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small measure to its designer's magnificent powers 

 as an architect, and to the durability of the material 

 used in those days, being in this case small red 

 bricks without stone copings. 



To Bishop Morton the arranging of the marriage 

 between Henry VII. and Elizabeth of York is due, 

 and through it the uniting of the two factions of the 

 Red and White Rose, thus giving England at last 

 the long-desired peace. The Bishop is without 

 doubt one of the most interesting of the many 

 people connected with this beautiful old place, and 

 Hatfield will be for ever associated with his name. 

 He died in 1500 at the great age of ninety. No 

 actual proof exists that Bishop Morton added to the 

 Gardens at Hatfield, as he did to the Palace, but it is 

 more than likely that the Garden was a glory of 

 flowers of the rarest kind, as in everything he was in 

 advance of his time. For with the House of Tudor 

 came the first real birth of Gardens as modern people 

 understand them, and in Henry VIII.'s reign they 

 took a very definite shape and design, and were in 

 some cases of a most elaborate nature. His reign 

 might indeed almost be said to have formed the 

 style of the English Garden until the ruthless 

 so-called reformation of the Landscape school, 

 which, like all reformations, went too far and fell 

 in the end into exactly the same faults that it 

 started to uproot. 



Thirty-eight years after the death of the Cardinal, 



