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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. 
