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Paper Buildings in 16 10, the Great Garden was cut in 

 two, and the eastern portion went to form the broad 

 stretch with its trees known as King's Bench Walk. 

 Elm trees were planted, and the walks and seats under 

 them repaired from time to time, and kept in good 

 order. The part to the west was carefully tended, and 

 became from that year the chief garden. In James I.'s 

 reign, that age of gardening, when every house of any 

 pretensions was having its garden enlarged, and Bacon 

 was laying out the grounds of Gray's Inn, the Temple 

 was not behind-hand. The accounts show constant 

 repairs and additions and buying of trees. The items 

 for painting posts and rails are very frequent. Pro- 

 bably they do not always refer to outer palings, but it 

 may be that the Tudor fashion of railing round the 

 beds, with a low trellis and posts at the angles, still 

 prevailed. One of the largest items of the expenses 

 was for making "the pound" in 161 8. This, it is 

 said, was a pond, but no record of digging it out, or 

 filling it with water occurs, while all the payments 

 in connection with it went to painters or carpenters, 

 and therefore it was more probably a kind of garden- 

 house, much in favour at that time, made by the wall, 

 to command a view over the river. The chief items 

 with regard to it are : — 



" 161 8. To John Fielde, the carpenter, for making 

 ' the pound ' in the garden, £19.'^ 



" To Bowden, the painter, for stopping and ' refresh- 

 ing ' the rails in the ' wakes ' (walks), the posts, seats 

 and balusters belonging to the same, and for stopping 

 and finishing the ' pound' by the waterside, £g, los." 



Again in 1639 the entry certainly implies some kind 

 of summer-house and not " a pond " : " Edward Simmes, 



