The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ins, and in Case of Fire—A Party at the Toy—Quarrel and Scufflebetween Sir Cholmley Dering and Mr. Richard Thornhill—A Challenge—TheDuel—Thornhill tried at the Old Bailey—Murder of Thornhill— The Rape ofthe Lock—Facts on which the Poem was founded—The Arrival at HamptonCourt—The Severing of the Sacred Hair—Picture of Social Life at HamptonCourt—Queen Anne again at the Palace—Proclamation for the Reform of theStage—The Diana Fountain erected in Bushey Park—Hedge-work in theWilderness—The Lion Gates. UEEN ANNE remained at Hampton Court in the
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ins, and in Case of Fire—A Party at the Toy—Quarrel and Scufflebetween Sir Cholmley Dering and Mr. Richard Thornhill—A Challenge—TheDuel—Thornhill tried at the Old Bailey—Murder of Thornhill— The Rape ofthe Lock—Facts on which the Poem was founded—The Arrival at HamptonCourt—The Severing of the Sacred Hair—Picture of Social Life at HamptonCourt—Queen Anne again at the Palace—Proclamation for the Reform of theStage—The Diana Fountain erected in Bushey Park—Hedge-work in theWilderness—The Lion Gates. UEEN ANNE remained at Hampton Court in the autumn of the year 1710, for about a fort-night or so, and after her return to town she usedto come down occasionally, as she had formerlydone, for the meetings of the Privy Council,which were held here on October 7th, loth, and 19th, at whichthe Duke of Ormond was declared Lord Lieutenant ofIreland,^ and 2 3rd,^—on the last of which dates the Lord ^ Swifts Journal to Stella. ^ Luttrells Relation, vol. vi., p. 171 o] Reception of the Lord Mayor, 187 Mayor and the rest of the Lieutenancy for the City ofLondon waited upon the Queen, and presented an addressto her of the usual loyal tenour, filled with such stock phrasesas prostrating ourselves before Your Majesty, Defenceof your Royal person, Insolence of Faction at Home, Despicable Meanness of a Pretender abroad, Pure andUndefiled Mother the Church of England, Opposition toPopery, Protestant Succession, and so on, to which QueenAnne, of course, made a most gracious answer. Again, on November the 2nd and 9th, other councils wereheld at Hampton Court; while on the 6th or 7th the Queenwas here for the holding of a Chapter of the Order of theGarter, and she removed hither the day after Christmas-day for the holidays.^ During this sojourn Queen Anne showed, by giving ordersfor certain improvements in the parks and gardens, that shehad taken sufficient fancy to Hampton Court to contemplatereturn
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