264 A BOOK OF ENGLISH GARDENS 



by this means both houses were delivered up into 

 the King's hands." 



Thus the Church lost by gift one of her most 

 beautiful palaces, but perhaps it is only fair to the 

 imperious Henry to state that some writers say he 

 paid handsomely for his new house. 



Edward VI. gave Knole to the unscrupulous 

 Duke of Northumberland, who sold part of the 

 manor, reserving " the house of Knole, its 

 Orchards and Gardens " this being the first men- 

 tion of any Gardens attached to Knole. " Filled 

 with the fumes of ambition," the Duke attempted, 

 at Edward's death, to put his daughter-in-law, the 

 Lady Jane Grey, upon the throne ; his dreams, 

 however, were short-lived, and he was attainted 

 of high treason and executed. 



Knole, after this event, passed again into the 

 sovereign's possession, and Queen Mary, being a 

 true daughter of Rome, gave back to the Church 

 the gift of Cranmer, and it became the Palace of 

 Reginald Pole, Cardinal-Archbishop of Canterbury 

 (a man of whom history has given such widely 

 diverse accounts) ; he is said to have been much 

 attached to Knole, and died there, strangely 

 enough, on the same day as his unhappy Queen. 



The reformed religion, proving, in the eyes of 

 Elizabeth, the better policy for the good of her 

 people, Knole became her property and severed for 

 ever its connection with the Church, which had 



