loS 



GARDENS OLD AND NEW. 



PART OF MAZE (NEARLY ONE-HALF) 



" little beagle " ; but the querulous old Queen and 

 the wastrel King gave the reins to be held by this elf 

 and pygmy, who had all administration in his hands 

 until he, like his father, dropped for weariness, dying, 

 not in his new palace of Hatfield, but in a mean 

 house at Marlborough, a traveller who could not 

 follow his journey any further. He had founded a 

 second peerage, having revived for himself the noble 



title of Salisbury, 

 the earldom ot 

 William Longs- 

 word and the King- 

 maker. To house 

 the new race of 

 earls which should 

 spring from him 

 he built this hall 

 of Hatfield. Theo- 

 balds was his first 

 seat, a great house 

 built by his father, 

 whose walls have 

 long ago gone 

 down, though 

 shabby Theobalds 

 Road still shows 

 the way to it. But 

 in 1606 the Earl 

 had for his guests 

 at Theobalds King 

 James and King 

 Christian, his 

 Danish brother-in- 

 law, giving them 



such good cheer within door and such fine sport 

 without that James coveted the house and park 

 and wheedled them from a man who, a courtier 

 from the cradle, could refuse nothing to anointed 

 Majesty. Theobalds was to James's mind a seat 

 for a crowned King. He dwelt with loving 

 words upon this place, " so convenient for princely 

 sport and recreation," with its park of red fallow deer, 



A YEW HEDGE. 



