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ENGLISH PLEASURE GARDENS 



Disuse of 

 defensive 

 accessories 

 in domestic 

 architec- 

 ture. 



and by other privy ways. Besides the same privy 

 garden is a large and goodly orchard full of young 

 graffes well-laden with fruit, many roses, and other 

 pleasures. And in the same garden are many goodly 

 alleys to walk in openly. And round about the same 

 orcharde is conveyed on a good height other goodly 

 alleys with roosting-places covered thoroughly with 

 white thorne and hasel. And without the same on 

 the utter part, the said orchard is enclosed with 

 sawin pale, and without that ditches and quickset 

 hedges. . . . From out of the said orchard are divers 

 posterns in sundry places at pleasure to go and enter 

 into a goodly park newly made." 



Gradually battlements, moats, and other defensive 

 accessories entirely ceased to 

 be built in connection with 

 the house, and were retained 

 only to secure the gardens 

 from intruders and for the 

 preservation of the trees and 

 plants from severe winds and 

 the depredations of marauders. 

 For, since the garden was no 

 longer under the protection 

 of the castle wall, it needed 

 special defences. Many of the moats have since been 

 condemned as unhealthy, and destroyed from time to 



