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The foreign ambassadors were occasionally 

 invited to the palace to visit the prince, before 

 Henry returned there himself."' Princess Mary, 

 then living at Richmond, also came over sometimes 

 to see her brother, by barge or on horseback.'" 

 Although Edward was sometimes at Hampton 

 Court after his father's marriage to Katherine 

 Howard, 3 " and later when he and his sisters were 

 there with Katherine Parr, 3!< he and Princess 

 Elizabeth were brought up together chiefly at 

 ' Havering-atte-Bower,' Romford, Essex, and after- 

 wards at Hunsdon in Hertfordshire. Very few of 

 his letters which are still extant are dated from 

 Hampton Court before his accession. 3 " 



His first return to the palace as king was 

 in June I547. 3ilc Edward was, of course, still 

 entirely under tutelage. He himself gives an 

 account of his walking with the Lord Admiral 

 (Seymour of Sudeley) in ' the gallery ' at Hampton 

 Court ; the Lord Admiral tried to urge the young 

 king to assert himself ' that within three or four 

 years he should be ruler of his own things,' 3 " 

 he also said that his uncle had told him he was 

 ' too bashfull in myne owne matters.' 3 * 8 Mean- 

 while Somerset's splendour and arrogance in- 

 creased. The people became discontented and 

 the Council alarmed. In September 1549 the 

 Lord Protector and his party 3 * 9 were with the 

 king at Hampton Court, while the Council met 

 secretly in London, hoping to arrange measures 

 to bring Somerset to reason. 330 He heard of their 

 meetings, and becoming suspicious of their in- 

 tentions, caused all the armour to be brought 

 down from the armoury in the palace, to arm his 

 own men and the king's servants. 331 He also drew 

 up a proclamation, which Edward signed, and it 

 was issued in all directions on 5 October, com- 

 manding the king's ' loving subjects with all haste 

 to repair to His Highness at His Majesty's manor 

 of Hampton Court, in most defensible array, with 

 harness and weapons to defend his most royal 

 person and his entirely beloved uncle the Lord 

 Protector, against whom certain have attempted a 

 most dangerous conspiracy.' S3> Edward in his 



HAMPTON 



journal says simply, 'Peple came abundantly to 

 the house,' and also mentions that the ' gates of 

 the house were impared,' but it is said that the 

 moat was filled, the gates fortified, and every pre- 

 paration made for withstanding a siege. 333 The 

 people came in numbers, probably chiefly from 

 curiosity, for Somerset was not popular. They 

 were gathered in the ' outer green court ' now 

 called the ' barrack yard ' and the Lord Protector 

 brought the king out to the first or Base Court, 

 where their armed force was probably drawn up, 

 and then took him to the gate where the people 

 could see him. 334 After making him say ' I pray 

 you be good to us and our uncle,' Somerset 

 harangued the people himself, assuring them that 

 he and the king would stand or fall together. 

 Apparently he was not satisfied with their re- 

 ception of his speech, as at nine or ten o'clock 

 that night he hurried Edward off" to Windsor 

 ' with al the peple.' 33i 



The council had assembled, meaning to ' re- 

 payre to Hampton Courte accompanyed with their 

 ordynary number of servantes to have had friendly 

 communicacion with the Lord Protector about the 

 reformacion of the State,' but ' as they were booted 

 and redy to have mounted upon their horses ' they 

 received the information that he had ' suddenly 

 raysed a power of the communes to thintent if 

 their Lordschippes had come to the Courte to 

 have destroyed them.' **' The council wisely 

 ' determyned to stay at London,' met at Ely 

 Place and sent forth letters requiring the nobles 

 and gentlemen of the realm not to obey the 

 Protector's commands. 337 Their action must have 

 been successful, 338 for in five days' time Somerset 

 was forced to submit without striking a blow, and 

 was sent to the Tower. Edward, who did not 

 like Windsor, was brought back to Hampton 

 Court, or ' 'Ampton Court,' as he always wrote 

 it. 339 After three months' imprisonment Somerset 

 was pardoned. He was at Hampton Court with 

 the king in July 1551, when the 'sweating 

 sickness' had driven the royal household from 

 London. 340 Marechal St. Andre,"' the envoy of 



L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiii, 323, 

 588, 402 ; xiv, 126, &c. 



8M Some of the times recorded were 

 in Nov. 1537, and in Mar. Apr. and 

 May 1538 ; Nicolas, Privy Punt Ex- 

 penses of Princess Mary, 61, 64, 69. 



* See p. 338. See p. 340, 



884 Lit. Remains of Ed-w. VI, i, 

 1-98 ; Clements Markham, op. cit. 

 4 ; Copies of seven original Utters from 

 Ed-w. VI (ed. Horace Walpole, 1772). 



826 There is a curious item for 321. 

 among the king's expenses, ' for grene 

 bowes for the Kinges Maiestics pryvie 

 chamber and galleries at Hampton 

 Courte.' They may have served as 

 blinds in the windows. Lit. Remains 

 of Ed-w. VI, i, p. xcvi. 



8a ' Seymour of Sudeley had his own 

 reasons for disliking his brother's supre- 

 macy ; Burghley Papers (ed. Haynes), 

 87 ; Lit. Remains of Edw. VI, i, 58 ; 

 Tytler, Engl. under Ed-u>. VI and Mary, 

 i, l II. 



888 Lit. Remains of Ed-w. VI, i, 59. 

 ' Deposition of Edward.' 



859 Holinshed, Chron. iii, 1014. The 

 party included Cranmer, Paget, Cecil, 

 Petre, Sir Thomas Smith, and Sir John 

 Thynne ; Diet. Nat. Biog. ' Edward 

 Seymour, Duke of Somerset.' 



830 Lit. Remains of Ed-w. VI, ii, 233, 

 ' Journal ' ; Froude, Hist. Engl. v, 230 ; 

 Acts ofP.C. 1547-5, P- 33- 



881 Lit. Remains of Ed-w. VI, ii, 235, 

 1 Journal.' Edward says there were 

 '500 harnesses.' 



" Ibid.;S.P.Dom.Edw.VI,ix, 1-9. 

 Acts of P.C. 1547-50, p. 330 et seq. 

 ' Council Register.' 



838 Burner, Hist, of Reform, ii (2), 12 ; 

 cit. Law, Hist. Hampton Court Palace, i, 

 850. 



M Lit. Rem. of Ed-w. VI, ii, 235, 

 ' Journal * ; also i, p. cxxx. Wriothei- 

 ley, Chron. ii, 25 ; Tytler, Engl. under 

 Ed-w. VI and Mary, i, 249 ; S.P. Dom. 

 Edw. VI, ix, 33. 'Letter of the 

 Council to the King's Sisters.' 



885 Ibid. ; Lit. Rem. of Ed-w. VI, ii, 

 235, 'Journal'; Wriothesley, Chron. 

 ii, 85. 



341 



836 Acts of P.C. 1547-50, p. 330, 

 ' Council Register.' 



W Ibid. 



838 Ibid. 337, 'Council Register.' 



889 Lit. Rem. of Ed-w. VI, i, p. cxxxi j 

 ii, 241, 'Journal* j S.P. Dom. Edw. 

 VI, ix, 42 ; Acts of P.C. 1547-5, P 

 344. Edward is reported to have said 

 of Windsor, ' Methinks I am in prison, 

 here be no galleries or gardens to walk 

 in.' Lit. Rem. of Ed-w. VI, \, p. cxxxi. 

 In May 1550 the French ambassador 

 came to Hampton Court to a 'great 

 banket and pastime on the water of 

 Thames and Maskinge after* ; the first 

 mention of any entertainment on ' the 

 water of Thames.' Wriothesley, Cbron. 

 ii, 40. 



840 Lit. Rem. of Ed-w. VI, ii, 330, 

 'Journal.' 



841 Jacques d'Albon, Marquis de 

 Fronsac, Seigneur de St. Andre, a 

 Knight of the Order of St. Michael, 

 Marechal of France in 1547 ; ibid, ii, 

 231, n. 2. 



