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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