90 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



of Kyngston, freemason, for cutting, making and carving of 159 of the king's 

 and the queen's beestes standing in the king's new garden at 20s. the piece . . . 



£159-" 



(1530) " Item dieu to Anthony Transylyon, of \\ estminster, clockmaker, for 



seven dials of him bought which are bestowed in the privy orchard, at 4s. 4d. the 



piece, 30s. 4d. — Joiners setting up the bestes upon the posts in the privy orchard, 



Henry Currer, at 8d. by day, 4s. ; John Carpenter, at 6d. by day, 3s. Payments 



for painting the king's festes {= bestes) in the privy orchard . . . some holding 



' fanes' {=^ vanes) with the king's arms." 



(1534) " For gilding and painting of the beasts in the king's new garden — 

 To Henry Blankston, of London (various sums forj 11 harts, 13 lions, 16 grey- 

 hounds, 10 hinds, 17 dragons, 9 bulls, 13 antelopes, 15 griffins, 19 leberdes 

 (= leopards), 11 yallys (2 jails occur elsewhere), 9 rams, and the lion on top of 

 the mount, also for the vanes." 



(1^35) "Item in the said h^rhers {=soitt]i and ivest arbours) is set, 25 

 badges of the king's and queen's, price the piece 3s. ^3. 15s. Item in the 

 same barbers is set, 8 arms of the king's and queen's, price the piece 4s. 32s. 

 Paid to Harry Corrant, of Kingston, carver, for making and entayling 38 of 

 the kinge's and queene's beastes in freestone, bearing shields with the kinge's 

 arms, and the queene's, that is to say four dragons, six tigers, 5 greyhounds, 

 5 harts, 4 badgers, serving to stand about the ponds in the pond yard, at 26 

 shillings the pece. ^49- 8s." 



The fountain in the " pond garden " at the present day, is pro- 

 bably a survival of the "pond yard/' in which so many beasts 

 were placed. In Henry the Eighth's time they were supplied 

 with water in rather a curious way, as there are entries in the 

 accounts of charges for "labourers ladyng of water out of ye 

 Temmes to fyll the pondes in the night tymes." 



There were several other royal gardens, and items with 

 reference to things bought for them, or gardeners' wages, 

 occur in the Privy Purse expenses of Henry VHI. for 1530-32, 

 and Princess Mary, 1536-37. Greenwich is frequently mentioned 

 in these accounts, and it seems to have been one of the favourite 

 summer resorts of Henry, and his daughter. The payments were 

 chiefly made to the head-gardener, named Walsh, for labourers' 

 wages for " weding and delving," and " ordering in the garden." 

 The gardens had probably been laid out when the palace was 

 built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, early in the reign of 

 Henry VI., when it went by the name of " Placentia," or 

 " Plaisance." The head-gardener there in 1519 was Lovell, and 

 he received 60s. 8d. yearly. A little later we find him transferred 

 to the Richmond garden, and his salary raised to ^3 a quarter. He 



