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Che Mishoy’s Palace at Salishuvy. 
[A Lecture delivered at the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, January 27th, 1890, 
by the Right Reverend the Lorp BisHor oF SALiIsBURY.]} 
EY HE name palace, applied to a bishop’s residence, is of con- 
siderable antiquity. The word was one of wide signification, 
as ae Italian “ palazzo,” applied to any nobleman’s house, may serve 
to remind us. It was also used for certain monastic buildings and 
town halls, as the references in Du Cange show. It was, in fact, a 
term which, like “aula” in Latin, or “ court” in English, had both 
a special signification in regard to royalty, and a more general one 
in regard to other persons. As will be seen from the plan, the 
palace at Salisbury runs east and west, but in an irregular manner, 
caused by the gradual filling up of an old courtyard, which at ono 
time was rather large. The house, as a really old house, consists of 
three main parts—(1) the hall and chamber on the west, which are 
the work of Bishop Poore, cirea 1221; (2) the old dining-room, 
with the chapel above it, in the centre, which is probably the work 
of Bishop Beauchamp (1450—81); (8) the hall and tower on the 
east, which are more certainly the work of the same prelate. Others 
who have done much for us are Bishop Seth Ward (1666—88), 
Bishop Sherlock (1734—48), who built the library, turned by Bishop 
Barrington into a dining-room; Bishop Barrington (1782—90), 
who spent £7000 upon the house, adding largely to the number of 
bedrooms; and of my recent predecessors, Bishop Denison—the 
latter mainly outside the house. To him is due the lake in the 
garden; the pretty flower garden, enclosed in a low wall; and the 
stables and lodge, built by Wyatt in 1843. The main facts of these 
_ successive works up to his own time were recorded by Bishop Fisher, 
in 1818, in an inscription on a marble tablet in the present entrance 
