524 The Bean of Westminster [April 29, 



of St. Davids in regard of his enioing the said house, so repaired, and tliat lOOli. 

 more should be paied by the Deane and chapter : of which sum the Deane and 

 chapter have presently laid dowue SOU. in part : and the remainder of the said lOOli. 

 my Lord Keeper is pleased to lay downe for the present, and to receive the same 

 at the two chapiters next ensuinge. by even portions. And it is farther decreed by 

 the Deane and chapter aforesaid, that the said Lord Bishop of St. Davids in con- 

 sideration of his charges, and monye disbursed, shall receive by himself, or his 

 Executors, the sum of SOU., to be repaid to him, by his next successor in the said 

 house and Prebend, . . . 



From these Orders it would appear that the junior Prebendary 

 was somewhat of a stormy petrel at his first entrance amongst us. 

 To understand the position we must study some hitherto unwritten 

 pages of our domestic history. As late as 1740, when by the aid of 

 a grant from Parliament, the site was cleared, there were two pre- 

 bendal houses on the north side of the nave, aud three smaller 

 tenements between them. The artists have always disapproved of 

 them, and every picture that 1 have been able to find shows the site 

 as clear as it is to-day. But the one which interests us most, 

 the house nearest the north porch, was occupied by a Prebendary 

 in the time of King Edward YI. An Act of Parliament of 1552, 

 defining the precincts of the church, speaks of ' the Prebendaries 

 house now in the possession of Barnard Sandyforth,* Clarke, one 

 of the Prebendaries of the said Churche, and the grounde and other 

 howses adioyninge to the same howse on the northe parte of the 

 said Churche.' In 1590 we find Dr. Bulkeley in this house ; for 

 ' a tenement or lodg ' next to him was then let to a notable citizen 

 of Westminster, Maurice Pickering, who with Joan his wife had 

 presented the burgesses with their now famous cup two years before. 

 We first come across Maurice Pickering as a verger in 1572, and 

 then as allowed to have a deputy in that office. He was for a long 

 time, keeper of the Gatehouse. In 1592, he and ' Joan his wife ' are 

 allowed to have ' a quill of water at their own costs to their new 

 house ' from the house of Dr. Bulkeley. 



So far then, we have two houses. Dr. Bulkeley, Prebendary, and 

 Maurice Pickering, Gent., living side by side. We shall presently 

 find a stable, and then a house, further west close by the tower. 

 In 1604 Mr. Pickering is gone, and Hugh Parlor and Edmund, his 

 son, are Dr. Bulkeley's neighbours. Then the house is let to Sir 

 Edw. Zouche (1608), and then Dudley Norton, soon to be knighted, 

 comes in 1610. 



In this year we get our first sight of the stable next to this house. 

 It is let to William Man and William Neale. The former was son of 

 William Man and collector to the Dean and Chapter. His mother, 

 Widow Man, had married again, and we have the account of what it 

 cost William Meredith, Dr. Goodman's Secretary, to woo and secure 

 this lady. The latter was elder brother of Dean Neile. When Neile 



* He was Prebendary from 1546 to 1554, going out when the monks came 

 back. 



