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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
other pleasures. And in the same orchard, are many goodly 
alleys to walk in openly. And round about the same orcharde 
is conveyed on a good height other goodly alleys with roosting 
places, covered thoroughly with white thorne and hasel. And 
without the same, on the utter part, the said orchard is enclosed 
with sawin pale {sawn palings) and without that ditches and 
quickset hedges.’’ ... “ From out of the said orchard, are 
divers posterns in sundry places at pleasure to go and enter 
into a goodly park newly-made.” The house and gardens were 
left to fall into ruins, after Queen Elizabeth’s time, and not 
a trace of the old garden remains. 1 
Another example of an arbour or “ roosting-place ” was one 
made for Elizabeth of York. “ io July 1502 Item payed to 
Henry Smith clerc of the Castle of Wyndsor for money by him 
payed to a certain labourer to make an herbour in the little 
park of Wyndsor for a banket for the Queen iiijs. viijd.” 
Again, in the eighteenth year of Henry VIL, five shillings 
were paid for making an arbour at Baynarde’s Castle, in 
London. 2 
The ordinary arbour was still like those described in earlier 
times by Chaucer, with a turfed seat, and trellis covered with 
climbing plants. One is thus spoken of by a poet of the Tudor 
period 3 : 
“ The clowdis gan to clere, the myst was rarifiid 
In an herber I saw, brought where I was, 
There birdis on the brere sange on euery syde ■ 
With alys ensandid about in compas 
The bankis enturfid with singular solas 
Enrailed with rosers, and vinis engrapid ;— 
It was a new comfort of sorrowis escapid.” 
Other resting-places were arranged along the garden-walls, 
in the form of shady nooks and corners with grass banks to 
serve as seats, such as that of which More, in his Utopia , 
makes mention, when he writes : “We all went to my house, 
and entering into the garden, sat down on a green bank, and 
1 The outer castle wall alone remained, and it was rebuilt and the 
present gardens laid out about fifty years ago by the father of the 
present owner, Mr. Stafford Howard. 
2 Wardrobe Accounts. 3 Skelton, Garlande of Laurell. 
