[z] Whitaker's Hist. of Whalley; Lysons's Cumberland, p. ccvi.
[a] The ruins of Herstmonceux are, I believe, tolerably authentic remains of Henry VI.'s age, but only a part of Haddon Hall is of the fifteenth century.
[] Archæologia, vol. vi.
[c] Blomefield's Norfolk, vol. iii. p. 242.
[d] Whitaker's Hist. of Whalley.
[e] Lyttelton, t. iv. p. 130.
[f] Harrison says, that few of the houses of the commonalty, except here and there in the west country towns, were made of stone. p. 314. This was about 1570.
[g] Hist. of Whalley.
[h] "The ancient manors and houses of our gentlemen," says Harrison, "are yet and for the most part, of strong timber, in framing whereof our carpenters have been and are worthily preferred before those of like science among all other nations. Howbeit such as are lately builded are either of brick or hard stone, or both." p. 316.
[] Archæologia, vol. i. p. 143; vol. iv. p. 91.