SUPPLEMENT TO THE GARDENERS 
[OCTOBER 3r, 1874. 
CHRONICLE. 
L. 
r in the matter of Royal palaces in general 
we have not much to boast of, we have 
one which in beauty of rece? dignity 
oundings, 
tant lips the ANTEA that Wi indsor is a residence 
worthy the Sovereign of so great a nation— 
‘* Worthy the owner and the owner it.” 
Leaving the reader to glean from histories and 
guide-books the details relating to the historical 
the 
bABKS AND GARDENS 
INDSOR. 
adjacent parks most likely to be of interest to 
our readers 
Like a all our great institutions—like human 
life itself—the hisgry of W aye Deane as great 
contrasts : now a palace and now a prison—a 
one time the e where the Norman monarchs 
kept their W hiak ss their Christmas tides, 
where in rst Edwards’ days great 
tournaments sare were held, where Eliza- 
beth kept feskt where Henry V III. , Charles II., 
et 
so 
n place. 
On the other hand, it has its gloomy memories : 
here prisoners were “miseràbly famished to 
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death ;” here John was almost, if not quite, a 
prisoner till he signed Magna Charta at Runny- 
mede hard by. The French King John, about 
a century and a half la ter, was a prisoner here 
after the fortune of war at Poictiers had led him 
to surrender to the Black Prince and his father 
the third Edward. Here the unhappy James I. 
of Scotland was imprisoned early in the fifteenth 
ntury. Here, two centuries later, Charles I., 
another of the same ill-fated family, was for 
a time imprisoned no 1648 passed his last 
Christmas; mae her eee a woe -fu i Christ- 
tide wi e, 
‘Queen’s meagan ‘and a “nation’s: ‘sorrow. 
It is impossible to pass these memories 
gay and grave, entirely unnoticed, restricted 
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