Possible Clues:

• Anyway; at any rate
• Lays waste to reform, at any rate
• Anyhow
• As a minimum two thoroughfares going through meadows
• Ruins, lays waste at any rate
• If nothing else
• However, began leaving Orient by road south
• Having lost a stay, sea wall almost collapsed however
• Meadow is still there; wife's in it, at any rate
• Liberal means to capture new seat, if nothing else