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supplied the King's table "with damsons, grapes, filberts, peaches, 

 apples, and other fruits, and tiowers, roses, and other sweet waters." 



There seem to have been two gardens at Beaulieu, or 

 Newhall, the " smalle gardin,"" and "the grete,'' The small 

 appears to have been the kitchen-garden, and furnished the 

 "king's table" with " herbes and rootes, and strawberries, 

 artichokes, lettuces, cucumbers, and sallet herbes." The keeper 

 of the great garden in 1532 was one John Rede.* 



The gardens within the walls of the Tower of London and 

 at Baynarde's Castle, were kept up in Henry the Eighth's time. 

 Frequent entries in the accounts show that there were royal 

 gardens at Wanstead, where Robert Pury was gardener (1532), f 

 Westminster, Waltham, Woodstock, and Oatlands, but they 

 were probably not on so grand a scale as the more favourite 

 resorts of the King. Windsor received less attention than the 

 other royal gardens during this reign. The gardens at Windsor 

 have now so . completely changed, that even the site of the old 

 garden cannot be identified with certaintv. There is an account 

 by an eye-witness of Louis de Braye's reception, in 1472, by 

 Edward IV. at Windsor. They go out hunting, and return 

 late in the evening. " Bey that tyme yt was nere night yett the 

 king showed hym his garden & vineyard of pleasure & so 

 turned into the Castel agayne." This garden and vineyard 

 probably remained unaltered in Henry the Eighth's reign, as we 

 find no mention of changes being made there. The gardens at 

 York Place, the Whitehall of later times, had been laid out by 

 Wolsey with great taste and care, and this place, like Hampton 

 Court, was also given over to the King. 



Towards the end of his reign, Henry VHL, having 

 completed his alterations at Hampton Court, turned his 

 attention to laying-out and beautifying the grounds at 

 Nonsuch, near Ew^ell, in Surrey. | He purchased the lands of 

 Cuddington, in 1538, and there built a palace : — 

 " Which no equal has in art of fame 



Britons deservedly do Nonsuche name." 



* State Papers, Henry \"1I1. R. O. f Ibid. 



X Minister's Accounts, 31-32 Henry VHI., Xo. 10. Sir Ralph Sadler, 

 steward of the manor, received 4d a day for the custody of " Gardinorum, 

 Pomariorum et ortorum." 



