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was, the coach-houses, the forge, the pantry, some other 

 outhouses, and a stable next the church.'"' Let us 

 briefly see the extent of the dilapidations wreaked on 

 this royal palace during those brief ten years. Its 

 heart of heart, known as the "king's lodgings,"'a large 

 brickwork structure, was razed to the ground ; the 

 tennis-court adjoining disappeared ; of the kitchen no 

 hearth remained ; not a stick of the long gallery was 

 to be seen ; the erst prince's state lodgings now " were 

 on the cold ground " with a vengeance ; no vestige 

 remained of the numerous suites of offices thereunto 

 belonging, neither upstairs nor downstairs nor in my 

 lady's chamber ; the pantry survived as if to mark the 

 site of the buttery, the wardrobe and the prince's 

 kitchen ; the stables of the great horses, with the barns, 

 the riding-house, and the kennels, were but memories 

 of the past. Not being destructible, the paddocks and 

 the closes were still to the fore ; while, as if to show 

 the irony of fate, the coach-houses and the forge 

 remained extant. All the minor and subsidiary appur- 

 tenances appertaining to the prominent features of the 

 palace were as invisible as if they never existed. The 

 garden "was not much altered." 



In response to Ford's petition, the king, a few days 

 afterwards, on August 13, 1660, reappointed him cus- 

 todian of the ruins of the palace and the royal garden at 

 Newmarket, with the usual fees of 2^-. a day, as appears 

 at length in the following copy of the grant : 



Charles by the grace of God King of England, Scotland, 

 France and Ireland defender of the faith &'' To all whome 



* State Papers, Dom., Charles II., vol. xii., Nos. n^ 34, MS., P. R. O. 



