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 and Sentiments. 31 as reprefented in our plan of the upper floor. This ftaircafe received hght at the bottom and at the top, by a Imall loop-hole worked through the wall. Although the walls were lb maflive in the lower room, the ftaircafe was fecured by extraordinary precautions. At the top of the fteps at d, again at e, and a third time at f, were ftrong doors, fecured with bolts, which it would have required great force to break open. The laft of thefe doors led into the upper apartment, which was rather larger than the lower one, the weft wall being here much thinner. This was evidently the family apartment it had two windows, on the north and eaft fides, each having feats at the tide, with ornamentation of early No. 88. Jnfide of Wlndoiv at Millklicfe Englilh chara6ter. A view of the northern w indow from the interior, with its feats, is given in our cut No. 88 ; it is the fame which is feen externally in our Iketch of the houle : this room had no ftreplace. Towards the fourteenth century, the rooms of houfes began to be multiplied, and they were often built round a court ; the additions M'ere made chiefly to the offices, and to the number of chambers. They were ftill built more of wood than of ftone, and the carpenter was the chief perfon employed in their conftru6lion. In the fabliau of Trubert, printed by Meon, a duke, intending to build a new houfe, employs a carpenter to