[195] Enlart, ii. 504.
[196] Ibid., ii. 508: it is attributed to Amaury, count of Evreux (1105-37): the masonry (ibid., 461) is of coursed rubble with bonding-courses of ashlar.
[197] See note [161], p. 119. The keep of Orford is described at some length by Harvey, Castles and Walled Towns, pp. 106-111.
[198] Enlart, ii. 505.
[199] Possibly there was a trap-door in the centre of each floor: see below. All the floors are gone above the entrance stage.
[200] An embrasure is the splay or inner opening of a window. The word is also applied to the openings between the merlons or solid pieces of a crenellated parapet.
[201] See pp. [217], [230], [233].
[202] It may also be noted that the practice of placing windows immediately above one another would be naturally avoided, as tending to weaken the masonry of the whole wall at these points. This is well seen in the irregular position of the numerous loops which light the vice of the donjon at Coucy.
[203] Enlart, ii. 735, gives the date of the donjon (Tour Guinette) at Etampes as about 1140.
[204] Enlart, ii. 674, gives the date of completion at Issoudun as 1202.