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➡️'Sarum'-Gilbert regretted he had not fought at Crecy. The profits would have been used at Avonsford. For his mind seldom left the manor now. He made some modest improvements: he installed a bathroom with a large wooden tub which the maidservant filled with hot water once a week

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Page 761 continues...'he rebuilt the kitchen with a stone vaulted ceiling and two huge fires set in the walls. But though some of the richer landowners were building fine stone halls on the ground level of their houses, he stuck conservatively to the old Norman hall on the upper floor with its narrow windows.'It did for my grandfather,' he stated with finality.'