It will be seen that the first of these two views, taken in 1804 (p. 88), shows us a large mullioned window, inside which must have been a room of some considerable length to require so large an opening to admit light, as its breadth must evidently have been limited. Such a room would be out of place in the rambling building we have been examining, but by no means out of place as a chamber or gallery connected with the House of Lords, and capable of serving as a place of meeting for the Commissioners appointed to consider a scheme of union with Scotland. A glance at the view on page 89, which was taken in 1807, when the wall of the House of Lords was being laid bare by the demolition of the houses abutting on it, shows two apertures, a window with a Gothic arch, and an opening with a square head, which may very well have served as a door, whilst the window may have been blocked up. If such a connection with the House of Lords can be established, there seems no reason to doubt that we have the withdrawing room fixed beyond doubt. Father Gerard mentions an old print representing 'the two Houses assembled in the presence of Queen Elizabeth,' and having 'windows on both sides.'[141] Such a print can only refer to a time before the mullioned chamber was in existence, and therefore--unless this print, like a subsequent one, was a mere copy of an earlier one still--we have fair evidence that the large room was not in existence in some year in the reign of Elizabeth, whilst the plan at p. 80 shows that it was in existence in 1685. That it was there in 1605 is not, indeed, to be proved by other evidence than that it manifestly supplies us with the withdrawing room for the Lords and for the Commissioners for the Union of which we hear so much. [Illustration: EAST END OF THE PRINCE'S CHAMBER. Published July 1, 1804, by J. T. Smith.] [Illustration: VIEWS OF THE EAST SIDE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS, THE EAST END OF THE PRINCE'S CHAMBER, &C. TAKEN OCTOBER 8, 1807. N.B. From the doorway out of which a man is peeping, nearly in the centre of the print, Guy Fawkes was to have made his escape. Published Nov. 4, 1807, by J. T. Smith.]