HE that was _Chastelain_ (the _French_ Word for Constable) in _William the Conqueror_’s Reign was _Walter Fitz Other_, from whom the Family of the Barons of _Windsor_ are descended, and the Earls of _Plimouth_, bearing the Surname of _Windsor_, _Temp. Car._ II. Prince _Rupert_ was Constable.
WE come next to the Chapel of St. _George_, which is situate in the Lower Ward or Court of this Castle, and so named by King _Edw._ III. shortly after he had founded the College mention’d in the next Section; he having pulled down the old Chapel erected there by King _Henry_ I. and dedicated to King _Edward the Confessor_, to raise a more stately Structure in its stead; to bring which Matter to Perfection, in the 24th Year of his Reign, _John de Spoulee_ had the Office of Master of the Stone-Hewers, and had Power to provide Masons, and other Artificers, to whose Care they were entrusted. In _Anno_ 25. _Ed._ I. _John de Dorchester_, Sub-Constable of the Castle, was appointed to keep a Controul upon all the Provisions bought for the Works of the Chapel, as well as on the Payments, and all other Affairs relating thereunto. To this Fabrick he erected several Houses adjoining, for the Custos and Canons to reside in; and afterwards King _Hen._ IV. gave them the void Place in the Castle call’d the _Woodhall_, nigh the great Hall, for building of Houses and Apartments for the Vicars, Clerks, and Choristers, and the other Ministers, assigned for the Service of the Chapel; but King _Edw._ IV. observing the Walls and Foundation of the Chapel sapped and consumed, and esteeming the Fabrick not stately or spacious enough, designed another more noble and excellent in its Room: In order to it _Richard Beauchamp_, Bishop of _Salisbury_, was constituted Master and Surveyor of the Work, who had Power from the King to remove all Impediments, demolished divers of the Officiary Houses, and other irregular Piles and decay’d Walls, and dug up their Foundations, particularly those ancient Buildings on the East side of the Chapel, which extended unto the Walls on the North side of the Castle, where the Towers, _viz._ _Clurey_’s Tower, and _Le Amenery_’s Tower, and _Barney_’s Tower, were situated; as also on the South side of the Chapel, unto the Belfry there, exclusively; the Materials whereof he might bestow upon any Buildings in the Castle, as he thought convenient. How well the Bishop discharged this Office, appears from the Preamble of his Patent, whereby that King conferred on him the Chancellorship of the _Garter_, in which is set forth, _That out of meer Love towards the Order, he had given himself the Leisure daily to attend the Advancement and Progress of this goodly Fabrick_.