An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience . demolishes the theory—sufficiently absurd uponthe face of it—that the present building is not the chapel,but the dining-hall of the ancient palace. His argument issummed up in one short sentence. We know, from the Har-leian MS., 3,789, 15 et sej., that a drinking-cellar wasestablished beneath the chapel in Elizabeths reign ; and alsothat the back approach to the palace having been closed, the bishop was fain to own as a courtesy and kindness thebare convenience of a back-gate to
An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience . demolishes the theory—sufficiently absurd uponthe face of it—that the present building is not the chapel,but the dining-hall of the ancient palace. His argument issummed up in one short sentence. We know, from the Har-leian MS., 3,789, 15 et sej., that a drinking-cellar wasestablished beneath the chapel in Elizabeths reign ; and alsothat the back approach to the palace having been closed, the bishop was fain to own as a courtesy and kindness thebare convenience of a back-gate to convey away the stable-dung, and is always forced to bring his horses through thegreat hall whenever he uses them. Upon this my fatherremarks :— Now, of two buildings, one ten or twelve feetabove the ground^ and the other upon a level with it, itwould seem strange if a public cellar to sell drink in wereformed beneath the latter, and the bishops horses were con-stantly led through the former ( Remarks, p. 14). imnn History and Antiquities of the Conventual andCathedral Church of Ely, p. 151, footnote THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 49 enlarged by subsequent purchases of land that thewhole contained, upon the accession of Elizabeth,about twenty acres. It was then a very delightfully situated sub-urbanresidence. The Fleet river—now a sewer, but thena clear, flowing stream, taking its rise from thesprings of Hampstead and Highgate, and flowingthrough the Kentish town and under Battle Bridgeto join the Thames by Baynards Castle—ran betweenit and the New-gate of the city, to whose walls itformed, for a considerable distance, a natural delightful residence was thus without the citybut within its liberties,™™ and its gardens, slopingdown towards the Fleet river, were famous for theirproduce. Even to this day their fame lives, in thename of Hatton Garden, given to a street upon thesite of this once-noted spot. Sir Thomas More,in his Historic of
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