. The edifice thus belongs, 

 like Athelhampton and the Essex examples in brick 

 which we are next to describe, to the period in 



NORTH GATEWAY. 



