GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 



Even so early as 1345, Edward III. received homage here from 

 John de Montfort, Duke of Brittany, during the regime of Arch- 

 bishop Stratford ; and in his " Survey of London " Stowe tells 

 us that " Henry Bolingbroke, while staying in his palace at Keri- 

 nington, accepted the hospitality of Archbishop Bouchier, a few 

 days before his coronation." 



Here Henry VIII. visited Archbishop Warham in 1513, and 

 thirty years later he crossed to Lambeth Stairs to warn Cranmei 

 in a friendly manner, of the intrigues of Bishop Gardiner 

 against him. 



Mary Tudor frequently came to Lambeth to see her cousin. 

 Cardinal Pole, when, as Archbishop, he was in residence here ; and 

 it is said, that, at her own expense, she furnished and redecorated 

 the Palace for his benefit. During her brief reign nought but the 

 fires of Smithfield went merrily ; two hundred and seventeen 

 persons suffered at the stake in three years, and it is difficult to 

 conceive of the gloomy Queen taking active part in any festivities : 

 and yet many such must have been held by Pole in her honour, 

 since, as previously mentioned, by virtue of a patent from herself 

 and her consort Philip, the Cardinal was permitted to keep one 

 hundred servants, a fact which implies lavish hospitality, fit only 

 for royalty. 



Things changed on the rising " of that bright occidental Star 

 Queen Elizabeth; " as the translators of the Bible have designated 

 her. She loved state and show, and many times honoured 

 Matthew Parker, the Archbishop par excellence of the Reformation, 

 by visiting him during his Primacy of seventeen years. But she 

 disliked the idea of a married clergy; and on one occasion, after 

 a sojourn of three days at Lambeth, while thanking her host on 

 her departure for his hospitality, she did not hesitate to make 

 sundry caustic, and disagreeable remarks to his wife, in bidding her 

 farewell. Grindal, the next Archbishop, came under the ban of 

 Her Grace's displeasure, and to him she paid no visits, even when 

 he became old and enfeebled ; but she was frequently the guest 

 of his successor, Whitgift, visiting him no less than fifteen times, 

 and she sometimes stayed two or three days at Lambeth. 



The Gatehouse dominates the precincts, and its aspect can have 

 so little changed in four hundred years, that, when the great gates 

 are closed, and the twentieth century shut out, it requires but a 



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