4 KEW GARDENS 



displeasure deepened, he was banished, first to 

 Esher, finally to his archiepiscopal northern 

 diocese. Within the hunting-park formed by 

 Henry about Hampton, was a lodge at Han- 

 worth that became the home of his wife 

 Catherine Parr, when she had the luck to be 

 his widow. 



One most picturesque figure in English history 

 must have been familiar with Kew, though 

 its name does not appear in the sad story of 

 fair, wise and pious Lady Jane Grey, the " nine 

 days' queen." On the spindle side, she was 

 grand -daughter of Charles Brandon, Duke of 

 Suffolk, married to Henry VIII.'s sister Mary, 

 through whom came her heritage of peril. Her 

 father, Marquis of Dorset, was created Duke of 

 Suffolk, and succeeded to Suffolk House at 

 Sheen. The scene of Roger Ascham's notable 

 visit to the studious princess was Bradgate in 

 Leicestershire; but part of her youth would 

 probably be spent at Suffolk House. The boy 

 husband provided for her, Guildford Dudley, 

 was son of a neighbour across the river, the 

 crafty and ambitious Duke of Northumberland, 

 who had secured Syon House here as a share of 

 Church plunder first granted to the Protector 



