sentences:  The manor house has been expanded around its courtyard from its sixteenth-century core, represented by its great hall, which was given its screen panelling and fireplace in 1571.The early 19th-century Bow Room contains the Brudenell library, collected in the 16th century by Sir Thomas Tresham and his son-in-law, Sir Thomas Brudenell, 1st Earl of Cardigan, though the collection no longer includes the manuscript of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" or the last copy of Magna Carta in private hands.The house contains furnishings of different periods and portraits, including works by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough.