1901.] on Westminster Abbey in the Seventeenth Century. 525 



was Bishop of Lichfield or of Durham, it suited him to have this 

 stable. But later the site was used to build another prebeudal house. 

 Here Dr. Durant de Brevalt lived in 1674, and Dr. Barker from 1716 

 till it was cleared away about 1740. 



This story is put together out of old leases and Chapter Orders, 

 and more might be said of Maurice Pickering's house, as e. g. that it 

 was commonly called ' Mason's Lodge,' and that its place was taken 

 in 1668 by three small houses, built by one John Shorter, who un- 

 dertook to remove certain insanitary arrangements hard by the Abbey 

 buttresses. 



But we must return to Dr. Bulkeley, who long survived his 

 neighbour, Mr. Pickering. He ceased, however, to live in this house, 

 and it was let for forty years to William Man in 1613, when Dr. 

 Mountain was Dean. Dr. Bulkeley had surrendered it into the 

 hands of the Dean and Chapter, and in 1616 he was assigned in lieu 

 of it ' a great stone house ' within the Close. This was the house 

 long called ' the Dean's house ' because the Dean had occupied it 

 during the ten unhappy years in which a Bishop of Westminster was 

 in the Deanery. In 1662 it was rebuilt by Inigo Jones for Colonel 

 Ashburnham, who bought the site, which only returned to the Chap- 

 ter in 1741, when the houses outside in the churchyard were pulled 

 down. 



When this house was assigned to Dr. Bulkeley, it was further 

 stipulated that it should go to his successor, ' if he be Dr. Nuel only.' 

 But Dr. Newell did not succeed Dr. Bulkeley. He was Neile's half- 

 brother, and doubtless through him had obtained the promise of a 

 prebend. His hopes, however, were realised some months before Dr. 

 Bulkeley died. Laud succeeded Bulkeley. What house was he to 

 have ? William Man had sublet the house outside to Dr. Mountain, 

 formerly Dean. But Dr. Mountain was just now migrating to London 

 House ; and so Dr. Bulkeley's old house could be got by arrangement 

 with William Man. The large sum of 200Z. was due to the new 

 Bishop of London for improvements; and the two Chapter Orders 

 show (1) that Laud claimed this house as of right, and (2) that 

 Williams's liberality helped to smooth the difficulty about the 

 money. 



So the sad little Prebendary got his house on the sunless side of 

 the Abbey, with power to come in and out by what tradition calls ' the 

 Demons' door ' ; while the cheerful Dean, his junior, was on the 

 south side, enjoying in the sunshine the preferments in Church and 

 State which are indicated by his signature ' Jo : Lincoln, C.S. et 

 Dec : Westm.' As a matter of fact, it was several years before Laud 

 moved into his house, for he preferred to reside with Bishop Neile 

 at Durham House in the Strand. Only when that house was required 

 for the ambassador-extraordinary of the King of France, who was 

 coming over with the Pioyal bride, Henrietta Maria, on January 3, 

 1626, the move was hurriedly made. His books were hardly on the 

 shelves when he found himself practicall7 responsible for a task 



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