South London . r on the south face of the Chicheley Tower. Let us re-mark here that the Tower never had any connection withLollards, and that all the talk about the unhappy Lollardprisoners is without foundation. Juxon, who found the Palace a * heap of ruins, spent histhree years of occupancy and 15,000/. of his own money in re-storing the place for the honour and splendour of the for what has been done since that time, especially byArchbishop Howley, it all belongs to the detailed history ofthe Palace. It is sufficient here to note that the Palace is a THE ROYAL HOUSES OF SOUTH LOND
South London . r on the south face of the Chicheley Tower. Let us re-mark here that the Tower never had any connection withLollards, and that all the talk about the unhappy Lollardprisoners is without foundation. Juxon, who found the Palace a * heap of ruins, spent histhree years of occupancy and 15,000/. of his own money in re-storing the place for the honour and splendour of the for what has been done since that time, especially byArchbishop Howley, it all belongs to the detailed history ofthe Palace. It is sufficient here to note that the Palace is a THE ROYAL HOUSES OF SOUTH LONDON 121 worthy House to-day, as it was five hundred years ago, forthe residence of the Primate. He belongs still, as his RomanCatholic predecessors, to a Church whose members love somesplendour in their ecclesiastical Princes, just as they lovesplendour in their churches and stateliness in their do not desire to make a Bishop rich : they do desirethat a Bishop should not be hampered by narrow circum-. LOLLARDS PRISON stances: they desire that he should be able to take the leadin all good works. In ancient times, the Bishop rode or satin splendid state : he sat every day at a table loaded withcostly and luxurious food : outwardly he was clothed withsilken robes. But he touched nothing that was set beforehim : he lived hardly and abstemiously : and he wore nexthis skin a hair shirt: and for greater self-denial he suffered 122 SOUTH LONDON his hair shirt to be full of vermin. That was the idealBishop of mediaeval times. Our own is much the same: asimple life: a splendid house: modest wants : a large in-come : for himself no luxuries : and an open hand. Such ahouse : such an income : we have always given to an Arch-bishop, whether of the old or of the Reformed Faith. The Chapel has at least one memory which will alwayscling to it. Within its dark and gloomy crypt AnneBoleyn, brought from the Tower, stood to hear her was to be burned to death as an adulteress
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