South London . er shehad chosen for herself, the rest goes to the Ladies of theCourt. The Queen dines and sups alone, with very few Atten-dants ; and it is very seldom that any Body, Foreigner or THE ROYAL HOUSES OF SOUTH LONDON 109 Native, is admitted at that Time, and then only at theIntercession of somebody in Power. On the Restoration, Charles at first resolved to pull downthe Palace and build it anew. For this purpose he con-sulted various persons, and after many delays began thebuilding. He only succeeded, however, in erecting what isnow the west wing of the Hospital. But it never againb
South London . er shehad chosen for herself, the rest goes to the Ladies of theCourt. The Queen dines and sups alone, with very few Atten-dants ; and it is very seldom that any Body, Foreigner or THE ROYAL HOUSES OF SOUTH LONDON 109 Native, is admitted at that Time, and then only at theIntercession of somebody in Power. On the Restoration, Charles at first resolved to pull downthe Palace and build it anew. For this purpose he con-sulted various persons, and after many delays began thebuilding. He only succeeded, however, in erecting what isnow the west wing of the Hospital. But it never againbecame a Royal Residence. In 1694, the Palace was con-verted into a Hospital for the Royal Navy. This splendidinstitution, one of the glories of Great Britain, and a standingmonument of the nations gratitude to her sailors, and an everpresent invitation to enter the navy, was closed, with thatstupid indifference to sentiment which so often distinguishesthe acts of our Government, in the year 1870. LAMBETH PALACE. The nowhuge town ofLambeth presentsfew points of inte-rest either to the visitoror to the are no buildings of anyantiquity except the Palace andthe Church. There are no modern buildings at all worthnotice. There have been two or three memorable houses no SOUTPI LONDON which we shall do well to touch upon : but they are not somemorable as to deserve long description. The Bishops ofRochester had a house in the Marsh—the site is in CarlislePlace, Westminster Road, at the back of St. Thomass Hospital,close to Lambeth Palace. It was in this house that, in 1531,a wretched man named Robert Roose, in the Bishops serviceas cook, wilfully, as was alleged, poisoned a large number ofpeople, and was boiled to death in oil—the only instance, 1believe, of this dreadful punishment. The wretched man wastied naked to a post and slowly lowered into the boiling was the last Bishop of Rochester who lived in thishouse. The buildings, with losses and additions
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