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[A Lecture delivered at the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, January 27th, 1890, 

 by the Eight Reverend the Loed Bishop of Salisbuby.] 



HE name palace, applied to a bishop's residence, is of con- 

 siderable antiquity. The word was one of wide signification, 

 as the Italian " palazzo," applied to any nobleman's house, may serve 

 to remind us. It was also used for certain monastic buildings and 

 town halls, as the references in Du Cange show. It was, in fact, a 

 term which, like " aula M in Latin, or " court " in English, had both 

 a special signification in regard to royalty, and a more general one 

 in regard to other persons. As will be seen from the plan, the 

 palace at Salisbury runs east and west, but in an irregular manner, 

 caused by the gradual filling up of an old courtyard, which at ona 

 time was rather large. The house, as a really old house, consists of 

 three main parts — (1) the hall and chamber on the west, which are 

 the work of Bishop Poore, circa 1221 ; (2) the old dining-room, 

 with the chapel above it, in the centre, which is probably the work 

 of Bishop Beauchamp (1450 — 81); (3) the hall and tower on the 

 east, which are more certainly the work of the same prelate. Others 

 who have done much for us are Bishop Seth Ward (1666 — 88) } 

 Bishop Sherlock (1734 — 48), who built the library, turned by Bishop 

 Barrington into a dining-room; Bishop Barrington (1782 — 90), 

 who spent £7000 upon the house, adding largely to the number of 

 bedrooms ; and of my recent predecessors, Bishop Denison — the 

 latter mainly outside the house. To him is due the lake in the 

 garden ; the pretty flower garden, enclosed in a low wall ; and the 

 stables and lodge, built by Wyatt in 1843. The main facts of these 

 successive works up to his own time were recorded by Bishop Fisher, 

 in 1813, in an inscription on a marble tablet in the present entrance 



