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' knotted ' beds are railed with painted wands (the royal colours 

 being green and white) or surrounded with low fences of trellis- 

 work. Cavendish in his life of Wolsey sings : 



' My Garden sweet, enclosed with walles strong 

 Embanked with benches to sytt and take my rest 

 The knots so enknotted, it cannot be exprest, 

 With arbors and alyes so pleasant and so dulce.' 



Mounts at the corners, galleries, dials, cabinets of verdure, 

 columns and pyramids of marble, topiarian work and fish-ponds 

 complete the details. 



Skelton, a Tudor poet, paints the following picture of a garden 

 of his day : 



' With alys ensanded about in compas 

 The bankis enturfid with singular solas, 

 Enrailed with rosers, and vinis engrapi'd.' 1 



The gardens of Hampton Court covered altogether 2000 acres 

 and consisted of the Mount Garden, the King's Newe Garden 

 (now called the Privy Garden) with gravel paths, raised mounds, 

 sun-dials, and railed beds and the Pond yard or Garden (now 

 alone remaining, and the subject of our illustration) which retains 

 something of its ancient Tudor aspect, being still divided into 

 its original rectangular enclosures by low brick walls overgrown 

 with creepers, in the corners of which may be detected the bases 

 of the stone piers that supported the heraldic beasts 'bearing 

 vanes and shields with the King's arms and badges.' 2 



In a drawing by Antonius Wynngarde in the Bodleian Library 



and privett cutt into a handsome fashion at every angle a faire cherrie tree, 

 and a ' Ciprus ' in the middle of the knotts also a Marble fountaine. 



* The Privie Garden has a Quadrangle or square squadron Quicksett hedge 

 9 feet high, with four round Arbours and seats at each corner and two Door- 

 ways to each Arbour, between which a Roman T pointing to 3 paire of 

 Staires and a Mulberry walk.' (Shortened from the original MS. in Record 

 Office, transcribed by Miss Amherst.) 



1 Skelton's ' Garlande of Laurell.' 



2 Ernest Law, ' History of Hampton Court.' 



