cellent Judges of the Beauty and Pleafantnefs of the Country, and always chose the best to settle in. It was more especially fo in this of Hampton, being finely fituated close to the River, yet not offended by the Rifing The Orange Trees and fine Dutch Bays were placed within the Arches of the fine Building under the first Floor; fo that the lower Part was a Green-house for fome Time. Here ftand, advanced on two Pedestals of Stone, two Marble Vafes or FlowerPots of most beautiful Workmanfhip, the one done by an Englishman, and the other by a German; and it is hard to fay which is the best Performance, though the working of them was for a Trial of Skill, and give us room, without any Partiality, to apprehend they were both Masters of their Art. The Parterre on that Side defcends from the Terras-walk by Steps; and on the left a Terras goes down to the Water-fide, overlooking the Garden on the Eastward Front, and affords a a moft pleasant Profpect. The fine Scrolls and Brodure of thefe Gardens were at firft edged with Box: But, on the Queen's difliking thofe Edges, they were taken up; yet they have fince been planted again, at leaft in many Places; nothing perhaps making fo fair and regular an Edging as Box, or fo foon brought to Perfection. On the North Side of the Palace, where the Gardens feemed to want skreening from the Weather, or the View of the Chapel, and fome Part of the old Building required to be covered from VOL. IV. B the Eye, the vacant Ground which was large, is very happily caft into a Wilderness, with a Labyrinth and Efpaliers 10 high, that they effectually take off all that Part of the old Building, which would have been offenfive to the Sight. The Labyrinth and Wilderness are not only well designed and compleatly finished, but perfectly well kept, and the Efpaliers are filled to the very Ground, and led up to proportioned Heights; fo that nothing of that Kind can be more beautiful. The Palace itself is every way anfwerable on the Outfide to a pleafing Profpect, and the two Fronts are the largest, and, beyond Comparison, the finest of the Kind in Great Britain. The great Stairs go up from the fecond Court of the Palace on the Right-hand, and lead you to the South Profpect. King William brought into England the Love of fine Paintings, (as well as that of fine Gardens) and you have an Example of it in the Cartoons, as they are called, being five Pieces of fuch Paintings as are not to be matched in Europe. The Stories of them are known, but especially two of them, viz. that of St. Paul preaching on Mars Hill, to the felf-wife Athenians, and that of St. Peter paffing Sentence on Ananias, on which his Death immediately enfued. b Rifing of its Waters in Floods and Storms, nor affected with any Foulness thereof at the Flowing and Ebbing of the Tide; for which Reason, though the Gardens extend almoft to the Banks of the River, yet they are never overflowed; nor are there any Marshes on either Side to make the Waters ftagnate, or the Air unwholfome; the River being deep enough to be navigable, has a lively Stream, (looks always chearful, not flow and fleepy like a Pond) which keeps the Waters ever clean, the Bottom in View, and the Fish playing in Sight In a Word, it has every thing that makes an inland River pleasant, agreeable, and profitable. Hampton-court lies about two little Miles from Kingfton upon Thames, and, as the Road from Stanes to Kingfton ftreightened the Park a little, they were obliged, in the Cardinal's Time, to part the Parks, and leave the Paddock and the great Park on the other Side of the Road; a Teftimony of his Regard for the common Good, the Service of the Country; and that * men and Farmers had good Houfes and good Farms inter' mingled with those Wastes, of their own Inheritance, or for 'their Lives, or Years; and without taking of them into the Park it would not be of the Largenefs, or for the Ufe pro-. pofed: His Majesty desired to purchase those Lands, and was very willing to buy them upon higher Terms than the People ⚫ could fell them at to any body elfe, if they had Occafion to part with them, and thought it no unreasonable Thing upon 'thofe Terms to expect this from his Subjects; and fo he employ'ed his own Surveyor and other ' of his Officers, to treat with 'the Owners, many whereof · were his own Tenants, whofe • Farms would at last expire. • The that he would not, to gratify his Pleasure, interrupt the Course of the Road, or caufe the poor People to Bb 2 go "The major Part of the PeopleUpon which Cottington thought C were in a fhort time prevailed • fit to acquiefce. ' with, but many very obftinately refufed; and a Gentleman, who had the best Estate, with a convenient House and Gardens, The building the Wall before People confented to part ' with their Lands, or their Common, looked to them as if by from both, and increafed the 'Murmur and Noife of the Peo'ple who were not concerned, as "well as of them who were; and it was too near London not to 'be the common Difcourfe. The 'would by no means part with it; degrees, they should be shut out ' and the King being as earnest to 'compass it, it made a great Noife, as if the King would take away Men's Eftates at his own Plea'fure. The Bishop of London, (Juxton) who was Treasurer, and the Lord Cottington, Chan-Archbishop (Laud) who (decellor of the Exchequer, were, ⚫ from the first entering upon it, very averse from the Defign, not only for the Murmur of the People, but because the Purchase of the Land, and the making a Brick-wall about fo large a Parcel of Ground, (for it is near ten 'Miles about) would coft a greater 'Sum of Money than they could Seafily provide, or than they thought ought to be facrificed to 'fuch an Occafion; and the Lord Cottington, who was more folli'cited by the Country People, (and heard most of their Mur'murs) took the Bufinefs moft to · 6 fired exceedingly that the King 'fhould be poffeffed as much of 'the Hearts of the People as was poffible, at least that they fhould have no juft Caufe to complain) meeting with it, refolved to fpeak with the King about it, which he did, and received fuch an Answer from him, that he thought his Majesty rather not informed enough of the Incon'veniencies and Mischiefs of the Thing, than pofitively refolved. 'not to defift from it. Whereupon one Day he took the Lord Cottington alide (being informed 'that he difliked it, and, accord 6 6 'with great Warmth against it) and told him, "He fhould do "very well to give the King good Counfel and to withdraw "him from a Refolution, in "which his Honour and Justice heart, and endeavoured by alling to his natural Custom, spake 'the Ways he could, and by frequent Importunities, to divert his Majefty from pursuing it, ' and put all Delays he could 'well do in the Bargains which were to be made; till the King grew very angry with him and told him, He was refolved to go through with it, and had "already caused Brick to be "burned, and much of the Wall "to be built upon his own Land." 66 was fo much called in que"ftion." Cottington anfwered him go out of the Way of their Business, to and from the adjoining Market-towns and Villages: Which cer "fo conveniently for his Winter"exercise ; and that he fhould by "it not to be compelled to make "fo long Journeys, as he used "to do, in that Seafon of the "Year, for his Sport; and that "no Body ought to diffuade "him from it." The Archbishop, inftead of 'finding a Concurrence from him as he expected, feeing himself ⚫ reproached upon the Matter for his Opinion, grew into much Paffion, telling him, "Such "Men as he would ruin the 66 King, and make him lofe the "Affection of his Subjects; that, "for his own Part, as he had "began, fo he would go on, to "diffuade the King from proceeding in fo ill a Counsel, and "that he hoped it would appear "who had been his Counsellor.' 66 Cottington, glad to fee him fo ⚫ foon hot, and refolved to inflame him more, very calmly replied to him, "That he thought a Man could not, with a good "Confcience, hinder the King from purfuing his Refolution; "and that it could not but pro"ceed from want of Affection to "his Perfon, and he was not fure "that it might not be High Trea "fon." The other, upon the Wildnefs of his Difcourfe, in great Anger afked him, Why? 66 "from whence he had received "that Doctrine?" He faid with the fame Temper, "They "who did not wish the King's "Health could not love him, "and they who went about Park, and that he did not "wonder that Men durft not re"present any Argument to the 66 contrary, or let his Majefty "know how much he fuffered in "it, when fuch Principles in Di"vinity and Law, were laid "down to terrify them." And fo ' recounted to him the Confe6 rence he had with the Lord Cattington, bitterly inveighing against him and his Doctrine, mentioning him with all the fharp Reproaches imaginable, and befecching his Majeity, "That his Counsel might not "prevail with him;" taking fome Pains to make his Con'clufions appear very false and ridiculous. justly your Paffion hath trans"ported you." By which Repre'henfion he found how much he ⚫ had tainly, when rightly confidered, must greatly recommend his Memory with Honour; and, with Pleasure we can fay it, fince this Palace has come into Royal Hands no Step has been taken to interrupt the Course of the Road in that Part of the Country: A noble Example worthy of Imitation. The Cardinal's Warham. Archbishop Warham, at the beginning of this Year, was fo extreamly ill, that he was not capable of going abroad, fo that feveral Letters and Meffages paffed between him and Cardinal Wolfey, from which it fully appears, that he expreffed great Tenderness and Care for his Conftitution, and offered him the Ufe of a handfome Apartment in his pleasant Palace at Hampton-court, before he made a Prefent of it to the King, believing the Change of Air might help to recover him to his former good State of Health. This and other Favours the Archbishop acknowledged in the strongest Terms.* 'had been abused, and refented it ' accordingly.' Notwithstanding all that could be faid, the Park was inclosed in King Charles the Ift's Reign, and continues fo to this Day, and is now closer shut up than at the beginning; for no Perfons are permitted to pass through it without producing Tickets, of which few or none are delivered to the Inhabitants thereabouts. Many have thought that the first Inclofing this Park was the Fore-runner of the melancholy Confequences that followed, which we fhall draw a Vail over, referring our Readers to Lord Clarendon's Hiftory for the further Particulars of the Tranfactions of thofe unhappy Times.' This *To the moft Rev. Father in God, and my very fingular 6 good Lord, Cardinal of York, Legate de Latere, his good Grace. LEASE IT YOUR GRACE to understand, that I have hitherto deferred to make an 'Anfwer unto your Grace's laft Letters, because I had thought, ftrait after Chriftmas, to have 'waited on your Grace, and to ⚫ have communed with the fame ⚫ in divers Matters, which Sick nefs will not fuffer me fo to do, • unless I fhould do contrary to the Advice of my Physicians, and put myself in Jeopardy; nevertheless, if God fend me any Amendment, I purpose to give Attendance on your Grace ' about |