XII. Bath Inn or Arundel House

Charles Lethbridge Kingsford

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XII. Bath Inn or Arundel House

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Charles Lethbridge Kingsford

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The bishop of Bath's Inn had a larger site than any of the episcopal palaces on the Strand. The frontage to the river was over 500 feet, that towards the street somewhat less, and the depth must have been upwards of 400 feet. Thus the Inn with its precincts covered an area of between four and five acres. The site of Durham Inn with a similar frontage was much less in depth. But Durham Inn itself in the middle ages far surpassed Bath Inn as a building, though the additions made to the latter after it ceased to be a bishop's inn made it eventually the more splendid. It is in its last days as the earl of Arundel's place that Bath Inn is of most interest both for its buildings and history.

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Information: Archaeologia , Volume 72 , 1922 , pp. 243 - 277

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900009711 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1922

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^{page 243 note 1} Ancient Deeds, A. 1665. See p. 276, below. William the Carpenter's land may possibly have been the piece immediately east of the north end of Strand Lane, which never formed part of the bishop of Bath's lands.

^{page 243 note 2} Cal. Charter Rolls, i, 168-9; the grant was confirmed on 23rd September. The original adds nothing to what is given in the Calendar.

^{page 244 note 1} MSS. of Wells, i, 474 (Hist. MSS. Coram.). The deed is printed in Dr. Moore's, N.History of St. Bartholomew's, i, 392Google Scholar. The date is fixed by its attestation by Andrew Bukerel as mayor, i.e. between 1231 and 1238.

^{page 244 note 2} Cal. Charter Rolls, i, 235. The record is imperfect; but it clearly relates to a keepership of the type usual in the case of such London hostels.

^{page 244 note 3} Cal. Close Rolls, 1242-47, p. 78.Google Scholar

^{page 244 note 4} Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edward, II, i, 530, 532Google Scholar.

^{page 244 note 5} Calendar of Coroners' Rolls, London, p. 92.Google Scholar

^{page 244 note 6} Cal. Pat. Rolls, Edward, III, iv, 127Google Scholar.

^{page 244 note 7} Cal. Close Rolls, Edward, III, xiv, 455Google Scholar.

^{page 244 note 8} Cal. Pat. Rolls, Richard, II, iv, 429-Date 1391, when Bures obtained pardon for his share in the transactionGoogle Scholar.

^{page 244 note 9} Johnson, , History of Drapers' Company, ii, 301Google Scholar.

^{page 245 note 1} Escheator's File, 1019/4 at P. R. O.

^{page 245 note 2} Cal. Pat. Rolls, Henry, VI, ii, 180, iii, 24Google Scholar.

^{page 245 note 3} MSS. of Wells, ii, 128, 215 (Hist. MSS. Comm.)Google Scholar.

^{page 245 note 4} London Topographical Record, vi, 83Google Scholar.

^{page 245 note 5} The name of the Tabard in Gracechurch Street was similarly corrupted. The corruption is from “Talbard” a variant of “Tabard” (N. E. D.). Strype describes the Talbot Inn as ‘well resorted unto’.

^{page 245 note 6} See more fully on p. 263, below.

^{page 246 note 1} MSS. of Wells, ii, 215, 222Google Scholar. The lease to Hughson was dated 22nd December 1510. Morryell's own lease on 27th June i5iogave Margaret Kefe as his neighbour. Both leases were recited in 1545. See p. 249 and p. 261, below. Widow Kene or Keue appears as holding a house here in 1567-8.

^{page 246 note 2} Ibid., ii, 227, and Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xx (ii), 910 (77), see p. 249, below.

^{page 246 note 3} See pp. 260-1, below.

^{page 246 note 4} MSS. of Wells, ii, 222, 225, 227.

^{page 246 note 5} Ibid., ii, 232-3.

^{page 247 note 1} Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, iii, 3153; Stow, , Annals, 519Google Scholar.

^{page 247 note 2} Ibid., iv, 4753-4; two letters both dated 18th September, the one from Paris, the other from Luzerche (Luzarches), twenty miles north. See also the originals.

^{page 247 note 3} Ibid., iv, 5820.

^{page 247 note 4} See p. 273, below.

^{page 248 note 1} Letters and Papers, xiv (i), 868 (13), see also original.

^{page 248 note 2} Ibid., xiv (ii), 48; xvi, 1428, 1463.

^{page 248 note 3} Ibid., xvii, 997.

^{page 249 note 1} Letters and Papers, xx (ii), 910 (77). The recital is based on a variety of leases, and in some cases includes leases relating to the same tenement; thus the tenement on the west side of Osboston or Towerson (see p. 271, below) appears as occupied by three different tenants; the ‘Cardinal's Hat’ is described from the grant of 1511; the tenements of Morryell, Hughson, and Haddef are given as in 1510, but the list begins with different leases of the same tenements. Comparison with the original shows two inaccuracies in the printed summary; the tenements of Ripley and Porchett had Osboston's on the West and Hunter's on the East; Andrews's second messuage had his first on the West and Towerson's on the East. The original incorrectly states that Morryell's tenement had a tenement of the bishop of Bath and Wells on the east (see p. 246, above).

^{page 249 note 2} It is shown very rudely by Agas, but does not seem to appear in Van den Wyngaerde's imperfect drawing.

^{page 249 note 3} Burghley Papers, 68, 73, 76, 80, 89, 96, 99.

^{page 250 note 1} Strype, , Survey, iv, 105Google Scholar.

^{page 250 note 2} Wriothesley, , Chronicle, ii, 33, 79Google Scholar.

^{page 250 note 3} Machyn, , Diary, 40Google Scholar.

^{page 250 note 4} The Duchess Mary died at Philip's birth and was buried at St. Clement Danes; 12s. was paid for her vault, and 595. 6d. for the velvet pall which lay on her hearse. Churchwardens' Accounts.

^{page 250 note 5} See p. 273, below.

^{page 250 note 6} Cal. State Papers, 1566-1570, p. 4Google Scholar PubMed, and originals; Stow, , Annals, p. 1116, ed. 1605Google Scholar.

^{page 251 note 1} Index to Remembrancia, p. 10.

^{page 251 note 2} Lives of Philip Howard and Anne his Wife, 1857, p. 22Google Scholar.

^{page 251 note 3} Ibid., p. 113.

^{page 251 note 4} Hervey, , Life of Thomas, Earl of Arundel, pp. 192–3Google Scholar.

^{page 252 note 1} Hervey, , Life of Thomas, Earl of Arundel, pp. 511–12, and p. 267, belowGoogle Scholar.

^{page 252 note 2} Hatfield MSS., vii, 327.Google Scholar

^{page 252 note 3} The earl of Bath's Place in Holborn.

^{page 252 note 4} Hatfield MSS., xii, 377.Google Scholar

^{page 252 note 3} Chamberlain, , Letters, p. 166 (Camd. Soc)Google Scholar.

^{page 252 note 6} Cal. State Papers, James, I, 1603-1610, p. 31Google Scholar.

^{page 252 note 7} Ibid., pp. 187, 189.

^{page 252 note 8} Mémoires, iv, 313Google Scholar, ed. Petitot. Another French ambassador, the Baron de la Tour, was lodged at Arundel House in 1617. Nichols, , Progresses of James I, iii, 294Google Scholar.

^{page 253 note 1} Cal. State Papers, 1603-1610, p. 390Google Scholar PubMed.

^{page 253 note 2} Hervey, , Life, etc., pp. 36, 40Google Scholar.

^{page 253 note 3} Ibid., p. 82.

^{page 253 note 4} Ibid., p. 101.

^{page 253 note 5} See pl. xlvi

^{page 253 note 6} Life, etc., p. 280. Selden in 1628 published his ‘Marmora Arundelliana … in aedibus eius hortisque cognominibus ad Thamesis ripam disposita’.

^{page 253 note 7} Life, etc., pp. 255-6.

^{page 254 note 1} Life, p. 264.

^{page 254 note 2} Ibid., p. 399.

^{page 254 note 3} Ibid., pp. 142, 144, 162, 165.

^{page 254 note 4} Ibid., p. 289.

^{page 254 note 5} Ibid., p. 366.

^{page 254 note 6} Hind, A. M., Hollar and his views of London, p. 72Google Scholar.

^{page 254 note 7} Besides the two views of the Court Hollar etched a view of London as seen from the roof of Arundel House (apparently taken from the leads over the Galleries) and a view of Milford Stairs taken from the foreshore below Arundel House and showing some of its outbuildings; the etched view of Milford Stairs is for our purpose of less interest than the drawing here reproduced. See Hind, u. s., pp. 22, 71.

^{page 254 note 8} See Cal. State Papers, 1639-40.

^{page 254 note 9} Hervey, , Life, etc., p. 432Google Scholar.

^{page 255 note 1} Cal. State Papers, 1650, p. 405.

^{page 255 note 2} Ibid., 1656-7, p. no. Arundel had taken a great part of his collections abroad in 1642. Cf. Hervey, , Life, p. 473Google Scholar.

^{page 255 note 3} Diary, ii, 45.

^{page 255 note 4} Ibid., vi, 388.

^{page 255 note 5} Memoirs, i, 413.

^{page 255 note 6} Ibid., i. 401, 418, 500. The manuscripts are now at the British Museum. The books were sold in the last century. Other manuscripts were presented to the College of Heralds, where they are still preserved.

^{page 256 note 1} Memoirs, i, 409-10, 484. Some of the marbles may have been in the arcading shown in Hollar's view, between the two flights of steps leading from the orchard to the second garden.

^{page 255 note 2} Cal. State Papers, Charles, II, 1676-1977, p. 226Google Scholar.

^{page 255 note 3} The Arundelian Library was removed in 1678 (Evelyn, , Memoirs, i, 500)Google Scholar. Water Street, Arundel Street, Norfolk Street, and Surrey Street all appear with numerous residents in the Westminster Rate Books for 1680.

^{page 255 note 4} Howard, A. C., Anecdotes of the Howards, pp. 93, 94Google Scholar.

^{page 255 note 5} Ibid., p. no. Ogilby in his large scale map in 1677 gives the valuable plan here reproduced. The house may have been destroyed before the map was published. Huych Allaerdt (Crace Collection, Views ii,8i) in his view about 1686 gives a rather fanciful representation of old Arundel House. Morden and Lea's view which formed the head-piece to the map of 1682 gives Arundel Buildings, the river front being the same as that shown by Bowles in 1720 (ibid., ii, 83); this presumably represents Wren's intended building. A plan in the same collection (Maps xii, 58) gives Howard Street, and shows on its south side Norfolk House with an open court-yard. This plan (which is only a diagram) is dated 1720, but apparently represents an unexecuted project. The lay-out of the streets appears as complete in Strype's map.

^{page 257 note 1} This must mean at the widest point, which was about the centre of the site. To obtain this length there must have been an extension to Milford Lane as stated in the Survey, though it is not shown in the plan of 1677 (see pl. xlvi,). It was probably a strip leading from the Kitchen Court to Milford Lane.

^{page 258 note 1} Archaeologia, lxxi, p. 38.Google Scholar

^{page 258 note 2} The building shown in Hollar's drawing can be readily identified with one in Visscher's view, where underneath it is the lettering “Essex House”; but the lettering on that view from “Savoy” to “Essex House” is clearly out of place, being about ½ inch too far to the west. It still appears in Morden's view, the date of which is 1682.

^{page 259 note 1} It is to be noticed that the view and plan agree more closely for the garden of Essex House.

^{page 259 note 2} This is approximately in the same place as the Surveyor's Chamber mentioned on p. 249.

^{page 260 note 1} Hervey, , Life, etc., pp. 511–12Google Scholar. The date ‘1585’ there given is a modern entry in the original and incorrect; the fuller particulars in Lansdowne MS., 45, ff. 220, 221, show that the true date was 1590. See p. 267, below.

^{page 260 note 2} It was probably etched in part by Hollar, who died early in that year. See Hind, , Hollar and his views of London, p. 43Google Scholar.

^{page 260 note 3} At the present time the houses from Surrey Street to Arundel Street are numbered 172 to 186 inclusive. Arundel Street is on the site of the gatehouse. One or more houses may have been absorbed in making the streets.

^{page 261 note 1} See p. 246, above.

^{page 261 note 2} Burghley Papers, ii, 453; Did. Nat. Biog., ii, 233.

^{page 261 note 3} Ibid., xiii, 366. His compositions at Cambridge include a pavane for the countess of Arundel.

^{page 261 note 4} In 1509-11 there were apparently six tenements here.

^{page 263 note 1} The extension to the Strand may have formed part of some recent alteration.

^{page 263 note 2} See pp. 274-5, below.

^{page 264 note 1} The present stables extend from Water Street to Milford Lane, covering the site of St. Clement's Rectory in Milford Lane.

^{page 264 note 2} See pp. 275-6.

^{page 265 note 1} ‘Middlesex Portfolio, p. 21.’ It is marked on the hack in a contemporary hand ‘The Plot for all Thickett Fields’ and in an eighteenth-century hand “1592 Ld. Burlington”. The latter has been taken to be an indication of the date, but appears to refer only to the number of the drawing in a collection, probably that of the famous third earl of Burlington. There is a modern copy in the Grace collection at the British Museum (Part xv, 11).

^{page 265 note 2} Deed in the writer's possession. It is dated 18th August 1630, but recites a deed of 1st June 1579 whereby Edward Clifton, citizen and skinner, demised to John Norfock and Anne his wife ‘One peece or parcell of ground lyinge and being in fficketts feild … next adioyninge to the way leading out of the said fficketts feild to the Temple barre into ffleetestrete, conteyning in length from the uttermost poste then standinge in the Brickwall of the gardens then in the tenure or occupation of the said Edward Clifton or his assignes close to the said way vnto one other poste then standinge and being in the foresaid Brickwall northward at the end of the seaventh Pannell, being twenty three yards and one foote of assize or thereabouts … and in bredth fiftie and five foote of assize or thereabouts and lyeth betweene the foresaid Brickwall of the said gardens then in the tenure of the said Edward Clifton on the South, one parcell of the said fficketts feild towards Lyncolns Inne on the North, the foresaid way on the East, and a new Brickwall then lately enclosed by Raph Boswell, esquier, on the west, which said parcell of ground is parte and parcell of two acres and one Rode of pasture lying and being in the said ffickets feild, whereof the said Edward Clifton stood seized in his demesne as of fee as aforesaid. And alsoe … did demise … free ingresse, egresse, regresse, way and passage for them … and for the horses cartes and carriages of them … by and through the Gate, Lane and way att the East end of the said fficketts feild leadinge and cominge from the Lane called Chancery Lane towardes and into and thorough the said ffeild from the said way vnto the said Peece of ground’.

^{page 266 note 1} The adjoining Essex House was thus served with a part of its water-supply before 1600; cf. Index to Remembrancia, p. 554.

^{page 266 note 2} See London Topographical Record, ii. 110-11; the Waterhouse enables us to date Hollar's view of West Central London; it does not appear in his Long View published in 1647.

^{page 268 note 1} Meaning no doubt to the Strand frontage.

^{page 270 note 1} Clearly as tenant of John Bell.

^{page 270 note 2} Robert Rede in the Churchwardens' Accounts for 1567-8.

^{page 271 note 1} Towerson had succeeded Oboston or Osboston before 1545. See p. 249, above. His name appears in the Churchwardens' Accounts for 1575-6.

^{page 271 note 2} William Wallc occupied it in 1575-6.

^{page 271 note 3} William Laudyon appears in the Churchwardens' Accounts for 1571-2.

^{page 272 note 1} E. White appears in the Churchwardens' Accounts for 1575-6.

^{page 272 note 2} Wallron in Churchwardens' Accounts.

^{page 272 note 3} Called Tydy Dobmes in the Churchwardens' Accounts for 1575-6.

^{page 272 note 4} This seems to indicate that the lane turned east along part of garden of the Axe on its north side, and stopped at the east end against another piece of the same garden.

^{page 272 note 5} Called Nicholas White in the Churchwardens' Accounts for 1575-6.

^{page 274 note 1} This would be approximately the length to the point where the lane again turned east; the lane does not seem to have extended so far as the actual end of the Bowling Alley.

^{page 274 note 2} Sc. dung.

^{page 276 note 1} Sic in original, but apparently it should be longitudine.

^{page 277 note 1} empciont

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