"At either end the building abutted upon another running transversely to it; that on the north being the 'Painted Chamber,' probably erected by Edward the Confessor, and that on the south the 'Prince's Chamber,' assigned by its architectural features to the reign of Henry III. The former served as a place of conference for Lords and Commons, the latter as the robing-room of the Lords. The royal throne stood at the south end of the House, near the Prince's Chamber."[166] According to the story told by Fawkes this place was let to Mrs. Skinner by Whynniard to store her coals in. In an early draft of the narrative usually known as the 'King's Book,'[167] we are told that there was 'some stuff of the King's which lay in part of a cellar under those rooms'--_i.e._ the House of Lords, and 'that Whynniard had let out some part of a room directly under the Parliament chamber to one that used it for a cellar.' This statement is virtually repeated in the 'King's Book' itself, where Whynniard is said to have stated 'that Thomas Percy had hired both the house and part of the cellar or vault under the same.'[168] That part was so let is highly probable, as the internal length of the old kitchen was about seventy-seven feet, and it would therefore be far too large for the occupation of a single coalmonger. We must thus imagine the so-called vault divided into two portions, probably with a partition cutting off one from the other. If, therefore, the conspirators restricted their operations to the night-time, there was little danger of their being overheard. There was not much likelihood either that Whynniard would get out of bed to visit the tapestry or whatever the stuff belonging to the King may have been, or that Mrs. Skinner would want to examine her coal-sacks whilst her customers were asleep. The only risk was from some belated visitor coming up the quiet court leading from Parliament Place to make his way to one of the houses in Whynniard's block. Against this, however, the plotters were secured by the watchfulness of Fawkes.