The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ut the Works—The Cartoon Gallery—Its Defects as aPicture Gallery—An artistic Locksmith—Return of William III.—His Visits toHampton Court—The Kings Guard Chamber—Further Improvements—NewFish Ponds in Bushey Park—A Highway Robbery. ESIDES the account, belonging to the summerof this year 1699, for improving the GreatFountain Garden, signed Henry Wise, thereis another one in the same volume of theTreasury Papers, relating to the laying out ofBushey Park in the form which it now presents, with its statelylime-tree groves, its great circular basin
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ut the Works—The Cartoon Gallery—Its Defects as aPicture Gallery—An artistic Locksmith—Return of William III.—His Visits toHampton Court—The Kings Guard Chamber—Further Improvements—NewFish Ponds in Bushey Park—A Highway Robbery. ESIDES the account, belonging to the summerof this year 1699, for improving the GreatFountain Garden, signed Henry Wise, thereis another one in the same volume of theTreasury Papers, relating to the laying out ofBushey Park in the form which it now presents, with its statelylime-tree groves, its great circular basin, and its chestnuttrees, which stretch away on the north side of it, in amagnificent avenue a mile long. Some of the items ofcharges, which show how a bare flat piece of ground wastransformed into one of the noblest parks in England, maybe not uninteresting to gardening antiquaries ; so they arecollected in the appendix.^ Here we will only observe that the works consisted ^ See Appendix B, and Treasury Papers, vol. Ixvii,, No.
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