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Title: Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Matthews, William Henry, 1882-
Subjects: Labyrinths
Publisher: London, New York, etc. Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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rayesof a good growth and height, cutt into severall meanders,circles, semicircles, wyndings and intricate turnings, thewalks or intervalls whereof are all grass plotts; this maze,as it is now ordered, adds very much to the worth of theupper levell . . . which maze and wilderness over andbesides the trees thereof, which are hereafter valewedamongst the other trees of the sayd upper garden and thematerialls of the sayd two shadowe or summer houses,wee valew to bee worth £90. o. o. Whether the maze referred to was afterwardsdestroyed is not clear, but possibly it was preserved andwas identical with that mentioned by the writer of theEncyclopaedia Britannica article as having formerlyexisted at Wimbledon House, the seat of Earl Spencer,which was conjectured to have been laid out by Brown inthe eighteenth century. ( Capability Brown, we maynote, was no lover of mazes, though his official residenceat Hampton Court adjoined the maze.) There are records of various other old mazes in the 134
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o T3 3 <upq immediate vicinity of London, apart from the tea-garden mazes of the last century. Pepys in 1666 speaksof several labyrinths* in the gardens of Lord Brookeat Hackney, and Evelyn in 1700 mentions mazesat Marden, Surrey. Sutton Court also contained a fineexample. There was one in Tothill (or Tuttle) Fields, Westmin-ster, in the seventeenth century, and perhaps earlier, forit is mentioned with familiarity in a play written by JohnCooke in 1614, Greenes Tu Quoque; or the CittieGallant; a Play of Much Humour, wherein one of thecharacters challenges another to a duel : Staines. I accept it ; the meeting place ?Spendall. Beyond the Maze in Tuttle. The maze was renovated or remade in 1672, asshown by an entry in the Churchwardens Accounts ofSt. Margaret, Westminster: Item, to Mr. William Brewer, for making a maze inTuttlefields £2.0.0. It was well known to John Aubrey, the antiquary andnaturalist whose reference to turf mazes we have alreadyquoted. In his Remaines, 1686-7, he

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