Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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As a reward for his loyalty to Charles II during his exile, Edward Proger was made keeper of the Middle Park and was commanded by the King to build a ‘Lodge for Our Service in one of Our Parks at Hampton Court called North Parke’. This keeper’s lodge cost Proger £4000, an enormous amount of money which he spent the next 40 years attempting to recover from the Treasury. A pension of £400 a year was agreed in 1711-12 only two years before his death ‘of the anguish of cutting teeth’ at the age of 92. He lived in Bushy House until his death. http://www.richmond.gov.uk/local_history_bushy_house.pdf