The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . er Sunday Afternoon—Restorations tothe Exterior and Interior of the Palace—Mr. Edward Jesse, Surveyor of theRoyal Parks and Gardens—His happy Knack in framing Rules and Regula-tions—Reverence for the Old—A felicitous Phrase—Occasional Turbulence ofthe Sightseers—Practical Joke by Theodore Hook—Hoaxing a Party ofCockneys—Various Celebrities at Hampton Court—Lady Wellesley givenApartments—Professor Faraday given a Crown House on the Green—Bazaarin the Great Hall—Removal of Raphaels Cartoons and Tijous Iron Screens—A Fenian Scare. FTER the thro
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . er Sunday Afternoon—Restorations tothe Exterior and Interior of the Palace—Mr. Edward Jesse, Surveyor of theRoyal Parks and Gardens—His happy Knack in framing Rules and Regula-tions—Reverence for the Old—A felicitous Phrase—Occasional Turbulence ofthe Sightseers—Practical Joke by Theodore Hook—Hoaxing a Party ofCockneys—Various Celebrities at Hampton Court—Lady Wellesley givenApartments—Professor Faraday given a Crown House on the Green—Bazaarin the Great Hall—Removal of Raphaels Cartoons and Tijous Iron Screens—A Fenian Scare. FTER the throwing open of Hampton Court tothe pubHc, it came almost at once into thegreatest popular favour as a holiday resort; andthe visitors, who hitherto had been numberedby scores or hundreds, rose immediately to tens,nay to hundreds, of thousands; and they continued to in-crease, during the first four years after the free opening ofthe Palace, from 115,971 in 1839 to 122,339 in 1840; andfrom 147,740 in 1841 to 179,743 in 362 History of Hampton Court Palace. [1842 After attaining that figure, the numbers fluctuated forsome eight years between a maximum of 180,000 and aminimum of 150,000—a period, by the bye, before theopening of the branch of the South Western Railway toHampton Court in 1849, which, strange to say, however—although, of course, the train thereafter brought the bulkof the excursionists—had but little effect in increasing theirnumber, perhaps because of the many new places of amuse-ment and attraction started in the neighbourhood of Londonabout that time. The average, in fact, for the two decades between 1850 and1870 was about 220,000; except in the Exhibition years, whichshowed an abnormal increase, 350,848 persons having beenreckoned as passing through the State Rooms in 1851, and369,162 in 1862. During the last twenty years the average number ofvisitors has been about the same, the lowest total being165,000 in 1884, and the hig
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