Produced by Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) 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 _Volumes Ready_ 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 surveys his rising towers There stands a structure of majestic frame, Which from the neighb'ring Hampton takes its name."--_Pope._ I