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��was at this time in charge of the works at Guildford, where he had been employed some eight years earlier in touching up the paintings in the hall and chapel. 45

After the death of Henry III Guildford seems to have been rather neglected, and by 1333 the build- ings of the palace were in a very bad state, every room, apparently, requiring some repairs.' 6 A survey made in that year, giving an estimate of the cost of repairs, mentions the following buildings as needing repairs: the ' Frereschaumbre,' with garderobe ; the wall between the same chamber and the great chapel ; one aisle of the great chapel ; the king's hall ; a chamber between the great chapel and the king's great chamber ; the king's chamber, with garderobe ; the foundations of the garderobe of the same great chamber adjoin- ing the castle ; the queen's cham- ber ; the chamber of the damsels (f>uellarum), which ' below the lead ' required a new fireplace and ' above the lead ' a rail with posts and laths ; the chapel of St. Kathe- rine ; the chamber of the Earl of Chester (afterwards the Black Prince), with garderobe and the nursery (camera Noricerye) ; a cloister ; a party wall from the king's great chamber to the small gate by the Earl of Chester's garde- robe and the garden by the cloister; a room over the great gate, with garderobe ; the queen's garderobe by the great gate ; the ' Aumerye ' with garderobe and another cham- ber adjoining ; the Earl of Corn- wall's chamber with cellar and garderobe ; the treasurer's chamber, called Queen's Hall, with cellar, containing a fireplace with a double vent (cum dupplici ttiello) ; the king's great garderobe by the water pit ; the larder ; the royal kitchen ; a wall between the king's kitchen and the ' Frereschaumbre.' This evi- dently completes the circuit of the buildings ; then are mentioned the palings between the garden and the castle ; a piece of the mantle wall round the chapel 52 ft. in length, 20 ft. high, and about 1 o ft. thick at the base ; the rest of the mantle wall round the castle, which lacked buttresses and was weak at the foundation ; the palings upon the king's ditch between the castle (sic), and gutters, lead, &c., with two louvres (fumerelli) over the hall. Edward I, his son ar.J grandson, and Edward IV and Richard III were all at Guildford in the course of their reigns, either in the castle or in the manor-house in the park, probably the former. In 1337 Robert of Artois was to be lodged in the king's house in the castle," and to be allowed to hunt in the park.

In 161 1 the castle was granted to Francis Carter." The initials of his grandson, John Carter, 1699, used to stand above the arch of the entrance.

��The stone is now in the Archaeological Society's museum. The place was not regarded as a fortress during the Civil Wars, and Manning and Bray 4 * preserve a tradition that the keep had been dismantled and the roof taken away about l63O.* 9a A parliamentary survey was taken in 1650 as of the late king's lands, Mr. John Carter's title being doubted. From it we find that the dismantled keep had been used as a cock-pit. The only habitable house, con- taining a handsome hall, a large parlour, kitchen, buttery and cellar, with three chambers and two garrets above stairs, was that now used for the Surrey Archaeological Society's museum and library, with the caretaker's cottage and its adjacent cottage. The hall

���GUILDFORD CASTLE FROM THE SOUTH-WEST

��is now cut up into rooms in the middle of the house. The parlour and the upper chamber over it contain good Jacobean fire-places. John, son of the John Carter of 1650, put up additional buildings at the back of these. His initials and those of Elizabeth his wife, and the date 1672 or 1675, are upon them. The site remained in the possession of the descendants of Francis Carter in the female line till 1813, when Mr. Thomas Matchwick sold it to the Duke of Norfolk. His successor sold it to Lord Grantley c. 1842, from whose successor it was bought by the corporation in 1886 and laid out as at present, in gardens.

��Liberate R. (Chan.), 44 Hen. Ill, m. II.

Exch. K. R. Accti. bdte.^i, no. 23.

��<7 Pat. II Edw. Ill, pt. i, m. 9. 48 Pat. 9 Jas. I, pt. iii, m. J.
 * Hiit. of Surr. i, 1 3.

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��49a See Cal. S.P. Dam. 1625-6^.474. It seems that the keep must have been dis- mantled by that year.

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