The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . partments assessed—Appeal to the Court of QueensBench—Conditions and Obligations of Tenure of Apartments—Periodical Sur-veys and Inspections, and Orders to repair—Are they occupied by the Sove-reign ?—The Inhabitants held liable to Assessment—Arrangement for the Pay-ment of the Rates—Immunity from Arrest within the Palace—Colonel Rose andthe Bailiffs. ITH the accession of her present most graciousMajesty Queen Victoria to the throne, thereopened a new, and, up to the present time, thefinal era in the history of Hampton Court; forone of the f
The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times . partments assessed—Appeal to the Court of QueensBench—Conditions and Obligations of Tenure of Apartments—Periodical Sur-veys and Inspections, and Orders to repair—Are they occupied by the Sove-reign ?—The Inhabitants held liable to Assessment—Arrangement for the Pay-ment of the Rates—Immunity from Arrest within the Palace—Colonel Rose andthe Bailiffs. ITH the accession of her present most graciousMajesty Queen Victoria to the throne, thereopened a new, and, up to the present time, thefinal era in the history of Hampton Court; forone of the first acts of her reign was to orderthat the Palace should be thrown open to all her subjectswithout restriction, and without fee or gratuity of any kind. The carrying out of this act of queenly beneficence wasfacilitated by the death, in April, 1838, of Lady EmilyMontague, the Lady Housekeeper; when, that office beingabolished, it was no longer necessary to exact fees fromvisitors to the Palace, in order to augment the ladys 1838] The Palace opened free to the Public, 351 Accordingly, an order was issued, on August 15th, 1838,that the State Apartments should be closed, until arrange-ments could be made for the new dispensation ; and after thelapse of a few months, they were re-opened, in November,1838 ; since which date they have never been closed to thepublic,—except, of course, in times of national mourning,—and every facility has been afforded, ever since, for seeingand enjoying Hampton Court, and its treasures. So great a change, we can well understand, was notcarried out without the gloomiest forebodings on the partof many, as to the disastrous results, which they allegedwould infallibly ensue. Indeed, there were not wantingthose, who declared that if the general public were admittedwithout some restriction, neither the Palace nor its contentswould any longer be safe. Visions of an insulting rabble,such as that which invaded the Tuileries in th
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