The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace .. . A. LAMBETH PALACE. 181 are evidently of great antiquity, though it may be venturous todetermine that any part of the Saxon fabric of the CountessGoda is still subsisting. Dr. Ducarel was of opinion, that itmight be little better than a common dwelling ; but as it wasthe place of residence of a kings sister, it is most probable thatit was an habitation suitable to a person of her exalted rank. Whether this was the building said to have been repairedafterwards by Archbishops Langton and Hubert, is unknown: t
The history and antiquities of the parish of Lambeth, and the archiepiscopal palace .. . A. LAMBETH PALACE. 181 are evidently of great antiquity, though it may be venturous todetermine that any part of the Saxon fabric of the CountessGoda is still subsisting. Dr. Ducarel was of opinion, that itmight be little better than a common dwelling ; but as it wasthe place of residence of a kings sister, it is most probable thatit was an habitation suitable to a person of her exalted rank. Whether this was the building said to have been repairedafterwards by Archbishops Langton and Hubert, is unknown: thepalace after their time, however, seems to have been neglectedand to have become ruinous, and so remained until Boniface, in1216, as an expiation for his outrageous behaviour to the priorof St. Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield, a. obtained a bullfrom Pope Urban IV. (amongst other things) to repair thehouses at Lamhie, or to budd new ones: from which circum-stance he is generally supposed to have been the first founder ofthe present palace. b It was gradually enlarged and improved b
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