hall, where they were lodged in that part of the palace known as the Cockpit, on the border of St. James's Park.[1] But St. James's Palace itself was reserved for the ultimate use of Henry, and here he set up his establishment as Prince of Wales in 1610 and died in 1612. Richmond and Woodstock were given him for country houses, and at his death he was also buying up interests in Sheen House and Kenilworth.[2] For Charles Holdenby or Holmby House in Northamptonshire was bought in 1605, and on his brother's death he succeeded to St. James's.[3] The King was thus left with Whitehall, Hampton Court, and Windsor as his principal palaces. Naturally those of his wife and son remained available for occasional visits, and the hunting facilities of Theobalds and Woodstock were an agreeable addition to those of Hampton Court and Windsor themselves.[4] But they did not suffice for James, who set about providing himself with hunting quarters in various localities. The most important of these was Royston Priory, on the borders of Cambridgeshire and Herts., which he bought after a year's trial in 1604 and enlarged into a house of some pretensions.[5] Others were at Newmarket, Thetford, Hinchinbrook, Ware, and Woking, while stables were kept up at St. Albans and Reading.[6] Theobalds, Royston, and Newmarket were all reached by a private road, maintained, like the King's Road to Hampton Court and another to Greenwich, by James himself.[7] The arrangement of the principal rooms of a Tudor palace can be well studied on the plan of Hampton Court.[8] There is a great Hall, and at the back of it the entrance to a Great Chamber. At Hampton Court and Richmond this appears to have served also as a Guard or Watching Chamber, but
- ↑ Green, 8, 17; V. P. xii. 194; Pory to Sir Thomas Puckering (3 Jan. 1633) in Court and Time of Charles I, ii. 213: 'In case the Queen [of Bohemia] do come for England, I hear that her lodging appointed in court is the Cockpit, at Whitehall, where she lay when she was a maid.' On the Cockpit, cf. ch. vii.
- ↑ Birch, Life of Henry, 330; Cunningham, viii; V. P. xii. 194, 207; Devon 153, 164, 179; S. P. D., Jac. I, viii. 104; Marshall, Woodstock, 174.
- ↑ Devon, 37, 80; V. P. xiii. 81; Birch, i. 41.
- ↑ James was at Richmond in 1605, 1606, 1607, and 1611, at Oatlands in 1604, 1606, 1607, 1608, 1610, 1611, 1613, and 1615, and at Woodstock in 1603, 1604, 1605, 1610, 1612, and 1614. Some of his hunting trophies are still preserved at Ditchley Park; cf. ch. xxiii, s.v. Lee. Theobalds, like Royston, he visited several times a year. Evidently it was more his than Anne's. In 1607 and 1615 his departure from London is spoken of as going 'home' (Birch, i. 68, 298).
- ↑ V. H. Herts. iii. 253.
- ↑ Abstract, 52.
- ↑ T. F. Ordish in L. T. R. viii. 6. The road crossed Holborn at Kingsgate.
- ↑ Law, Hampton Court, i. 1.
