THE KING’S MANOR, YORK. 
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was during his tenure of office, which lasted twenty-three years, 
that the large and stately brick buildings standing on the North 
West side of the King’s Manor were erected. Plate III. ( b ). One large 
room of Huntingdon’s addition still remains, and bears unquestion¬ 
able evidence of the date of its construction, as well as of the taste 
and magnificence of the builder. This room contains a frieze of 
plaster-work presenting a repetition of three designs: (i) a bull's 
head with the letters H. H. encircled by a garter inscribed with 
the motto of the order, and surmounted by an earl’s coronet—the 
crest of the family of Hastings, Earls of Huntingdon. (2) An 
open pomegranate ensigned by dragons—a royal badge of the 
Tudors. (3) A bear and ragged staff—a badge of the ancient 
Earls of Warwick, assumed by the Dudleys. In this room there 
is a magnificent open fire-place, with arch and pilasters richly 
ornamented with sculpture of rich design. As the Order of the 
Garter was not conferred upon the Earl of Huntingdon until j 579, 
it is obvious that this room was not finished until after that year, 
though it does not follow that the buildings, of which it forms part, 
were not begun at an earlier period. Plate IV. 
The Earl of Huntingdon died on the 14th December, 1595, and 
for the next four years, Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York, 
discharged the duties of President, until in August, 1599, he was 
superseded by a Commission appointing Thomas Cecil, Lord 
Burleigh, to be President. 
On the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Lord Burleigh, who 
had recently come to his official residence at York, assisted in 
proclaiming James of Scotland King of England, and received the 
new Monarch at the King's Manor. He also remained at York 
to welcome the Queen-Consort, but soon afterwards ceased to be 
President, and was succeeded by Edward, Lord Sheffield. In the 
Presidency of Lord Sheffield, which lasted about sixteen years, 
important additions were made to the King’s Manor. 
James I. at his first coming to York, gave orders for the repair 
of the Manor, intending to make use of it as a Royal Palace on 
his journeys to and from Scotland. The w r ork, however, w r as not 
carried out for some years, and it was not until 1624 that Lord 
Sheffield submitted to the Treasury his accounts, shewing an 
expenditure on the King’s Manor of ^3,301 4s. od. This work 
must have included the erection of the large block of building 
which now forms the northerly side of the principle Quadrangle. 
The general architectural character of this part of the Manor 
