 Garrick also opened the temple and garden to the public on special occasions . Each May Day , seated on the chair noted by Mrs Delany and accompanied by his wife , he would give the poor children of Hampton money and cakes . A woman who attended one such May Day event later recalled : " When I was called up , I took my six [ children ] into the Temple , where Mr Garrick was sitting by the fine bust with great cakes before him ; he took down all their names , and then gave a shilling and a piece of plum @-@ cake to every individual one ; not even leaving out poor babes in their mothers ' arms . " 
