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history, whereby some sidelights on Lambeth's story are inci- 

 dentally thrown. 



The connection of Lambeth with the ecclesiastical history of 

 this ^country began long before the present archiepiscopal palace 

 or any part of it was built. It began when Goda, the pious 

 sister of Edward the Confessor, and wife, first, of Walter, Earl of 

 Mantes, and afterwards of Eustace, Earl of Boulogne presented 

 the Manor of Lambeth to the Bishop and Monks of Rochester - 

 reserving, however, all church patronage to herself. At the 

 Conquest, the Manor was seized by the Crown, and a portion of 

 it granted to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, a half-brother of William I., 

 but it was afterwards restored by William Rufus, who added to 

 the gift the Church of St. Mary at Lambeth. 



Ducarel gives a somewhat drawn-out and confusing account 

 of the manner in which the land, whereon the Palace is built, 

 passed from the possession of the See of Rochester to that of 

 Canterbury. 



It seems that considerable friction had for some time existed 

 between the secular clergy and the monks of Rochester, who, 

 among other privileges, claimed the right to elect the Archbishop. 



Archbishop Baldwin, the prelate who afterwards accompanied 

 Richard Cceur-de-Lion to the Holy Land, was desirous of restraining 

 the power of the monks, and to this end he proposed to form a 

 college for the secular priesthood at Harlingden, near Canterbury. 

 The King, Henry II., who had suffered much from ecclesiastical 

 insolence, encouraged the scheme, and the Archbishop, in order 

 to conceal his real design from the monks, pulled down the church 

 of St. Stephen under the pretext of building one to SS. Stephen, 

 and Thomas a Becket. Meeting with strenuous opposition he 

 hurried on' the work, and having no stone for the chapel, built 

 it of wood, and solemnly consecrated it, declaring that in so doing 

 he was only carrying out the pious intention of his saintly pre- 

 decessors, Anselm, and Thomas a Becket. 



Urged by the monks, who appealed to Rome, Pope Urban III, 

 ordered the Archbishop to stop all further work at Harlingden. 

 and to demolish all that was already completed there. But at 

 this juncture the Pontiff, who had protected the monks, died. 

 During the short reign of his successor, with whom Baldwin had 

 some influence, the latter finding the demolition of his collegiate 



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