'...Of all the theatres however the largest and most distinguished is the one whose sign is a swan (commonly, the Swan theatre), which, to be sure, accommodates three thousand people in seats. [It is] built of an accumulation of flint stones (of which in Britain there is a vast abundance) supported by wooden columns which on account of the colour of marble painted on them can deceive even the most acute, whose form at least since it seems to represent the general notion of Roman work I have drawn above.'

'...Bottreaux Castle, seated on a bad harbour of the north sea, and suburbed with a poor market town, yet entitling the owners in times past with the style of a Baron...The diversified rooms of a prison in the castle, for both sexes, better preserved by the inhabitants' memory than discernible by their own endurance, show the same heretofore to have exercised the same large jurisdiction.'

'The earliest existing plan, showing the disposition before 1780, implies that a hall with a parlour above it reached by a two-flight staircase had been added to the tower, probably in the fifteenth century, the kitchen offices being contained in a single-storey wing running southwards. The entry seems to have been at the base of the newel stairs to the tower. If this was so, Muncaster will then have resembled such existing habitations as Yanwath Hall or, on a larger scale, Sizergh Castle, in Westmorland. Probably in the sixteenth century accommodation had been increased by a north wing to contain a dining room, study, and further domestic offices.'

'The present hall of Lea is a respectable farm-house, built a few years ago. The old hall was composed of timber frame-work, the interstices of which were filled up with brick resting on a stone foundation. It was approached by a stone gateway, and stood within the present garden.'

As quoted from W. Beamont's translation of a mid-15th c. MS register of Sir Piers Legh III's estates:

'The aforesaid Peter Legh holds the manor of Bradley in the vill of Burtonwood within the parish of Werrington to himself his heirs and assigns for ever, that is to say, a new hall with three new chambers and a fair dining room, with a new kitchen, bakehouse, and brewhouse, and also with a new tower built of stone with turrets, and a fair gateway, and above it a stone 'bastille' well defended, with a fair chapel, all of the said Peter's making, also one ancient chamber called the Knyghtes chamber, all which premises aforesaid, with other different houses, are surrounded by a moat with a drawbridge, and outside the said moat are three great barns, namely, on the north part of the said manor house with a great shippon and stable, with a small house for the bailiff, and a new oven built at the eastern end of the place called the 'Parogardyne,' with all the members and demesne lands to the said manor house belonging or appertaining, with one large orchard, enclosed with hedges and ditches on the south part of the said place called the 'Parogardyne,' with an enclosed garden beyond the old oven.'

'The hall being a stately building having two towers, a spacious gallery, with noble rooms and a fine chapel. A great part of this house was built by the present owner and his father.'

'Of the Tudor house there also remain ten mullioned windows, a four-centred doorway, a small fireplace, and parts of the original kitchen fireplace. In some dilapidated buildings west of the house, originally connected with stabling accommodation, are also a fine doorway (which may have been the original main entrance doorway, before the present porch was added), two arches, and parts of some windows.'

'The hall appears to have been quadrangular, but not more than a fourth part is standing, built of timber, wickerwork plastered over, and brick within, and some mixture of stone-work towards the moat.
The drawbridge leads to a lofty gateway, opening with strong folding doors to the court within. The roof of the gateway is composed of massy beams, carved in good style at the intersections.
Over the entrance is a figure of St. George and the Dragon, over which the family arms have been emblazoned...'

'The Falcon has now ceased to be used as an inn, but it is a very good example of the old arrangement.... Till quite recently the court was entirely surrounded by the timber buildings of the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries, and the west and south sides still stand almost unaltered. The buildings are in three floors, the two upper of which have open galleries, projecting slightly over the ground storey. The galleries probably ran all round the court originally....The galleries on the east side appear to have been destroyed in the last century to form a large reception room, the three round-headed windows of which appear in our illustration....'

'The interior was divided into two aisles by arches of the Decorated style. There were two other apartments in the upper portion of the building approached by the stairs from the west doorway; one of these was traditionally called the Guard Room.'