A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



ness House,' on the north side of the Wilderness, 

 was occupied by Brown. 78 



The Banqueting House, now private apart- 

 ments, stands on the south-west of the palace 

 facing the river. The walls and ceilings are 

 painted, probably by Verrio. 



Wolsey inclosed with a wall about 

 PARKS t,ooo acres as a park for his house. 79 

 Henry VIII had a large rabbit or 

 hare warren in the park, where he also reared 

 pheasants and partridges. 80 This domain was 

 then as now divided into two parts by the Kings- 

 ton road. These divisions are at present known 

 simply as Bushey Park and the Home Park, Bushey 

 lying to the north and the Home Park to the 

 south-east of the palace. Henry had further in- 

 closures made, taking in part of the heath near 

 Hampton, and divided the north park into three 



Bushey Park was sold to Edward Blackwell, and 

 the Middle Park, 'called Jockey's Park,' to 

 Colonel Richard Norton, 8 * but they were repur- 

 chased with the palace for Cromwell in 165 3-4. M 

 In the inventory of Cromwell's goods made in 

 1659 it is mentioned that there were about 700 

 deer in the Home Park, in Bushey Park 1,700, 

 and about thirty red deer. 81 In the paddocks and 

 stables on both sides of the Kingston road the 

 royal stud was kept for many years. It was started 

 by William III, who was fond of racing, and 

 continued by Queen Anne, who ran horses in her 

 own name. 84 The stud was maintained by the 

 first three Georges," but George IV was the real 

 founder of the afterwards famous Hampton Court 

 Stud. 87 In 1 8 1 2 he established a stud for riding 

 horses of good strain, intending that they should 

 all be grey ; but in 1820, when he came to the 



HAMPTON COURT PALACE : THE LION GATES 



parts, i.e. the Haro Warren to the east, the Upper 

 (or Bushey) Park to the extreme west, and the 

 Middle P;uk in the centre. The Home Park 

 contained only the ' Course ' near the Kingston 

 road and the Home Park itself, with the river on 

 the south. 81 At the time of the Commonwealth 

 some of the parks were sold apart from the house, 

 and the ' fee of the honour and manor,' in which 

 the Home Park and the Course were included. 



Throne, they were all sent to Tattersall's. The 

 Duke of York then kept a stud for breeding race- 

 horses at the paddocks until 1 827, Moses, the Derby 

 winner of 1822, being the most famous horse. 88 



George IV then began breeding his own race- 

 horses at Hampton Court, and spent considerable 

 sums of money on his stud. He had thirty-three 

 brood mares there, and some famous stallions. 

 William IV endeavoured to improve and keep up 



^ 8 It was so used till 1882, when it 

 was given to Lady Adam, C.I., widow 

 of the late Rt. Hon. William Adam, 

 of Blair Adam, co. Kinross, M.P., Lord 

 of the Treasury, First Commissioner of 

 Works, and Governor of Madras. The 

 rank and precedence of a baronet's wife 

 were given to his widow, and her eldest 

 son was created a baronet. She died in 

 1907, and the house was granted to her 

 daughter Elizabeth, widow of Major the 



Hon. Lionel Fortescuc, i/th Lancers, 

 who was killed in the Boer War. The 

 present head gardener, Mr. Marlow, 

 occupies the rooms originally inhabited 

 by the keeper of the tennis court. See 

 p. 37- '' See p. 380. 



80 Chap. House Accts. 



81 See Hist, of Honour and Chase. 

 M Parl. Surv. 1653, P.R.O. Midd. no. 



3*. 



Col. S.P. Dam. 1653-4, p. 356. 



386 



Other proceedings printed in Law, op. 

 cit. ii, 272-6. 



84 For recent numbers see p. 247. 



85 Cal. Treas. Bks. IKX, no. too j 

 Ixxxv, no. 89. 



86 Ibid, cccii, no. 29 ; cclxix, no. 

 1 8. 



87 The Strangers' Guide to Hampton 

 Court (1825) says that 'he spent many 

 gay hours at the stud-house/ 



88 Law, op. cit. iii, 335. 



