Over against the twenty cubits, &c.] Thus stood the chambers betwixt two faire open spaces: and not onely so, but also between two galleries joyning to them, on either side one: For thus are we to conceive of this row of buildings on the North side, and accordingly on the South: The buildings as they were a great length, so were they a great thicknesse: and if you went and stood at the East end of them, and looked upon them, they were of this composure. In the middle were the chambers, and on either side a gallerie, the one into the separate place toward the Temple, on the South side of the chambers, and the other into the space betwixt the buildings and the inner Court wall, or on the North side: which space was paved. gallery was against gallery in three stories] These galleries may be very fitly resembled to the rowes in Westchester that lie between the houses and the street, where they can walke drie in the greatest raine; and in some places is one row or gallerie above another: even so was it with these to three stories high. Now by gallery against gallery, is not to be understood that they stood fronting, or facing one another, but one backing another, and the chambers between.