212 COLLEGE GARDENS 



yearned to unearth. Three hundred years perhaps have 

 passed since they last saw the light of day. 



The grounds behind the College were laid out partly " in 

 Gardaines [both of the bachelors and of the cooks, 1496], 

 Orchardes, Pastures, and Walkes," and partly with a view to 

 the game of bowls, which formed the popular amusement of 

 the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Upon the green, 

 Cromwell and Fairfax bowled, and Addison wrote Latin verse. 

 The following items, mostly extracted by Mr. Macray from 

 the College Accounts, tell their own story of the interest taken 

 in the improvement of the grounds, especially during the 

 seventeenth century and after : 



* d. 



1466-72. Clausura Gardini Collegii. 

 1513. The hedges round " The Walks" repaired. 

 1531. A tower is mentioned "in virgulto," i.e. in a shrubbery 



or grove. 



1636. Bowling green newly turfed. 

 1647. Wiggins circumfodienti sphaeristerium . . . .0160 



1649. Purgantibus aquarium in arbusto o 14 o 



Purgantibus prafum post inundationem f . . 4 1 9 



Pro sabulo [ad] reparand a ambulacra 060 



,, Aliis in prato lacunantibus ... ... f .400 

 Bartlet, lacunanti in pomario Dni Praesidis . . .080 



1660. Pro 200 aceribus majoribus in arbusto inserendis . .296 

 Pro ulmis serendis ad portas Collegii . . .0186 



1661. lacobo Bobart, hortulano, per billam . . . . 2 17 o 

 Pro arboribus emptis et serendis in ambulacro et arbusto . 312 o 



1664. Pro fascibus spinosis ad arbores recent, in arbusto pro- 



tegend. . . . . , . . . .0100 



1666. Fowler arbores in arbusto et ambulacris plantanti et 



munienti . . ... . . .118 



Taylor, sedile in arbusto coloranti . . .. ..068 



1667. 125 trees were planted in the Grove at a cost of . 3 2 



1668. For 90 trees planted in the Grove and meadow . . I 15 3 



1672. Serentibus 88 arbores in arbusto et prato . . . . 6 10 10 



1673. [Making] ambulacrum medium, de novo . . . . 



1674. Reparantibus fossas et ambulachra, item serentibus et 



munientibus arbores 18 8 5 



1678. Pro ulmis serendis in arbusto et ambulacro aquatico . . 3 10 O 



