Hampton Court Palace

Sir Gilbert Talbot Knight hath a goodly house by Bromsgrove Market called Grafton.

Pakington hath a very goodly new house of brick called Hampton Court, a six miles off from Worcester somewhat northward.

Market towns in Warwickshire, Warwick, Coventry, Henley, I have it described, Monk Kirkby, I know the site of this, Alcester, Rugby, Tamworth upon Anchor, I have it described, Nuneaton, I have it described, Atherston, I have it described, Bremisham, in the way to Chesterwood, a twelve miles from Coventry, I have it described, southam a six miles from warwick castles in warwickshire warwick killingworth braundon a five miles by north from coventry now desolated sometime as i heard say longing to the lord mortimer brinkelow a five miles by east from coventry now desolated longing some time as men say to the mortimers baginton castle now desolated it longed to the baggots a two miles from coventry ashley castle rivers avon anchor sow riseth near hakesbury three miles from coventry north-east fluit per sow pargum by white lee it propest on the village in tamham labitur leam coming out of northamptonshire it cometh by granborough lemmington marton off kirkpargus and at edmund coote bridge into avon coal flew orator in yardal wood propy king's north ton and after that by cole's hill he goeth into thame blithe riseth in warwickshire near rowton by bolshall hampton pakington and then going betwixt cole's hill and macstoke near shustock village into thame the length of warwickshire be estimation from rollerich stones by chipping north ton to tamwut as to the limits of oxfordshire and staffordshire Thus the length is about thirty-six miles.

Watling Street towards Rugby is a limes upon Leicestershire.

And Henry VIII was a great patron.

And you get Italian architects working at Hampton Court, you know, and other places, you know, in England.

And Henry's buying Italian paintings.

So there is some influence.

in our manners.

I mean, The Book of the Courtier's arrival, how does this change things? Are people, I don't know, no elbows on the feasting table, people holding the doors open at Hampton Court Palace, that sort of thing, practicing their curtsies?

Well, Hoby's English translation of the book was phenomenally popular, and it shapes behavior at court during Elizabeth I's reign and beyond for many generations.

So one example I think really illustrates the, uh, change in manners from medieval times to Elizabeth I's day is the approach to farting.

So I was hosting their sort of social content again, which was a good gig.

And then after that, I went to Hampton Court and did a slot on the main stage there.

Wow.

Fun.

And you told me where this is, which is Hampton Court.

Yes, so it's in Hampton Court Palace.

So in the middle of...

I'm sort of lost for words slightly because nobody, I don't live far from there.

It could not be concealed that he was inferior in seamanship to every foremast man on board.

It was idle to expect that old sailors, familiar with the hurricanes of the tropics and with the icebergs of the arctic circle, would pay prompt and respectful obedience to a chief who knew no more of winds and waves than could be learned in a gilded barge between Whitehall Stairs and Hampton Court.

To trust such a novice with the working of a ship was evidently impossible.

The direction of navigation was therefore taken from the captain and given to the master, but this partition of authority produced innumerable inconveniences.

the spiritual character not only ceased to be a qualification for high civil office but began to be regarded as a disqualification those worldly motives therefore which had formerly induced so many able aspiring and high-born youths to assume the ecclesiastical habit ceased to operate Not one parish in two hundred then afforded what a man of family considered as a maintenance.

There were still indeed writers in the church, but they were few, and even the highest were mean, when compared with the glory which had once surrounded the princes of the hierarchy.

The state kept by Parker and Grindle seemed beggarly to those who remembered the imperial pomp of Woolsey, his palaces which had become the favourite abodes of royalty, Whitehall and Hampton Court.

The three sumptuous tables daily spread in his refectory, the forty-four gorgeous copes in his chapel, his running footmen in rich liveries, and his bodyguards with gilded pole-axes.

And in the words of the young king himself, quote, The council, about 19 of them, were gathered in London, thinking to meet with the Lord Protector and to make him amend some of his disorders.

He, fearing his state, caused the secretary in my name to be sent to the Lords to know for what cause they gathered their powers together, and if they meant to talk with him, that they should come in a peaceable manner." However, Without getting reassurances and fearing his fellow councillors were out to get him, on the 6th of October, Protector Somerset called for the support of the people and ordered the defence of Hampton Court, where he and the King was.

This, of course, failed to materialise, so about 9 or 10 o'clock that night, he took the King to Windsor Castle for his own safety.

For days afterwards, messengers and emissaries went to and forth from London and Windsor, carrying very sharp exchanges of words between the Duke of Somerset and the rest of the Royal Council.