for cuttyng and intayling of a lyon and grey-hound in freestoon, that is to say, the lyon barying a vane with the Kynges armes, &c. servyng to stand uppon the bases of freeston abought the ponds;
for pynnes servyng the pyllers of freestoon that the beastes standyth uppon abowght the ponds in the pond yerd;
for payntyng of 30 stoon bests standyng uppon bases abowght the pondes in the pond yerd, for workmanship, oyle, and collers. Also
for payntyng off 180 postes wyth white and grene[18] and in oyle ... standyng in the Kynges new garden;
also for lyke payntyng of 96 powncheones wyth white and grene, and in oyle, wrought wyth fyne antyke uppon both the sydes beryng up the rayles in the sayd Garden;
also for lyke payntyng of 960 yerdes in leyngthe of Rayle.[19]
The quaint aspect of such an heraldic garden has been preserved to us in the large picture at Hampton Court itself of King Henry VIII and his family. This has at either end archways in which stand Will Somers the King's jester and Jane the fool, and behind them are delightful peeps of the garden, with its low brick borders carrying green and white railings, and its gay flower beds from which rise tall painted posts surmounted by the King's beasts holding up their glittering vanes (figs. [144], [145]).
Fig. 144. Part of King Henry VIII's garden at Hampton Court, from a contemporary picture.