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comers from ladies-in-waiting to gardeners, 

 from preceptors to soldiers, for a guard was kept 

 at Kew House, near which barracks had to be 

 provided. One winter, the King is said to have 

 found work for his idle garrison by setting them 

 to make the Hollow Walk, now filled with such 

 a fine summer show of rhododendrons. 



There would be no want of church services 

 then at a place well equipped with scholars and 

 divines. Mrs. Papendiek mentions two bishops 

 as living at Kew, besides subordinate tutors of 

 the princes. While the royal family were in 

 residence, they had at hand Sir John Pringle, 

 " physician to the Person," and one or other of 

 the brothers Caesar and Pennell Hawkins, the 

 royal surgeons, " for the Queen would have two 

 of them always on the spot to watch the con- 

 stitutions of the royal children." Later on, as 

 we saw, the King's illness brought a swarm of 

 medical men about Kew, at least as lodgers or 

 visitors. Rather earlier, Lord Bute, who was but 

 a poor nobleman till enriched through his wife, 

 the celebrated Lady Mary Wortley Montague's 

 daughter, appears to have occupied two houses 

 on Kew Green, that now known as Cambridge 

 Cottage, and the Church House, described as 



