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Title: Hampton Court

Author: Walter Jerrold

Illustrator: E. W. Haslehust

Release Date: December 13, 2008 [EBook #27524]

Language: English

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HAMPTON COURT

Described by Walter Jerrold
Pictured by E. W. Haslehust

[Illustration]

BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
1912

[Illustration: THE LION GATE]

Beautiful England

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OXFORD
THE ENGLISH LAKES
CANTERBURY
SHAKESPEARE-LAND
THE THAMES
WINDSOR CASTLE
CAMBRIDGE
NORWICH AND THE BROADS
THE HEART OF WESSEX
THE PEAK DISTRICT
THE CORNISH RIVIERA
DICKENS-LAND
WINCHESTER
THE ISLE OF WIGHT
CHESTER
YORK
THE NEW FOREST
HAMPTON COURT
EXETER

_Uniform with this Series_

Beautiful Ireland

LEINSTER
ULSTER
MUNSTER
CONNAUGHT

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Page
The Lion Gate _Frontispiece_
The Great Gatehouse, West Entrance 8
A Corner of Wolsey's Kitchen 14
Anne Boleyn's Gateway, Clock Court 20
Master Carpenter's Court 26
Fountain Court 32
The Great Hall 38
The Pond Garden 42
East Front from the Long Water 46
The Wilderness in Spring 50
The Long Walk 54
The Long Water in Winter 58

[Illustration: HAMPTON COURT]

"Close by those meads for ever crown'd with flowers
Where Thames with pride s