SELBORNE SOCIETY NOTICES 75 
with one of los. from Sir Frederick Pollock, Hart., has been forwarded to the 
\'icar, the Kev. Arthur Kaye. 
Status of Associates. — At the same meeting it was decided that for the 
time being Associates (Members of Junior Branches, under age) should be 
entitled to attend all those Saturday Afternoons and Rambles which are not 
announced as “ for members only.” 
Subscriptions. — The Council has great pleasure in acknowledging sub- 
scriptions of greater value than 5s. fiom the following members : Mrs. \V. (!reen- 
wood, £\ IS.; 11 . Chippenfield, Esq., los. 6d. ; I.Kady Joyce, los..; L. C. 
Lowther, Esq., 7s. 6d. ; Kev. Arthur Shipham, 7s. 6d. ; Miss L. Duxbury, 6s. 
Library. — The Honorary I.ibiarian will attend at 20, Hanover Square, from 
6 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. on the evenings when the Publications Committee meets (at 
piesent on the second .Monday in the month), for the purpose of issuing books to 
members. 
The Honorary Librarian has pleasure in announcing the following additions 
to the Library : “ Natural History of Selborne,” 2 vols., octavo. Second lOdition, 
1S02, bought by the Society ; ‘‘ The Country Day by Day,” by E. Kay Robinson, 
and “ Birds I Have Known,” by A. 11 . Bcavan, kindly given by the Editor ; and 
“The .-Vmateur Poacher,” “ Field and Hedgerow,” “ The (lamekeeper at Home,” 
“ Hodge and his Masters,” “The Life of the Fields,” “ Nature near London,” 
“ The Open Air,” “ Red Deer,” “ Round About a Great Estate,” and “ Wild Life 
in a Southern County,” by Richard Jefferies, kindly given by Geo. Avenell, Esq. 
The Honorary Librarian appeals for copies of the various editions of Gilbert 
White’s “ Natural History of Selborne.” He holds that one of the chief contents 
of the Society’s Library should be a complete set of these editions. Many Mem- 
bers probably have spare copies on their shelves, and were they to give these to 
the Library, we should have a fine nucleus for the complete set. 
The editions we at piesent possess are enumerated in the subjoined list of 
books in the Library. 
SELBORNE SATURDAY AFTERNOONS. 
February 25. — On this afternoon, Lambeth Palace, the town residence of His 
Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, was visited by a large party of 
Selbornians. Meeting outside, near the Parish Church, the party passed through 
the gateway in the tower, rebuilt in 1540, by Cardinal Morton, whose methods of 
e.xtorting money for King Henry VH. are described in history as “Morton’s 
fork.” It is on the site of the old “ Great Gate,” and here the dole to the poor 
has been given since the reign of Edward I. The groined roof of the gateway is 
very fine. The rooms above, in one of which the Cardinal used to sleep, and 
which still has his bed-place — a sort of cupboard — are now occupied, and so are 
not shown. 
It is a matter of surprise that this tower and that of the Parish Church should 
have been built so close together, as it must have constituted a danger, in times 
when the Palace was fortified, for its principal entrance to be commanded by a 
stone tower in such close proximity. 
In the narrow alley between these towers the Queen of James H. took shelter 
during her flight from England with her baby, afterwards known as the “Old 
Pretender.” 
After the Civil War Lambeth Palace was given to Scot and Hardyng, two of 
the regicides, who pulled down the Great Hall and sold the material, besides 
committing other acts ot vandalism. It was rebuilt on the old plan, after the 
Restoration, by Archbishop Juxon, who accompanied Charles I. in his last 
moments, the fine Gothic ceiling being reproduced and forming a striking feature 
of the present edifice. It is now used as the Library, and it was in this room 
that the great trial of the Bishop of Lincoln was held a few years ago. 
The Librarian, Mr. S. W. Kershaw, M.A., had kindly attended specially in 
order to give assistance to the party. He pointed out a number of the finest 
manuscripts and illuminations in the collection. 
The Guard Room was built in the fourteenth century, and the walls used to be 
hung with suits of mail for the men-at-arms. These have given place to a fine 
series of portraits of the Archbishops of Canterbury, and the apartment is now 
