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Title: The history of Hampton Court Palace in Tudor times
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Law, Ernest, 1854-1930
Subjects: Hampton Court (Richmond upon Thames, London, England)
Publisher: London : G. Bell and Sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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m hearsay information, which he mayhave misunderstood or misapplied. It may, however, be that the semicircle was at this timeenlarged and extended, and the lime trees shifted furthereastward in the park; though it is equally probable thatDefoe is alluding to the subsequent removal, in 16991700—five years after the death of Queen Mary—of thoselime trees, which were on the circumference of the semi-circle nearest the Palace, and the shifting of which wasnecessitated, as we shall see when we reach that period, bythe extension of the gardens down to the river on the south,and to the Kingston Road on the north, so that the limes infront of the Palace no longer form a complete semicircle,but only a segment of one, and instead of reaching to theline of the fagade, turn off at a distance of 50 yards from it,in a parallel direction. With this, however, we will dealmore fully later on.^ Throughout the months of August and SeptemberWilliam and Mary remained in seclusion at Hampton Pp. 106-8.
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Sir Christopher Wren. 1689) King William leaves Hampton Court, 23 Court/ during which time there was Httle to disturb the eventenour of their Hves beyond the conferring of knighthoodon various individuals, who had proved themselves usefuladherents to the House of Orange, and the giving ofaudiences to ambassadors and other persons of distinction.^One of these audiences deserves to be particularized, namely,when, on Thursday, the 29th of August, their Majesties re-ceived George Walker, the heroic defender of Londonderry,with many expressions of the sense they had of his greatservices; and, as a mark of their royal favour and bounty,the King gave him a present of five thousand pounds.^ On the last day of September, William left HamptonCourt for Newmarket, in order to be present at the autumnmeeting, and returned to the Palace on the loth, quite cleaned out, for besides having had a bad time of it on theracecourse, he was very hard hit at cards, at which heplayed every night, and lost as

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