rillRTKF.XrU CEXTURY. 3a 



This looks as if it was what is usually understood by an 

 arbour, a covered-in place. There are many descriptions of 

 such arbours in the fourteenth century, and it was the custom 

 to turf them. The herbarium may, however, have been a small 

 private garden, planted with herbs, with high thick hedges. 

 The garden at Clarendon was enclosed by a paling,* 

 while those of Windsor t and Kennington J were enclosed 

 by a ditch. In 1260 more alterations were carried out in 

 the garden outside Windsor Castle; the gardener's house was 

 moved, and a further wall built. During many successive 

 reigns this garden at Windsor was kept up, and from time to 

 time improved, and the orchard or vineyard was extended. 



'Entries of the wages paid to the gardener and the vine dresser 

 occur in many of the household accounts preserved in the 

 Record Office. The gardener received lOos. a year, the 

 labourers 2id. a day. It is curious to note that the produce 

 of these gardens was sold, and it seems to have been the 

 exception when all the fruit was consumed by the king's 

 household. In 1332 there is the following entry among the 

 receipts — "6s. 6d. received for the fruits and herbage of the 

 king's garden outside the Castle," § and other like entries 

 occur. In "the account of Walter Hungerford, Knight^ 

 Steward of the Household of King Henry V. and Constable 

 of the Castle of Wyndsore " H (1419-22), " for any issues 

 arising from fruits of the garden and vines of the king there 

 in the two second years {sic) in the time of this account, he 

 does not answer, for that the fruits of the said garden were 



' delivered to the Household of the Lord the King there, and 

 the grapes of the vines there were eaten by the Ladies and 

 others of the King's Household then being there, so that the 

 same Constable had not and could not have any profit thereof, 

 as he says upon his oath." 



* Liberate Roll, 37 Hen. III., m. 13. 



f Ibid., 37 Hen. 111., m. 17. 



X Ibid. 



§ Ministers' Accounts. Bundle 753, No. g. 



II Ibid. Bundle 755, No. 10. 



