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Title: Greenwich Park: its history and associations
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Webster, Angus Duncan
Subjects: Greenwich Park, Greenwich Numismatics, Roman
Publisher: Greenwich H. Richardson
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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as well as by all the more notable persons of their
time. The consort of Charles I. was the last Royal
occupant the Queens House received, although, as
late as 1823, Princess Sophia, who lived at the
Rangers House, passed through the Park when on
her way to lay the foundation-stone of St. Mary's
Church. The procession, accompanied by Princess
Sophia and the Bishop of Oxford, started from
Blackheath gate of the Park, and proceeded by way
of the main avenue to St. Mary's gate. Peter the
Great visited the Park four times during 1698, Sir
Isaac Newton in 1694, and again with Sir Christopher
Wren in 1700. Dr. Johnson lodged in Greenwich and
composed the greater part of his Irene in the
Park, which he again visited in 1763 in company
with Boswell. In 1542, the great O'Neil came from
Ireland to offer submission to the King at Green
wich, when he was created Earl of Tyrone, the King
paying all his expenses in connection with the visit.
Greenwich was always more or less connected-
with the Navy, and here, in addition to many of the
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JOHN EVELYN.

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greatest naval men of the day, Queen Elizabeth
welcomed Drake on his return from the famous
voyage of discovery. From a letter of Nelsons, on
board H.M.S. "Agamemnon," dated 1795, it is to
be inferred that he had visited the Park ; and w
are all aware that his dead body was brought to
Greenwich, and lay in the Painted Hall hard by the
Park before being removed to St. Paul's for burial.
Lambarde, the historian, who was a magistrate of
Greenwich about 1570, knew the Park well; and
Evelyn, who wrote his famous Sylva in 1664, was
a frequent visitor, and gave advice to the King in
reference to tree-planting in the Park. Wolsey and
Cranmer were often at Greenwich, while Cromwell
preferred the Palace and Park to any other of his
residences. From 1708 to 1727, Sir James Thornhill
(Hogarth's father-in-law) made frequent excursions
to the Park, as did also Charles Dickens in his earlier
life. Sir James Brook, the Rajah of Sarawak, lived
in the Park on several occasions.

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