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Hampton Court (1897)
by William Holden Hutton, illustrated by Herbert Railton
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Hampton Court

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View from River

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· HAMPTON · COURT ·


BY

· WILLIAM · HOLDEN · HUTTON · B · D ·

· WITH · 43 · ILLUSTRATIONS · BY ·

· HERBERT · RAILTON ·





· LONDON · JOHN · C · NIMMO · MDCCCXCVII ·

Hampton Court

BY

WILLIAM HOLDEN HUTTON, B.D.
FELLOW OF S. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD

Illustrated with Forty-three Drawings by

HERBERT RAILTON


LONDON
JOHN C. NIMMO
14 KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND
MDCCCXCVII

Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
At the Ballantyne Press

CONTENTS

PREFACE (not included in original ToC)
INTRODUCTION (not included in original ToC)
CHAPTER I
THE BUILDINGS AND THEIR MAKERS
1. Hampton Court: its associations: its twofold interest.—2. The characteristics of the early sixteenth-century architecture as represented in Wolsey's building.—3. The size and extent: the view from the roofs.—4. The outer Green Court: the Base Court: the Clock Court: the "Consessionary."—5. Wren's work in the Clock Court: the side-courts.—6. The great Hall: the great Watching Chamber: the Horn-room.—7. Wren and his style: the Fountain Court: the east front: the south front: the King's staircase and its decoration: the interior of the rooms.—8. The architect: Wolsey probably his own architect:Wren's plans: the extent of his designs: Defoe thereon: the work incomplete but characteristic.—9. Different judgments on the alterations made by Wren: Horace Walpole: "The Beauties of England and Wales: "Wren's characteristic merits 1–27
CHAPTER II
HAMPTON COURT IN HISTORY
1. The creation of Wolsey's house: its magnificence under Elizabeth.–2. A long popular dwelling-place of English rulers: two names most prominent among its makers: Wolsey and William III.: Wolsey's greatness: as Statesman and Churchman: his achievements and his failure: the closeness of his connection with Hampton Court: the business transacted there: the King's constant visits and familiarity: Cavendish on his sudden appearances, and on the masque of foreign men: the festivities at the King's coming: Shakespeare's use of this in Henry VIII.: the gift of the Palace to the King: lodgings for King and Queen, and for Anne Bullen: treaties and ambassages: the reception of the French Envoys in 1527: Cavendish's description thereof: the Frenchmen fain to be led to their beds: Wolsey's fall.—3. Henry in possession: his new building: he hears of Wolsey's death from Cavendish: Henry and Anne Bullen at Hampton Court: Anne gives way to Jane: birth of Edward Prince of Wales: his baptism and his mother's death: Anne of Cleves: Catherine Howard: Catherine Parr.—4. Edward VI.: honeymoon of Philip and Mary: Mary's needlework and that of her mother: the poet of the needle.—5. Scandals about Queen Elizabeth: her personal appearance: a Pomeranian's account of her state: her many guests: Paul Hentzner: his account of the Palace in 1598: revels, and the boyling of brawnes: the Queen's last visit.—6. James I.: masques and revels: visitors from Denmark and Germany: Queen Anne: Charles I. and his pictures: his counsellors: his last visit before the troubles: his sojourn after Naseby: Sir Thomas Herbert's account: Cromwell watching King and Parliament: Charles's escape: Cromwell's occupation of the Palace.—7. The Restoration: Charles II.'s life at Hampton Court: his marriage: his Court.—8. The Beauties of the Court: characteristics of Lely's work: the history of the ladies.—9. Charles and Verrio: James II.—10. William III.: was he a hero? The greatness of his surroundings: his diplomacy: the succession:his private character: his grant of lands to his favourites: the de Witts: Glencoe: his unpopularity: his unconstitutional action.—11. His work at Hampton Court:
</noinclude>Queen Mary and Kneller: the Beauties: other portraits: William's fondness for Hampton Court: Anne's sad memories there. 12. George I.: his plays: Defoe's account of the Palace 28-114
CHAPTER III
THE PARKS AND GARDENS
1. The Medieval garden: the Tudor garden: its remains at Hampton Court: the Mount garden: the parks.—2. Elizabeth and her garden: the symmetrical taste: the decorations: Bacon's idea of gardens.—3. The Rebellion a break in English horticulture: Cromwell: Charles II.: the imitation of Versailles: Le Nôtre: Evelyn's description of the gardens: Queen Mary's bower.—4. William III.'s changes: his personal interest: the Royal gardeners: the wilderness: the Maze: Latin poem thereon: Queen Mary's collection of plants: the oranges: the gates: suspension of the works on the Queen's death: the new plans: the great Parterre: the Lion gates.—5. The gardens under George I.: the Frog Walk: the passion for Nature: Thomson's description of a garden: the changes under the Landscape gardeners.—6. The fish and fowl: the great vine: the characteristics of the gardens 115-138
CHAPTER IV
HAMPTON COURT AND THE CHURCH
1. Wolsey's chapel and his train of Churchmen: Cavendish's description.—2. Henry's alterations: the Royal pew: present condition of the chapel: Wren's work: historical associations: baptism of Edward VI.: funeral of Jane Seymour: the preachers: James I.: the destruction at the Rebellion: William and Mary: the King keeps his hat on: the early Hanoverian neglect: the Queen's private chapel.—3. The religion of the Palace: the Hampton Court Conference: the introductory discussion: James's knowledge of theology: the assembly on Monday: the "Turkey gowns": the Catechism: the translation of the Bible: the part played by James himself: his judgment on the Conference: the later history of religion in the Palace 139-154
CHAPTER V
THE ART COLLECTIONS
1. The interest of the art collections: the china: the glass mostly destroyed.—2. The tapestries: embroidered hangings: beds: Wolsey's collection of tapestry: the great Watching Chamber: an unidentified subject: the triumph of Fate or Death: characteristics of the work: the Seven Cardinal Virtues and the Seven Deadly Sins: Flemish work: the Horn room: Bernhard van Orlay: the history of Abraham: its value: the different subjects: the richness of treatment.—3. Tapestries under Queen Elizabeth: in the Commonwealth: at the Restoration: under George I.: needlework: famous beds: carved chairs.—4. The pictures: general classification: the panel pictures in the Confessionary.—5. The Tudor pictures: Elizabeth's porter: scenes from the reign of Henry VIII.: portraits of the King: other persons of the age: the Holbeins: Sir Antonio More: Mary Queen of Scots: the four portraits of Elizabeth.—6. The collection of Charles I.: James I.'s pictures as illustrations of the history of his time: Vandyke, a prince of Court painters: Rubens: minor artists: the great works in Charles I.'s gallery.—7.The Triumph of Julius Cæsar, by Mantegna: the history of the purchase: the condition and the position of the pictures: characteristics of Mantegna's work, illustrative of the Renaissance: the dignity of ancient Rome: an account of each scene of the Triumph: other works of Mantegna with the same idea.—8. Other Mantuan acquisitions in Charles's gallery: fifteenth-century painters: Jerome Bosch: sixteenth century: Giulio Romano: Milanese school: Venetians: the Shepherd of Giorgione: "The Concert:" Lorenzo Lotto: minor masters: Tintoretto: Dosso Dossi: Correggio: Albrecht Dürer: Mabuse.—9. The Georgian age: portraits of Madame de Pompadour and Benedict XIV.: the House of Hanover: Gainsborough's portraits of Hurd, Fischer, Colonel St. Leger, Hoppner's Lord Moira: the West gallery: West's merits and defects: the Death of Wolfe: the collection as a whole. 155-204
CHAPTER VI
LITERATURE AND GOSSIP IN THE LAST CENTURY
1. Hampton Court in literature: Thomson's rhapsody.—2. The "Rape of the Lock": Pope's fondness for the Thames: his country inspiration limited to its banks: the origin of the poem: its three foundations: the "Rosicrucian doctrine of spirits": Marmontel's Sylphs and Pope's "The Expedition to Hampton Court": the game of ombre: the severed lock: Pope's letters: the life of a Maid of Honour.—3. Lord Hervey's life: Miss Bellenden and Miss Lepel: Queen Caroline: George II. and his family: Prince Frederick: the hasty drive to St. James's: Queen Caroline's death: later visits of George II.: changes since his time: the Royal fondness for Hanover: English character of Hampton Court 205-227
CHAPTER VII
MEMORIES AND LEGENDS OF TODAY

Residents of later days: the families to whom the Crown has given apartments: the Wellesleys: Lady Mornington, the "mother of the Gracchi": the caretaker of the Palace: its condition to-day: its romantic interests: Charles I.: Catherine Howard: the White Lady: Mrs. Penn: ghost stories: the artistic pictures on the verge of the twentieth century: a picture of the future by William Morris

228-237
INDEX 239-244

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

By HERBERT RAILTON

1. View from River Frontispiece
    Page
2. Illustrated Title-page ii
3. View from Roofs, looking West 2
4. West Front and Trophy Gates 4
5. Oriel Window, West Gateway 7
6. Anne Boleyn's Gateway 8
7. Wolsey's Oratory or Confessionary 10
8. The Serving Hatch in Great Meat Kitchen 12
9. The Great Oriel to Hall 14
10. Fountain Court 16
11. Wren's Monogram, Fountain Court 17
12. The South Front from Privy Gardens 20
13. Wolsey's Conduits at Kingston and Coombe 32
14. Wolsey's Great Meat Kitchen 36
15. The Clock Court 42
16. The Master Cook's Chamber in Great Kitchen 45
17. Exterior of Wolsey's Private Rooms 48
18. Banqueting Hall of Henry VIII. 50
19. Henry VIII.'s Cellars under Hall 52
20. Prince Edward's Lodgings 57
21. The Haunted Gallery 62
22. Group of Chimneys in Carpenter's Court 64
23. Fish Court 80
24. Bedroom of William III. 84
25. A Peep of Fountain Court from Roof 96
26. The Orange House 104
27. Water Gallery 106
28. Entrance Gate to Garden 112
29. Oriel Window in South Front 116
30. The Great Canal. 122
31. South Front and Cradle Walk 124
32. The Garden Front 128
33. The Dolphin Fountain 132
34. The Frog Walk 134
35. The Old Pond Garden 138
36. Chapel Court 144
37. Group of Chimneys in Clock Court 160
38. Tudor Gable, South Front 176
39. Chimneys in Court 192
40. The Master Carpenter's Court 208
41. River Front 212
42. The East Front 224
43. Princess Frederica's Lodgings 228


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