CHAPTER IV 



TUDOR GARDENS 



Century the Peaceand 



flARLY in the sixteenth 



Middle Ages were over. The Tudor 

 accession brought the Wars of the Roses 

 to an end and inaugurated a new epoch. 

 Then assurance of internal peace, accom- 

 panied by great changes in social and political life, fur- 

 nished a basis for the renaissance of art. When law and 

 order were firmly established, people no longer by 

 herding together within the fortified precincts of castle 

 or monastery sought safety in numbers. Instead of 

 being obliged to live protected by the lord of the 

 manor, or attached to various religious communities, 

 each family now existed as a distinct unit of society and 

 required a separate home. Moderate-sized mansions 

 of brick or stone were therefore constructed, more or 

 less elaborately according to the wealth and social 

 position of their owners, as dwellings for the previous 



progress. 



