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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11153, 11 August 1914, Page 4

<Tp to the time of Edward 111. the two Houses of the British Parliament sat together. After that the Commons sat in the Chapter House at Westminster, and the Lords in the Palace. It was soon found that the distance interfered with the despatch of public business, and Edward VI. gave the "jse of the old Chapel of St Stephen, originally built by Stephen, and rebuilt under tl>e_ three Edwards, and restored by Sir Christopher Wren, in the reign of Queen Anno, as a meeting-place for the Commons Tho original building »ras destroys* when the Houses or Parliament burnt, to the- ground iu 3824. "Wnafc i« now called St (Stephen's 'flail stands on the site o? old ?.od v.r.i':; h- -U;c re; torso. "tryyV