The Home Counties Magazine, Vol. 5
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Excerpt from The Home Counties Magazine, Vol. 5: Devoted to the Topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Berks, Surrey, and Kent The Palace of Westminster stands to the east of the Abbey, between it and the river. According to tradition, mentioned by Camden and others, the Saxon Palace of Edward the Confessor was situated at the further end of Westminster Hall by a Fore Court, still called Old-Palace Yard. William Rufus threw out from this the Great Hall, the Norman walls of which still sustain the noble roof of Richard II. This Hall with, as we may suppose, some accessory buildings formed the New Palace; it was being built, we know from the contemporary record of the Saxon Chronicle, in 1097. On either side of the near gable of the Great Hall were wings projecting some sixty feet. That on the river side was the Receipt of the Exchequer, which, Mr. Baildon has shown, occupied this site from the time of Edward III. at least, and which almost certainly goes back to the time of Henry I., if it was not contemporary with the Hall itself. Mr. Round states that the earliest mention of the Exchequer is made by William FitzStephen the biographer of Becket, who tells us that in 1164 John the Marshal was in London engaged "at the quadrangular table which from its counters of two colours, is commonly called the Exchequer... where also are held the King´s Pleas of the Crown." Mr. Round has shown that although the Treasury was at Winchester in the twelfth century the convenient Receipt Office in Westminster ultimately absorbed its functions - "the evidence points to the gradual development of the Exchequer out of the Treasury under Henry I." A Chapel of St. Stephen had from an early time been the private chapel of the Palace - the Sainte Chapelle of Westminster. In the first half of the fourteenth century this was rebuilt at great cost. The best artists of the day were employed in sculpturing the stones and painting the walls and great windows; till the whole became the very crown of mediaeval art - a fairy story of romantic beauty. It projected by the further end of the Great Hall, parallel to the Receipt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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