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And then of later date are many ruinous strongholds, with Cyclopean walls, like the huge shattered bulk of Corfe, upon its green hill, between the shoulders of great downs. There are broken abbeys, pinnacled church-towers in village after village. And then, too, in hamlet after hamlet, rise quaint stone manors, high-gabled, many-mullioned, in the midst of barns and byres.
A licence to crenellate mansum infra manerium suum was granted by Edward II. to 'Hugo Luxellen chivaler; but though the faint outline of the ditch and mound was visible at points, no sign of the original building remained. The windows on all sides were long and many-mullioned; the roof lines broken up by dormer lights of the same pattern.
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