LAMBETH PALACE 



court with just the same array of officers, servants, counsellors and 

 chaplains ; they made their progresses with armed retinues, and 

 trains of baggage. And we read that in 1559, Tunsdall, or Tunstall, 

 the good old Bishop of Durham, when he came up to the Metro- 

 polis to be deprived and to die, came riding to London with 

 three-score horsemen. 



In the Middle Ages a body-guard and a guard-room were as 

 necessary in these great ecclesiastical establishments, as was a 

 great hall in which to dispense hospitality. After the Wars of the 

 Roses, the Guard-room at Lambeth was turned into an armoury; 

 and even as late as the time of Archbishop Laud it was said to 

 contain munitions of war sufficient to equip two hundred men. It 

 is now the state dining-room, and round its walls hang the interest- 

 ing portraits of the Archbishops. 



The building at the left-hand side of the drawing of the Gate- 

 house is the Great Hall, supposed to have been originally erected 

 by Boniface when he received the Pope's mandate to repair, or re- 

 build, the Lambeth " Houses." As we have seen, it was " re-edify'd," 

 which probably meant largely reconstructed and decorated, by 

 Chicherley, but it goes by the name of " Juxon's Hall," because, 

 having been entirely wrecked by the partisans of Cromwell, it 

 was rebuilt by Archbishop Juxon in 1660. It is nearly one hundred 

 feet long, is forty feet broad, and fifty feet high ; and since Juxon 

 retained the fine oaken roof of the interior, and as far as possible 

 followed the design of the earlier building, we may assume that 

 these were the original dimensions of the great room. 



Such halls were necessarily large, because, as remarked before, 

 the retinue of an Archbishop in olden times had to be commen- 

 surate with his dignity, and he kept open house. Strype, the 

 ecclesiastical historian, writing in 1694, says that of Cranmer 

 included a master of the horse, yeomen of the horse, gentlemen 

 riders, ushers of the chamber, grooms of the chamber, yeomen of 

 the chamber, yeomen of the wardrobe ; the steward, almoner, 

 treasurer, and comptroller, the janitors, chandlers, caterers, 

 clerk of the kitchen, clerk of the spicery, the butchers and bakers, 

 and the pantlers, who had charge of the bread and other provisions, 

 the butlers, who looked after the wine and ale, the server who set 

 down and removed all dishes, the carver, the cup-bearer, and 

 finally the harbinger ; whose duty seems to have been to go forward 



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