South London (1912) (14780252092)

Identifier: besantsouthlondon00besa (find matches)
Title: South London
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Besant, Walter, Sir, 1836-1901
Subjects: London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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bishops walk, LAMBETH entertained at Lambeth Palace. Cardinal Pole died here. Itwas sometimes a prison. Queen Elizabeth entrusted to thecare of the Archbishop at Lambeth, Bishops Tonstal andThirlby, the Earl of Essex, the Earl of Southampton, LordStourton, and many others, who were kept in honourable con-finement, not in dungeons or cells, but each in his ownchamber. That there were prisons in every Episcopal Palace ^vas THE ROYAL HOUSES OE SOUTH LONDON 115 necessary at a time when the clergy could only be tried inEcclesiastical Courts, so that the Bishops could not send theircriminor.s clerks to an ordinary prison. Hence it is that we
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EJTEniOR OF THE HALL, LAMEETH PAT.ACEiJFroin an Engraving dated 1804) I 2 ir6 SOUTH LONDON frequently read of a priest brought before an EcclesiasticalCourt, but we do not learn what became of him. He wasconsigned to the prison of the House. When the Lollardsinveighed against the corruption of ecclesiastics they accusedthe Bishops of too great leniency towards their delinquentsand prisoners. In some cases, no doubt, the ecclesiasticalprison was used to save a prisoner from the worst con-sequences of his offence. For instance, a heretic handed overto the secular arm had by law to be burned. Let us endeavourto believe that in the Archbishops prison cells of Lambeththere were many who might have been burned but for the