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set at intervals along the railed beds, and about the mount and 

 all round the ponds, and the entries concerning them in the 

 accounts are very frequent.* 



"Also paid to Bryse Auguston, of Westminster, clockmaker, for making of 

 20 brazen dials for the king's new garden at 43. 4d. the piece, 4. 6s. 8d. For 

 making of bestes in timber for the king's new garden paid to Edmund More, 

 of Kyngston, freemason, for cutting, making and carving of 159 of the king's 

 and the queen's beestes standing in the king's new garden at 2os. the piece . . . 



(1530) " Item dieu to Anthony Transylyon, of Westminster, clockmaker, for 

 seven dials of him bought which are bestowed in the privy orchard, at 45. 4d. the 

 piece, 305. 4d. Joiners setting up the bestes upon the posts in the privy orchard, 

 Henry Currer, at 8d. by day, 43. ; John Carpenter, at 6d. by day, 33. Payments 

 for painting the king's festes (= bestes} in the privy orchard . . . some holding 

 ' fanes' (= vanes) with the king's arms." 



(1534) " For gilding and painting of the beasts in the king's new garden 

 To Henry Blankston, of London (various sums for) n harts, 13 lions, 16 grey- 

 hounds, 10 hinds, 17 dragons, 9 bulls, 13 antelopes, 15 griffins, 19 leberdes 

 (= leopards), n yallys (2 jails occur elsewhere), 9 rams, and the lion on top of 

 the mount, also for the vanes." 



(1535) "Item in the said harbers (=south and west arbours) is set, 25 

 badges of the king's and queen's, price the piece 35. 3. 153. Item in the 

 same harbers is set, 8 arms of the king's and queen's, price the piece 43. 323. 

 Paid to Harry Corrant, of Kingston, carver, for making and entayling 38 of 

 the kinge's and queene's beastes in freestone, bearing shields with the kinge's 

 arms, and the queene's, that is to say four dragons, six tigers, 5 greyhounds, 

 5 harts, 4 badgers, serving to stand about the ponds in the pond yard, at 26 

 shillings the pece. 49. 8s." 



The fountain in the "pond garden" at the present day, is pro- 

 bably a survival of the "pond yard/' in which so many beasts 

 were placed. In Henry the Eighth's time they were supplied 

 with water in rather a curious way, as there are entries in the 

 accounts of charges for " labourers ladyng of water out of ye 

 Temmes to fyll the pondes in the night tymes." 



There were several other royal gardens, and items with 

 reference to things bought for them, or gardeners' wages, 

 occur in the Privy Purse expenses of Henry VIII. for 1530-32, 

 and Princess Mary, 1536-37. Greenwich is frequently mentioned 



* 25 Henry VIII. (1533). Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipts, Mis- 

 cellaneous Books, No. 238. 



