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here is no place with a chimney for her; but she must lay abrode with Mrs. Apparry, and the rest of the privye chamber; for Mrs. Skelton, here is no rome with chimneys. I shall staye one chamber without for her. Here is as mytche as I have been any ways able to do in this house from Croydon, this present Wensday morning.

"Your honours always most bounden,

"S. BOWYER.”

"Archbishop Whitgift is said more than once to have entertained queen Elizabeth at his palace of Croydon. Upon the refusal of the archbishop to accept the high office of lord chancellor, Sir Christopher Hatton was in this place made lord high chancellor. It appears by a letter of Rowland White's, that the queen dined at the archbishop's at Croydon in 1600. His successor Abbot, was frequently there."

"Being at Croydon when the proclamation for permitting. sports and pastimes upon the Lord's day, was ordered to be read in churches, he peremptorily forbad its being read there."

"During the Civil Wars, the parliament seized on the possessions of the see of Canterbury, and leased the palace at Croydon to the earl of Nottingham. After archbishop Laud's death, it came into the hands of Sir William Brereton, "a notable man," says a pamphlet writer of that day" at a thanksgiving dinner; having terrible long teeth and a prodigious stomach to turn the archbishops. chapel at Croydon into a kitchen; also to swallow up that palace and lands at a morsel."

"Archbishop Juxon repaired and fitted up the palace; restoring it to its former state. He and his successors resided there occasionally till archbishop Secker's time.

"Of the present structure," says Lysons, "I think it seems sufficiently evident, that the Guard Chamber was built by archbishop Arundel, whose arms are placed there; and the hall by archbishop Stafford, the coats of arms, with

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which it is ornamented, and its style of architecture, each adding support to the conjecture. There seems to be no satisfactory evidence to shew when the chapel was built. It appears to have been repaired and ornamented by archbishops Laud and Juxon. Several large sums of money have been expended on the palace by the succeeding prelates, particularly by archbishop Wake, who built the great gallery; and archbishop Herring, by whom the whole was completely fitted up and repaired. The materials in the survey of 1646, were valued at 12007. In the year 1780, the palace not having been inhabited for above twenty years, was become much out of repair, in consequence of which an act of parliament was obtained for disposing of it by sale, and vesting the produce in the funds, towards building of a new palace upon Park Hill, about half a mile from the town. It was sold under this act October 10, 1780, to Sir Abraham Pitches, knt. for 2520l. It is now let to tenants, who carry on the callico printing manufactory upon the spot; the garden is used as a bleaching ground.

"The inhabitants of Croydon have obtained the use of the chapel as a Sunday school."

Croydon CHURCH, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is esteemed one of the largest and most handsome structures in the county; it is built of stone and flint, and consists of a nave, two aisles, and three chancels; a handsome tower, containing eight fine bells, and ornamented with four pinnacles and crockets. The church appears to have been rebuilt in the time of archbishop Chichele; it suffered great injury by wind, in 1639, and by fire in 1735; but having lately undergone many repairs and improvements, it is at present a very spacious and commodious building. In the chancel are some antient stalls.

Among the monuments are those of archbishop GrinDALL, who is represented lying at full length, in the habiliments of a doctor in divinity; archbishop WHITGIFT, in his robes; archbishop SHELDON, a fine piece of sculpture;

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archbishop WAKE, and archbishop HERRING. There is also among other memorials an antient Gothic tomb, supposed to be to the memory of one of the Wareham family; these had labels, in brass, which, as well other ornaments, were torn away during the Civil Wars, when one Bleese was hired, at 2s. 6d. per day, to break the painted glass in the windows.

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In Croydon church was buried thor of The Ship of Fools, &c. within a few years, been placed in the gallery. Besides the parish church, here was a chantry. At present, various bodies of Dissenters have their meeting houses. The Fishmongers Company of London, founded a Free School in this town; and lately were erected barracks for the accommodation of five troops of cavalry.

In the neighbourhood is ADDISCOMBE PLACE, a handsome seat, the residence of the earl of Liverpool. His lordship has not only beautified the house, but greatly improved the plantations. On the east front of the house is this inscription in Roman capitals: "Non faciam vitio culpave minorem-I will not reduce the estate by any vice or folly of mine."

HALING HOUSE and park, were the property of Charles Howard, lord high admiral in the reign of Elizabeth, who held it by a lease from the crown, and died here in 1624. The fine grove in the park contains a great number of exotics and evergreens; a circumstance which is thus celebrated by the late William Whitehead, in a poem, entitled, "Answer to an Epistle from a Grove in Derbyshire to a Grove in Surrey." It belongs at present to William Parker Hamond, Esq.

In the parish is the mansion of Mrs. Elizabeth Panton, and the villas belonging to Christopher Taddy, Esq. and lady Blunt; John Brickwood, Esq. the Hon. Mrs. Walpole, Joseph Leeds, Esq. Sir John Bridger, and Thomas Walker, Esq. About a mile from the town, in the road to Addington, is a large chalk pit, producing extraneous fossils. ADDINGTON,

VOL. V. No. 114,

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