chamber (2 London is called ‘Regum Angliae Camera’=Chamber of the Kings of England, by Camden in his ‘Britannia’; the orig. application was to cities or provinces directly subject and yielding immediate revenue to the king)
1.
“of” (a person's) “chamber,” one of his
attendants, chamberlain to him AYL. II. ii. 5, Mac. I. vii. 76, II. iii. 108, Per. I. i. 152.
2.
metropolis, capital
R3 III. i. 1
“Welcome, sweet prince,
to London, to your chamber.”
3.
16th-17th cent. name
of a small piece of ordnance 2H4 II. iv. 56.
