A HISTORY OF SURREY 



when she came there." In 1245 the sheriff was 

 ordered to build a room for the use of Edward, the 

 king's son, to be 50 ft. long and 2 6 ft. broad, stretch- 

 ing along the wall towards the field to the corner of 

 the wall towards the kitchen, and in breadth from the 

 wall towards the field towards the almonry ; the 

 upper part of the building to be for the king's son 

 and the lower for the pages-in-waiting (yadlettorum 

 nobilium), with barred windows, a fireplace, and a 

 privy chamber in each room. Also, under the 

 east wall opposite the east part of the king's hall a 

 pentice with fireplace and privy chamber was to be 

 made for the queen's garderobe. In the queen's 

 chamber the existing window was to be replaced by 

 one as much broader as could be set between the two 

 walls and as high as reasonably possible, with two 

 marble columns, between which were to be glass 

 windows with a panel that could be opened, the 

 upper part of the window boarded, and the whole 

 provided with wooden shutters ; at the same time 

 the upper window at the 'west end of the hall by 

 the dais was glazed with white glass with the image 

 of a king seated on one side and a queen on the 

 other." A porch was built in front of the door 

 of the hall in 1247," and in 1250 the pillars (postei) 

 of the hall were restored and underpinned with 

 Reigate stone ; at the same time the roofs of the 

 steward's room (dispensatoria) and buttery were 

 mended and a new window made in each, the roof- 

 ridge (cumulum) of the royal chamber was raised 5 ft. 

 and the walls also raised to allow of the insertion of 

 three windows like the new window in the same 

 chamber. The passage between the hall and the 

 chamber was to be boarded and given a plaster 

 ceiling (desuper terrari) and the wainscoted bedrooms 

 were to be painted green. The low garderobe 

 (bassa warderoba) of my lord Edward's bedroom was to 

 be wainscoted and a stone vault (vouta) made in it 

 ' in which our chests and relics can be placed ' ; the 

 wall between that bedroom and the almonry was to 

 be coped (cmtetur), and the wall outside the king's 

 bedchamber was to be thrown down and rebuilt 

 1 5 ft. away from the same chamber, the space between 

 being used for a garden (herbarium). A window was 

 to be made in the small garderobe near the gate, and 

 the high window in the queen's garderobe was to be 

 glazed. A new lattice (laticiuni) was to be made in front 

 of the chapel of St. Stephen, and in the chapel of St. 

 Katherine the figure of the saint and scenes from her 

 life were to be painted behind the altar ' suitably, with- 

 out gold or blue ' (honeste absque aunt et azuro) and 

 the wall round the chapel to be rebuilt. 54 



Not long after this there was evidently a fire at 

 the palace, as in 1253 orders were given to roof the 

 vaults of the buildings burnt at Guildford, to mend 

 the gutters of the burnt hall that the walls might not 

 be injured, and to support the part of the hall roof 

 which had not been burnt, so that it should not be 

 dangerous. The burnt portion of the hall was to be 

 pulled down." Rebuilding seems to have proceeded 

 slowly, as in November 1255 the king stated that he 



would be at Guildford for the Feast of the Circum- 

 cision (l January), and as the buildings were not yet 

 ready he ordered greater dispatch to be made with 

 them. 36 In January 1256," accordingly, King Henry 

 being at Guildford gave instructions as to the royal 

 chapel, the queen's chapel, and certain chambers 

 newly built, and ordered the porch of the hall to be 

 built of stone, the story of Dives and Lazarus to be 

 painted in the hall opposite his seat, and ' a certain 

 image with beasts ' to be made on the said seat ; the 

 chamber of the chaplains was also to be lengthened." 

 Later in the year the sheriff was told to have the 

 hall whitewashed inside and out, the pillars and 

 arches marbled (marbrari), the two gables pointed, 

 the great chamber whitewashed and marked out in 

 squares (quarellart) and its ceiling painted green, 

 spangled (extencellari) with gold and silver. A porch 

 (oriolum) was to be made in front of the door of the 

 hall and a cloister with marble columns in the garden." 

 Next year a stone gateway was to be made and over 

 it a solar 32ft. ' within the walls ' and i8ft. broad, 

 with a garderobe. In the chancellor's chamber the 

 fireplace was to be moved further north, the screen 

 (holder') of the chamber was also to be moved and 

 put elsewhere, and the chamber whitewashed and 

 boarded behind the chancellor's bed. Four glass 

 windows were to be put into the gable of the hall and 

 a pentice to be made between the chaplain's chamber 

 and the kitchen. 40 The latter was again ordered next 

 year, as well as another pentice from the king's son's 

 chamber to the kitchen and a small building for 

 warming up (calefacienduni) the queen's food. A 

 stable was to be built between the hall and the kitchen, 

 also a saucery (sabaria) and larder under one roof, and 

 a wood-lodge. The queen's chapel and her chamber 

 were to be paved and the outer and inner doors of 

 the chamber under the oriel to be blocked and a new 

 door made from that chamber into the king's garde- 

 robe. 41 In 1260 orders were given to pave the 

 cloister and make two doors and a bench therein, and 

 also to put two glass windows in the pentice near the 

 queen's lawn (prate/lum)." Next year, in January, 

 when the king was again at Guildford, he ordered the 

 great window of the hall over against the royal seat 

 to be glazed, a wooden sperre (esfutrum) to be made 

 at the head of the table in the hall towards the 

 entrance into the royal chamber, and figures of St. 

 Edward and of St. John, holding the ring in his hand, 

 to be painted there. The same figures were also to 

 be painted on the wall by the king's seat in his 

 chapel, and an image of the Blessed Mary was to be 

 made and placed in the queen's chapel. 43 In 1267 

 several rooms were built ; one chamber with a settle 

 (stadium), fireplace, garderobe, and vestibule, and a 

 chapel at the end of the same chambers with glass 

 windows, for the use of Eleanor wife of Edward the 

 king's son, and another chamber with settle, fireplace, 

 garderobe, and vestibule, for the use of the knights of 

 Queen Eleanor. 44 At the same time the queen'i 

 garden (herbarium) was set in order under the direc- 

 tion of William Florentyn, the king's painter, who 



81 Liberate R. (Chan.), 28 Hen. Ill, 

 m. 2. 



811 Ibid. 30 Hen. Ill, m. 17. 

 88 Ibid. 32 Hen. Ill, m. 8. 



84 Ibid. 35 Hen. Ill, m. 3. 



85 Ibid. 38 Hen. Ill, m. 3. 



86 Ibid. 40 Hen. Ill, m. 7. 



"7 Ibid. m. 16. 



88 The wages, 501. yearly, of the two 

 chaplains (of St. Katherine and St. Ste- 

 phen) at the castle and of a third at the 

 leper hospital of St. Thomas outside the 

 town occur regularly about this time : e.g. 

 ibid. 33 Hen. Ill, m. 2. 



558 



89 Ibid. 40 Hen. Ill, m. 10. 



40 Ibid. 41 Hen. Ill, m. 12. 



41 Ibid. 42 Hen. Ill, m. 4. 

 4S Ibid. 44 Hen. HI, m. 3. 



48 Ibid. 45 Hen. Ill, m. 14, 13. 

 44 Ibid. 52 Hen. III,m. n. 



