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the palace, between 1456 and 1486, of Thomas Bourchier,
the Archbishop of Canterbury; thus there is a private
chapel containing a carved wooden Calvary scene, given
to Thomas Sackville in 1586 by Mary Queen of Scots
when he, with great tact and compassion, visited her in
prison with the news she was to be beheaded. Knole
Castle so beguiled King Henry VIII that he forced Thomas
Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to hand it over
to him in 1538. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I,
Knole came into the possession of her cousin, Thomas
Sackville, whose descendants, the Earls and Dukes of
Dorset and Barons Sackville have lived there since 1603.
The Great Hall is the first room entered by visitors today,
decorated with an intricately carved wooden screen at
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