Lambeth

Lambeth, a metropolitan parliamentary borough in Surrey, forms part of the south-west quarter of London, and since 1885 returns four members. The old borough of Lambeth, which had a much larger area, returned but two members. Lambeth Bridge dates from 1862. Lambeth Palace has been the official residence of the archbishops of Canterbury since 1197. It contains a splendid series of portraits of the archbishops, and a valuable library of 30,000 volumes, with many fine MSS. The Lollards' Tower, so named in comparatively modern times from the notion that heretics were here imprisoned, was really a water tower. It dates from 1434, but has been restored and modernised. See the Rev. J. Cave-Browne's Lambeth Palace (1883). For Lambeth Degrees, see DEGREES. The Lambeth Articles, drawn up in 1595 by Archbishop Whitgift and others, were nine in number, and pronouncedly Calvinistic in doctrine. They were disapproved by Queen Elizabeth, and were never in force. See also DOULTON.