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buildings, the block forming the east side of the 

 Chapel Court shows detail belonging to the early 

 years of the lyth century, and may preserve this 

 evidence of Jones's supervision. Charles I, in the 

 earlier years of his reign, was much occupied in 

 furnishing and adorning the palace and gardens, 

 but does not seem to have built anything of im- 

 portance. 



The extent of the buildings at the end of his 

 reign is very clearly set forth in the survey taken by 

 order of the Parliament in 1653, when it was pro- 

 posed to sell the palace and its grounds in a 

 number of separate lots, and to pull down all the 

 buildings. 



Beginning from the west, 

 a green court inclosed, being 

 the outer court, is first noted, 

 from which a bridge led 

 over the moat into the first 

 court, also called a green 

 court, that is, the present 

 Base or outer Court. The 

 ranges of buildings surround- 

 ing it are then noted, and a 

 description of the Pond Gar- 

 den, or Pond Yard, on the 

 south follows. The Clock 

 Court then the Fountain 

 Court is next described, as 

 ' paved with stone with a 

 ffountayne standing in midst 

 thereof,' with the buildings 

 round it, the great hall being 

 merely called a range of 

 building like the rest. Then 

 comes the Cloister Green 

 Court, on the site of the 

 present Fountain Court, with 

 the Privy Garden and the 

 Mount Garden to the south. 

 The chapel, with its court 

 and surrounding buildings, is 

 summarized as ' severall other 

 buildings, with the severall 

 yards or courts lying be- 

 tweene and amongst the sayd 

 buildings.' The outlying 

 buildings are then noticed, 

 beginning at the north, 

 though here again the tennis 

 court &c. are not mentioned 

 by name ; then comes the 

 Tilt-yard at the north-west, 



with its five buildings or towers, and then the 

 projecting block at the south end of the west 

 front, with a ' greate howse of easement,' now 

 destroyed, standing over the moat. Finally the 

 buildings on the south, towards the river, are sur- 

 veyed, the Feather House and Hott House, with 

 the Store Cellars, formerly the old Bowling Alley, 

 between them, and the Stillhouse and Water Gal- 

 lery to the east of them. On the south side of 

 the Outer Green Court was the wood-yard, having 

 to the west the Privy bakehouse, the Poultry 



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Office, and the Scalding-house, and at the south- 

 west angle of the same court a house called the 

 ' Toye.' ' 



Hampton Court fortunately escaped the threat- 

 ened destruction and became the residence of 

 Cromwell and the scene of his sorry court, passing 

 through the days of the Commonwealth witl 

 much loss of its furniture and treasures, both b) 

 the great sale which lasted from 1650 to 1653, 

 and by the peculations of Cromwell's family after 

 his death, but not suffering any material damage 

 in its buildings. 



Charie; II made a good many internal altera- 



HAMPTON COURT PALACE : CHAPEL COURT FROM SOUTH-WEST CORNER 



tions, of which some evidence yet remains, and 

 spent a great deal of money in refurnishing the 

 depleted rooms. He paid special attention to the 

 tennis court, which had evidently become some- 

 what old-fashioned, and the extent of his work at 

 the palace may be estimated from the fact that in 

 1662 nearly .8,000 was paid over to Hugh May, 

 master of the works, for charges and repairs. 



In spite of all these changes, the buildings of 

 Hampton Court remained to the outward view 

 much as Henry VIII left them until the Revolution 



1 Pulled down in 1857. The bakehouie, poultry office, and icalding-houie (arrived for a few years longer. 



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