The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ert, where I have frequently had thehonour of your Lordships company, and received from youmany obligations. The elegant solitude of this place, andthe greatest pleasures of it, 1 owe to its being so near thosebeautiful manors wherein you sometimes reside. ^ Steele had taken the Hovel—as he humorously calledit in contrast to the neighbouring Palace—in the summer of ^ Svf\{\!s Journal to Stella. ,pp. i4oand2o8. One of his letters ^ See Montgomerys (H. R.) Me- is addressed To Mrs. Steele, at her moirs of Steele, vol. i., p. 205. house in
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . ert, where I have frequently had thehonour of your Lordships company, and received from youmany obligations. The elegant solitude of this place, andthe greatest pleasures of it, 1 owe to its being so near thosebeautiful manors wherein you sometimes reside. ^ Steele had taken the Hovel—as he humorously calledit in contrast to the neighbouring Palace—in the summer of ^ Svf\{\!s Journal to Stella. ,pp. i4oand2o8. One of his letters ^ See Montgomerys (H. R.) Me- is addressed To Mrs. Steele, at her moirs of Steele, vol. i., p. 205. house in the Wick, near Hampton ^ Stttlt^s Epistolary Correspondence, Court, p. 142. lyio] Swift and Steele at Hampton Cotirt. 183 the year 1708 ; and he was afterwards, on the accession ofGeorge I., appointed Surveyor of the Royal Stables atHampton Court—a post to which some small emolumentwas probably attached—as well as put into the Commissionof the Peace for Middlesex/ There is a print of Steele,with this title after his name, and his age— The Chape). Returning now to Queen Annes visit to Hampton Courtin the autumn of 1710, we may observe that it was probablyduring this sojourn of hers at the Palace, that she gave ordersfor the re-decoration of the Chapel, the elaborate Tudor ceil-ing of which was repainted, the walls embellished with ^ Montgomerys (H. R.) Memoirs of Sir Richard Steele^ vol. ii., p. 66. 184 History of Hampton Court Palace, [1710 carving by Gibbons, the windows deprived of their GothicmulHons, the floor paved with black and white marble, andnew pews made of fine Norway oak in the classic taste. These alterations are, of course, quite out of harmony withthe original style of the Chapel, though they are made toblend with considerable skill; and time and historic associa-tion help to tone the incongruity. Probably it was at the sameperiod, that the old gallery at the west end of the chapel, overthe ante-chapel, was entirely altered, the magnificent Tudord
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