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corner of the Lambeth Garden,- is also uncertain. . it 
appears to have received the name from a conversation 
which took place in the Garden between Laud and 
Hyde, in which the latter seems to have told the 
Archbishop pretty plainly that “ people were universally 
discontented . . . and many people spoke extieme ill 
of his grace,” on account of his discourteous manners, 
diich culminated on one occasion by his telling a guest 
he had no time for compliments,” which greatly in- 
ensed him. The only survivals of former years are 
he delightfully fragrant fig-trees, which flourish between 
he buttresses on the sunny side of the library—the 
rreat hall rebuilt by Archbishop Juxon after the 
lestruction in Cromwell's time kwt tigs are now 
‘air- ^17^ t-h .. haa ■ Humgs of the older 
.... v’:,-. Archbishop Howley 
: erence, and were 50 feet nig a w; 4.0 tec t m oreaatn, 
ind, according to c vine nee,- bore delicious 
fruit of the white Marseilles variety. Tradition ascribed 
their planting to Cardinal Pole during his brief sojourn 
is Archbishop. 
Latimer seems much to have appreciated the Lambeth 
Garden, when business called him to the Palace. Sir 
Thomas More describes, in 1534, how he watched him 
■walking in the Garden rrom the windows. Latimer 
nself, in writing to Edward VI., says, 4 1 trouble my 
1 c -d of Canterbury, and being at’his house now and 
V Aik in the Garden looking at my book, as I 
can A. but little good at it. But something I must 
needs do to satisfy the place. I am no sooner in the 
Garden and read awhile, but by-and-by cometh 
