GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 
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 & 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 
30 
