The Manor House at Chingford, Essex (Outer Gate)

Likewise outside of that gate are an old house for the servants, a good stable, long and divided, and to the east of the principal building, beyond the smaller stable, a solar for the use of the servants. Also a building in which is contained a bed; also two barns, one for wheat and one for oats. These buildings are enclosed with a moat, a wall, and a hedge. Also beyond the middle gate is a good barn, and a stable of cows and another for oxen, these old and ruinous. Also beyond the outer gate is a pigstye.

From J.H. Robinson, trans., University of Pennsylvania Translations and Reprints. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1912, Vol III, No. 5.