The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . the king becoming jealous of itsgrowing magnificence, the cardinal presented it to the sovereign, inthe year 1526, and was in turn rewarded by the gift of the palace atRichmond, and with enor
The Pictorial handbook of London : comprising its antiquities, architecture, arts, manufacture, trade, social, literary, and scientific institutions, exhibitions, and galleries of art : together with some account of the principal suburbs and most attractive localities ; illustrated with two hundred and five engravings on wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others and a new and complete map, engraved by Lowry . the king becoming jealous of itsgrowing magnificence, the cardinal presented it to the sovereign, inthe year 1526, and was in turn rewarded by the gift of the palace atRichmond, and with enormous manorial rights in the counties ofSurrey and Middlesex. On the accession of William III. to thethrone, he added many parts to the building, and completed it as itnow exists. At present there are three spacious quadrangles con-tained within the palace, and a multitude of apartments. Manysuites of rooms are occupied by private persons, by permission of theCrown, being mostly the reduced relatives of aristocratical state apartments, and many other rooms, have been convertedinto a kind of public picture-gallery, which, with the beautiful gar-dens, have become a favourite resort of the industrious classes in thesummer season and on holidays. The palace is easily reached in less than three quarters of an hourby the South-western Railway, from the Waterloo Road, and is open 408 HAMPTON COURT PALACE. to the public on every day of the week, including Sunday, exceptingFriday, when it is closed for the purpose of cleaning the apartments*The hours are, from 10 oclock in the morning until 6 oclock in theevening, from the 1st of April to the 1st of October, and for theremainder of the year from 10 till 4. No fee or payment is per-mitted to be taken; but in the private garden there is a famous vine,and a maze, where the gardeners expect some small gratuity forshowing them. The total number of pictures contained in the series of rooms towhich the public have access,
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