TUDOR GARDENS 



in 



side toward your meadow), made for your own going 

 in and out alone, shall be set out and garnished with 

 two chevrons set 

 upon one main tim- 

 ber and no more, 

 and four or five bat- 

 tlements above and 

 shut with a strong 

 door for that way 

 you shall go into 

 your house privily, 

 and in like sort go fffl^ 



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forth again when it 

 seemeth good unto you." Many of these posterns, 

 often battlemented, continued to be built during the 



Renaissance. There are 

 examples at Tissington, 

 Swanopston Hall, etc. 

 Now we come to 

 garden 



wrote, " It is a commodious 

 thing to a mansion to have 

 an orchard of sundry fruits, 

 but it is more commodious to have a fayre garden 

 with herbes of aromatyke and redolit savoures." The 

 earliest plan giving a good idea of its chief charac- 

 teristics is reproduced here from an illustration in 



the The main 

 outlines. 



itself. As Borde 



