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Gardens, old and new; the country house & its garden environment (1900)

Leyland, John, 1857?-1924, ed, Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933, ed, Country Life Limited · London, The Offices of "Country life illustrated": George Newnes, Ltd., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 96

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r up to the seventeenthcentury added something, it was the first Vernon of Haddonwho surrounded his mansion with a curtain wall for protectionagainst the unruly. The later Vernons held the place througha female descent, for Richard de Vernons only daughtermarried a certain Gilbert le Franceys,… … •J< XI z: O X\ <XC/5 QZ < o- iB GARDENS OLD AND NEW. ranges of buildings round tlie courts being tlien in existence,though the Long Gallery belongs to a later age. it wasRichard de Vernon, a man of might in his time, who died in1377, who added the porch to the Great Hall. Two SirRichards…

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