BOROUGH OF GUILDFORD 



was at this time in charge of the works at Guildford, 

 where he had been employed some eight years earlier 

 in touching up the paintings in the hall and chapel. 45 



After the death of Henry III Guildford seems to 

 have been rather neglected, and by 1333 the build- 

 ings of the palace were in a very bad state, every room, 

 apparently, requiring some repairs.' 6 A survey made 

 in that year, giving an estimate of the cost of repairs, 

 mentions the following buildings as needing repairs: 

 the ' Frereschaumbre,' with garderobe ; the wall 

 between the same chamber and the great chapel ; 

 one aisle of the great chapel ; the king's hall ; a 

 chamber between the great chapel and the king's 

 great chamber ; the king's chamber, with garderobe ; 

 the foundations of the garderobe 

 of the same great chamber adjoin- 

 ing the castle ; the queen's cham- 

 ber ; the chamber of the damsels 

 (f>uellarum), which ' below the 

 lead ' required a new fireplace and 

 ' above the lead ' a rail with posts 

 and laths ; the chapel of St. Kathe- 

 rine ; the chamber of the Earl 

 of Chester (afterwards the Black 

 Prince), with garderobe and the 

 nursery (camera Noricerye) ; a 

 cloister ; a party wall from the 

 king's great chamber to the small 

 gate by the Earl of Chester's garde- 

 robe and the garden by the cloister; 

 a room over the great gate, with 

 garderobe ; the queen's garderobe 

 by the great gate ; the ' Aumerye ' 

 with garderobe and another cham- 

 ber adjoining ; the Earl of Corn- 

 wall's chamber with cellar and 

 garderobe ; the treasurer's chamber, 

 called Queen's Hall, with cellar, 

 containing a fireplace with a double 

 vent (cum dupplici ttiello) ; the king's 

 great garderobe by the water pit ; 

 the larder ; the royal kitchen ; a 

 wall between the king's kitchen and 

 the ' Frereschaumbre.' This evi- 

 dently completes the circuit of the 

 buildings ; then are mentioned the 

 palings between the garden and 

 the castle ; a piece of the mantle 

 wall round the chapel 52 ft. in 

 length, 20 ft. high, and about 

 1 o ft. thick at the base ; the rest 

 of the mantle wall round the castle, 

 which lacked buttresses and was weak 

 at the foundation ; the palings upon the king's ditch 

 between the castle (sic), and gutters, lead, &c., with 

 two louvres (fumerelli) over the hall. Edward I, his 

 son ar.J grandson, and Edward IV and Richard III 

 were all at Guildford in the course of their reigns, 

 either in the castle or in the manor-house in the 

 park, probably the former. In 1337 Robert of 

 Artois was to be lodged in the king's house in the 

 castle," and to be allowed to hunt in the park. 



In 161 1 the castle was granted to Francis Carter." 

 The initials of his grandson, John Carter, 1699, 

 used to stand above the arch of the entrance. 



The stone is now in the Archaeological Society's 

 museum. The place was not regarded as a fortress 

 during the Civil Wars, and Manning and Bray 4 * 

 preserve a tradition that the keep had been 

 dismantled and the roof taken away about l63O.* 9a 

 A parliamentary survey was taken in 1650 as of the 

 late king's lands, Mr. John Carter's title being doubted. 

 From it we find that the dismantled keep had been 

 used as a cock-pit. The only habitable house, con- 

 taining a handsome hall, a large parlour, kitchen, 

 buttery and cellar, with three chambers and two 

 garrets above stairs, was that now used for the Surrey 

 Archaeological Society's museum and library, with the 

 caretaker's cottage and its adjacent cottage. The hall 



GUILDFORD CASTLE FROM THE SOUTH-WEST 



is now cut up into rooms in the middle of the house. 

 The parlour and the upper chamber over it contain 

 good Jacobean fire-places. John, son of the John 

 Carter of 1650, put up additional buildings at the 

 back of these. His initials and those of Elizabeth his 

 wife, and the date 1672 or 1675, are upon them. 

 The site remained in the possession of the descendants 

 of Francis Carter in the female line till 1813, when 

 Mr. Thomas Matchwick sold it to the Duke of Norfolk. 

 His successor sold it to Lord Grantley c. 1842, from 

 whose successor it was bought by the corporation in 

 1886 and laid out as at present, in gardens. 



Liberate R. (Chan.), 44 Hen. Ill, 

 m. II. 



Exch. K. R. Accti. bdte.^i, no. 23. 



<7 Pat. II Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 9. 

 48 Pat. 9 Jas. I, pt. iii, m. J. 

 ** Hiit. of Surr. i, 1 3. 



559 



49a See Cal. S.P. Dam. 1625-6^.474. 

 It seems that the keep must have been dis- 

 mantled by that year. 



