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As the king, wholly unattended -- for he had left the archers at the Curfew Tower -- was passing at the back of Saint George's Chapel, near the north transept, he paused for a moment to look at the embattled entrance to the New Commons -- a structure erected in the eleventh year of his own reign by James Denton, a canon, and afterwards Dean of Lichfield, for the accommodation of such chantry priests and choristers as had no place in the college. Over the doorway, surmounted by a niche, ran (and still runs) the inscription --
"AEDES PRO SACELLANORUM CHORISTARUM COVIVIIS EXTRUCTA, A. D. 1519."