GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 



It was urged for the plaintiff that though " there are instances 

 of a parish lying in two counties, there is none of one lying in 

 two dioceses." Lambeth, therefore, claimed to be extra-parochial ; 

 and the claim was allowed, the question whether the house and 

 gardens known by the name of the Archbishop's Palace at Lam- 

 beth, was or was not in the parish of Lambeth, being settled in 

 favour of the plaintiff. " In consequence," says Ducarel, " the 

 Parish was condemned in costs amounting to one hundred and fifty 

 pounds, which money was raised by an assessment on all the 

 inhabitants, and paid to Archbishop Cornwallis, who a few months 

 after, very generously presented the whole and more to the Parish, 

 and paid his Solicitor's bill out of his own pocket." 



Lambeth parish continued in the diocese of Winchester until 

 1877, when it was transferred to the enlarged and rearranged 

 diocese of Rochester. This circumstance is interesting, when it 

 is recalled that the Palace occupies land that, in the first instance, 

 was acquired from the Bishop and monks of Rochester. 



In the days when London had but one bridge, and houses and 

 shops were crowded upon it, the right of passage by the horse 

 ferry at Lambeth, the only ferry for cattle over the Thames, was 

 a monopoly of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and brought in a 

 considerable revenue in tolls, prior to the building of a bridge at 

 Westminster in 1750. The See of Canterbury, and the surviving 

 patentee, were paid 2,208 in compensation for the loss of the tolls. 



Tremendous state was kept up by the Primates, as befitted their 

 exalted position. As is well known, the Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 in the order of precedence, ranks after the Princes of the Blood 

 Royal ; but it is perhaps not so generally remembered that in the 

 past there have been six Cardinals, and eleven Lord Chancellors, 

 among them. The post of Lord Treasurer was also, in former 

 times, occasionally held by the Primate ; while Archbishop 

 Radulphon, about 1414, and Hubert Walter, about 1494, each 

 united in his own person, the offices of Lord Chief Justice and 

 Archbishop. Noblesse oblige, and William Stubbs, in his " Con- 

 stitutional History of England," tells us that the two Arch- 

 bishops maintained households on the same scale as dukes, and 

 the bishops, as far as influence and expenditure were concerned, 

 maintained the state of earls. They had their embattled houses, 

 their wide, enclosed parks, and unenclosed chases ; they kept their 



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