Hampton Court ... Illustrated with forty-three drawings by Herbert ...

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sorrow for the most faithful and by far the greatest
of his ministers, his greedy eagerness for the dead
man's money, and the sad hours spent by the faithful
Cavendish between Norfolk, Gage, and the lords
of the council, cross-questioned and browbeaten about
the paltry sum he had left — is truly characteristic
of the meanness of the age that was yet so strong.
It is a pathetic ending to Wolsey's connection with
Hampton Court. The King is transforming it — it is
full of his creations, and new monograms and arms on
every wall and archway are teaching men to forget
who first designed the great house. It is there, in the
house he had coveted and at last enjoyed, that the
greatness of his reign.
"
Thus ended the life of
the right triumphal Cardinal of England, on whose
soul Jesus have mercy!"
master learns the death of the man who had made the
How Henry spent his time at Hampton Court, in
hunting and tilting, in playing games and making love,
Mr. Ernest Law has most happily set forth in his
" History ofHampton Court Palace." : And Anne,too,
now queen, sat working with her needle when she did
not attend theKing in the field. But queens were even
less abiding thanministers under 'Henry VIII. In the
summer of 1536 the arms of Queen Anne were altered
at Hampton Court into the arms of Queen Jane.2
In September 1537 the new Queen came there, and
" took to her chamber." By this time it would seem
the new buildings were finished, and on the east front,
1 Vol.i.pp. 133-143*
2 Ibid*> P* J79*