The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-08
PALACE MANY YEARS
DWELLING PLACE OF BISHOPS
OF CANTERBURY.
1t Is a Historic Old PIace-Description
of the Present Occupant, Who Be
lieves in Plain Living and High
Thinking. 81

Lambeth palace for nearly 700 years
has been the home of the archbishops
of Canterbury, and every primate, ex-
cepting Beckett, has lived there. Lam
beth is full of romantic and historic
associations. Under the shadow of a
buttress of the magnificent gateway
the wife of James II. hid until she
could escape by boat. Her majesty
was disguised as a w-asherwoman and
carried her young baby, to all appear
ance a bundle of soiled linen.
To the right on entering is the por-
ter's lodge; here Mr.. Parker, who was
for so many years butler to the late
archbishop, Will no doubt show you, if
you ask, a small cupboard, inside
which are iron bars across what was
originally an opening, through which
everyone ascending the staircase to
the prisoners above could be seen. The
Lollard tower faces the entrance; here
so-called hereties were confined and
were chained to iron rings. The post
room at the bottom Of the staircase
is very old. 1t has a fine circular
arch leading into the chapel, which is
not remarkable for it's beauty. Here
morning prayer is said when the arch
bishop is at home at $3.50 and evening
prayer at 10. No press of business is
ever made an excuse for missing
either. Adjoining the chapel is an
interesting oak-paneled vestry. Curl
ously enough this dark little room is
connected by three steps with a small
morning room at the end of a cor
ridor, where there is a glass case con-
tanning a cope, stole, rosary and cruel
fix, said to have belonged to Cardinal
Pole. There is also the shell of a
tortoise with the inscription Put into
the gardens at Lambeth by Archbishop
Laud in the year 1888, where it re-
NAMED until the year 1853, when it
was unfortunately killed by the negli-
gence of a gardener"
1t is quite extraordinary that COM
paratively few church people seem to
nave seen a place so rich in memories
Of the distant past and covering an
area of no less than eighteen acres.
Here bishops have been co%nsecrated,
tried and ordered out of the kingdom,
to return at their peril; here, centuries
ago, convocations met; here sover-
e1gns have sojourned again and again;
here trials have been held and prison
ers led out to the scaffold. The guard
room is now used as a dining room.
The first room on the left is a smaller
dining room, almost opposite the door
of the large drawing room, with its
hP9utifnl hau window Tho onrridnrc
are furnished with Chippendale and
J~acobean chairs and several old chests,
and the walls here, as everywhere, are
hung with portraits of former arch
bishops. The house is furnished ex-
actly as one would expect by a primate
who has never INDUCED self. 1t is sim
pie and dignifed. There is a marked
absence of anything luxurious, as be-
fits a bishop of the church of Christ;
had 1t been otherwise the archbishop
and Mrs. Temple could not be as open
handed as they both are.
Plain living and high thinking have
always been characteristic OF the arch
bishop, and he often disappoints a hos
pitable friend by his persistent refusal
to dig his grave with his teeth" His
simple habits were acquired early in
life at Balliol. DR.. Temple took a high
degree as double first and later be-
came a fellow and tutor of his col
lege, yet he had the courage to live
very economically, in order to save
his mother expense, often going with
out candles in his room and reading
by the light of the gas on the stairs.
The archbishop and Mrs. Temple are