A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE 



made to Sir Roper Aston, kt., one of the gentlemen 

 of the Bedchamber, an J to John Grymcsditch. : * The 

 chapel was 'new made into a fair dwelling house' 

 shortly before 1610, and was then in the occupation 

 of Francis H.,11." On the opposite (north) side of 

 Baldock Street a house and yard formed part of the 

 endowment of the chapel." West of it the ' Gables ' 

 represents the ' Cardynall's Hat' of 1610, and east 

 ofit was another inn, the 'Half Moon,' next the 

 corner house of Back Street." 



For a short distance north of the Cross, Back Street 

 and Kneesworth Street are still divided by 'Middle 

 Row.' The whole of this neighbourhood is associated 

 with the house and lodgings occupied by James I and 

 Chsrles I and their court. A building in Knees- 

 worth Street is all that remains of the eastern part 



remains of a 17th-century painted ornament ; in the 

 south wall is a wide niche with blocked hatchway 

 to the adjoining buttery, now demolished. Some 

 chancered beams still remain in some of the rooms. 

 The south room on the upper story has an old brick 

 fireplace with four-centred arch with splayed edge 

 and stops, all cemented ; it is surrounded with 18th- 

 century wooden jambs and lintel, bolection moulded. 

 In the north room are remains of a coloured stencilled 

 pattern, about 6 in. wide, under the small plaster 

 cornice, and as vertical bands dividing the walls into 

 panels ; it is of 17th-century work. Externally the 

 street front has two large plain projecting chimneys, 

 mostly rebuilt, only the lower parts being of the old 

 thin bricks. The entrance doorway and windows 

 are modern. The east or garden front was entirely 



Old Houses, High Street, Royston 



of the ' King's Lodgings,' the ret having been 

 demolished probably early in the iSth century. The 

 building is rectangular and measures, roughly, about 

 5 3 ft. by 19 ft. ; the front is on the cast side facing 

 the garden, the back facing the street. It consists of 

 two stories with attics and a cellar under the south 

 part. At either end on each story is an apartment, 

 and between them is a square staircase with a newel 

 stair, the old octagonal oak post of which still 

 remains but without its finial at the top. The south 

 room on the ground story has an old fireplace with 

 a wooden lintel, partly built up, above which are 



rebuilt early in the 18th century, and has moulded 

 brick cornice and plain flanking pilasters. The whole 

 building was repaired in 1910 and a wing added on 

 the north. The roof is tiled. A timber-built 

 house with projecting upper story and tiled roof in 

 Kneesworth Street, to the south of the palace, 

 evidently formed part of the palace out-buildings."' 

 It belongs to the 16th century, and retains its old 

 wooden door frame and open roof with moulded 

 trusses. The interior has been considerably altered. 

 To the north of the palace are some remains of the 

 brick walls of the old stables. 



" Pat. 5 Jas. I, pt. xvii, m. 16. 



?s Survey printed by Kingston, His. 

 Rysnn, u6. A^nong its endowmi 

 was the house called Copthall in Bassi 

 bourn, which was let in 1547 to « 

 Diic,' and granted alter the supprcsi 



of the hospital to Thomas Weodye (Aug. 

 0/ Oit". Misc. Bks. livii, fol. 6j; ; Pat. 

 its j. Edw. vi, P t. ;,';. 



i»- ,s Survey printed by Kingston, Hiti. of 



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