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MONASTIC GARDENING.
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cloisters; the other the orchard and vineyard which were
situated beyond the walls. The first plan records also trees
within the wall near the fish-pond. In later times a further
wall was built beyond the fish-pond, including what was after-
wards known as the old convent garden, the site of which was
obtained in parcels between the years 1287 and 1368. There
must have been another orchard on the west of the great cloister
and a garden into which the palace of the Archbishop looked,
but these were beyond the limits of the plans, although con-
temporary with them, as they are associated with the closing
PART OF THE PLAN OF THE MONASTERY, CANTERBURY, SHOWING THE ORCHARD
AND VINEYARD FROM MS. CIRCA II65.
scenes in the life of Thomas Becket (1170). The knights who
were soon after his murderers “ Threw off their cloaks and
gowns under a large sycamore in the garden, appeared in their
armour and girt on their swords,” and armed men were collected
in the orchard so that Becket and his attendant monks flying
to the church had to pass through a small door at the back of
the cloister, instead of going by the usual passage through the
orchard to the west end of the church.*
Few records of such an early date have come down to us, but
monastic life did not quickly change, and probably the gardens
* Hist. Memorials of Canterbury. Dean Stanley.
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cloisters; the other the orchard and vineyard which were
situated beyond the walls. The first plan records also trees
within the wall near the fish-pond. In later times a further
wall was built beyond the fish-pond, including what was after-
wards known as the old convent garden, the site of which was
obtained in parcels between the years 1287 and 1368. There
must have been another orchard on the west of the great cloister
and a garden into which the palace of the Archbishop looked,
but these were beyond the limits of the plans, although con-
temporary with them, as they are associated with the closing
PART OF THE PLAN OF THE MONASTERY, CANTERBURY, SHOWING THE ORCHARD
AND VINEYARD FROM MS. CIRCA II65.
scenes in the life of Thomas Becket (1170). The knights who
were soon after his murderers “ Threw off their cloaks and
gowns under a large sycamore in the garden, appeared in their
armour and girt on their swords,” and armed men were collected
in the orchard so that Becket and his attendant monks flying
to the church had to pass through a small door at the back of
the cloister, instead of going by the usual passage through the
orchard to the west end of the church.*
Few records of such an early date have come down to us, but
monastic life did not quickly change, and probably the gardens
* Hist. Memorials of Canterbury. Dean Stanley.