The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . other Doses—Appointment of Lords Justices to administer the Govern-ment—Prior the Poet and John Locke the Philosopher at the Palace—ThePhilosophers Diagnosis of the Kings Case—More Recipes, Prescriptions, andDoses—Somers comes to bid him Farewell—Off at last—The Water Gallerytaken down—The Banqueting House—The Great Banquet Room—Its Ceilingpainted by Verrio—The New Terrace—The Pavilions. HILE trivial personal incidents of the sort treatedof in our foregoing chapter occupied the atten-tion of the frequenters of the Court, the minds ofthe King
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . other Doses—Appointment of Lords Justices to administer the Govern-ment—Prior the Poet and John Locke the Philosopher at the Palace—ThePhilosophers Diagnosis of the Kings Case—More Recipes, Prescriptions, andDoses—Somers comes to bid him Farewell—Off at last—The Water Gallerytaken down—The Banqueting House—The Great Banquet Room—Its Ceilingpainted by Verrio—The New Terrace—The Pavilions. HILE trivial personal incidents of the sort treatedof in our foregoing chapter occupied the atten-tion of the frequenters of the Court, the minds ofthe King and of his advisers were engrossed withaffairs of great and imperial moment. We referto the negotiations for the second Treaty of Partition,which, belonging as it does to general history, lies outsidethe purview of this book, but to which some reference mustbe made, because, as we learn from several letters writtenby William to Heinsius from this Palace, recounting theprogress of the negotiations, two or three interviews of. lyoo] William III. and the Duke of Shrewsbury, 119 some importance took place here between himself andTallard, the French ambassador/ At the same time the mind of William was greatly exer-cised with a matter of much personal interest to was the reiterated request of his trusted friend, theDuke of Shrewsbury, to be allowed, in opposition to theKings most earnest entreaties, to resign the office of LordChamberlain, which, in the autumn before, he had reluc-tantly consented to accept, only on the persistent solicita-tions of his royal master. Shrewsbury, in truth, had no taste for politics, and wasonly pining for leisure and freedom from care. Had I ason, he said, I would sooner breed him a cobbler than acourtier, and a hangman than a statesman.^ His health,besides, was not good. Some years before this he had hadan accident while riding, which had inflicted a permanentinjury on his chest, and caused him frequently to be at
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