A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



Holland and others were entertained by Queen 

 Adelaide. Bushey House was afterwards lent by 

 Queen Victoria to the late Due de Nemours. It 

 is now the National Physical Laboratory, and is 

 occupied by the Director, Mr. R. T. Glazebrook, 

 D Sc., F.R.S. 



There is another house in the park known as 

 CHARLES THE SECOND'S LODGE, at present 

 occupied by Lady Alfred Paget, widow of the 

 late General Lord Alfred Paget, second son of 

 the first Marquis of Anglesey, Equerry and Clerk 

 Marshal of the Royal Household, who originally 

 had the house granted to him. He died in 1888. 



The one or two smaller houses in the park are 

 keepers' lodges of a later date. 



THE CH4PEL ROYAL. In Wolsey's lease 

 of the manor of Hampton Court a stipulation was 

 made for a yearly sum to be paid by the Knights 

 Hospitallers for the maintenance of a priest to 

 serve the chapel. 1 When the manor became royal 

 property the chapel was served by the ' Chapel 

 Royal,' or ' King's Chapel ' establishment, which 

 has no existence as a corporate body, resembling 

 the dean and chapter of a cathedral, but has 

 existed according to its present constitution for a 

 considerable period before the Reformation. 8 The 

 ' Establishment of the King's Chapel ' in the time 

 of Henry VIII consisted of a Master of the Chapel, 

 thirty-two Gentlemen of the Chapel, and Children 

 of the Chapel. The total expenses of the same 

 being 424 1 3/. \d. per annum. In the time of 

 Edward VI the allowances and fees amounted to 



+76 15'- *><*? 



At the Coronation of James I the following 

 ol'icers are mentioned besides the Dean and Sub- 

 Dean of the Chapel Royal :' the Ministers, the 

 Master of the Children, Clerk of the Check, Doctor 

 in Musicke, Gentlemen of the Chapel, Officers of 

 the Vestry. At the coronation of Charles II the same 

 are enumerated with the addition of grooms and 

 yeomen and a Serjeant of the Vestry. 



James II added a 'Confessor' and a ' common 

 servant.' At the coronation ofWill'a:n and Mary 

 two Organists and a ' Bellringer for the House- 

 hold ' are also mentioned. 5 



Strictly speaking, this establishment belongs 

 to no fixed place, but is commanded to attend the 

 sovereign wherever he may be. The services of 

 the officers were required chiefly in London, for- 

 merly at Whitehall, and afterwards at what is now 

 considered their head quarters, the Chapel Royal, 

 St. James's,' but also at Greenwich, Hampton 

 Court, and other royal residences. 



In 1671 a petition was made to Charles II by 

 a Doctor Thomas Waldon, physician, John Jones, 

 apothecary to the household, and Captain Henry 

 Cooke, master of the children of the Chapel 



Royal, ' that the Surveyor might provide lodgings 

 for them when His Majesty removed to Hampton 

 Court, as those they had were so decayed that 

 they had to be pulled down.' 1 The Bishop of 

 London is Dean of the ' Chapels Royal,' 8 and 

 in 1699-70 asked for necessaries for the chapel 

 from the Lord Chamberlain.' 



At present the Chapel within St. James's 

 Palace with the minor chapels within Hampton 

 Court and Kensington Palaces constitute what are 

 usually termed ' The Chapels Royal,' governed by 

 the Dean, the Sub-Dean, and the Clerk of the 

 King's Closet (the Bishop of Ripon), and there 

 are various Chaplains, Preachers, Readers and other 

 officers attached to them. 10 The Chapel Royal, 

 Hampton Court, is served by a chaplain. The 

 first chaplain appointed to Hampton Court as a 

 separate office was the Rev. Gerald Valerian 

 Wellesley, D.D., the brother of the first Duke of 

 Wellington. He was appointed in 1806. 



The plate is of silver gilt, and consists of a cup 

 with paten and an almsdish 2 ft. in diameter, all of 

 1668 ; two flagons of 1687 with silver gilt lining! 

 of 1873 and 1874, all having the arms of William 

 and Mary and the royal cipher ; a dish of 1736 

 with the arms of George II ; two cups of early igth 

 century unmarked ; a spoon of 1850, and a white 

 metal almsdish. 



The church of ST. MART THE 

 CHURCHES flRGIN was opened for divine ser- 

 vice in 1831, and succeeded a build- 

 ing which was entirely taken down in 1 829. This 

 had a mediaeval chancel of flint and stone, a nave 

 with north and south aisles (the former built in 

 1726), a south porch, a west tower built in 1679, 

 a building on the north side of the church which 

 communicated with the north aisle, and which was 

 used as the parish school, and a vestry at the north- 

 west, built in 1726. There was a wooden turret 

 on the north-east corner of the tower in which 

 was hung a small bell, and in the bell-chamber 

 were six bells which had been recast in the reign 

 of Charles II ; there were galleries in the church 

 on the north, south, and west sides, and in addi- 

 tion at the west end was a singing loft. There 

 was a three-decker pulpit and a royal pew at the 

 front of the north gallery. 



The present church is a very unattractive pro- 

 duct of the Gothic revival, rectangular in plan, 

 63ft. long by 66ft. wide, with north and south 

 aisles ; at the east end is a modern sacristy, at the 

 west end a tower, under which is the principal 

 entrance, and to the north and south other 

 entrances, with staircases leading to the galleries. 

 There is a vestry at the east end of the south aisle, 

 and the body of the church is under one low- 

 pitched roof. It is built of brickwork. 



1 Cott. MSS. Claudius, E. vi, fol. 137. 

 In the L. and P. Hen. fill are many 

 entries for sums paid to friars and others 

 for preaching before the king at Hamp- 

 ton Court. A list of the chapel plate 

 in 1530 ii also given. Ibid, iv (3), 

 6184. 



8 Old Chtjue Bk. oftkt Ckaptl Royal, 

 1561-1744 (Camden Soc. 1871). 



There is a later cheque book preserved 

 at St. James's. 



' Introd. p. ix. citing Lanidowne 

 MSS. no. 171. 



* Ibid. pp. 64, 70, &c. The dean 

 or tub-dean frequently held a ' chapter ' 

 in the vestry at Hampton Court. 



' Ibid. 



Ibid. 



388 



< Cal. S.P. Dam. Ckas. If, 1671, p. 

 264. Clergy List, 1908. 



Bualeuch MSS. (Hit. MSS. Com.), 

 ii, 636. 



" Clergy Lilt, 1908. The Chapel 

 Royal Savoy is the only one under the 

 sole direction and control of the Crown 

 and not within the jurisdiction of the 

 Dean of the Chapels Royal. 



