LAMBETH PALACE 



For a second time within a century and a half, the cry of " No 

 Popery " was raised. It was during the Gordon Riots in 1780, 

 when 40,000 rioters assembled in St. George's Fields on the other 

 side of Lambeth Marsh, and in the near neighbourhood of Lambeth 

 Palace : thirty-six incendiary fires were lighted, and a second 

 great fire of London but narrowly averted. Five hundred of the 

 mob came to the Palace, but the gates were closely shut, and no 

 notice taken of their demand for admission. 



Finding this, the rioters went away with the avowed intention 

 of returning at night. Before they could do so Archbishop Corn- 

 wallis and his family were persuaded to leave the place, the 

 military were summoned, and by two o'clock in the afternoon 

 one hundred guards arrived and took possession. 



Sentries were stationed in the towers and elsewhere, and im- 

 mediate danger was over. Nevertheless the rioters did not at 

 once disperse. For several days they lingered about the Palace, 

 undeterred by the presence of the soldiers, who, to the number of 

 two or three hundred, were quartered there for two months. 



Of the independent history of the gardens I have been unable 

 to discover much. 



The Rev. J. Cave-Brown in his " Lambeth Palace : " makes 

 little or no reference to them, but in the somewhat tediously dis- 

 cursive pages of Dr. Ducarel, who is the chief authority, as before 

 said, upon the history of the archiepiscopal residence, and upon 

 whose stores Cave-Brown himself has chiefly drawn, I have found 

 allusions that bear upon the subject, incidentally. In the suit 

 brought by Archbishop Cornwallis in 1776, by which he claimed 

 exemption from taxation on the plea that the Palace was " extra 

 parochial "a legal action described, in detail by Ducarel, to 

 which I have previously referred the question raised was " whether 

 the house and garden known by the name of the Archbishop's 

 palace at Lambeth was, or is not, in the parish of Lambeth," 

 and in the course of the arguments for and against, reference is 

 made to the Archbishop's " garden" his " park," and his " cherry- 

 orchard." 



Hence, since we know on the authority of Dr. William Stubbs 

 in his " Constitutional History," that wide, enclosed chases and parks 

 surrounded the " embattled " residences of the two Archbishops, 



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