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... Side of the First Court of Wolsey's Palace • Entrance to the North Wing of the Palace , leading to the Offices The First Green Court , with the Cupolas restored . Arms of Cardinal Wolsey Cardinal Wolsey's Closet . • One of Cardinal ...
... Side of the First Court of Wolsey's Palace • Entrance to the North Wing of the Palace , leading to the Offices The First Green Court , with the Cupolas restored . Arms of Cardinal Wolsey Cardinal Wolsey's Closet . • One of Cardinal ...
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... side by side with the best example existing in England of the debased classic Louis XIV . , namely , Wren's State Apartments . There , too , we may feel , in a more than ordinary degree , amid its red - brick courts , solemn cloisters ...
... side by side with the best example existing in England of the debased classic Louis XIV . , namely , Wren's State Apartments . There , too , we may feel , in a more than ordinary degree , amid its red - brick courts , solemn cloisters ...
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... side appear the crowded gables and the picturesque old church - tower of Kingston , we have enumerated all the natural and local amenities of Hampton Court . Of the annals of the place in the days of the ancient Britons , Romans , and ...
... side appear the crowded gables and the picturesque old church - tower of Kingston , we have enumerated all the natural and local amenities of Hampton Court . Of the annals of the place in the days of the ancient Britons , Romans , and ...
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... side of the palace . His gardens , also , were to be an appanage in every way worthy of the princely residence he was projecting . Many curious entries for wages of gardeners , and for spades , shovels , barrows , seeds , plants , " for ...
... side of the palace . His gardens , also , were to be an appanage in every way worthy of the princely residence he was projecting . Many curious entries for wages of gardeners , and for spades , shovels , barrows , seeds , plants , " for ...
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... and at the King's own banquets , he was always seated in the centre of the high table among the most distinguished guests , with a lady on each side of him . Giustinian , the Venetian ambassador. Entrance to Katharine of Arragon's Rooms.
... and at the King's own banquets , he was always seated in the centre of the high table among the most distinguished guests , with a lady on each side of him . Giustinian , the Venetian ambassador. Entrance to Katharine of Arragon's Rooms.
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accordingly afterwards ambassador Anne Boleyn apartments arms attendants banquets beautiful Bedchamber Bishop building Cardinal Cardinal's carved Catherine Catherine Howard ceiling chapel Charles Clock Court cloisters cloth of gold Council Cromwell crown death declared decorated dressed Duke Elizabeth England English favour feet Fountain Francis Villiers furniture Gallery gardens gave gentlemen George George II gilt give Hall Hampton Court Palace hand Henry VIII honour Horace Walpole James Jane Seymour Jean Tijou Julius Cæsar King King's ladies Lady Castlemaine letter London Lord Chamberlain magnificent Majesty Majesty's manor Mary ments months never night occupied officers painted Park Parliament persons picture play present Prince Princess Privy Chamber Puritan received reign residence rooms royal says side silver soon staircase suite tapestries Thames tion took Tudor velvet Verrio VIII.'s walk Whitehall whole wife William III William III.'s Wolsey Wolsey's palace Wren's yeomen
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