2 4 o EVERSLEY GARDENS 



Broadwater in the valley. Bramshill was 

 begun by James I. in the year of his accession 

 (1603), as a hunting lodge for Prince Henry, 

 upon the site of an ancient manor house. And 

 on the death of that promising young prince 

 in 1616, the King sold it to Lord Zouch, who 

 finished the building some three years later. 

 From the Zouches it passed to the Henleys. 

 And in 1695 it became the property of the 

 Copes, its present owners. But while Lord 

 Zouch's statue stands high in the centre of 

 the beautiful east or garden front, above the 

 long gallery, James I. has left his mark upon 

 Bramshill in more ways than one. For in the 

 finely pierced carved stone parapet that runs 

 round the roof, the three plumes of the Prince 

 of Wales' feathers form the central ornament 

 of the splendid west front, over the hanging 

 oriel window of the chapel-room above the 

 main entrance. And the matchless Scotch 

 Firs of the park, together with the isolated 

 clumps at Elvetham, and on Hartford-bridge 

 Flats, were planted by the King, as in all other 

 places he inhabited or visited, in memory of 

 his northern kingdom those at Eversley 



