all the difference I can find between these two, which I suppose were built at the same time; the East side being probably designed for the Archbishop's constant attendants, and the West for strangers who came here casually. The form of these two buildings, the make of the doors and windows, the very little ones next the church-yard, in short, the whole taken together, sufficiently denote the antiquity, and incline me to think that these two sides are the oldest brick buildings in the Palace, and that they were built some time in the beginning of the reign of Henry the sixth.

"I come now to the Hall, which has been greatly improved by his present Grace*. The porch thereof appears to be much older than the hall itself, from the make of the arches of the doors, which are of the old mitred, or pointed sort.

"At the upper end of the hall are the arms of King Edward the Confessor, impaled with those of France and England.

"The arms of Archbishop Stafford are placed at the East end, in the most conspicu

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ous part, and the same arms joined to those of the See of Canterbury, are placed on the South side.

"There are also on the North East, and South sides of this hall, those of Humphry Stafford, Earl of Stafford, father to the Archbishop. These arms incline me to think that this hall was built by Archbishop Stafford, in the room of the old one, which might be too small for him; if so, this hall cannot be older than the time of King Henry the Sixth. In the middle there was, not a long time since, a fire-place, and over it a lanthorn, as in some of the old colleges of the Universities.

"The Buttery and Kitchen adjoining to it, appear to me, by the make of the windows, and the form of the building, not older than the time of King Richard II. By whom they were built I have not been able to discover.

The next great room to be taken notice of, is the Guard-chamber, probably built by Archbishop Arundel, whose arms appear upon the North corbell, joining to those of the See of Canterbury, and also by themselves, upon the South corbell of the same room; where are likewise to be seen, in the window, the arms of Archbishops Cranmer, Parker, Laud, Juxon,

and Sheldon, who very likely repaired this room and the palace from time to time. I therefore think this guard-chamber was built in the reign of King Henry IV. or the begining of that of King Henry V. at the latest.

"I come now to the Dining Room; and shall consider that, the adjoining apartments, the rooms, and the offices underneath, as being one body of building. The Dining Room is of brick; the ceilings of some of the rooms underneath, are of wood, and very low; the windows below stairs but small; and though they are not of the same make as those of the East and West sides of the great court, yet I take this building to be near as old, and to have been built some time in the reign of King Henry VI. It hath been so frequently repaired and altered by the several Archbishops of this See, that there are at present, few or no marks left to ascertain the time when it was first erected.

"The long gallery was rebuilt by Archbishop Wake. As to the Chapel, there were formerly two, if not three, in this palace, In the Register I meet with some ordinations in the principal chapel, and some in the chapel of the manor of Croydon; and in the time of Archbishop Courtney, I find one ordination in the private