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reference to things bought for them, or gardeners’ wages, 
occur in the Privy Purse expenses of Henry VIII. for 1530-32, 
and Princess Mary, 1536-37. Greenwich is frequently men¬ 
tioned in these accounts, as it was one of the favourite summer 
resorts of Henry and his daughter, and the scene of many 
jousts and May-Day revels. The payments were chiefly made 
to the head-gardener, named Walsh, for labourers’ wages for 
“ weding and delving,” and “ ordering in the garden.” The 
gardens had probably been laid out when the park was enclosed 
and the palace was built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, 
early in the reign of Henry VI., when it went by the name of 
“ Placentia,” or “ Plaisance.” The head-gardener there in 
1519 was Lovell, and he received 60s. 8d. yearly. A little 
later he was transferred to the Richmond garden, and his 
salary raised to £3 a quarter. He supplied the King’s table 
" with damsons, grapes, filberts, peaches, apples, and other 
fruits, and flowers, roses, and other sweet waters.” 
There seem to have been two gardens at Beaulieu, or New- 
hall, the “ smalle gardin ” and " the grete.” The small appears 
to have been the kitchen-garden, and furnished the “ King’s 
table ” with “ herbes and rootes, and strawberries, artichokes, 
lettuces, cucumbers, and sallet herbes.” The keeper of the 
great garden in 1532 was one John Rede. 1 
The gardens within the walls of the Tower of London and 
at Baynarde’s Castle were kept up in Henry VIII.’s time. 
Frequent entries in the accounts show that there were royal 
gardens at Wanstead (where Robert Pury was gardener, 1532), 2 
Westminster, Waltham, Woodstock, and Oatlands, but they 
were probably not on so grand a scale as the more favourite 
resorts of the King. Windsor received less attention than the 
other royal gardens during this reign. The gardens at Windsor 
have now so completely changed that even the site of the old 
garden cannot be identified with certainty. There is an account 
by an eye-witness of Louis de Bruye’s reception, in 1472, by 
Edward IV. at Windsor. They go out hunting, and return 
late in the evening. “ Bey that tyme yt was nere night, yett 
the King showed hym his garden & vineyard of pleasure & so 
turned into the Cast el agayne.” This garden and vineyard 
1 State Papers, Henry VIII. R.O. 2 Ibid. 
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