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

106 HAMPTON COURT
for the place, and his delight in retirement with his
Dutch favouritesand his English ministers, were indeed
among the chief reasons of the unpopularity which
befell him early and lasted all through his life. He
gave himself to seclusion, and the seclusion happily
gave us Wren's Hampton Court.
While plans were preparing and the new Fountain
Court was rising on the site of the old Cloister Green
Court, while the King was hunting, as the satiric
rhyme said, to make the Queen thin, Mary was sitting
with her maids in theHornbeam Walk or in the "Water
Gallery," the house,now destroyed, separate from the
rest of the Palace, that looked upon the river. Her
china,her plants, her needlework, were her solace in