The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-04-14
THE ANGLICAN VATICAN.
Seat of the Primases cf England. and
 It's Seven Centuries of History.
New York Mcrla. ]

New York World
 i The conservation of the new Arch. bishop cf Canterbury and the oertaint, . rto~rrnen; su have pan nt she grounds of Lambeth palace set aside for the use of the poor of the neighbofhood. ggnay make of interest tew notes upon tha, venerable and famous residence /cf the Anglican ptsmaies. k is situated nearly opposite to the Houses os Parliament. be tween vauxhali and Westminster bridges. on low site close to the uyer. and sur rounded by gardens. The distr,c. once a swamp. Is sad but no, with certainty, to derive its name trom LAmbhithe--a land ] ing-plaee for sheep. It was the scene, in HOO. of a grand church council. presided over by Archbishop Anselm. ,o consider l the legality of the marriage at Henry l.. ! ~ttn Matilda. daughter oi Malcolm oi Scotland. The church of Lambeth was ] begun in the last days of Archbishop Baldwin (iiSl ool-so at lcas, the official historian of the areh,ep,scopal diocese ] alleges, though the later date ot li9- ts commonly given. In point of fac, Bald win was so grra, fasotite with Richard ' t-ittt-itN<Ak FHesN shN NH b1 ttahS handsome and eloquent prima,c near hum. induced the Bishop of Rochester tc ! exchange his place a, Lambeth tor . kcntish manor m iiSo. a further ex- change being made eight years later, when the Bishop of Rochester was sup planted altogether. exeep, as ,o small piece of land on which he built man son for occupancy during the sessions of Parliament. Hubert N alter |, was who actually entered upon the work of com pleting the church a, Lambeth. despite the protests of the Canterbury monks. who foresaM in Its creation the almost eN,inI ton of their exclusive possession oi the primates. According to Matthew faris, the Pope commanded Archbishop Bonl. face to build a splendid mansion ai Lam beth toI the occupant al the sec, III the room of the humber manor-house prc- viously eNisl,ng thls by way ot equation for the riot which he caused by falling : upon the eanons oi St. Bartholomew. m smlthheld. and maahns them so that onl, iouI of them wete able to carry their complaints ia the htng. honltacc. though notably unpopular .,s the mos, eoasplc- uous of the iatcigners who had presed iof so long "A tune on the tichest beneiie cs os England. aas a, least a muniheen, ben eiacior io the sec m his contributions to its buildings. but Lambeth was so unlln- poriant an estate that a> late as the tiiae of Walter Reynolds tiiiS ,-l hgufes on the roll of the Archbishop's manofs al a fcEtal oi f t,, the whole sum on which he mas taxed being ,.o4z. Inc tower of the church was c,eo,ed abou, SIS. NloS- life Mas ciicd before a synod a, i.shsl,esh Tn ii7S. but the London populaee went with him and proved as powerful pro .tors A lohn of t.Iunt and Percy had been when he was summoned to St. Paul ,. Sudbury. the then Archbishop. was connected with the opening prosccu IL ton oi the l.ollaIds, having sent the ia nous John Balle toptison for hc,etodoNy
 and Wat Tyler. b,lic and so Straw cap tured him ln the palace and. after sack
 ,ng Il. behe dcd han. sending his head round London streets on pike. \ me moI.,l of the peI>s, uilon thus begun eSts,s
 it Lambeth Iii the l.ollafds Tower. built
 by the manihs cni Chteheley Tn l4}4
 IL Is large stone building. and a,- cess is had to the pfison Nhlch Il contains
 by d narrow neaei-s,onc stairway and double doors oi sifcng oak studded and
 fastened wiiii Ir,U. and only admitting one person al tune. Every pat oi the
 prison ls lIned Nith oak two very small
 ~indows. n.sftosIng outwaris. admit the f l. ght. and there Is 4 small ohimney on
 one siie. and the walls are covered wiih
 initials. namcs. hall sentences and -efosses sefatohcd of cut out by tho pts
 oncrs The dungeon is abnu, t~eiYe fec, square and cight fee. h,gh. and has eigh. Fassssve rluxS Ie, into the wall tof
 claiming pflSoners. \ scs ond chamber
 designed for ihc overflow cles.stit al offenders adJoins the pef,ei's lodge. Il, has double doors and walls of pfodi gious thickness. hned with stone instead of oak {; the windows atc nigh and narrow, and three ron rings are fastened ,o the ~sli.
 winch pusoBefs have scratched and
 carved with names and deyiccs like those in the main prlsnu. nder the adors
 Lambeth was tho scene of many stately festivities. Archbishop Boufob,et enter tanned there Henry Nii. and gres, uain of hls follo~ers fresh from Bos~or,h held before the former klngs formal corona ton. and Cranncf ex~relsed 4 proinse hospitality during that long prmaoy winch was Ia end a, the stake. Gather inc Of Arrsgon made Lambeth her resi- dence for a few days upon her first sI- riyal from spain. Queen Mars completely
 rehtied the palace for the occupation of her k.nsman. Cardinal Pole. and Elixa-
 beth was frequent visitor as he atehie- pisc JpAl palace. no less than fifteen state
 vIsits beng teenrced. some of them of considerable length. Archbishop Parker
 notes thai A. one of has grand dlnncrs he had niBe eails and sssen barons a, his own table. not ,o speak of the great off
 eers of state s ho dlaed A; another board.
 The Queen, II may be sad, insuited the
 Archbsshop's ~ii. after dining ~th her
 bu, the position of bishops ~yes sas not
 regular m those days, nor were theur ehii-
 dren held To be legitimate Ill the reign
 of james l. Elizabeth made the Arch
 bishop her gao.er on several occasions.
 reni,iing to his care Essea. ere he WAS
 sent to the over. the txo fop,sh pfeiztes, T..