280 LONDON PARKS & GARDENS 
accounts are preserved in a splendid big old manor roll 
now at the Record Office. It is supposed that at his 
death in 1311, Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, 
assigned these lands to the “ Professors of the Law as a 
residence.” Additions were made later from the ground 
belonging to the Bishop of Chichester, round the palace 
which Ralph Neville had built in 1228. Part of the 
site was the “ coney garth,” which belonged to one 
William Cotterell, and hence is often mentioned as 
“ Cotterell’s Garden.” Garden of course only meant a 
garth or yard, and though the name now signifies an 
enclosure for plants, in early times other enclosures 
were common. There was the u grass yard ” or lawn, 
the “cook’s o^rth' •. *« v v -.l: ; ; and “coney 
garth ” wherr «?. 5 : as the “ wyrt 
v-* y ,r . ■: A ' prd " or orchard, apple 
ycrci> chemv yard* and so on.. The coney garth not 
a mere name, but was well stock-n even 
at a much later date, from ' v • Henry VIII 
there were various : ; r h-rce ior punishing hw 
students who h. rabbits with bows and arrows or 
darts. 
In the first year of Queen Elizabeth the Garden was 
separated from the fields by a clay embankment, and a 
little, late - a brick wall was added, with a gate into the 
fields, ; h is probably the same as the present little 
gate to ' : north of the new hall, at the v.n he 
border, .• - ■ . A the illustration. The Garden conn rued 
much fu r * • •• renig the wall then, and on) . ;• ■ ; - bed 
when the v, hall and library were bur/ • 1843. 
The delig : race which is raised : ; ihe wall 
overlooking he Ids” was made in r eg On June 
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