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Title: Wiltshire notes and queries
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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t in the reign ofHenry III, it has grown to right royal proportions, it may be con-sidered as highly probable that King John either pulled down themore ancient hunting box, and built up an extensive palaceon its site, or that he so enlarged and improved the originalbuilding that it became, to all intents and purposes, a new one ofa totally different character. If this be so, it will still be accurateto speak-of it as King Johns Palace. In the next reign, as we have already said, the Liberate Rallsare full of directions to the sheriff and others, as to repairs,additions, and improvements. We cannot here find space forexamples of these orders, but anyone who desires to go furtherinto the matter will find plenty of material in the Hundred of 1 The most important relic left is what is thought to have been the gable end• of the great hall, to which a suitable inscription was affixed in 1844 by Sir Y. II.Hathurst, who caused it to be supported and strengthened.—Worths Guide toWiltshire,
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20Q Alderbury portion of Sir R. C. Hoares Modem Wilts, HudsonTurners Domestic Architecture, and the paper of Mr. T. J. Petti-grew which is printed in The Jon Dial of the British ArcheeologicalAssociation for 1859, to each of whom we are largely indebtedfor our information. From these records, and from the surveymade in the time of Edward I, and printed by Sir ThomasPhillipps, Bart., in the twenty-fifth volume of The Archceologia,we learn many interesting particulars. The Palace was only one story high, and comprised: Agreat hall; two chapels; a kings chamber, upper and lower;a queens chamber, greater and lesser; a private, or bed chamber,an oriol, a kings wardrobe, queens wardrobe, two kitchens, alarder, a napcry, a butlery or salsary, almonry, a scwery, pent-houses, a wine cellar, a wood cellar, chambers for equerries, chap-lains, and foresters. The hall, or principal apartment, was nodoubt fitted up in choice style. It was paved with glazed tiles,and furnished with pillars and marbl

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