GARDENS OF CELEBRITIES 
Even so early as 1845, Edward III. received homage here from 
John de Montfort, Duke of Brittany, during the régime of Arch- 
bishop Stratford; and in his ‘‘ Survey of London” Stowe tells. 
us that ‘‘ Henry Bolingbroke, while staying in his palace at Ken- 
nington, accepted the hospitality of Archbishop Bouchier, a few 
days before his coronation.” 
Here Henry VIII. visited Archbishop Warham in 1518, and 
thirty years later he crossed to Lambeth Stairs to warn Cranmer 
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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