CHAP.

I.

II.

III.

CONTENTS.

CARDINAL WOLSEY AT HAMPTON COURT

DECORATION AND FURNITURE OF WOLSEY'S PALACE

CARDINAL WOLSEY'S MAGNIFICENCE

VI,

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ANNE OF CLEVES, CATHERINE HOWARD, AND

CATHERINE PARR

VII. EDWARD VI. AND THE PROTECTOR SOMERSET

VIII. QUEEN MARY, KING PHILIP, AND THE PRINCESS

IX.

ELIZABETH

RECONCILIATION OF MARY AND ELIZABETH

X. QUEEN ELIZABETH AT HOME

XI. QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CONFERENCES AND ENTER-

TAINMENTS

XII. JAMES I.'s CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS

XIII. JAMES I.'s AMUSEMENTS

XIV. CHARLES I.'S QUARREL WITH HIS QUEEN

XV. CHARLES I. AS KING AND CAPTIVE

XVI.

CHARLES I.'S ESCAPE FROM HAMPTON Court

XVII. THE COMMONWEALTH. HAMPTON COURT FOR SALE

XVIII. OLIVER CROMWELL'S PRIVAte Life at HAMPTON

COURT

XIX. THE RESTORATION. HONEYMOON OF CHARLES II.
AND HIS WIFE

XX. CHARLES II.'S DISAGREEMENT WITH HIS WIFE

XXI. HAMPTON COURT UNDER CHARLES II.

XXII. WILLIAM AND MARY AT HAMPTON COURT

XXIII. QUEEN MARY AT HOME IN HER NEW PALACE

XXIV. KING WILLIAM'S WORKS AND IMPROVEMENTS

XXV. WILLIAM III. IN HIS NEW PALACE-FURTHER

WORKS

XXVI. WILLIAM III.'s DECLINING HEALTH AND DEATH

CHAP.

XXVII. QUEEN ANNE AT HAMPTON COURt. "THE RAPE

OF THE LOCK"

XXVIII.

XXIX.

XXX.

GEORGE I. AT HAMPTON COURT

COURT LIFE UNDER GEORGE II.

HAMPTON COURT DURING THE REIGN Of George

III. THE PALACE DIVIDED INTO PRIVATE

APARTMENTS

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Henry VIII. at the Age of Forty-five

Frontispiece

Great Elm Tree in the Home Park known as the "Two Sisters,"

or King Charles's Swing .

Bird's-Eye View of Hampton Court, showing the extent of Wolsey's

Palace

West Front of Wolsey's Palace

Gable. From Wolsey's West Front

Entrance to Katharine of Arragon's Rooms

The Master Carpenter's Court on the North Side of the First Court

of Wolsey's Palace

Entrance to the North Wing of the Palace, leading to the Offices

The First Green Court, with the Cupolas restored.

Arms of Cardinal Wolsey

Cardinal Wolsey's Closet.

One of Cardinal Wolsey's Rooms

Decorative Frieze in Cardinal Wolsey's Closet

Oriel Window in Wolsey's First Green Court

Wolsey's oak-panelled Room in the Clock Court

Cardinal Wolsey in Bed

Seizure of the Cardinal's Goods

Cardinal Wolsey's Arms as Archbishop of York

33

Cardinal Wolsey

Wolsey's Low Gallery, on the Ground Floor of the South Range,

41

Cardinal Wolsey in Progress.

43

51

Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn, sending tokens of Goodwill to the

View of one of the old Offices in Henry VIII.'s Palace

The Great Kitchen

57

65

Old Lattice Window, with Ventilators of perforated Lead

Entrance to Henry VIII.'s Cellars under the Hall and Great

Watching Chamber

73

75

78

Anne Boleyn's Gateway

79

Anne Boleyn.

Exterior of the Great Hall. From the Clock Court

81

Great Bay Window on the Daïs in the Great Hall

83

The Great Hall. From the Daïs

85

87

Jane Seymour

View of the old East Front of Hampton Court Palace, as finished

by Henry VIII.

89

The Chapel.

Carrying of Prince Edward to the Font

The Chapel Doorway

The Clock Court, as it appeared in the reign of Henry VIII..

The Ghost of Mrs. Penn, Edward VI.'s Nurse

The Chapel Court, as seen from Prince Edward's (Edward VI.)

Lodgings

View from the River Thames of the old Palace of Hampton Court,

as finished by Henry VIII.

Henry VIII. and his Council

The Haunted Gallery

Henry VIII.'s Private Stairs in the Clock Court, leading to his

Privy Chamber

Henry VIII. playing on the Lute; with his jester, Will Somers,

singing

Edward VI.

The Duke of Somerset

Doorway of the Great Gate-house

The Great Gate-house, restored

Edward VI. and his Council

The Prison, so-called, in the Round Kitchen Court

Philip II. of Spain

View of the Chimneys of the Great Kitchen, Tennis Court Lane

View of Hampton Court Palace from the Thames in the reign of

Queen Mary

Queen Mary

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My Lord Robert Dudley's Picture

Round Kitchen Court

The Dungeon

Bay Window in the Great Watching Chamber

The Screens in the Great Hall

Entrance to the Buttery under the Pantry and Great Hall

James I. out Hunting, "Taking the Assay'

King James I.

Charles I.

Family of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

Charles I. and his Queen dining in Public.

View of the North of the Palace in Tennis Court Lane

The Old Pond Garden

Parapet of the Great Hall as seen from the Roof.

Mrs. Cromwell, "the Lady Protectress

Old East Front of Hampton Court in the time of Charles II.

Back Stairs to the Great Hall

Bird's-Eye View of Hampton Court in the reign of William III.

The Old Greenhouse, with an American Agave in flower, and

Queen Mary's Orange Trees

Queen Mary's Bower.

Pediment of a Window in the South Front, surmounted by William

and Mary's Coat-of-Arms

317

Screen and Gate of Wrought Iron formerly in the Gardens at

Hampton Court

319

The Queen's State Bedchamber, showing the Ceiling painted by

Sir James Thornhill in 1716

361

The Pavilions belonging to the Bowling Green at the end of the

Terrace Walk at Hampton Court

365

View, looking eastward, of the Diagonal Walks in the Great

Fountain Garden in the time of George II.

377

The Pavilion, Hampton Court Park, the Seat of H.R.H. the

Duke of Kent.

North-East Angle of the old Palace, with the Gateway into Lady

Mornington's Garden

"Purr Corner

386

"The Push"

The House or Home Park and Long Canal

The Privy Garden

View, looking east, of the Long Canal and Great Avenue in the

House or Home Park

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