Chap. I. of CARDING, &c. jj 



yet in the leaft Interval of Eafe, Gardening 

 took up a great part of his Time, in which 

 he was not only a Delighter, but likewife 

 a great Judge 5 as was likewife that excellent 

 Princefs, of whom He and the Nation were 

 too early bereft : This adlive Princefs loft no 

 time, but was either Meafuring, Direfting, 

 or Ordering her Buildings 5 but in Gardening, 

 efpecially Exoticks, (he was particularly 

 skiird, and allowed Dr. Pluknet 200 I. pevDr.vhk- 

 Ann. for his AfTiftance therein. She was^et. 

 fo remarkable in this, that Arch-Bifliop Til- 

 lot/on^ in her Funeral Sermon^ takes particular 

 notice of it in Words to this Purpofe, for I 

 have not lately feen the Sermon it felf : O 

 /jow goody hoxiQ happy a Life was this^ not of 

 vain 2inprofitahle Eafe, but of true Honour and 

 Ufefulnefs to her Country! Hoxv innocent 

 were her Diverjions, fuch as Buildings 

 Gard'ning^ and all other Improvements ! 

 How does her Life upbraid theirs, that are 

 at the end of it^ without doing any Solid 

 or Virtuous ABion! 



But the Queen being dead, this Lofs was 

 followed by another in a few Years, of the 

 Death of the King himfelf. The Gardens at 

 Kenfmgton were part of them made likewife 

 by that Prince 5 but the finilhing of them was 

 left a Work for the pious and immortal IVk- 

 mory of our late Gracious Queen Anne, of 

 which we fhall fee more hereafter, and return 

 to the Nobility and Gentry of Great-Dritain, 

 who were all this while very bufie in Imita- 

 tion 



