LAMBETH PALACE 
buildings could no longer be delayed,—seized the opportunity to 
begin rebuilding, but wisely decided to do so elsewhere. He 
effected an exchange with the See of Rochester, and secured a 
piece of land on the Thames, near London, and with the con- 
currence of King Richard, the Bishops, and Barons, laid the founda- 
tion of the collegiate buildings at Lambeth, and for their construc- 
tion he moved thither, by water, all the building materials he 
had collected at Harlingden. But the energetic prelate did not 
see his work completed, for he died in Palestine at ‘the Siege of 
Acre. 
It thus fell to Archbishop Hubert Walter to carry out his pre- 
decessor’s plans. To do so he made further exchange of land with 
Rochester, and in 1197 he and his successors were confirmed in the 
possession of the entire demesne by Richard I. But the monks, 
still jealous and discontented, and rejecting the friendly and 
advantageous overtures of the Primate, sent to Rome two of their 
number, who succeeded in obtaining a Bull from Innocent III., 
couched in arrogant and unreasonable terms. These were that 
the newly-built chapel on the banks of the Thames was to be 
demolished, as in Baldwin’s time the chapel at Harlingden had 
been, and the canons were to be ejected within thirty days; 
failing which the province of Canterbury was to disown the Arch- 
bishop as its Metropolitan, and he himself was to be suspended 
from office. 
So the quarrel dragged on, until in 1202 the matter, still under 
dispute, was subjected to arbitration, the decision being that after 
the destruction of the recently created chapel, Walter was to be 
permitted to build an ordinary church upon its site, to place therein 
a limited number of canons, and to endow them with one hundred 
pounds per annum. This was only on condition that no bishops 
were consecrated there, no councils held, no abbots admitted, and 
no orders conferred, and, naturally, the Archbishop declined to 
build upon such terms. 
However, says Dr. Ducarel, ‘‘ these disputes between the Arch- 
bishop and monks of Canterbury proved of infinite advantage 
to this place, since they brought and fixed the Archbishops of 
Canterbury at Lambeth, who have ever since honoured that town 
with their palace and chief residence.” 
Archbishop Hubert Walter, and his successor, Stephen Langton, 
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