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the reign of Henry VII., 1 and the Hospitallers had also a 

 house with gardens attached at Hampton, on the site of the 

 present gardens of Hampton Court. In many ways through 

 those troublous times the monastic orders kept alive the 

 science of Horticulture, and spread the knowledge of it to those 

 around them. Thus by practising, as well as by preaching, 

 they showed by their useful lives that " to labour was to 

 pray." 



1 Close Roll, Henry VII., a.d. i486. 



