76 -The History Chap, i, 



and may be brought, amongft other Things, 

 to help to eternize the Memory of thofe 

 Great Princes. 



The Foundation of great Defigns being laid 

 at Hampten-Coiirt ( as is before obferv'd ) by 

 their Royal Uncle King Charles II. it was 

 thought to be one great Inducement to thofe 

 Princes to take up their chief Refidence 

 there, and Gardening foon felt the happy Ef- 

 fed of it. The Great Garden, that Garden 

 next the River, calFd now the Privy Garden^ 

 and Wilder nefs, and Kitchen- Gardens, were 

 made with great Difpatch 5 the only Fault 

 was, the Pleafure-Gardens being fluffed too 

 thick with Box, a Fafliion brought over out 

 of Holland by the Dutch Gardeners, who 

 us'd it to a fault, efpecially in England^ 

 where we abound in fo good Grafs and Gra- 

 vel : But upon all other Accounts the Gar- 

 dens were noble, and Their Majefties Defigns 

 yet nobler. Upon the Death of that Illuftri- 

 ous Princefs, Gard ning and all other Plea- 

 fures were under an eclipfe with that Prince 3 

 and the beloved Hampton-Conrt lay for fome 

 time unregarded : But that Sorrow being diC- 

 pelled. His Majefty reaffumed his farther pur- 

 suit of Gard'ning, in altering and making a 

 coniiderable Improvement to the Gardens, 

 and making that great Terrafs next the 

 Thames^ the nobleit Work of that kind 

 in Europe. This was done in the Reign 

 ( too fhort ) of a Prince always at War 

 in Defence of the Liberties of Europe 



yet 



