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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
in these accounts, and it seems to have been one of the favourite
summer resorts of Henry, and his daughter. The payments were
chiefly made to the head-gardener, named Walsh, for labourers’
wages for “ weding and delving,” and “ ordering in the garden.”
The gardens had probably been laid out when the palace was
built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, early in the reign of
Henry VI., when it went by the name of “ Placentia,” or
“ Plaisance.” The head-gardener there in 1519 was Lovell, and
he received 60s. 8d. yearly. A little later we find him transferred
to the Richmond garden, and his salary raised to £3 a quarter.
He supplied the King’s table “with damsons, grapes, filberts,
peaches, apples, and other fruits, and flowers, roses, and other
sweet waters.”
There seem to have been two gardens at Beaulieu, or
Newhall, the “ smalle gardin,” and “the grete.” The small
appears to have been the kitchen-garden, and furnished the
“king’s table” with “ herbes and rootes, and strawberries,
artichokes, lettuces, cucumbers, and sallet herbes.” The keeper
of the great garden in 1532 was one John Rede.*
The gardens within the walls of the Tower of London and
at Baynarde’s Castle, were kept up in Henry the Eighth’s time.
Frequent entries in the accounts show that there were royal
gardens at Wanstead (where Robert Pury was gardener, 1532),!
Westminster, Waltham, Woodstock, and Oatlands, but they
were probably not on so grand a scale as the more favourite
resorts of the King. Windsor received less attention than the
other royal gardens during this reign. The gardens at Windsor
have now so completely changed, that even the site of the old
garden cannot be identified with certainty. There is an account
by an eye-witness of Louis de Braye’s reception, in 1472, by
Edward IV. at Windsor. They go out hunting, and return
late in the evening. “ Bey that tyme yt was nere night yett the
king showed hym his garden & vineyard of pleasure & so
turned into the Castel agayne.” This garden and vineyard
probably remained unaltered in Henry the Eighth’s reign, as we
* State Papers, Henry VIII. R. O.
f Ibid.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
in these accounts, and it seems to have been one of the favourite
summer resorts of Henry, and his daughter. The payments were
chiefly made to the head-gardener, named Walsh, for labourers’
wages for “ weding and delving,” and “ ordering in the garden.”
The gardens had probably been laid out when the palace was
built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, early in the reign of
Henry VI., when it went by the name of “ Placentia,” or
“ Plaisance.” The head-gardener there in 1519 was Lovell, and
he received 60s. 8d. yearly. A little later we find him transferred
to the Richmond garden, and his salary raised to £3 a quarter.
He supplied the King’s table “with damsons, grapes, filberts,
peaches, apples, and other fruits, and flowers, roses, and other
sweet waters.”
There seem to have been two gardens at Beaulieu, or
Newhall, the “ smalle gardin,” and “the grete.” The small
appears to have been the kitchen-garden, and furnished the
“king’s table” with “ herbes and rootes, and strawberries,
artichokes, lettuces, cucumbers, and sallet herbes.” The keeper
of the great garden in 1532 was one John Rede.*
The gardens within the walls of the Tower of London and
at Baynarde’s Castle, were kept up in Henry the Eighth’s time.
Frequent entries in the accounts show that there were royal
gardens at Wanstead (where Robert Pury was gardener, 1532),!
Westminster, Waltham, Woodstock, and Oatlands, but they
were probably not on so grand a scale as the more favourite
resorts of the King. Windsor received less attention than the
other royal gardens during this reign. The gardens at Windsor
have now so completely changed, that even the site of the old
garden cannot be identified with certainty. There is an account
by an eye-witness of Louis de Braye’s reception, in 1472, by
Edward IV. at Windsor. They go out hunting, and return
late in the evening. “ Bey that tyme yt was nere night yett the
king showed hym his garden & vineyard of pleasure & so
turned into the Castel agayne.” This garden and vineyard
probably remained unaltered in Henry the Eighth’s reign, as we
* State Papers, Henry VIII. R. O.
f Ibid.