hard the Second(1377), when they were sold at 6s. 8rf.; at this period, Michael de la Pole, arich merchant of Hull, erected a large house entirely of brick; and this, one ofthe earliest thus constructed, set the example for building in that style. The peculiar method of building with them at this… … When a more perfect manner of* constructing buildings, and its more gene-ral use divested it of much of its original irregularity, and towards the latterend of the reign of Henry the Seventh (1505), and beginning of that of Henrythe Eighth, the mansions began to lose their castellated character,…
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