. Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty. archbishops table, at which ordina-rily sate none but the peers of the realm, privy-counsellors, and gentlemen of the greatest The almoners table, at which sate the chaplains, and all the guests of the clergy, beneath diocesanbishops and abbots. 3. The stewa
. Select views of London and its environs; containing a collection of highly-finished engravings, from original paintings and drawings, accompanied by copious letter-press descriptions of such objects in the metropolis and the surrounding country as are most remarkable for antiquity, architectural grandeur, or picturesque beauty. archbishops table, at which ordina-rily sate none but the peers of the realm, privy-counsellors, and gentlemen of the greatest The almoners table, at which sate the chaplains, and all the guests of the clergy, beneath diocesanbishops and abbots. 3. The stewards table, at which sate all other gentlemen. The suffragan bishopswere then wont to sit at the almoners table ; and Archbishop Cranmer, in admitting his suffragan RichardThornden, prebendary of Canterbury and bishop of Dover, to his own table, did him unusual honour ;which was therefore noted, to aggravate the ingratitude of that man in conspiring against the said arch-bishop f. Besides this hospitality he administered proper relief to the poor at his gate J. • From a MS. in Lambeth hbrary (not numbered), intituled, Orders and Statutes of Household, obseivcd inihc House of Thomas Cranmer, sometyme Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. t Whartons Observations on Strypes Memoiials of Cranmer, p. 258. Ibid. p. 45t. 4. LAMBETH PALACE. broken beer, for reliefe of other poore, as they wer put in bills parted amongthem. Strype gives us this further account of Archbishop Parkers hospitaHty: In the daily eating this was the custom. Tlic steward with the servantsthat were gentlemen of the better rank, sat down at the tables in the hall onthe right hand ; and the almoner, with the clergy and the other servants, saton the other side; where there was plenty of all sorts of provision both foreating and drinking. The daily fragments thereof did suffice to fill the belliesof a great number of poor hungry people that waited at the gate ; and soconstant and unfailing was this provision at
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