And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward] That is, within the gallery on either side, and so the galleries took up twentie cubits of the thicknesse of the building: and on the outside of either gallery was a way of a cubit broad, much like the flagged way before the houses in Cheapside, or in Covent garden.
and their doores toward the north] Though it had been neer to the Temple or Altar, to have had the doores toward the separate place, yet was it not so fitting in regard of the reverence of the place: therefore he that would goe into those chambers must goe on the backside of these buildings, or to their North.