Editing Woodstock Palace (section)

==17th century==
[[James VI and I|King James I]] and his wife [[Anne of Denmark]], her secretary [[William Fowler (makar)|William Fowler]], and [[Arbella Stuart]] came to Woodstock in September 1603 during a time of plague.<ref>''HMC Salisbury Hatfield'', vol. 15 (London, 1930), p. 243.</ref> [[Sir Robert Cecil]] criticised the building as, "unwholsome, all the house standing upon springs. It is unsavoury, for there is no savour but of cows and pigs. It is uneaseful, for only the King and Queen with the privy chamber ladies and 3 or 4 of Scottish council are lodged in the house".<ref>Edmund Lodge, ''Illustrations of British History'', vol. 3 (London, 1791), p. 186.</ref> The court was at Woodstock again in September 1610.<ref>Horatio Brown, ''Calendar State Papers Venice, 1610-1613'', vol. 12 (London, 1906), pp. 40-1.</ref>

In 1611, King James I gave Woodstock Palace to his son [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales]],<ref>[[Horatio Brown]], ''Calendar State Papers Venice, 1610-1613'', vol. 12 (London, 1906), p. 207 no. 324.</ref> who had a banqueting house built of leafy tree branches in the park, in which he held a dinner for his parents and his sister [[Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia|Princess Elizabeth]] in August 1612.<ref>Steven Veerapen, ''The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I'' (Birlinn, 2023), p. 287: [[Mary Anne Everett Green]] & S. C. Lomas, ''Elizabeth, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia'' (London, 1909), p. 23.</ref><ref>[[Thomas Birch]], ''Life of Henry Prince of Wales'' (London, 1760), pp. 331-2.</ref> Henry paid for a poor boy from Woodstock to be apprenticed with Thomas Wilson, a shoemaker on the [[Strand, London|Strand]] who worked for the royal family.<ref>Peter Cunningham, [https://archive.org/details/extractsfromacco13greauoft/page/n17/mode/2up ''Extracts from the accounts of the Revels at court'' (London, 1842), p. xiv]</ref> On 19 February 1617, Woodstock was given to [[Charles I of England|Prince Charles]].<ref>Edward Marshall, ''The Early History of Woodstock Manor and Its Environs'' (Oxford, 1873), p. 177.</ref>

In 1649, a survey was made of the manor buildings, mentioning, "a large gatehouse and a courtyard, on the north of which there is range of buildings called the Prince's Lodgings, on the east a spacious hall, adjoining to which there is a chapel and lodgings, known by the name of the Bishop's Lodgings, another courtyard called the Wardrobe, surrounded with the Lord Chamberlain's lodgings and wardrobe rooms, adjoining which is the Queen's Hall and the steward's lodgings. There is a fair staircase leading up to the Guard Chamber, to which joins the Presence Chamber, on the right hand of which is the King's withdrawing room, bedchamber and closet, on the right hand the Queen's lodgings". The rooms were then mostly empty of furnishings.<ref>Edward Marshall, ''The Early History of Woodstock Manor and Its Environs'' (Oxford, 1873), pp. 206-7.</ref>

Woodstock Palace was mostly destroyed during the [[English Civil War]].