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to store hay and oats for a year if necessary. From this portico and last wall of the enclosure of the stables is the riding school eight hundred feet long, from the said stables, where on one side is built a lean–to gallery to handle the horses in winter and in bad weather: there are also two doors at the two ends of this riding school, and a third corresponding opposite the lodgings of the third age, especially since there are only those who ride horses, in order to be sooner in the riding school rather, and not have to make such a long tour. As for the hospital, it is located opposite on the right hand side, first there is a crossing wall two hundred paces long, and another similar one three hundred paces from that one, with a third, which joins the others to make a square. This is the garden of the hospital, where there are found all sorts of greenery, and medicinal herbs placed in order, by beds and paths In the middle of this last wall is built the attendants[1] lodging, which contains three hundred feet on each side. On the inside of the wall of this garden are two long galleries each built of two |
| 1. Here we have used the word "attendant" in place of the unknown work "qnarre". |