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OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL. 199 Together with all waies, passages, watercourses etc. except one large wast upper room adjoining to the said tenement, now in the occupation of the said Mr. Lambe, heretofore used as a wood-house being over part of the building belonging to the Deanery. All which premises are private possessions not demised to any particular person, and are worth at an improved rent XXX8 • (This house and the next two houses on the south side of the Green Court were taken down about the middle of the nineteenth century. James Lambe survived the Commonwealth period and was reinstated a minor canon at the Restoration.) MR. DB.AITON. All that messuage etc. . . . on the south side of the Green Court, next adjoyning unto the messuage in the occupation of Mr. Lambe on the south east, consisting of a watercourse below the house, a little studdy, a faire kitchen, a Hall boarded, two little Butteries within the Hall, two chambers over them and two Garretts over the said chambers. Together with all waies, passages * * * All which premises were late in the occupation of Horton Drayton, late Auditor of the Cathedrall Church, but are out of lease and are worth at an improved rent XLVs. annum. (Horton Drayton, Auditor and Chapter Clerk-d. June,· 1649. The "watercourse below the house" was granted to the auditor in 1626 by the following Act of Chapter ; "It is agreed that at the petition of Mr. Horton Drayton and others that dwell in the Dorter, that they shall have leave to lay a pipe to the cysterne or to some other pipe for them to bring water unto them.") MR. JORDEN. All that messuage etc. . on the south side of the Green Court there, next adjoyning to the messuage in the occupation · of Mr. Drayton on the south east, consisting of a Hall, a Parlour one chamber over them, a Studdy, with a little wash house. Together with all waies etc. All which premisses now are in the occupation of William Jorden, Clarke, late one of the Minor Cannons