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This prince, we know, died young, according 

 to one tradition through rash bathing in the 

 Thames ; but a modem physician has diagnosed 

 the indications of his illness as typhoid fever. 

 Richmond then passed to his brother Charles, 

 who was much at home here and at Hampton 

 Court. He, as king, made a new enclosure, the 

 present Richmond Park, a hunting-ground nine 

 miles round, formed by somewhat high-handed 

 expropriations recalling the harsher dealings of 

 William Rufus with the New Forest, and going 

 to make up this king's unpopularity. When 

 poor Charles himself had been hunted down, the 

 royal abode at Richmond was sold to one of the 

 regicides, Sir Gregory Norton, the new Great 

 Park being given over by Parliament to the 

 citizens of London, who, at the Restoration, 

 restored this gift to Charles II. with a courtly 

 declaration that they had kept it as stewards of 

 his Majesty. The Park was now put under 

 a Ranger; and the Palace fell into neglect, 

 though, according to Burnet, James II.'s son, the 

 Pretender, was nursed in it. Nothing of its old 

 state remains but the Gateway on Richmond 

 Green, above which may be traced the arms of 

 England, as borne by Henry VII. The adjacent 



