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the Lancastrian King whose death it was foretold should 
take place at Jerusalem. 
“ Bear me to that chamber ; there I’ll lie, 
In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.” 
Dean Buckland thought that the antechamber through 
which it was approached was probably the scene of Prince 
Henry’s wild grief over the crown. In a later day the 
Jerusalem Chamber has become a household word as 
the room in which meets the restored Convocation of 
Canterbury. 
The entrance to this oldest part of the Deanery remains 
exactly as it was in 1848. In the “Robing Room,” as 
the antechamber was called, might be found at all seasons 
of the year a blazing fire, and here for thirty years 
the excellent portress, Mrs. Burrows, was in attendance 
twice daily, to air the linen surplices of the canons in 
residence, as it was highly necessary that these elderly 
dignitaries should be protected as far as possible from the 
well-known deadly cold of the Abbey. 1 
1 “The apartments of the Abbot of Westminster are nearly in the 
same state, at the present hour, as when they received Elizabeth (widow 
of Edward IV.) and her train of young princesses. The noble stone 
hall, now used as a dining-room by the students of Westminster 
School, was, doubtless, the place where Elizabeth seated herself in her 
despair ‘ alow on the rushes, all desolate and dismayed.’ Still may 
be seen the circular hearth in the midst of the hall, and the remains of 
a louvre in the roof, at which such portions of smoke as chose to leave 
the room departed. But the merry month of May was entered when 
Elizabeth took refuge there, and round about the hearth were arranged 
branches and flowers, while the stone floor was strewn with green 
rushes. At the end of the hall is oak panelling latticed at top, with 
doors leading by winding stone stairs to the most curious nests of little 
