The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . painted by Sir JamesThornhill—The Princesss gay Court—The Wits and Beauties—The Ladies-in-Waiting—Madge Bellenden and Molly Lepell—The Princes Guineas scatteredon the Floor—Amusements and Gaiety of the Court—The Bowling-Green andPaviHons—The German Ladies—Mrs. Howards little Supper Parties—TheSwiss Cantons —Pleasant Reminiscences of Hampton Court—Ballads, Epi-grams, and Frizelation —The Princess slighted by Prince and Ministers—Sunderlands Rudeness—The Queens Gallery—The Court leaves HamptonCourt. EORGE I., not long after his arrival in Engl
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . painted by Sir JamesThornhill—The Princesss gay Court—The Wits and Beauties—The Ladies-in-Waiting—Madge Bellenden and Molly Lepell—The Princes Guineas scatteredon the Floor—Amusements and Gaiety of the Court—The Bowling-Green andPaviHons—The German Ladies—Mrs. Howards little Supper Parties—TheSwiss Cantons —Pleasant Reminiscences of Hampton Court—Ballads, Epi-grams, and Frizelation —The Princess slighted by Prince and Ministers—Sunderlands Rudeness—The Queens Gallery—The Court leaves HamptonCourt. EORGE I., not long after his arrival in England,removed from London to Hampton Court,thinking it a commodious place to which hemight retire from his obnoxious subjects, andlive undisturbed with his ill-favoured Germanmistresses. In honour of his arrival, which took place about ninemonths after his accession, the Board of Works engagedthe services of Richard Osgood, the statuary, whom wehave already mentioned as doing work at Hampton Court,^ ^ See ante, p. 1715] George I. arrives at Hampton Court, 203 to model and cast in hard metal, two large sea-horses, andtwo large Tritons, to spout the water in the Great Basonor Fountain in Bushey Park at Hampton Court, ... to playthe water against the Kings coming to Hampton Court—the bills for which were entered and passed for 180, thoughnot paid till nearly seven years after.^ The King, as we are told by the Comte de Broglio,who came over to England as ambassador from France,had no regard for the English people, never received inprivate any English of either sex, and was almost entirelyignorant of the language ; none even of his principal officerswere admitted to his chamber in the morning to dress him,nor in the evening to undress him, as had been the customof the Court till his time.^ Here, accordingly, at a distance from London, and with noroyal duties to discharge, he felt himself thoroughly athome, and His sacred majesty spent many hours
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