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9 unusual facts about Lambeth Palace


Gerre Hancock

In 2004 he was honored in a ceremony at Lambeth Palace in London where he was presented the Medal of the Cross of St. Augustine by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Glencolmcille

After ordination, he served in New York at the down-town Trinity Church, and later had the distinction of being consecrated at Lambeth Palace as the first Bishop of Nova Scotia, and first Bishop in the British Empire overseas (1787).

Immanuel Tremellius

Owing to the Schmalkaldic War in Germany he was compelled to seek asylum in England, where he resided at Lambeth Palace with Archbishop Cranmer in 1547.

James Frederic Ferguson

At his decease he left incomplete a translation of the ‘Norman-French Chronicle of the Conquest of Ireland,’ which M. Michel edited from a manuscript in the library of Lambeth Palace.

Minuscule 487

The manuscript once belonged to the collection of J. D. Carlyle († 1804), then to the Lambeth Palace (1255, No. 25).

G. Bennet made a collation of Matthew and Mark it is held in the Lambeth Palace (1255, No. 25).

Minuscule 488

Charles Burney made a collation only for Mark 1:1-4:16; John 7:53-8:11, it was held in the Lambeth Palace (1223).

Paul Colomiès

Vossius introduced him to William Sancroft, who collated him (after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685), to the rectory of Eynesford in Kent on 18 November 1687, having previously made him a librarian (perhaps assistant to Henry Wharton, recruited by Sancroft at the same period) at Lambeth Palace.

Thomas Malory

The argument was based on a will made at Papworth on 16 September 1469 and proved at Lambeth on 27 October of the same year.


Anglican Diocese of Southwark

In other ecclesiatical use, although having lost religious orders in the English Reformation, the diocese has the London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury and records centre of the Church of England in the diocese, Lambeth Palace.

Henry Medwall

With a living at Balinghem in English Calais, he is assumed to have worked for John Morton at Lambeth Palace.

Katherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison

On 20 May 1673, Katherine and John were married by Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury in his chapel at Lambeth Palace.

Lambeth Homilies

The Lambeth Homilies are a collection of homilies found in a manuscript (MS Lambeth 487) in the Lambeth Palace Library in Lambeth, England.

Plenarium

Under this heading is classed the Book of Gospels at Lichfield Cathedral and the Book of Gospels given by Athelstan to Christ Church in Canterbury, now in the library of Lambeth Palace (Rock, "Church of our Fathers", I, 122).


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