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building was resumed with great vigour. The death of Queen Mary, in December 1694,
when less than five years had been spent on the work, was a great blow to the enterprise,
and accounts for the considerable differences between the executed interiors and the
designs which Wren and Grinling Gibbons had made for their decorations. It will be lound
that the interior drawings in this volume illustrate Hampton Court as Wren intended it
to be, rather than as it was carried out. Later on, King William's interest so far revived
that, between the Peace of Ryswick, September 20, 1697, and his death in 1702, he had
some completion and gardening works put in hand; and, had he lived, it is probable
that the entire Tudor Palace would have disappeared as compietely as is shown on the
plan now illustrated, the Great Hall of Henry VIII alone remaining.
The death of William, March 8, 1702, following on a fall from his horse in the
building was resumed with great vigour. The death of Queen Mary, in December 1694,
when less than five years had been spent on the work, was a great blow to the enterprise,
and accounts for the considerable differences between the executed interiors and the
designs which Wren and Grinling Gibbons had made for their decorations. It will be lound
that the interior drawings in this volume illustrate Hampton Court as Wren intended it
to be, rather than as it was carried out. Later on, King William's interest so far revived
that, between the Peace of Ryswick, September 20, 1697, and his death in 1702, he had
some completion and gardening works put in hand; and, had he lived, it is probable
that the entire Tudor Palace would have disappeared as compietely as is shown on the
plan now illustrated, the Great Hall of Henry VIII alone remaining.
The death of William, March 8, 1702, following on a fall from his horse in the