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Title: Gardens of celebrities and celebrated gardens in and around London
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Macgregor, Jessie
Subjects: Gardens
Publisher: London : Hutchinson & co.
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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Rome all the je^vels, plate, money, and, most important of all,the Register books belonging to the Archiepiscopate. The lossof these Registers has made the early history of Lambeth House\ ery difRcult to trace. In 1351, during the reign of Edward II., Archbishop Reynoldsrestored portions of the house. In 1381, in the reign of Richard II.,Wat Tyler, incensed by the unpopular Poll Tax, headed a rebellionagainst the King, seized the ToAver of London, and led a partyagainst Lambeth House. They beheaded the Archbishop, Simonde Sudbury, sacked the building, and did all the mischief thata careless and enraged mob is capable of doing. This mischief tw^o succeeding prelates, Courtney and Arundel,did their best to repair. Arundel, the great persecutor of theLollards, was followed by an eminent building Archbishop, HenryChicherley, to whom Lambeth ow^es more, architecturally, thanto any occupant of the See of Canterbury except Cardinal Morton,who built the great Gatehouse about the year 1490. 32
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O p LAMBETH PALACE Chicherley spent vast sums upon the demesne of Lambeth.He restored the house and added a fountain, or aqueduct, andalso a rabbed garden. A fountain suggests a garden, and wetlius come upon the earhest reference to the gardens of the Palace.Chicherleys chief contribution, however, to the growing pile ofbuildings on the south bank of the Thames, was the square, grim,battlemented tower, built of rough, grey stone, standing at thewestern extremity of the chapel; it was erected about the thir-teenth year of the reign of Henry VI., when Chicherley had beeneight years Primate. An old stone building was cleared away tomake room for it, of which a small turret was spared and incor-porated in the main body of the new tower. From the stewardsaccounts for that year, the latter is found to have cost £278 2s. lljd.,something like £3,000 of our present currency. The tower has long been known as the Lollards Tower.Ducarel records this fact, but makes no comment on it. Dr.Maitland

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