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would have persuaded him to give the same permission to the 
Bishop! Leaving the Chapter Library the party were next shewn 
out of the Cathedral into the cloisters, which, as the clergy here 
were not monks, were only an ornamental walk round the palm 
churchyard, an aged yew in the centre having formerly supplied 
boughs to be carried as palms in processions, whence the name. 
All the mural tablets formerly attached to the walls of the 
Cathedral nave, and commemorating ‘‘nobodies,” are now 
fixed in the cloisters, which are Perpendicular, built from 
1425 to 1464. 
Passing out of the S.E. angle of the cloisters the party found 
themselves on the bank of the wide moat which surrounds the 
lofty wall and bastions encircling the Bishop’s palace. This moat 
and wall are the work of Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury, 1337-40, 
who thus defended himself against the Bath monks who threatened 
his life. Crossing the water by a drawbridge and passing through 
a gatehouse of the 14th century, defended by square flanking 
turrets, a groined entrance with chains of a drawbridge and 
grooves of a portcullis, the ruins of the great hall met the gaze of 
the visitors to the south, the restored chapel of Bishop Burnell, 
1274-92, of elegant Decorated architecture and three bays, groined 
very richly, the windows with arches supported on columns of 
shell marble, to the S.E.; the palace of Bishop Joceline’s time, 
1239, to the E., with many later additions, as the upper storey 
with gabled dormers built by Bishop Bagot, 1840. The great 
hall was the scene of the mock trial of the last Abbot of 
Glastonbury, Whitinge, who, on Nov. 14th, 1539, was condemned 
to be hung, drawn, and quartered with two of his monks. It was 
dismantled by Sir John Gates, who bought the palace for the sake 
of its materials, in 1552, at the execution of the Duke of Somerset, 
to whom Bishop Barlow had alienated it two years before. Sir 
John Gates received his reward by being beheaded in 1553 for 
aiding Lady Jane Grey, The Protector granted the palace to a 
puritan, Dr. Cornelius Burgess, who finished the destruction and 
