in the times of the Archbishops Arundel and Chichely; and several of the proceedings against them are extant in the registers of this See. Even Wickliff himself is said to have been examined before delegates, in the chapel at Lambeth.

The ascent to the Lollards' Prison, is from the Post-room, by a narrow spiral stone staircase, the steps of which are much decayed. It is entered by a small pointed doorway of stone, barely sufficient in size for one person to pass at a time, which doorway has an inner and outer door of strong oak, thickly studded with iron, and fastenings to correspond. The first thing that arrests the attention on entering, is, the large iron rings fastened to the wainscot which lines the walls. There are eight of these rings still firmly fixed, and about breast-high, in this order; three on the south side, four on the west side, and one on the north side. The wainscot, the ceiling, and every part of this chamber, is entirely lined with oak, about

the expense being set down in the computus ballivorum, or steward's accounts of the year. By these it appears, every foot in height of this building, including the whole circumference, cost 13s. 4d. for the work. The iron-work used about the windows and doors amounted to 1322 lbs. in weight, at three half-pence per pound, to £10: 14: 11; and three thousand bricks were used for stopping the windows between the chapel and that tower. On the exterior west side is a tabernacle, or niche, in which was placed the image of St. Thomas Becket, which image cost 13s. 4d. A bricklayer's and a tiler's wages were then by the day, with victuals, 4d., without victuals, 6d. or 64d. ; a labourer's with victuals, 3d., without victuals, 34d. But most of this tower was done by the gross, as the computers call it, or the great.

an inch and a half in thickness.* It has two very small windows, narrowing outwards, one to the west, the other to the north: a small chimney is on the north part. Upon the side walls are various incisions, half sentences, names, initials, &c. and in one or two places a crucifix, cut out with a knife, or some other sharp instrument, by the prisoners who are supposed to have been confined here. The letters are all in the old English character, and in general, so rudely formed as not to be easily deciphered. This tower contains several other apartments besides those described, which are now chiefly appropriated to domestic purposes.

Much of the beauty of the extensive grounds belonging to Lambeth Palace is owing to the late Archbishop More, who, besides considerably enlarging them, made many improvements, and caused the whole to be laid out with great taste. The park and gardens before those additions were estimated at

* The entrance doorway of this room is five feet and a half high, twenty-one inches wide, and one foot seven inches deep; the oaken doors are three inches and a half thick. The prison itself is twelve feet long, nine feet wide, and eight feet high. The windows are two feet four inches high, and one foot two inches wide, withinside; and about half the dimensions on the outside. In the annexed Print, figure 1. represents the inner side entrance of the doorway to this prison; figure 3, is the exterior of the same; figure 4, is the interior of the prison itself; and figure 2, the niche in the outside wall fronting the river Thames, in which Becket's statue stood.

about thirteen acres ;* they now contain at least eighteen acres. The kitchen garden occupies between three and four acres, and has been walled in at a great expense.

These grounds have been long remarked for containing two uncommonly fine fig-trees, traditionally reported to have been planted by Cardinal Pole, and fixed against that part of the palace believed to be founded by him. They are of the white Marseilles sort, and still bear delicious fruit. They cover a surface of more than fifty feet in height and forty in breadth. The circumference of the southernmost of these trees is twenty-eight inches, of the other twenty-one. On the south side of the building, in a small private garden, is another tree of the same kind and age; its circumference at bottom is twenty-eight inches.†

OLD SOMERSET HOUSE.—PROCESSION OF THE

SCALD MISERABLE MASONS.

In the singular and now scarce Print, called “ A Geometrical View of the Grand Procession of the Scald Miserable Masons, Design'd as they were

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• See Ducarel's “ History,” where there is a plan of the palace and grounds, taken from a Survey made in 1750.

+ Many important events have taken place within the venerable walls of Lambeth Palace, which are intimately connected with our domestic annals, and with the deeds and characters of several of our Sovereigns, and the most eminent of our forefathers. But the great length to which this article has already been necessarily extended, renders it expedient to terminate the subject here; lest it should exceed its" fair proportion."