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n the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries fewer new stone castles were built. The King and Barons concentrated on improving the castles they had, making them larger and more comfortable to live in. Those that were built were designed first for luxury and to impress rather than for defence. The barons and wealthly medieval people began building their own smaller fortified residences surrounded by a moat.
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