South London . ere still standing only a hundred yearsago. The reason for this oblivion is not far to seek. The palacewas deserted ; it was pulled down before 1607—Camden saysthat even then there was not a stone remaining—there wasnot a single house within half a mile in every direction. Therewas no one, when the last stones had been carted away, left 70 SOUTH LONDON to remember or to remind his children that there had been apalace on this spot. Another house was built here, but notradition attached to it. Two hundred years passed, and thencame the destruction of the second house ; in 1745 the
South London . ere still standing only a hundred yearsago. The reason for this oblivion is not far to seek. The palacewas deserted ; it was pulled down before 1607—Camden saysthat even then there was not a stone remaining—there wasnot a single house within half a mile in every direction. Therewas no one, when the last stones had been carted away, left 70 SOUTH LONDON to remember or to remind his children that there had been apalace on this spot. Another house was built here, but notradition attached to it. Two hundred years passed, and thencame the destruction of the second house ; in 1745 there wasnot even a cottage near the spot. This being so, it is notdifficult to understand why the site was^forgotten. The moat remained, however, and apparently some of thesubstructures ; a building of stone and thatch, part of theoffices of the palace, also stood. They called it the LongBarn, and when the distressed Protestants were brought overhere in 1700 as many as the place would hold were crammed m-wjil.
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