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THE PALACE OP WESTMINSTER.

formerly been the Court of Requests. It is supposed that originally, and before the erection of West-minster Hall, this apartment was the great hall of the palace. In the time of Richard II . it is founddescribed by the name of Whitehall, as it is also in 1429 : for John of Gaunt is recorded to have sat asseneschal in the “ Whitehall of the King’s Palace,” near the King’s Chapel (which cannot agree with

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any room so well as this), for the purpose of determining claims previous to the coronation of Richard II. ;and in 1429, on the day of the coronation of Henry IV. , the Prince of Portugal ’s son was knighted in“ the Whitehall” at Westminster. In 1193, the then king is represented as sitting at dinner at West-