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finding stuff thereto at 20s. the pece, by convcncyon, 

 £16:0:0. 



"Dials — To Brycc Augustine of Westmynstcr clokc- 

 makcr for making 16 brazin dials serving for the kynge's 

 new garden at 4s. ^.d. the piece. 



" Trees — 200 young treys of oake and elmc — appul trees 

 and pere trees — 5 servys trees, 4. holly trees, quyckscttes 

 of woodbyne and thorne — treys of you — sypcrs, Genaper, 

 and Baycs at 2d. the pece, 600 chery trees at 6d. the 100 

 — 200 rose at 4d. the hundred, violettes, primroses, gitliver 

 slips, mynts and other sweet flowers, sweet williams at 

 3d. the bushel — a bourder of rosemary 3 years old to set 

 about the mount." 



The actual posts and rails mentioned above 

 are perhaps shown in the view of Hampton 

 Court garden, which forms part of the back- 

 ground to the contemporary picture of Henry 

 VIII. and his family at Hampton Court. ^ 

 Some idea of the size can be formed from the 

 960 yards of railing. The only fragment of 

 Henry VIII. 's garden at Hampton Court is 

 probably the small sunk garden close to the 

 vine-house called the Pond garden. Soon after 

 1539 the great Palace of Nonsuch, near Cheam, 

 in Surrey, was begun for Henry VIII. It 

 is certain that Italian workmen were largely 

 employed on this building ; and it is evident, 

 from the description left by Hentzner, that 



^ Mr. Law, History of Hampton Court Palace^ refers -to a drawing by 

 Wynegaarde in the Bodleian Library, and there is a remarkable view of 

 these gardens in Tudor times in a picture of (i^u^en Elizabeth, which was 

 shown at the Tudor Exhibition. No. 310 — The plots are shown 

 divided by sanded paths with wooden balustrades and terminals at the 

 angles, not unlike the views in the Hortus Floridut of Crispin de Pass. — 

 All the woodwork is painted red in the picture. 



