The Manor House at Chingford, Essex
(Inner Gate)
He received also a sufficient and handsome hall well ceiled with oak. On
the western side is a worthy bed, on the ground, a stone chimney, a
wardrobe and a certain other small chamber; at the eastern end is a pantry
and a buttery. Between the hall and the chapel is a sideroom. There is a
decent chapel covered with tiles, a portable altar, and a small cross. In
the hall are four tables on trestles. There are likewise a good kitchen
well covered with tiles, with a furnace and ovens, one large, the other
small, for cakes, two tables, and alongside the kitchen a small house for
baking. Also a new granary covered with oak shingles, and a building in
which the dairy is contained, though it is divided. Likewise a chamber
suited for clergymen and a necessary chamber. Also a henhouse. These are
within the inner gate.
From J.H. Robinson, trans., University of Pennsylvania Translations
and Reprints. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1912. Vol
III, No. 5.