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Some Royal Visits to Burton. 
N a paper on “The Ground Plan of Burton Abbey,” (Vol. ITT, 
fp Part 3) read before the Society in 1896, I mentioned that we 
had evidence of many buildings, the sites of which had passed 
away, and quoted one—“ The Kyngs Chamber,” where it came next 
to “The Gret Chamber,” and in my paper on the “ Burton Abbey 
Dissolution Inventories,” (Vol. IV., Part 1), is an item “ The Kyngs 
Chamber, The hengyngs of green, saye xxd.” JT also said, judging from 
the Ancient Rites of Durham, I should certainly say it was part of the 
guest house. The description there given is: “This haule is a goodly 
“brave place, much like unto the body of a Church with verey fair 
“pillers supporting yt on ether syde, and in the mydest of the haulea 
“most large rannge for the fyer. The chambers and lodginges belong- 
“ing to yt weare swetly keept,and so richly furnyshed that they weare 
“not unpleasant to ly in, especially one chamber called the Kyngs 
“Chamber, deservinge that name, in that the Kyng him selfe myght 
“verie well have lyne in yt, for the princelynes thereof.” 
In my Paper on S. Modwen(Vol. IV, part 2), I drew attention toan 
early Royal visit to Burton. Quoting from the Miracles of S. Modwen, 
given in Geoffry's MSS., the account is given of Laurence, 3rd Abbott 
of Burton, Stripping the Shrine to feed the poor ina great famine. 
Tt finishes thus: “Leofric, the aforesaid Abbot, was still ruling 
“ (1050-1085) over the Convent of Burton, and when William the First, 
“that most valiant and brave man, Duke of Normandy, who had 
