The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . divers figures and other ornaments,carved by Edward Pearce, the price of which was includedin a sum of ^200 paid him for this and other work.^ Similarurns, vases, and statues were placed about the gardens informal opposition to each other at measured points, on pedes-tals, on terrace walls, and on flights of steps. In decorations of this sort, and in designing and planningextensive schemes of gardening, rather than in the minutiaeof botany and flower-beds, lay William what with levelling of ground and raising of terrac
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . divers figures and other ornaments,carved by Edward Pearce, the price of which was includedin a sum of ^200 paid him for this and other work.^ Similarurns, vases, and statues were placed about the gardens informal opposition to each other at measured points, on pedes-tals, on terrace walls, and on flights of steps. In decorations of this sort, and in designing and planningextensive schemes of gardening, rather than in the minutiaeof botany and flower-beds, lay William what with levelling of ground and raising of terraces,cutting of drains and making of fountains, building of wallsand erecting of iron gates, he had almost as much on hand,at this period, in the gardens, as in the new buildings. One of the ornamental works, which we owe to him, de-serves special notice. We refer to the splendid gates orscreens of exquisitely wrought iron, which were made to ^ Beauties of England., ed. 1816, ^ ^t^ Audit Office Declared Accounts.,vol. X., part v., p. 481. ubi Screens of Wrought Iron, which formerly enclosed the Gardens of Han^
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