73 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 



Vyncent and John Gaddisby of Kyngston, for four loads of 

 quicksets, every load containing thirty hundred sets of them 

 " to set about the mount by the King's new garden." Another 

 entry refers to the purchase of ash poles " to make rails to bind 

 the quicksets," and " two bundles of wylly roddes to bind " 

 them ; and " three pear trees to set in the mount." The most 

 elaborate part of the mount was the arbour. The " South 

 arbour " seems to have been the one on the mount, but mention 

 is also made in the accounts of a " West arbour," which was 

 apparently very similar, as the same things were bought for 

 both, and payment made to " Iohn a gwylder smith " " for 300 

 of broddes serving for the fretts in the roof of the south herber 

 at the mount 126.. the 100, 3s.," and to Galyon Hone, the 

 King's glazier, several sums were paid, of which the following 

 is a sample : " Item in the mount in the garden 48 lights, 

 every light in the upper story containing 4! foot, in the nether 

 story every light containing \\ foot 3 inches, which amount in 

 all (to) 211 foot at 5d. the foot, £4. 7s. nd." This gives one 

 some idea of how large the arbour was, and how carefully it 

 was made. It appears, furthermore, from the accounts that 

 the " south herber " was connected with the west one by a 

 gallery running along the wall, which was made of wooden 

 poles and trellis-work. Such galleries were marked character- 

 istics of late fifteenth and early sixteenth century gardens, and 

 designs for them are found in some old works ; the best of these 

 being in the Hortus Floridus of Crispin de Pas (or Passe), 

 which was translated into English in 1615. They existed in 

 Hampton Court before Henry VIII. made his alterations 

 there, and are thus referred to in Cavendish's metrical life 

 of Wolsey : 



" My galleries were fayre, both large & longe 

 To walk in them when that it liked me beste. 

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With arbours & alleys so pleasant & so dulse 

 The pestilent airs with flavours to repulse." 



I do not know of a single example of a gallery or arbour, of 

 this description, in existence. They were made of perishable 

 material, such as wood-trellis planted with creepers, vines, roses, 



