94 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. Sd. 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 Henr}^ the Eighth's time. 

 Frequent entries in the accounts show that there were royal 

 gardens at Wanstead (where Robert Pury was gardener, 1532), f 

 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 Bruye'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. 



