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

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their most striking merits. There could hardly be
a better example of the culmination of Renaissance
influence in England. The monograms of William
and Mary form part of the centre of several of the
screens, and they appear to have been erected in the
years following 1691.
After the Queen's death the works seem for a time
to have been suspended. The King did not live at
Hampton Court for several years, and his mind was
employed on other matters.
The great plans for the reconstruction of the Palace
were in being while she lived,but the greatest changes
in the gardens were made after her death. About 1699
William resumed his interest in the Palace, and gave
minute directions for the addition of a number of
fountains to what was now becoming the " Great
Fountain Garden," which stretched in front eastwards
to the canal and the Long Water. At this time also
Bushey Park was laid out in avenues, and "The
Lynes " with limes and horse-chestnuts. The park
was to have been an approach to the new entrance
court, as Wren designed it. But happily the old
buildings beyond the Chapel Court were never destroyed,
and the wilderness remains as it was before
Wren drew his magnificent new plans.
In 1700 the completion of the great garden as we
know it was begun. The Broad Walk, which extends
the whole length of the eastern front, from the gate
which touches the road to Hampton Wick and Kingston
beyond the private garden to the river, was