Identifier: surreyarchaeolog32surr (find matches)
Title: Surrey archaeological collections, relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Surrey Archaeological Society, Guilford
Subjects: Archaeology
Publisher: London, etc
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Bishop Gilbert de Glanville, of Rochester, andthe Prior of St. Andrews, Rochester. This exchangeresulted from the quarrel between the archbishop andthe monastery of Christchurch, Canterbury, respectingthe college of secular canons founded by Baldwin atHackington, near Canterbury. The monks complainedthat their rights and privileges had thereby been im-paired, and Baldwin agreed to transfer his college toLambeth. This compromise, however, did not satisfythe monks, and the Pope, being appealed to, orderedthe archbishop to yield to their objection. Baldwindied soon afterwards (1190), and Archbishop HubertWalter revived the scheme, which was again condemnedby Pope Innocent III, the clerks at Lambeth beingabsolved from their oath to the archbishop, and as aresult of the quarrel their newly erected chapel was ^ Until comparatively recently the title of Palace was not used. Lambeth House was the correct title of the archbishops Loudonresidence. k2 132 THE CRYPT AND CHAPEL OP LAMBETH PALACE.
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<^ THE CRYPT AND CHAPEL OF LAMBETH PALACE. 133 demolished in 1199, although the house was notdestroyed. The objection of the monks was based partly upontheir jealousy of the secular canons, but it probablyowed its gravamen to the obvious intention of the arch-bishop to transfer his court from Canterbury to Lambeth—as to which very natural objection we may find aparallel in that other historical instance of the silver-smiths of Ephesus. It was in 1197, when this quarrel was raging mostfiercely, that Archbishop Hubert Walter acquired themanor of Lambeth, and he no doubt then, or soonafterwards, began to occupy as a dwelling-house theold manor-house which had existed from far back inpre-Conquest times, or else the house of the clerks,which was probably contiguous. It was in the former,in 1041-2, that Harthacnut died at the wedding feast ofGyva, daughter of Osgood Clappa, falling to the earth with a terrible struggle, as he stood at his drink. As showing the earliest links of the Arc

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