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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��when she came there." In 1245 the sheriff was ordered to build a room for the use of Edward, the king's son, to be 50 ft. long and 2 6 ft. broad, stretch- ing along the wall towards the field to the corner of the wall towards the kitchen, and in breadth from the wall towards the field towards the almonry ; the upper part of the building to be for the king's son and the lower for the pages-in-waiting (yadlettorum nobilium), with barred windows, a fireplace, and a privy chamber in each room. Also, under the east wall opposite the east part of the king's hall a pentice with fireplace and privy chamber was to be made for the queen's garderobe. In the queen's chamber the existing window was to be replaced by one as much broader as could be set between the two walls and as high as reasonably possible, with two marble columns, between which were to be glass windows with a panel that could be opened, the upper part of the window boarded, and the whole provided with wooden shutters ; at the same time the upper window at the 'west end of the hall by the dais was glazed with white glass with the image of a king seated on one side and a queen on the other." A porch was built in front of the door of the hall in 1247," and in 1250 the pillars (postei) of the hall were restored and underpinned with Reigate stone ; at the same time the roofs of the steward's room (dispensatoria) and buttery were mended and a new window made in each, the roof- ridge (cumulum) of the royal chamber was raised 5 ft. and the walls also raised to allow of the insertion of three windows like the new window in the same chamber. The passage between the hall and the chamber was to be boarded and given a plaster ceiling (desuper terrari) and the wainscoted bedrooms were to be painted green. The low garderobe (bassa warderoba) of my lord Edward's bedroom was to be wainscoted and a stone vault (vouta) made in it ' in which our chests and relics can be placed ' ; the wall between that bedroom and the almonry was to be coped (cmtetur), and the wall outside the king's bedchamber was to be thrown down and rebuilt 1 5 ft. away from the same chamber, the space between being used for a garden (herbarium). A window was to be made in the small garderobe near the gate, and the high window in the queen's garderobe was to be glazed. A new lattice (laticiuni) was to be made in front of the chapel of St. Stephen, and in the chapel of St. Katherine the figure of the saint and scenes from her life were to be painted behind the altar ' suitably, with- out gold or blue ' (honeste absque aunt et azuro) and the wall round the chapel to be rebuilt. 54

Not long after this there was evidently a fire at the palace, as in 1253 orders were given to roof the vaults of the buildings burnt at Guildford, to mend the gutters of the burnt hall that the walls might not be injured, and to support the part of the hall roof which had not been burnt, so that it should not be dangerous. The burnt portion of the hall was to be pulled down." Rebuilding seems to have proceeded slowly, as in November 1255 the king stated that he

��would be at Guildford for the Feast of the Circum- cision (l January), and as the buildings were not yet ready he ordered greater dispatch to be made with them. 36 In January 1256," accordingly, King Henry being at Guildford gave instructions as to the royal chapel, the queen's chapel, and certain chambers newly built, and ordered the porch of the hall to be built of stone, the story of Dives and Lazarus to be painted in the hall opposite his seat, and ' a certain image with beasts ' to be made on the said seat ; the chamber of the chaplains was also to be lengthened." Later in the year the sheriff was told to have the hall whitewashed inside and out, the pillars and arches marbled (marbrari), the two gables pointed, the great chamber whitewashed and marked out in squares (quarellart) and its ceiling painted green, spangled (extencellari) with gold and silver. A porch (oriolum) was to be made in front of the door of the hall and a cloister with marble columns in the garden." Next year a stone gateway was to be made and over it a solar 32ft. ' within the walls ' and i8ft. broad, with a garderobe. In the chancellor's chamber the fireplace was to be moved further north, the screen (holder') of the chamber was also to be moved and put elsewhere, and the chamber whitewashed and boarded behind the chancellor's bed. Four glass windows were to be put into the gable of the hall and a pentice to be made between the chaplain's chamber and the kitchen. 40 The latter was again ordered next year, as well as another pentice from the king's son's chamber to the kitchen and a small building for warming up (calefacienduni) the queen's food. A stable was to be built between the hall and the kitchen, also a saucery (sabaria) and larder under one roof, and a wood-lodge. The queen's chapel and her chamber were to be paved and the outer and inner doors of the chamber under the oriel to be blocked and a new door made from that chamber into the king's garde- robe. 41 In 1260 orders were given to pave the cloister and make two doors and a bench therein, and also to put two glass windows in the pentice near the queen's lawn (prate/lum)." Next year, in January, when the king was again at Guildford, he ordered the great window of the hall over against the royal seat to be glazed, a wooden sperre (esfutrum) to be made at the head of the table in the hall towards the entrance into the royal chamber, and figures of St. Edward and of St. John, holding the ring in his hand, to be painted there. The same figures were also to be painted on the wall by the king's seat in his chapel, and an image of the Blessed Mary was to be made and placed in the queen's chapel. 43 In 1267 several rooms were built ; one chamber with a settle (stadium), fireplace, garderobe, and vestibule, and a chapel at the end of the same chambers with glass windows, for the use of Eleanor wife of Edward the king's son, and another chamber with settle, fireplace, garderobe, and vestibule, for the use of the knights of Queen Eleanor. 44 At the same time the queen'i garden (herbarium) was set in order under the direc- tion of William Florentyn, the king's painter, who

��81 Liberate R. (Chan.), 28 Hen. Ill, m. 2.

811 Ibid. 30 Hen. Ill, m. 17. 88 Ibid. 32 Hen. Ill, m. 8.

84 Ibid. 35 Hen. Ill, m. 3.

85 Ibid. 38 Hen. Ill, m. 3.

86 Ibid. 40 Hen. Ill, m. 7.

��"7 Ibid. m. 16.

88 The wages, 501. yearly, of the two chaplains (of St. Katherine and St. Ste- phen) at the castle and of a third at the leper hospital of St. Thomas outside the town occur regularly about this time : e.g. ibid. 33 Hen. Ill, m. 2.

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��89 Ibid. 40 Hen. Ill, m. 10.

40 Ibid. 41 Hen. Ill, m. 12.

41 Ibid. 42 Hen. Ill, m. 4. 4S Ibid. 44 Hen. HI, m. 3.

48 Ibid. 45 Hen. Ill, m. 14, 13. 44 Ibid. 52 Hen. III,m. n.

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