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JOHN EVELYN
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
AUSTIN DOBSON
HON. LL.D. BDIN.
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. Ill
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK : THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1906
All rights rturved
Univ. Library, Univ. CaWf., Santa Cruz
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ILLUSTRATIONS
PORTRAITS
PAOB
John Evelyn. From the engraving by Thomas Bragg after the
picture by Shr Grodfrey Kneller. [^m j9. 185] . . Frontispisee
Louise-Ren£e de PekancoSt de K^boualle, Duchess of Ports-
mouth. From the portrait by Pierre Mignard in the National
Portrait Gallery ....... 113
Craeles II. From the portrait by Mary Beale in the National
Portrait Gallery ....... 137
James II. From the portrait by John Riley in the National
Portrait Gallery ....... 949
AUTOGRAPH
Facsimiije of a Letter from John Evelyn to Archbishop
Tegison, 4th September, 1680 ..... 55
VIEWS
Cliveden, Bucks. From an engraving after a drawing by John
Donowell ...••••• 85
CASBioBURr, Herts. From an engraving by John Kip after a
drawing by L. Knyff ...... 45
Chelsea College. From an engraving by John Kip after his own
drawing ........ 83
Rye Hocse, Herts. From a water-colour in the British Museum 101
Frost Fair on the Thames, 1683-84. From a contemporary
broadside ........ 121
Christ^s Hospital. Flom an engraving by J. Bowles .917
V
vi ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
Altho&p, NoRTHAMFToysHiRE. From an engraving by John Kip
after a drawing by L. Knyff ..... S37
Grcekwich Hospital. From an engraving by Sutton Nicholls,
1704 323
WoTTOK Church, Surret (Interior), 1818. From an engraving by
W. Woolnoth after a drawing by John Coney . 343
WoTTOK CmmcH, Surrey (Dormitory), 1818. From an engraving
by William Ang^s after a drawing by John Coney 373
THE
^ DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN
1676-7 : Sth Febnuiry. I went to Roehampton^
with my lady Duchess of Ormonde. The garden
and perspective is pretty, the prospect most
agreeable.
\5th May. Came the Earl of Peterborough,^
to desire me to be a trustee for Lord Viscount
Mordaunt and the Countess, for the sale of certain
lands set out by Act of Parliament, to pay debts.
\2th June. I went to London, to give the Lord
Ambassador Berkeley (now returned from the
treaty at Nimemien) an account of the great trust
reposed in me during his absence, I having received
and remitted to him no less than £20,000 to my no
small trouble and loss of time, that during his
absence, and when the Lord Treasurer was no
great friend [of his] I yet procured him great sums,
very often soliciting his Majesty in his behalf;
looking after the rest of his estates and concerns
entirely, without once accepting any kmd of
acknowledgment, purely upon the request of my
dear friend, Mr. Godolphin. I returned with
abundance of thanks and professions from my
Lord Berkeley and my Lady.
219th. This business being now at an end, and
myself delivered from that intolerable servitude
1 [See mde, vol. U. p. 119.]
VOL. ni :ff B
2 THE DIARY OF i677
and correspondence, I had leisure to be somewhat
more at home and to myself.
9rd July. I sealed the deeds of sale of the
manor of Bletchingley to Sir Robert Clayton/ for
payment of Lord Peterborough's debts, according
to the trust of the Act of Parliament
16th. I went to Wotton. — 22nd. Mr. Evans,
curate of Abinger, preached an excellent sermon
on Matt V. 12. In the afternoon, Mr. Higham^
at Wotton catechised.
26th. I dined at Mr. Duncomb's, at Sheere,^
whose house stands environed with very sweet and
quick streams.
29th. Mr. Bohun, my son s late tutor, preached
at Abinger, on Phil. iv. 8, very elegantly and
practically.
5th AugyM. I went to visit my Lord Brouncker,
now taking the waters at Dulwich.
9th. Dined at the Earl of Peterborough's the
day after the marriage of my Lord of Arundel to
Lady Mary Mordaunt, daughter to the Earl of
Peterborough.*
2%th. To visit my Lord Chamberlain,^ in
Suffolk; he sent his coach and six to meet and
bring me from St Edmund's Bury to Euston.^
29th. We hunted in the Park and killed a very
fat buck. — 81^. I went a-hawking.
Uh September. I went to visit my Lord Crofts,^
now dying at St Edmund's Bury, and took the
opportunity to see this ancient town, and the
^ [See andty vol. ii. p. 117. There is a florid monument to
Sir Robert Clayton (Drjden's Ishban) in Bletchingley Church
(St. Mary's). It was erected during his lifetime.]
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 68.1
'See poH, under 1st July, 1694.1
She was afterwards divorced by her husband, being then
Duchess of Norfolk (see post, under April, 1700).]
* [Lord Arlington.] • [See ante, vol. ii. p. 330.]
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 17.]
8
4
W7 JOHN EVELYN 8
remains of that famous monastery and abbey.
There i^ little standing entire, save the gatehouse ;
it has been a vast and munificent Gothic structure,
and of great extent The gates are wood, but
quite plated over with iron. There are also two
stately churches, one especially.
5th September. I went to Thetford, to the
borough-town, where stand the ruins of a religious
house : there is a round mountain artificially raised,
either for some castle, or monument, which makes
a pretty landscape. As we went and returned, a
tumbler showed his extraordinary address in the
Warren. I also saw the Decoy; much pleased
with the stratagem.
ItJu There dined this day at my Lord's one Sir
John Gawdie,^ a very handsome person, but quite
dumb, yet very intelligent by signs, and a very fine
painter; he was so civil and well bred, as it was
not possible to discern any imperfection by him.
His lady and children were also there, and he was
at church in the morning with us.
9tlu A stranger preached at Euston Church,
and fell into a handsome panegyric on my Lord's
new building the church, which indeed for its
elegance and cheerfulness, is one of the prettiest
country churches in England. My Lord told me
his heart smote him that, after he had bestowed so
much on his magnificent palace there, he should see
Gk>d's House in the ruin it lay in. He has also
re-built the parsonage-house, all of stone, very neat
and ample.
lOtJu To divert me, my Lord would needs
carry me to see Ipswich, when we dined with one
Mr. Mann by the way, who was Recorder of the
town. There were in our company my Lord
Huntingtower, son to the Duchess of Lauderdale,
^ [Sir John Gawdie, 1639-1708. He was a pupil of Lelj^ and
deaf as weU as dumb.]
4 THE DIARY OF W7
Sir Edward Bacon, a learned gentleman of the fiEtmily
of the great Chancellor Verulam, and Sir John
Felton, with some other Knights and Gentlemen.
After dinner, came the Bailiff and Magistrates in
their formalities with thdr maces to compliment
my Lord, and invite him to the town-house, where
they presented us a collation of dried sweetmeats
and wine, the bells ringing, etc. Then, we went
to see the town, and first, the Lord Viscount
Hereford's house,^ which stands in a park near the
town, like that at Brussels, in Flanders ; the house
not great, yet pretty, especially the hall. The
stews for fish succeed one another, and feed one
the other, all paved at bottom. There is a good
picture of the Blessed Virgin in one of the
parlours, seeming to be of Holbein or some good
master. Then we saw the Haven, seven miles
from Harwich. The tide runs out every day, but
the bedding being soft mud, it is safe for shipping
and a station. The trade of Ipswich is for the
most part Newcastle coals, with which they supply
London; but it was formerly a clothing town.
There is not any beggar asks alms in the whole
place, a thing very extraordinary, so ordered by the
prudence of the Magistrates. It has in it fourteen
or fifteen beautiful churches : in a word, it is for
building, cleanness, and good order, one of the
best towns in England. Cardinal Wolsey was a
butcher's son of Ipswich, but there is little of that
magnificent Prelate's foundation here, besides a
school and I think a library, which I did not see.
His intentions were to build some great thing.
We returned late to Euston, having travell^
about fifty miles this day.
^ [^* There is one pretty good house of y* Earle of Herrifords
that many'd one of Mr. Norboms Daughters, that was Killed by
S' Tho: Montgomery" (Diaiy of Ceiia Fiennes (l689-94\ 1888,
117).]
W7 JOHN EVELYN 5
Since first I was at this place,^ I found things
exceedingly improved. It is seated in a bottom
between two graceful swellings, the main building
being now in the figure of a Greek n with four
pavilions, two at each corner, and a break in the
front, railed and balustered at the top, where I caused
huge jars to be placed full of earth to keep them
steady upon their pedestals between the statues,
which make as good a show as if they were of stone,
and, though the building be of brick, and but two
stories besides cellars, and garrets covered with blue
slate, yet there is room enough for a ftill court,
the offices and outhouses being so ample and well
disposed. The King's apartment is painted a fresco
and magnificently furnished. There are many
excellent pictures of the great masters. The
gallery is a pleasant, noble room : in the break, or
middle, is a billiard-table, but the wainscot, being
of fir, and painted, does not please me so well as
Spanish oak without paint. The chapel is pretty,
the porch descending to the gardens. The orange-
garden is very fine, and leads into the green-house,
at the end of which is a hall to eat in, and the
conservatory some hundred feet long, adorned
with maps, as the other side is with the heads of
the Caesars, ill cut in alabaster ; above, are several
apartments for my Lord, Lady, and Duchess,^
with kitchens and other offices below, in a lesser
form ; lodgings for servants, all distinct, for them
to retire to when they please, and would be in
private, and have no communication with the
palace, which he tells me he will wholly resign to
his son-in-law and daughter, that charming young
creature.
The canal running under my lady's dressing-
room chamber window, is full of carps and fowl,
1 [See onto, p. 2.]
^ His daughter, the Duchess of Grafton (see ante, vol. ii. p. 850).
6 THE DIARY OF wr
which come and are fed there. The cascade at
the end of the canal turns a corn-mill, that provides
the family, and raises water for the fountains and
offices. To pass this canal into the opposite
meadows. Sir Samuel Morland^ has invented a
screw-bridge, which, being turned with a key, lands
you fifty feet distant at the entrance of an ascend-
ing walk of trees, a mile in length, as it is also on the
front into the park, of four rows of ash trees, and
reaches to the park-pale, which is nine miles in
compass, and the best for riding and meeting the
game that I ever saw. There were now of red and
nillow deer almost a thousand, with good covert,
but the soil barren and flying sand, in which nothing
will grow kindly. The tufts of fir, and much of
the other wood, were planted by my direction,
some years before. This seat is admirably placed
for field-sports, hawking, hunting or racing. The
mutton is small, but sweet. The stables hold
thirty horses and four coaches. The out-offices
make two large quadrangles, so as servants never
lived with more ease and convenience ; never master
more civil. Strangers are attended and accommo-
dated as at their home, in pretty apartments
furnished with all manner of conveniences and
privacy.
There is a library full of excellent books ;
bathing -rooms, elaboratory, dispensary, a decoy,
and places to keep and fat fowl in. He had now in
his new church (near the garden) built a dormitory,
or vault, with several repositories, in which to bury
his family.
In the expense of this pious structure, the
church is most laudable, most of the Houses of
God in this country resembling rather stables and
thatched cottages than temples in which to serve
the Most High. He has built a lodge in the park
^ [See ante, vol. il p. 276.]
wr JOHN EVELYN 7
for the keeper, which is a neat dwelling, and might
become any gentleman. The same has he done
for the parson, Uttle deserving it for murmuring that
my Lord put him some time out of his wretched
hovel, whilst it was building. He has also erected
a fair inn at some distance from his palace, with
a bridge of stone over a river near it, and repaired
all the tenants' houses, so as there is nothing but
neatness and accommodations about his estate,
which I yet think is not above £1500 a year. I
believe he had now in his family one hundred
domestic servants.
His lady (being one of the Brederode's daughters,
grandchild to a natural son of Henry Frederick,
Frince of Orange) is a good-natured and obliging
woman. ^ They love fine things, and to Uve easily,
pompously, and hospitably ; but, with so vast ex-
pense, as plunges my Lord into debts exceedingly.
My Lord himself is given into no expensive vice
but building, and to have all things rich, polite,
and princely. He never plays, but reads much,
having the Latin, French, and Spanish tongues in
perfection. He has traveUed much, and is the
best-bred and courtly person his Majesty has about
him, so as the public Ministers more frequent him
than any of the rest of the Nobilitv. Whilst he
was Secretary of State and Prime Minister, he had
gotten vastly, but spent it as hastily, even before
he had established a fund to maintain his greatness ;
and now banning to decline in favour (the Duke
being no great friend of his), he knows not how to
retrench. He was son of a Doctor of Laws,^ whom
I have seen, and, being sent from Westminster
School to Oxford, with intention to be a divine,
^ risabeUa von Beverweert. She was a sister of Lady Ossoiy,
and aanghter of Henry de Nassau.]
* [Sir John Bennet. Another Sir John Bennet, d, 1627, was
his gnmdiather.]
8 THE DIARY OF im
and parson of Arlington/ a village near Brentford,
when Master of Arts, the Rebellion falling out,
he followed the King's Army, and receiving an
honourable wound in the face^ grew into favour,
and was advanced from a mean fortune, at his
Majesty's restoration, to be an Earl and Knight of
the Garter, Lord Chamberlam of the Household,
and first favourite for a long time, during which
the King married his natural son, the Duke of
Grafton, to his only daughter and heiress, as before
mentioned,' worthy for her beauty and virtue of
the greatest Prince in Christendom* My Lord is,
besides this, a prudent and understanding person
in business, and speaks well; unfortunate yet in
those he has advanced, most of them proving
ungrateful. The many oblations and civiUties I
have received from this noUe gentleman, extracts
from me this character, and I am sorry he is in no
better circumstances.
Having now passed near three weeks at Euston,
to my great satisfaction, with much difiiculty he
suffered me to look homeward, being very earnest
with me to stay longer ; and, to engage me, would
himself have carried me to Lynn Regis, a town of
important traffic, about twenty miles beyond, which
I had never seen; as also the Travelling Sands,
about ten miles wide of Euston, that have so
^ Harlington. He wished to be called Lord Cheney^ and for
some da]^ was so called. But a Buckinghamshire gentleman of
that name objecting^ he took the title of a little farm that had
belonged to his father, — '^ the proper and true name of the placse
being Harlington, a little village between London and Uxbridge "
{Ufe of Edward Earl of Clarendon, 1827, ii. 359).
^ A deep cut across his nose. He was obliged always to
wear a black lozenge-shaped patch upon it, and so is represented
in his portraits \e.g, that by Lely^ in the possession of the Earl of
TankerviUe. According to Antiiony Hamilton '' this remarkable
plaister so well suited his mysterious looks, that it seemed an
addition to his gravity and self-sufficiency " (JMLenunrs of Grammont,
chap, vii.).] • [See ante, p. 5.]
im JOHN EVELYN 9
damaged the country, rolling from place to place,
and, Uke the Sands in the Deserts of Lybia, quite
overwhelmed some gentlemen's whole estates, as
the relation extant in print, and brought to our
Society, describes at larga
IStk September. My Lord s coach conveyed me
to Buiy, and thence baiting at Newmarket, stepping
in at Audley End ^ to see that house again, I slept
at Bishop Stortford ; and, the next day, home. I
was accompanied in my journey by Major Fairfax,
of a younger house of the Lord Fairfax,' a soldier,
a traveller, an excellent musician, a good-natured,
well-bred gentleman.
18th. I preferred Mr. Phillips^ (nephew of
Milton) to the service of my Lord Chamberlain,
who wanted a scholar to read to and entertain him
sometimes.
12th October. With Su* Robert Clayton to
Marden, an estate he had bought lately of my
kinsman. Sir John Evelyn, of Godstone, in Surrey,
which from a despicable farm-house Sir Robert
bad erected into a seat with extraordinary ex-
pense.^ It is in such a solitude among hills, as, being
not above sixteen miles from London, seems almost
incredible, the ways up to it are so winding and
intricate. The gardens are large, and well-walled,
and the husbandry part made very convenient and
perfectly understood. The bams, the stacks of
com, the stalls for cattle, pigeon-house, etc., of
most laudable example. Innumerable are the
plantations of trees, especially walnuts. The
orangery and gardens are very curious. In the
house are large and noble rooms. He and his lady
See anU, vol ii. p. 97.1 « [See ante, vol. ii. p. 90.]
[See miie, vol. ii. p. SOo.]
'Marden Park, Surrey, six miles south of Croydon^ now the
residence of Walpole Greenwell, Esq. Wilberforce lived here for
a time.]
s
4
10 THE DIARY OF im
(who is very curious in distillery) entertained me
three or four days very freely. I earnestly suggested
to him the repairing of an old desolate dilapidated
church, standing on the hill above the house/
which I left him in good disposition to do, and
endow it better ; there not being above four or five
houses in the parish, besides that of this prodigious
rich scrivener.^ This place is exceeding sharp in
the winter, by reason of the serpentining of the
hills : and it wants running water ; but the solitude
much pleased me. All the. ground is so full of
wild thyme, marjoram, and other sweet plants,
that it cannot be overstocked with b^; I
think he had near forty hives of that industrious
insect.
Utk October. I went to church at Godstone,
and to see old Sir John Evelyn's ' dormitory, join-
ing to the church, paved with marble, where he
and his lady lie on a very stately monument at
length ; he in armour of white marbla The in-
scription is only an account of his particular branch
of the family, on black marble.
15^^ Returned to London ; in the evening,
I saw the Prince of Orange, and supped with
Lord Ossory.
28rd. Saw again the Prince of Orange; his
"^ Woldingham. The Church — according to Bray — consisted
of one room about thirty feet long and twenty-one wide, without
any tower, spire, or bell. It was considered as a Donative, not
subject to the Bishop ; and service was performed therein once a
month. No churchwarden ; two farm-houses, four cottages ; and
by the Population Return, even as late as 1811, the number of
inhabitants was only fifbr-eight [which in 1904 had increased to
two hundred and twenty]. That disposition in Sir Robert Clayton
which Evelyn fancied he aaw^ appears to have subsided^ for the
church remained for a long time as it was in the Diarist's day.
[In 1890 it was restored by the present owner of Marden Park.]
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 117; and post, under 18th November,
1679.1
» [Sir John Evelyn of Leigh Place, d. l64S. His "lady"
was Thomasine Heynes of Chessington.]
W7 JOHN EVELYN 11
marriage with the Lady Mary, eldest daughter
to the Duke of York, by Mrs. Hyde, the late
Duchess, was now declared.^
11th November. I was all this week composing
matters between old Mrs. Howard and Sir Gabriel
Sylvius, upon his long and earnest addresses to
Mrs. Anne, her second daughter,' Maid of Honour
to the Queen. My friend, Mrs. Godolphin (who
exceedingly loved the young lady), was most in-
dustrious in it, out of pity to the languishing
knight ; so as though there were great differences
in thdr years, it was at last effected, and they
were married the 18th, in Henry VII. 's Chapel,
by the Bishop of Rochester,' there being besides
my wife and Mrs. Graham, her sister,^ Mrs.
Godolphin, and very few more. We dined at
the old lady's, and supped at Mr. Graham's at
St. James's.
15th. The Queen's birthday, a great Ball at
Court, where the Prince of Orange and his new
Princess danced.
19th. They went away, and I saw embarked
my Lady Sylvius, who went into Holland with
her husband, made Hofimaester to the Prince, a
considerable employment We parted with great
sorrow, for the great respect and honour I bore her,
a most pious and virtuous lady.
27th. Dined at the Lord Treasurer's with
Prince Rupert, Viscount Fauconbeig,* Earl of
Bath, Lord O'Brien, Sir John Lowther,^ Sir
1 [It took place 4th November^ 1677.]
* See ante, vol. ii. p. SS3, Evelyn dedicated his Life of Mrs.
Godolphin to Ladj Sylvius.
* Dr. John £>olben, 1625-86, also Dean of Westminster^
translate afterwards to York.
^ [Dorothy Howard (see voL ii. p. 383).]
^ lliomas BelasjTse, 1627-1700, Viscount Fauconberg.1
^ [Sir John Lowther, 1655-1700, afterwards first Viscount
Lonsdale.]
12 THE DIARY OF lars
Christopher Wren, Dr. Grew,^ and other learned
men.
QOth November. Sir Joseph Williamson, Principal
Secretary of State, was chosen President of the
Royal Society, after my Lord Viscount Brouncker
had possessed the chair now sixteen years suc-
cessively, and therefore now thought fit to change^
that prescription might not prejudice.
Uli December. Being the first day of his taking
the chair, he gave us a magnificent supper.
20th. Carried to my Lord Treasurer an account
of the Earl of Bristol's Library, at Wimbledon,
which my Lord thought of purchasing, till I
acquainted him that it was a very broken collection,
consisting much in books of judicial astrology,
romances, and trifles.
25th. I gave my son an Office,^ with instructions
how to govern his youth ; I pray God give him the
grace to make a right use of it 1
1677-8 : 28rrf January. Dined with the Duke
of Norfolk, being the first time I had seen him
since the death of his elder brother, who died at
Padua in Italy,' where he had resided above thirty
years. The Duke had now newly declared his
marriage to his concubine, whom he promised me
he never would marry.* I went with him to see
the Duke of Buckingham, thence to my Lord
Sunderland, now Secretary of State, to show him
that rare piece of Vorstermans' * (son of old Vorster-
^ [Dr. Nehemiali Grew^ 1641-1712^ author of the Anatormf of
PUmU, 1682, and one of the first who advocated the theory of
different sexes in botany. He was Secretary to the Royal
Society, 1677-79.]
^ [A service-book or book of prayers.]
• See ante, vol. i. p. 310.]
^ Lord Henry Howard, now Duke of Norfolk, had married his
second wife, Mrs. Jane Bickerton^ daughter of Robert Bickerton^
a Scotchman^ who was Gentleman of the Wine-Cellar to King
Charles II. (see ante, voL ii. p. 333 ; and post, under Sdid August^
1678).] ^ [Johannes Vorstermans^ 1643-99.]
1678 JOHN EVELYN 18
man), which was a view, or landscape of my Lord's
palac^ etc., at Althorp, in Northamptonshire.
%th February. Supping at my Lord Chamber-
Iain's I had a long discourse with the Count de
Castel Mellor, lately Prime Minister in Portugal,
who, taking part with his master. King Alphonso,
was banished by his brother, Don Pedro, now
R^ent ; but had behaved himself so uncorruptly
in all his ministry that, though he was acquitted,
and his estate restored, yet would they not suffer
him to return. He is a very intelligent and worthy
gentleman.^
ISfA. My Lord Treasurer sent for me to
accompany him^to Wimbledon, which he had lately
purchased of the Earl of Bristol ; ^ so breaking fast
with hinoi privately in his chamber, I accompanied
him with two of his daughters, my Lord Conway,
and Sir Bernard Gascojme ; ' and, having surveyed
his gardens and alterations, returned late at night.
22nd. Dr. Pierce* preached at Whitehall, on
2 Thessalonians iil 6, against our late schismatics,
in a rational discourse, but a little over-sharp, and
not at all proper for the auditory there.
22nd March. Dr. South * preached coram Rege^
an incomparable discourse on this text, **A
wounded spirit who can bear 1 " Note : Now was
our Communion-table placed altarwise ; the church
steeple, clock, and other reparations finished.
leth April I showed Don Emmanuel de Lyra
(Portugal Ambassador) and the Count de Castel
Mellor,* the Repository of the Royal Society, and
the Collie of Physicians.
ISth. I went to see new Bedlam Hospital,
1 \Seepoit, under lOth July^ 1685. J
* Lord Treasurer Danby had purchased Wimbledon House
from the widow of Lord Bristol^ who died in 1676 (see ante,
ToL ii. p. 184).]
* [See amte, voL IL p. 310.1 ^ [See ante, voL ii. p. 11 6.]
' [See ante, vol. ii p. S98.J ^ [Portuguese Prime Minister.]
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magnificently built,^ and most sweetly placed in
MoorfieldSy since the dreadful fire in London.
2Sth June. I went to Windsor with my Lord
Chamberlain (the castle now repairing with exceed-
ing cost) to see the rare work of Verrio, and
incomparable carving of Gibbons.
29tA. Returned with my Lord by Hounslow
Heathy where we saw the new-raised army en-
camped, designed against France, in pretence, at
least ; but which gave umbrage to the Parliament
His Majesty and a world of company were in the
field, and the whole army in battalia; a very
glorious sight Now were brought into service a
new sort of soldiers, called Grenadiers, who were
dexterous in flinging hand grenadoes, every one
having a pouch full; they had furred caps with
coped crowns like Janizaries, which made them
look very fierce, and some had long hoods hanging
down behind^ as we picture fools. Their clothing
being likewise piebald, yellow and red.
Stk July. Came to dine with me my Lord
Longford, Treasurer of Ireland, nephew to that
learned gentleman, my Lord Aungier,^ with whom
I was long since acquainted : also the Lady
Stidolph, and other company.
19m. The Earl of Ossory came to take his leave
of me, going into Holland to command the English
forces.
20t?i. I went to the Tower to try a metal at the
Assay-master's, which only proved sulphur; then
^ This Bedlam^ of which Robert Hooke was architect^ and of
which there is a view in Stiype, was taken down in 1814^ and a
new one erected^ from the designs of James Lewis^ on the Surrey
side of the Thames, in the road leading from St George's Fields
to Lambeth. On pulling the first building down^ the foundations
were found to be very bad, it having been built on part of the
Town-ditch, and on a soil very unfit for the erection of so large
a structure.
2 [See ante, vol. ii. p. 98.]
im JOHN EVELYN 16
saw Monsieur Rotier, that excellent graver belong-
ing to the Mint, who emulates even the ancients,
in both metal and stone ; ^ he was now moulding
a horse for the King^s statue, to be cast in silver,
of a yard high. I dined with Mr. Slingsby, Master
of the Mint
28rd July. Went to see Mr. Elias Ashmole*s
library and curiosities, at Lambeth.^ He has
divers MSS., but most of them astrological, to
which study he is addicted, though I believe not
learned, but very industrious, as his History of
the order of the Garter proves." He showed me
a toad included in amber. The prospect from a
turret is very fine, it being so near London, and
yet not discovering any house about the country.
The famous John Tradescant^ bequeathed his
Repository to this gentleman, who has given them
to the University of Oxford, and erected a lecture
on them, over the laboratory, in imitation of the
Royal Society.*
Mr. Godolphin was made Master of the Robes
to the King.
25tk There was sent me £70 ; from whom I
knew not, to be by me distributed among poor
people ; I afterwards found it was from that dear
mend (Mrs. Grodolphin), who had frequently given
me large sums to bestow on charities.
1 John Roettier^ or Rotier, 1631-1703^ the medallist, who
introdiioed the figure of Britaimia into the coinage, taking for
his model the King's favourite, Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess
of Richmond and Lennox. Her portrait by Lely is in William
III.'s State Bedroom at Hampton Court
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 124. J
* [insUtudoniy etc., of the masi nohle Order of the Garter , London,
folio, 1672.] ^ [See antcy vol ii. p. 124.1
^ The donation took effect in 1677, and a suitable building
was erected by Sir Christopher Wren, in 1682, bearing the
name of the '^ Ashmolean Museum." In it are preserved good
portraits of Ashmole, and of the Tradescant family, by William
Dobeon.
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16tk August. I went to Lady Mordaunt,^ who
put £100 into my hand to dispose of for pious
uses, relief of prisoners, poor, etc. Many a sum
had she sent me on similar occasions; a blessed
creature she was, and one that loved and feared
God exemplarily.
2Sr(L Upon Sir Robert Reading's* impor-
tunity, I went to visit the Duke of Norfolk, at
his new Palace at Weybridge,* where he has
laid out in building near £10,000, on a copyhold,
and in a miserable, barren, sandy place by the
street-side; never in my life had I seen such
expense to so small purpose. The rooms are
wainscoted, and some of them richly parqueted
with cedar, yew, cypress, etc There are some
good pictures, especially that incomparable paint-
ing of Holbein's, where the Duke of Norfolk,
Charles Brandon, and Henry VIII., are dancing
with the three ladies, with most amorous counte-
nances, and sprightly motion exquisitely expressed.
It is a thousand pities (as I told my Lord of
Arundel his son), that that jewel should be given
away.
246t/u I went to see my Lord of St. Albans'
house, at Byfleet, an old large building. Thence,
to the paper-mills, where I found them making a
coarse white paper. They cull the rags which
are linen for white paper, woollen for brown ;
then they stamp them in troughs to a pap, with
^ [See atde, p. 1.]
^ See post, under 10th January^ l684.
^ This house^ Ham House, as it was at one time caUed, was
the property of Mrs. Jane Bickerton, whom the Duke married
(see ante, p. 12). After his deaths she married Mr. Maxwell,
and they, together with Lord George Howard (her eldest son
by the Duke), sold it to Catherine Sedley, afterwards Countess
of Dorchester, mistress to James II. The Countess, who bore
a daughter to James II., subsequently married David Colyear,
Earl of Portmore. [The site, near the churchy is now covered
with villas.] (See post, under 19th January, 1686.)
1678 JOHN EVELYN 17
pestles, or hammers, like the powder-mills, then
put it into a vessel of water, in which they dip
a frame closely wired with wire as small as a hair
and as close as a weaver's reed ; on this they take
up the pap, the superfluous water draining through
the wire ; this they dexterously turning, shake out
like a pancake on a smooth board between two
pieces of flannel, then press it between a great
press, the flannel sucking out the moisture ; then,
taking it out, they ply and dry it on strings, as
they dry linen in the laundry ; then dip it in dum-
water, lastly, polish and make it up in quires.
They put some gum in the water in which they
macerate the rags. The mark we find on the
sheets is formed in the wire.^
25th August. After evening prayer, visited
Mr. Sheldon (nephew to the late Archbishop of
Canterbury), and his pretty melancholy garden ; I
took notice of the largest arbor tkwyris I had ever
seen. The place is finely watered, and there are
many curiosities of India, shown in the house.
There was at Weybridge the Duchess of
Norfolk, Lord Thomas Howard' (a worthy and
virtuous gentleman, with whom my son was
sometime bred in Arundel House), who was newly
come from Rome, where he had been some time ;
also one of the Duke's daughters, by his first lady.
My Lord leading me about the house made no
scruple of showing me all the hiding-places for
the Popish priests,^ and where they said mass, for
he was no bigoted Papist He told me he never
1 [^^ There are no paper mills at Bjfleet now ; the nearest
are at Woking" (Thome, Ewnrom of London^ 1876, p. 70).]
* [See aafUy vol. ii. p. 190.]
* [Others called them merely cupboards, and local tradition^
the places where James II., visiting his mistress, lodged his
guards. But Pepys, under 2drd May, l660, speaks of a '^ priest's
hole " in a CathoUc house, where, for a good while, Charles IL
was obliged ''to lie for his privacy."]
VOL. Ill C
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trusted them with any secret, and used Protestants
only in all businesses of importance.
I went this evening with my Lord Duke to
Windsor, where was a magnificent Court, it being
the first time of his Majesty removing thither
since it was repaired.
21th Avffust. I took leave of the Duke, and
dined at Mr. Henry Brouncker s,^ at* the Abbey
of Sheen, formerly a Monastery of Carthusians,
there yet remaining one of their solitary cells with
a cross. Within this ample enclosure are several
pretty villas and fine gardens of the most excellent
fruits, especially Sir William Temple's^ (lately
Ambassador into Holland), and the Lord Lisle's,
son to the Earl of Leicester,^ who has divers rare
pictures, above all, that of Sir Brian Tuke, by
Holbein/
After dinner, I walked to Ham, to see the
house and garden of the Duke of Lauderdale,
which is indeed inferior to few of the best villas
in Italy itself; the house furnished like a great
Prince's; the parterres, flower-gardens, orangeries,
groves, avenues, courts, statues, perspectives,
fountains, aviaries, and all this at the banks of
the sweetest river in the world, must needs be
admirable.'^
^ [Afterwards Lord Broimcker. He had obtained^ with Sir
William Temple^ a lease of the Priory at West Sheen. Brouncker
occupied the mansion; Temple, a house which he had long
rented.]
« [Sir William Temple, 1628-99. He had recently (l674)
returned from the Hague^ where he had negotiated the marriage
of William and Mary. He had first settled at Sheen in
1663.1
• [See anUy vol. ii. p. 107.]
* 'Sir Bryan Tuke, d, 1545, Treasurer of the Household to
Henry VIII. The Duke of Westminster has a portrait of him
by Holbein signed " Brianus Tuke, Miles, Anno JEtatis suce,
LVIiy There is another in the Munich Pinakothek.]
^ [Ham House, Petersham, had passed in l672 to John
Maitland, second Earl and first Duke of Lauderdale (see ante,
1678 JOHN EVELYN 19
Hence, I went to my worthy friend. Sir Henry
CapeP [at Kew], brother to the Earl of Essex;
it is an old timber-house ; but his garden has the
choicest fruit of any plantation in England, as he
is the most industrious and understanding in it
29th Atigust I was called to London to wait upon
the Duke of Norfolk, who having at my sole request
bestowed the Arundelian Library on the Royal
Society,^ sent to me to take charge of the books,
and remove them, only stipulating that I would
suffer the Herald's chief officer, Sir William
Dugdale," to have such of them as concerned
Heraldry and the Marshal's office, books of Armory
and Genealogies, the Duke being Earl Marshal
of England. I procured for our Society, besides
printed books, near one hundred MSS., some in
Greek of great concernment The printed books
being of the oldest impressions, are not the less
valuable; I esteem them almost equal to MSS.
Amongst them, are most of the Fathers, printed
at Basle, before the Jesuits abused them wiUi their
expurgatory Indexes; there is a noble MS. of
Vitruvius. Many of these books had been pre-
sented by Popes, Caitlinals, and great persons,
to the Earls of Arundel and Dukes of Norfolk ;
and the late magnificent Earl of Arundel bought
a noble library in Germany,* which is in this
collection. I should not, for the honour I bear
voL ii. p. 202), by his marriage with Elizabeth, G)untess of
Dysait, who had inherited it from her father. There is an
exceUenlhistory of Ham House by Mrs. Charles Roundell, 1904.]
1 [Afterwards Lord Capel of Tewkesbury, d, I696. Kew
House, now no longer existent, fronted the present Kew Palace ;
and was afterwards occupied by George III., in whose day it
was known indifferently as the Queen's Lodge, Kew Palace,
the White House, and Kew Lodge. It was pulled down in
1802 and subsequently (see post, under 30th October, 1683, and
24th March, I688).]
* [See anle, vol. ii. p. 267.] * [See ante, vol. ii. p. 110.]
* [See ante, vol. ii. p. ?67 «.]
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the family, have persuaded the Duke to part with
these, had I not seen how ne£;li£fent he was of
««■», suffering the priests .nd ^boij to cny
away and dispose of what they pleased; so that
abundance of rare things are irrecoverably gone.
Having taken order here, I went to the Royal
Society to give them an account of what I had
procured, that they might call a CouncU and appoint
a day to wait on the Duke to thank him for this
munificent gift.
8rd September. I went to London, to dine with
Mrs. Godolphin, and found her in labour ; she was
brought to bed of a son, who was baptized in the
chamber, by the name of Francis, the susceptors
being Sir William Godolphui (head of the family),^
Mr. John Hervey, Treasurer to the Queen,* and
Mrs. Boscawen, sister to Sir William and the &ther.
Sth. Whilst I was at church came a letter from
Mr. Godolphin, that my dear friend his lady was
exceedingly ill, and desiring my prayers and assist-
ance. My wife and I took boat immediately, and
went to Whitehall,* where, to my inexpressible
sorrow, I found she had been attacked witii a new
fever, then reigning this excessive hot autumn, and
which was so violent, that it was not thought she
could last many hours.
9th. She died in the 26th year of her age, to the
inexpressible affliction of her dear husband, and all
her relations, but of none in the world more than
of myself, who lost the most excellent and inestim-
able friend that ever lived. Never was a more
virtuous and inviolable friendship ; never a more
religious, discreet, and admirable creature, beloved of
all, admired of all, for all possible perfections of her
sex. She is gone to receive the reward of her signal
1 [Sir William Godolphin, 1634-96; Ambassador to Madrid,
1671-78 (see f)oH, p. 22>J
« [See ante, voL ii. p. 108.] « [See ante, voL ii. p. $95.]
i«78 JOHN EVELYN 21
charity, and all other her Christian graces, too
blessed a creature to converse with mortals, fitted
as she was, by a most holy life, to be received into
the mansions above. She was for wit, beauty,
good-nature, fidelity, discretion, and all accomplish-
ments, the most incomparable person* How shall
I ever repay the obligations to her for the infinite
good offices she did my soul by so often engaging
me to make religion the terms and tie of the friend-
ship there was between us 1 She was the best wife^
the best mistress, the best friend, that ever husband
had. But it is not here that I pretend to give her
character, haxnng designed to consecrate her worthy
Kfe to posterity.^
Her husband, struck with unspeakable affliction,
fell down as dead. The King himself, and all the
Court, expressed their sorrow. To the poor and
miserable, her loss was irreparable ; for there was
no degree but had some obUgation to her memory.
So careful and provident was she to be prepared
for ail possible accidents, that (as if she foresaw her
end) she received the heavenly viaticum but the
Sunday before, after a most solemn recollection.
She put all her domestic concerns into the exactest
order, and left a letter directed to her husband, to
be opened in case she died in child-bed, in which
with the most pathetic and endearing expressions
of a most loyal and virtuous wife, she begs his
kindness to her memory might be continued by his
care and esteem of those she left behind, even to
her domestic servants, to the meanest of which she
left considerable legacies, as well as to the poor.
It was now seven years since she was Maid of
Honour to the Queen, that she regarded me a3
a father, a brother, and what is more, a friend.
We often prayed, visited the sick and miserable,
received, read, discoursed, and communicated in all
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 297 ».]
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holy offices together. She was most dear to my
wife, and aiFectionate to my children. But she is
gone 1 This only is my comfort, that she is happy
in Christ, and I shall shortly behold her again.
She desired to be buried in the dormitory of his
family, near three hundred miles from all her other
friends. So afflicted was her husband at this severe
loss, that the entire care of her frmeral was com-
mitted to me. Having closed the eyes, and dropped
a tear upon the cheek of my dear departed friend,
lovely even in death, I caused her corpse to be
embalmed and wrapped in lead, a plate of brass
soldered thereon, with an inscription, and other
circumstances due to her worth, with as much
diligence and care as my grieved heart would permit
me ; I then retired home for two days, which were
spent in solitude and sad reflection.
17th September. She was, accordingly, carried to
Godolphin, in Cornwall, in a hearse with six horses,
attended by two coaches of as many, with about
thirty of her relations and servants. There accom-
panied the hearse her husband's brother. Sir
William, two more of his brothers, and three
sisters : her husband was so overcome with grief,
that he was wholly unfit to travel so long a journey,
till he was more composed. I went as far as
Hounslow with a sad heart; but was obliged to
return upon some indispensable affairs. The corpse
was ordered to be taken out of the hearse every
night, and decently placed in the house, with tapers
about it, and her servants attending, to Cornwall ;
and then was honourably interred in the parish
church of Godolphin. This funeral cost not much
less than £1000.
With Mr. Godolphin,^ I looked over and sorted
^ Mr. Godolphin (afterwards Lord Godolphin) continued the
steady friend of Mr. Evelyn^ whose grandson^ John Evelyn,
married a daughter of Godolphin's sister, Mrs. Boscawen (see
1678 JOHN EVELYN 28
his lady's papers, most of which consisted of Prayers,
Meditations, Sermon-notes, Discourses, and Collec-
tions on several religious subjects, and many of her
own happy composing, and so pertmently digested,
as if she had been all her life a student in divinity.
We found a diary of her solemn resolutions, tending
to practical virtue, with letters from select friends,
all put into exact method. It astonished us to see
what she had read and written, her youth considered.
1st October. The Parliament and the whole
Nation were alarmed about a conspiracy of some
eminent Papists for the destruction of the King
and introduction of Ponery, discovered by one
Oates * and Dr. Tonge, wnich last I knew^ bdiig the
translator of the " Jesuits' Morals " ; * I went to see
aUe, p. 20). Francis Godolphin^ the infant now mentioned as
bom, carried on through a long life the friendlj family inter-
course thus earnestly begun.
^ [Titus Oates, 1649-1705. This infamous informer, after
being expelled as a boy from Merchant Taylors', became a
clergyman. Losing his living for perjury, he next entered the
navy as a chaplain, and was dismiss^. Then — after holding
some subordinate post in the service of the Duke of Norfolk
— ^he '^ turned Roman" (l677), residing for a time at the
V.ngli«;h Jesuit G)lleges at VaUadolid and Saint Omer, from
both of which institutions he speedily received notice to quit.
In l678 he came back to England with the alleged discovery of
a complicated Popish plot for the murder of the King, the
massacre of the Protestants, the invasion of Ireland, and so forth.
Unhappily accidental circumstances lent a certain colour to some
of these fabrications (see poH, p. 33).]
* Israel Tonge was bred in University College, Oxford, and
being puritanically inclined, quitted the University ; but in 1 648
retmned, and was made a Fellow. He had the living of Pluckley,
in Kent, which he resigned in consequence of quarrels with his
parishioners and Quakers. In 1657, he was made fellow of the
newly-erected College at Durham, and that being dissolved in
1659, he taught school at Islington. He then went with Colonel
Edward Harley to Dunkirk, and subsequently took a small living
in Herefordshire (Leintwardine) : but quitted it for St. Mary
Stayning, in London, which, after the fire in I666, was united to
St. Michael, Wood Stieet. These he held till his death, in I68O.
He was a great opponent of the Roman Catholics. Wood
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and converse with him at Whitehall, with Mr. Oates,
one that was lately an apostate to the church of
Rome, and now returned again with this discovery.
He seemed to be a bold man, and, in my thoughts,
furiously indiscreet ; but everybody believed what
he said; and it quite changed the genius and
motions of the Parliament, growing now corrupt
and interested with long sitting and court practices ;
but, with all this. Popery would not go down.
This discovery turned them all as one man against
it, and nothing was done but to find out the depth
of this. Oates was encouraged, and everything he
affirmed taken for gospel ; — the truth is, the Roman
Catholics were exceeding bold and busy everywhere,
since the Duke forbore to go any longer to the
chapeL
16th October. Mr. Godolphin requested me to
continue the trust his wife had reposed in me, in
behalf of his little son, conjuring me to transfer the
friendship I had for his dear wife, on him and his.
21st The murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey,
found strangled about this time, as was manifest^
mentions several publications of his^ among which are> The Jesuits
tmmasked, l678 ; Jesuitical Aphorismes, 1079; and The Jesuits*
Morals y 1680 (l670); the two latter translated from the French
(Wood's Aiken, Oxon. vol. ii. p. 50S). Evelyn speaks of the last
of these translations as having been executed by his desire : and
it figures in a notable passage of Oates' s testimony. Oates said^
for example^ ''that Thomas Whitbread^ a priest^ on 13th June^
l6 . . did tell the rector of St. Omer's that a Minister of the
Church of England had scandalously put out the Jesuits* Morals
in English^ and had endeavoured to render them odious^ and had
asked the Rector whether he thought Oates might know him ?
and the Rector called the deponent^ who heard these words as
he stood at the chamber- door^ and when he went into the
chamber of the Provincial, he asked him ' If he knew the author
of the Jesuits Morals ? ' deponent answered, ' His person^ but
not his name.' Whitbread then demanded, whether he would
undertake to poison, or assassinate the author ; which deponent
undertook, having £50 reward promised him, and appointed to
return to England " (Bray's Note slight^ altered).
i«78 JOHN EVELYN 26
by the Papists,^ he being the Justice of the Peace,
and one who knew much of their practices, as con-
versant with Coleman (a servant of the • • • .^
now accused), put the whole nation into a new
ferment against them.
81^ October. Being my [the ?] 58th of my age,
required my humble addresses to Almighty God,
and that he would take off His heavy hand, still on
my family ; and restore comforts to us after the
loss of my excellent friend.
Sth November. Dr. Tillotson* preached before
the Commons at St Margaret's. He said the
Papists were now arrived at that impudence, as to
deny that there ever was any such as the gun-
powder-conspiracy ; but he affirmed that he himself
had several letters written by Sir E verard Digby (one
of the traitors),* in which he gloried that he was to
suffer for it ; and that it was so contrived, that of
the Papists not above two or three should have been
blown up, and they, such as were not worth saving.
15th. The Queen's birthday. I never saw the
^ [Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, 1621-78, was a wood and coal
dealer, and a well-known Justice of the Peace for the County of
Middlesex and the City of Westminster. He had received the
first depositions of Oates and Tonge in September^ and com-
manicated them to the Catholic Duke of York. On the 17th
October, he was found dead in a diy ditch on the south side of
Primrose Hill, his body, it was affirmed, bearing marks of strangu-
lation, and his own sword being thrust through his heart But
where he met his end, and how, is still to seek, though three
innocent men. Hill, Berry, and Green, were hanged in February,
l679j for murdering him. The subject is minutely discussed in
Mr. John Pollock's Pomsh Plot, 1903, pp. 83-166 ; and in Mr.
Andrew Lang's Falet*s Tragedy and other Studies, 1903, pp. 55-103.
A later writer, Mr. Alfred Marks {Who Killed Sir Edmund Berry
G^fr^ ^ 1905), fortified by an expert medical opinion, inclines
(like Mr. Lang) to the theory of suicide.]
^ [The Duke of York, whose secretary he was.]
' See ante, vol. ii. p. 291.]
* Sir Everard Digby — Sir Kenelm Digby's father — executed
in l606 in connection with the Gunpowder Plot.]
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Court more brave, nor the nation in more apprehen-
sion and consternation. Coleman and one Staley^
had now been tried, condemned, and executed.
On this, Oates grew so presumptuous, as to accuse
the Queen of intending to poison the King ; which
certainly that pious and virtuous lady abhorred the
thoughts of, and Oates's circumstances made it
utteny unlikely in my opinion. He probably
thought to gratify some who would have been glad
his Majesty should have married a fruitful lady;
but the King was too kind a husband to let any of
these make impression on him.* However, divers
of the Popish peers were sent to the Tower, accused
by Oates ; ^ and all the Roman Catholic lords were
by a new Act * for ever excluded the Parliament ;
which was a mighty blow. The King's, Queen's,
and Duke's servants, were banished, and a test to
be taken by everybody who pretended to enjoy any
office of public trust, and who would not be suspected
of Popery. I went with Sir William Godolphin,
a member of the Commons' House, to the Bishop
of Ely (Dr. Peter Gunning),* to be resolved whether
masses were idolatry, as the test expressed it, which
was so worded, that several good Protestants
scrupled, and Sir William, though a learned man
and excellent divine himself, had some doubts about
it. The Bishop's opinion was, that he might take
it, though he wished it had been otherwise worded
in the test.
1678-9 : 15th January. I went with my Lady
^ [Edward Coleman was executed 3rd December^ William
Stalej^ 26th November. The former, upon his own letters, was
found ^'guilty of treason in trying 'to subvert the Protestant
religion as it is by law established/ ' by the aid and assistance of
Foreign Powers ' " (Trevelyan's England under the Siuarls, 1904,
p. 397).] 2 [See poH, p. 32 n.]
^ [Lords Stafford, Petre, Arundel, Belasyse, and the Earl of
Powis.]
* [30 Car. II. Stat. 2, c. 1.] » [See ante, vol. ii. p. 125.]
i«79 JOHN EVELYN 27
Sunderland to Chelsea, and dined with the Countess
of Bristol [her mother] in the great house, formerly
the Duke of Buckingham's, a spacious and excellent
place for the extent of ground and situation in a
good air.^ The house is large, but ill -contrived,
though my Lord of Bristol who purchased it after
he sold Wimbledon to my Lord Treasurer, expended
much money on it There were divers pictures of
Titian and Vandyck, and some of Bassano, very
excellent, especially an Adonis and Venus, a Duke
of Venice, a butcher in his shambles selling meat to
a Swiss ; and of Vandyck, my Lord of Bristol's
picture, with the Earl of Bedford's at length, in the
same table. There was in the garden a rare collec-
tion of orange trees, of which she was pleased to
bestow some upon me.
16th January. I supped this night with Mr.
Secretary at one Mr. Houblon's, a French merchant,
who had his house furnished en Prince, and gave us
a splendid entertainment.^
2StL The Long Parliament, which had sat ever
^ This mansion stood at the north end of Beaufort Row,
Chelsea, extending westward about 100 yards from the water-
ride. It 'was originally called Buckingham House, after the
Duke of Buckingham. In January l682 Lord Bristol's widow
sold it to Henry Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, created Duke
of Beaufort in the same year ; after whom it was known by the
title of Beaufort House (see paH, 3rd September, l683). It con-
tinued in the possession of this family till about 1738, when,
having stood empty for several years, it was purchased by Sir
Hans Sloane, and was pulled down in 1740.
^ One of the most eminent of the merchants of London at
this period. Two of James Houblon's sons obtained the honour
of kiiighthood. Sir James became one of the members for the
city, in 1648 ; Sir John was Lord Mayor, one of the G>m-
missioners of the Admiralty, and Governor of the Bank of
England. From the former descend the Houblons of Hailing-
boiy-place, Essex, and of Culverthorpe, Lincoln. Pepys mentions
^five brothers Houblon," and he adds, '^ mighty fine gentlemen
th^ are all, and used me mighty respectfully " (5th February,
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since the Restoration, was dissolved by persuasion
of the Lord Treasurer, though divers of them were
believed to be his pensioner. At this, all the
politicians were at a stand, they being very eager
in pursuit of the late plot of the Papists.
80th January. Dr. Cudworth^ preached before
the King at Whitehall, on 2 Timothy iii. 5, reckon-
ing up the perils of the last times, in which,
amongst other wickedness, treasons should be one
of the greatest, applying it to the occasion, as
committed under a form of reformation and godli-
ness; concluding that the prophecy did intend
more particularly the present age, as one of the
last times ; the sins there enumerated, more abund-
antly reigning than ever.
2nd Pebruary. Dr. Durel,* Dean of Windsor,
preached to the household at Whitehall, on 1 Cor.
xvL 22 ; he read the whole sermon out of his notes,
which I had never before seen a Frenchman do, he
being of Jersey, and bred at Paris.
Uh. Dr. Pierce, Dean of Salisbury," preached
on 1 John iv. 1, "Try the Spirits, there being
so many delusory ones gone forth of late into
the world " ; he inveighed against the pernicious
doctrines of Mr. Hobbes.
My brother, Evelyn,* was now chosen Knight
for the County of Surrey, carrying it against my
Lord Longford * and Sir Adam Browne, of Betch-
worth Castle. • The country coming in to give him
their suiirages were so many, that I believe they
eat and drank him out near £2000, by a most
abominable custom.
1
2
4
b
6
Dr. Ralph Cudworth, l6l 7-88.1
[See antCy vol. ii. p. 25.] ^ [See ante, vol. ii. p, 11 6.]
Le. George Evelyn of Wotton.]
See aate, p. 14.]
'See poiiy under February^ 1703. It was his daughter^ Mrs.
Fenwick^ who sold Betchworth Castle to Abraham Tucker (see
antey vol. ii. p. 98).]
im JOHN EVELYN 29
1^ April My friend, Mr. Godolphin, was now
made one of the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury, and of the Privy Council
UA. The Bishop of Gloucester ^ preached in a
manner very like Bishop Andrews, full of divisions,
and scholastical, and that with much quickness.
The holy Communion followed.
20tk Easter-day. Our vicar preached exceed-
ing well on 1 Cor. v. 7. The holy Communion
foUowed^ at which I and my daughter Mary (now
about fourteen years old) received for the first
time [sic]. The Lord Jesus continue his grace
unto her, and improve this blessed banning 1
24/A. The Duke of York, voted against by the
Commons for his recusancy, went over to Flanders;'
which made much discourse.
4tth June. I dined with Mr. Pepys in the Tower,
he having been committed by the House of
Commons for misdemeanours in the Admiralty
when he was Secretary ; I believe he was unjustly
charged.^ Here I saluted my Lords Stafford and
Petre, who were committed for the Popish plot.*
Ittu I saw the magnificent cavalcade and entry
of the Portugal ambassador.'^
^ [See cttUCy voL ii. p. 388.1
^He went abroad immediately before the opening of Parlia-
ment on 6th March, and returned after its dissolution in July
(see/Nwt, under 13th September^ l679)-]
* [Pepys had resigned his first secretaiyship to the Admiralty
on the iTth May. His favour with the Duke of York^ and a
previous, and groundless^ charge of Popish proclivities, had
rendered him suspect. He was preposterously accused, on the
eyidence of a Colonel Scott, of communicating Navy secrets to
France for the purpose of overthrowing the English Government,
and establishing Catholicism. As a result he was sent to the
Tower, S2nd May, l679* After several examinations he was
released on bail; and ultimately acquitted, because Scott had
refused at the last moment to stand by his lying stories (Pepys'
Diary, by G. Gregory Smith, 1905, xx.). See past, p. 31. J
^ [See ante, p. 26 n.]
^ [Don Emanuel de Lyra (see ante, p. 13).]
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nth June. I was godfather to a son of Sir
Christopher Wren, surveyor of his Majesty's build-
ings, that most excellent and learned person, with
Sir William Fermor,^ and my Lady Viscountess
Newport, wife of the Treasurer of the Household.'
Thence to Chelsea, to Sir Stephen Fox,' and my
lady, in order to the purchase of the Countess of
Bristol's house there, which she desired me to pro-
cure a chapman for.
19th. I dined at Sir Robert Clayton's* with
Sir Robert Viner,* the great banker.
22nd. There were now divers Jesuits executed
about the plot,^ and a rebellion in Scotland of the
fanatics, so that there was a sad prospect of public
affairs.
25th. The new Commissioners of the Admiralty
came to visit me, viz. Sir Henry Capel,^ brother to
the Earl of Essex, Mr. Finch, eldest son to the Lord
Chancellor,® Sir Humphry Winch, Sir Thomas
^ [Sir William Fermor^ d, 1711^ afterwards Baron Leominster,
I692.J
2 f/.e. Mountjoy Blount, 1597-1666, Earl of Newport]
* See ante, vol. ii p. 24-9.]
* See ante, p. 2.]
* Sir Robert Viner, 1 631 -88, a very genial and wealthy
banker, whom Pepys (7th September, l665) describes as living in
great state at Swakeley House, Ickenham, Middlesex, which he
had bought from Sir James Harrington. [It belonged in 1876
to T. Truesdale Clarke, Esq.] When Lord Mayor, in l674, Viner
entertained Charles II. at Guildhall ; and on his Majesty retiring,
urged him to ^^ return and take t'other bottle" (Steele, in
Spectator, No. 462). He was created a Baronet in I666. The
crown was indebted to Sir Robert Viner, at the shutting of the
Exchequer (see ante, vol. ii p. 340), nearly half a million of
money, for which he was awarded £^5,000 : 9 : 4 per annum, out
of the excise.
® [" Whitbread and Fenwick and three other Jesuits are con-
demned, June 13, and Langhome, a lawyer, June 14. They
suffer June 20, and eight priests are executed in different parts
of the country" (Annals of England, 1876, p. 477).]
^ [See ante, p. 19-]
8 [Heneage Finch, 1647-1 719> afterwards Earl of Aylesford.]
1679 JOHN EVELYN 81
Meeres,^ Mr. Hales, with some of the Commissioners
of the Navy. I went with them to London.
IH July. I dined at Sir William Godolphin's,
and with that learned gentleman went to take the
air in Hyde Park, where was a glorious cortege.
Srd. Sending a piece of venison to Mr. ?epys,
still a prisoner, I went and dined with him.^
6tk. Now were there papers, speeches, and libels,
publicly cried in the streets against the Dukes of
York and Lauderdale, etc., obnoxious to the Parlia-
ment, with too much and indeed too shameful a
liberty ; but the people and Parliament had gotten
head by reason of the vices of the great ones.
There was now brought up to London a child,
son of one Mr. Wotton,* formerly amanuensis to
1 rSee anie, vol. ii. p. 39S.] « [See ante, p. 29.]
• The Rev. Henry Wotton, minister of Wrentham, in Suffolk.
This son was afterwards the celebrated William Wotton^ I666-
1726, the friend and defender of Dr. Bentley^ and the antagonist
of Sir William Temple^ in the controversy about Ancient and
Modem Learning. Sir Philip Skippon^ who lived at Wrentham^
in Suffolk, in a letter to Mr. John Ray^ Sept. 18^ 1671 > writes:
"I shall somewhat surprise you with what I have seen in a
little boy^ William Wotton^ five years old last months son of
Mr. Wotton^ minister of this parish^ who hath instructed his
child within the last three-quarters of a year in the reading the
Latin^ Greeks and Hebrew languages^ which he can read almost as
well as English^ and that tongue he could read at four years and
three months old^ as well as most lads of twice his age." — He
was admitted of Catherine Hall^ Cambridge^ Aprils l676, and
took the degree of B.A. in 1679, when only twelve years and
five months old. Dr. Burnet recommended him to Dr. Lloyd^
Bishop of St. Asaph^ who took him as an assistant in making a
catalogue of his books^ and gave him in I691 the sinecure of
Llandiill-yn-Rhds^ in Denbighshire. He was subsequently Rector
of Middleton Keynes, and Prebendary of Salisbury. Swift laughed
at him, but this he drew upon himself by having attacked the
Tale of a Tyb. He published, as is well known, an answer to
that satire. He also compiled Memoirs of the Cathedral Churches
of St. David and St. Asaph, which Browne Willis published.
When veiy young, he remembered ahnost the whole of any dis-
course he had heard, and on a certain occasion he repeated to
Bishop Lloyd one of his own sermons.
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Dr. Andrews, Bishop of Winton, who both read
and perfectly understood Hebrew, Greek, Latin,
Arabic, Syriac, and most of the modem languages ;
disputed in divinity, law, and all the sciences ; was
skilful in history, both ecclesiastical and profane ;
in politics; in a word, so universally and solidly
learned at eleven years of age, that he was looked
on as a miracle. Dr. Lloyd, one of the most deep
learned divines of this nation in all sorts of literature,
with Dr. Burnet, who had severely examined him,
came away astonished, and they told me they did
not believe there had the like appeared in the world.
He had only been instructed by his &ther, who
being himself a learned person, confessed that his
son knew all that he himself knew. But, what was
more admirable than his vast memory, was his
judgment and invention, he being tried with
divers hard questions, which required maturity of
thought and experience. He was also dexterous in
chronology, antiquities, mathematics. In sum, an
intellectus urdversaMs^ beyond all that we read of
Ficus Mirandola, and other precocious wits, and
yet withal a very humble chila.
IMh July. I went to see how things stood at
Parson's Green, my Lady Viscountess Mordaunt ^
(now sick in Paris, whither she went for health)
having made me a trustee for her children, an office
I could not refuse to this most excellent, pious,
and virtuous lady, my long acquaintance.
15th. I dined with Mr. Sidney Godolphin, now
one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.*
ISth. I went early to the old Bailey Sessions-
house to the famous trial of Sir George Wakeham,*
1 [See anU, p. 1.1 2 [See atUe, p. 29-1
* [Sir George Wakeman, fi, 1668-85, was a Roman Catnolic
He was accus^ by Titus Oates of conspiring with Catherine of
Braganza to poison Charles II. But even Charles refused to
believe this monstrous accusation (see ante, p. 26).]
1679 JOHN EVELYN 88
one of the Queen's physicians, and three Bene-
dictine monks ;^ the first (whom I was well
acquainted with, and take to be a worthy gentleman
abhorring such a fact) for intending to poison the
King ; the others as accomplices to carry on the
plot, to subvert the Government, and introduce
Popery. The Bench was crowded with the
Judges, Liord Mayor, Justices, and innumerable
spectators. The chief accusers. Dr. Oates (as he
(^ed himself), and one Bedloe,^ a man of inferior
note. Their testimonies were not so pregnant,
and I fear much of it from hearsay, but swearing
positively to some particulars, which drew suspicion
upon their truth ; nor did circumstances so agree, as
to give either the Bench, or Jury, so entire satis-
fiiction as was expected. After, therefore, a long
and tedious trial of nine hours, the Jury brought
them in not guilty, to the extraordinary triumph
of the Papists, and without sufficient disadvantage
and reflections on witnesses, especially Oates and
Bedloe.
This was a happy day for the Lords in the
Tower, who expecting their trial, had this ffone
against the prisoners at the bar, would all have
been in the utmost hazard. For my part, I look
on Oates as a vain, insolent man, puned up with
the favour of the Commons for having discovered
something really true,^ more especially as detecting
the dangerous intrigue of Coleman, proved out of
his own letters,^ and of a general design which the
Jesuited party of the Papists ever had and still
have, to ruin the Church of England ; but that he
was trusted with those great secrets he pretended,
' William Marshal^ William Rumley^ and James Corker (see
SUUe Trials, fol. vol. ii. p. 918).
^ [William Bedloe, 1650-80, the accomplice of Oates.]
' [Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies.
Drtdbn, Abtahm and Achitopkei, Pt i.]
* [See ante, p. 26.]
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84 THE DIARY OF 1679
or had any solid ground for what he accused divers
noblemen of» I have many reasons to induce my
contrary belief. That among so many commissions
as he affirmed to have delivered to them from F.
Oliva ^ and the Pope, — he who made no scruple of
opening all other papers, letters, and secrets, should
not only not open any of those pretended commis-
sions, but not so much as take any copy or witness
of any one of them, is almost miraculous. But the
Commons (some leading persons I mean of them)
had so exalted him, that they took all he said for
Gospel, and without more ado ruined all whom he
named to be conspirators ; nor did he spare who-
ever came in his way. But indeed the murder of
Sir Edmund [Berry] Godfrey,* suspected to have
been compassed by the Jesuits' party for liis
intimacy with Coleman (a busy person whom I
also knew), and the fear they had that he was able
to have discovered things to their prejudice, did so
exasperate not only the Commons but all the nation,
that much of these sharpnesses against the more
honest Roman Catholics who lived peaceably, is to
be imputed to that horrid &ct.
The sessions ended, I dined or rather supped (so
late it was) with the Judges' in the lar^e room
annexed to the place, and so returned home.
Though it was not my custom or delight to be
often present at any capital trials, we having them
commonly so exactly published by those who take
them in short-hand, yet I was inclined to be at
this signal one, that by the ocular view of the
carriages and other circumstances of the managers
and parties concerned, I might inform myself, and
1 Padr^ Oliva, General of the Order of Jesuits.
2 [See ante, p. 25.]
5 The Judges were. Lord Chief Justice North, Mr. Justice
Atkins, Mr. Justice Windham, Mr. Justice Pemberton, and Mr.
Justice Dolben.
1579 JOHN EVELYN 85
regulate my opinion of a cause that had so alarmed
the whole nation.
22nd July. Dined at Clapham» at Sir D.
Gauden s ; ^ went thence with him to Windsor, to
assist him in a business with his Majesty. I lay
that night at Eton College, the Provost's lodgings
(Dr. Cradock),^ where I was courteously enter-
tained.
28rd* To Court : after dinner, I visited that
excellent painter, Verrio,' whose works in fresco in
the King's palace, at Windsor, will celebrate his
name as long as those walls last. He showed us
his pretty garden, choice flowers, and curiosities,
he himsdif being a skilful gardener.
I went to Cliveden, that stupendous natural
rock, wood, and prospect, of the Duke of Bucking*
ham's,^ and buildings of extraordinary expense.
The grots in the chalky rocks are pretty : it is a
romantic object, and the place altogether answers
the most poetical description that can be made of
solitude, precipice, prospect, or whatever can con-
tribute to a thing so very like their imaginations.
The stand, somewhat like Frascati as to its front,
and on the platform is a circular view to the
^ [Sir Denis Gauden had built this house for his brother^ Dr.
John Gauden^ Bishop of Exeter, who claimed to have written
Eikon BatiUke, Sir Denis afterwards occupied it himself, dying
there in 1688. The house (now pulled down) was subsequently
occa|Hed by Pepys' friend and clerk^ Will. Hewer (see post,
under 25th July, 1692).]
« [Dr. Zachiuy Cradock, l633''95 ; Provost of Eton, 1681-95.]
• [Antonio Verrio, 16S9-1707. His "sprawling Saints " also
decorate Hampton Court, and many noblemen's seats.]
* CliTeden*8 proud alcove.
The bow'r of wanton Shrewsbury and love.
PoFE, Moral Esm^, iu. 307.
iThe present building, erected by the Duke of Sutherland, and
ong a seat of the Duke of Westminster, now belongs to William
Waldorf Astor, Esq. It has been enriched by many relics from
the fiimous Villa Borghese (see ante, voL i. pp. 176 and 260).]
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utmost verge of the horizon, which, with the
serpenting of the Thames, is admbable. The
stau*case is for its mLaterials singular ; the cloisters,
descents, gardens, and avenue through the wood,
august and stately; but the land all about
wretchedly barren, and producing nothing but fern.
Indeed, as I told his Majesty that evening (asking
me how I liked Cliveden) without flattery, that
it did not please me so well as Windsor for the
prospect and park, which is without compare ; there
being but one only opening, and that narrow, which
led one to any variety, whereas that of Windsor
is everywhere great and unconfined.
Returning, I called at my cousin Evelyn's,^ who
has a very pretty seat in the forest, two miles by
hither Cliveden, on a flat, with gardens exquisitely
kept, though large, and the house a staunch good
old building, and what was singular, some of the
rooms floored dove-tail-wise without a nail, exactly
close. One of the closets is parqueted with plaiii
deal, set in diamond, exceeding staunch and
pretty.
7tk August. Dined at the Sheriffs', when, the
Company of Drapers and their wives being invited,
there was a sumptuous entertainment, according
to the forms of the City, with music, etc, compar-
able to any Prince's service in Europe.
%th. I went this morning to show my Lord
Chamberlain, his Lady, and the Duchess of Grafton,
the incomparable work of Mr. Gibbons, the carver,*
whom I first recommended to his Majesty, his
house being furnished like a cabinet, not only with
his own work, but divers excellent paintings of the
best hands. Thence, to Sir Stephen Fox's,* where
we spent the day.
81^. After evening service, to see a neighbour,
^ [William Evelyn, son of George Evelyn of Nutfield.1
2 [See ante, vol. ii. p. 317.] « [See aade, p. SO.]
1679 JOHN EVELYN 87
one Mr. Bohun,^ related to my son's late tutor of
that name, a rich Spanish merchant, living in a
neat place, which he has adorned with many
curiosities, especially several carvings of Mr.
Gibbons, and some pictures by Streater.
ISth September. To Windsor, to congratulate
his Majesty on his recovery ; * I kissed the Duke's
hand, now lately returned from Flanders ^ to visit
his brother the King, on which there were various
bold and foolish discourses, the Duke of Mon-
mouth being sent away.
19th. My Lord Sunderland, one of the principal
Secretaries of State, invited me to dinner, where
was the King's natural son, the Earl of Plymouth,
the Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl of Essex, Earl of
Mulgrave, Mr. Hyde, and Mr. Godolphin. After
dinner, I went to prayers at Eton, and visited
Mr. Henry Godolpnin,* fellow there, and Dr.
Cradock.*
25th. Mr. Slingsby and Signor Verrio came to
dine with me, to whom I gave Chma oranges
off my own trees, as good, I think, as were
ever eaten.
ath October. A very wet and sickly season.
28r€L Dined at my Lord Chamberlain's, the
King being now newly returned from his New-
market recreations.
4iA November. Dined at the Lord Mayor's ;•
and^ in the evening, went to the funeral of my
» rOf Lee in Kent (see pott, under SOth July, l682).]
^ [Charles was dangerously ill, 22nd August, 1679^ and James
was summoned back from Brussels by Halifax, Essex, and Sunder-
IumL He returned and travelled to Windsor in disguise, only
to find his brother cheerful and convalescent (Trevelyan's England
under the Stuarts, 1904, p. 407\]
' He returned the day before, the 12th of September.
^ [Sidney Godolphin's brother, 1648-17:^3. He was after-
wards Provost of Eton, and Dean of St. Paul's.]
» [See ante, p. 35.] « [Sir Robert Clayton's.]
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pious, dear, and ancient learned friend. Dr. Jasper
Needham,^ who was buried at St Bride's church.
He was a true and holy Christian, and one who
loved me with great affection. Dr. Dove * preached
with an eulogy due to his memory. I lost in
this person one of my dearest remaining sincere
friends.
&th Naoember. I was invited to dine at my Lord
Teviotdale's," a Scotch Earl, a learned and knowing
nobleman. We afterwards went to see Mr.
Montague's new palace near Bloomsbury, built by
our curator, Mr. Hooke, somewhat after the
French ; it was most nobly furnished, and a fine,
but too much exposed garden.^
Qth. Dined at the Countess of Sunderland's,
and was this evening at the re-marriage of the
Duchess of Grafton to the Duke (his Majesty's
natural son), she being now twelve years old/ The
ceremony was performed in my Lord Chamberkin's
(her father's) lodgings at Whitehall by the Bishop
of Rochester,* his Majesty bein^ present A
sudden and unexpected thing, Traen everybody
believed the first marriage would have come to
nothing; but, the measure being determined, I
was privately invited by my Lady, her mother, to
be present. I confess I could give her little joy,
and so I plainly told her, but she said the King
would have it so, and there was no going back.
This sweetest, hopefullest, most beautiful child,
and most virtuous too, was sacrificed to a boy
that had been rudely bred, without anything to
encourage them but his Majesty's pleasure. I pray
God the sweet child find it to her advantage, who,
1 [See ante, vol. ii. p. 11 6.]
2 See post, under 25th January^ l685.]
» See anUy vol. ii. p. 208.]
^ See ante, vol. ii. p. 391 ; and past, under 10th October^ l683.
* [See a»Ue, vol. ii. p. 350.] « [Dr. John Dolben.]
1679 JOHN EVELYN 89
if my augury deceive me not, will in few years be
such a paragon as were fit to make the wife of the
greatest Prince in Europe ! I staid supper, where
his Majesty sat between the Duchess of Cleveland
(the mother of the Duke of Grafton) and the sweet
Duchess the bride; there were several great persons
and ladies, without pomp. My love to my Lord
Arlington's fiGunily and the sweet child made me
behold all this with r^ret, though as the Duke of
Grafton affects the sea, to which I find his father
intends to use him,^ he may emerge a plain, useful
and robust officer; and, were he polished, a
tolerable person ; for he is exceeding handsome, by
far surpassing any of the King's other natural issue.
Sth November. At Sir Stephen Fox's, and was
agreeing for the Countess of Bristol's house at
Chelsea, within £500.'
\%th. I dined at my Lord Mayor's,' being
desired by the Countess of Sunderland to carry
her thither on a solemn day, that she might see
the pomp and ceremony of this Prince of Citizens,
there never having been any, who for the stateli-
ness of his palace, prodigious feasting, and mag-
nificence, exceeded him. This Lord Mayor's
acquaintance had been from the time of his being
apprentice to one Mr. Abbot, his uncle, who being
a scrivener, and an honest worthy man, one who
was condemned to die at the beginning of the
troubles forty years past, as concerned in the
commission of array for King Charles I., had
escaped with his life; I often used his assistance
in money-matters. Robert Clayton, then a boy,
his nephew, became, after his uncle Abbot's death,
so prodigiously rich and opulent, that he was
^ [He was afterwards distinguished as a sailor and a soldier.]
* [See ante, p. 27.]
' Sir Robert Clayton (see ante, vol. ii. p. 117; and pp. 9
andS7>
40 THE DIARY OF i67»
reckoned one of the wealthiest citizens. He
married a free-hearted woman, who became his
hospitable disposition; and, having no children,
with the accession of his partner and fellow-
apprentice,^ who also left him his estate, he grew
excessively rich. He was a discreet magistrate,
and though envied, I think without much cause.
Some believed him guilty of hard dealing, especially
with the Duke of Buckingham, much of whose
estate he had swallowed, but I never saw any ill
by him, considering the trade he was o£ The
reputation and known integrity of his uncle.
Abbot, brought all the royal party to him, by
which he got not only great credit, but vast
wealth, so as he passed this office with infinite
magnificence and honour.
20th November, I dined with Mr. Slingsby,
Master of the Mint,' with my wife, invited to hear
music, which was exquisitely performed by four of
the most renowned masters : Du Prue, a French-
man, on the lute ; Signor Bartholomeo, an Italian,
on the harpsichord ; Nicholao on the violin ; ' but,
above aU, for its sweetness and novelty, the xjtol
d! amore of five wire strings played on with a bow,
being but an ordinary violin, played on lyre- way,
by a German. There was also a flute douce^ now
in much request for accompanying the voice. Mr.
Slingsby, whose son and daughter played skilfully,
had these meetings frequently in his house.
21^. I dined at my Lord Mayor's, to accompany
my worthiest and generous friend, the Earl of
Ossory ; it was on a Friday, a private day, but the
feast and entertainment might have become a
King. Such an hospitable costume and splendid
magistrature does no city in the world show, as I
believe.
1 Mr. Morris. ^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. IP^-.]
8 [See ante, vol. ii. p. 373.]
i67» JOHN EVELYN 41
29rd November. Dr. Allestree ^ preached before
the household on St. Luke xi. 2 ; Dr. Lloyd ' on
Matt xxiii. 20, before the Km^» showing with how
little reason the Papists applied those words of our
blessed Saviour to maintain the pretended infalli-
bility they boast of. I never heard a more
Christian and excellent discourse; yet were some
offended that he seemed to say the Church of
Aome was a true church; but it was a captious
mistake ; for he never affirmed anything that could
be more to their reproach, and that such was the
present Church of Rome, showing how much it
bad erred. There was not in this sermon so much
as a shadow for censure, no person of all the clergy
having testified greater zeal against the errors of
the Papists thim this pious and most learned
person. I dined at the Bishop of Rochester's, and
then went to St. Paul's, to hear that great wit.
Dr. Sprat,' now newly succeeding Dr. Outram, in
the cure of St. Margaret's. His talent was a great
memory, never making use of notes, a readiness of
expression in a most pure and plain style of words,
fuU of matter, easily delivered.
26/A. I met the Earl of Clarendon with the
rest of my fellow- executors of the will of my
late Lfidy Viscountess Mordaunt,^ namely, Mr.
Laurence Hyde,^ one of the Commissioners of the
Treasury, and lately Plenipotentiary Ambassador
at Nim^uen ; Andrew Newport ; and Sir Charles
Wheeler; to examine and audit and dispose
of this year's account of the estate of this
excellent Lady, according to the direction of her
Will
^ [See oMte^ vol. ii. p. 157.1 ^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 389-]
* See ante, vol. ii. p. 300.J
* [See ante, p. 82.1
' 'Laurence Hyde, 1641-1711^ afterwards first Earl of
Bochester.]
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21th November. I went to see Sir John Stone-
house, with whom I was treating a marriage
between my son and his daughter-in-law.^
2&th. Came over the Duke of Monmouth from
Holland unexpectedly to his Majesty; whilst the
Duke of York was on his journey to Scotland,
whither the King sent him to reside and govern.'
The bells and bonfires of the City at this arrival
of the Duke of Monmouth publishing their joy, to
the no small regret of some at Court. This Duke,
whom for distinction they called the Protestant
Duke (though the son of an abandoned woman),
the peo^e made their idol.
Uh JDecember. I dined, together with Lord
Ossory and the Elarl of Chesterfield, at the
Portugal Ambassador's, now newly come, at Cleve-
land House,^ a noble palace, too good for that
infamous The staircase is sumptuous, and
the gallery and garden ; but, above aU, the costly
furniture belonging to the Ambassador, especially
the rich Japan cabinets, of which I think there
were a dozen. There was a billiard-table, with as
many more hazards as ours commonly have ; the
game being only to prosecute the ball till hazarded,
without passing the port, or touching the pin ; if
one miss hitting the ball every time, the game is
lost, or if hazarded. It is more difficult to hazard
a ball, though so many, than in our table, by reason
the bound is made so exactly even, and the edges
not stuffed ; the balls are also bigger, and they for
the most part use the sharp and small end of the
billiard-stick, which is shod with brass, or silver.
The entertainment was exceeding civil ; but, besides
a good olio, the dishes were trifling, hashed and
condited after their way, not at all fit for an
^ TMartha Spencer (see infra, p. 43V]
^ [As Lord High Commissioner. He went in September.]
3 [See ante, vol. ii. p. 266.]
1680 JOHN EVELYN 48
English stomach, which is for solid meat There
was yet good fowls, but roasted to coal, nor were
the sweetmeats good.
80th December. I went to meet Sir John Stone-
house, and give him a particular of the settlement
on my son, who now made his addresses to the
young lady his daughter-in-law, daughter of Lady
Stonehouse.
1679-80: 25th January. Dr. Cave, author of
Primitive Christianity, etc, a pious and learned
man,^ preached at Whitehall to the household, on
James iii 17, concerning the duty of grace and
charity.
80th. I supped with Sir Stephen Fox, now
made one of the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury.
19th February. The writings for the settling
jointure and other contracts of marriage of my son
were finished and sealed. The lady was to bring
£5000, in consideration of a settlement of £500
a -year present maintenance, which was likewise
to be her jointure, and £500 a-year after mine and
my wife's decease. But, with God's blessing, it
wfll be at the least £1000 a-year more in a few
years. I pray God make him worthy of it, and a
comfort to his excellent mother, who deserves much
from him!
21st. Shrove Tuesday. My son was married
to Mrs. Martha Spencer, daughter to my Lady
Stonehouse by a former gentleman, at St. Andrew's,
Holbom, by our Vicar, borrowing the church of
Dr. Stillingfleet, Dean of St Paul's, the present
incumbent We afterwards dined at a house in
Holbom ; and, after the solemnity and dancing was
done, they were bedded at Sir John Stonehouse's
lodgings in Bow Street, Covent Garden.
1 Dr, William Cave, 16S7-171S, Vicar of Islington, author also
of Lives of ike Apostles and Marl^rSy and Historia LUeraria,
44 THE DIARY OF loao
26th February. To the Royal Society, where I
met an Irish Bishop with his Lady/ who was
daughter to my worthy and pious friend. Dr.
Jeremy Taylor, late Bishop of Down and Connor ;
they came to see the Repository. She seemed to
be a knowing woman, beyond tiie ordinary talent
of her sex.
8rd March, I dined at my Lord Mayor s, in
order to the meeting of mv Lady Beckford, whose
daughter (a rich heiress) I had recommended to my
brouier of Wotton for his only son,* she being the
daughter of the lady by Mr. Eversfield, a Sussex
gentleman.
16th. To London, to receive £8000 of my
daughter-in-law's portion, which was paid in gold.
26th. The Dean of Sarum ' preached on Jerem.
xlv. 5, an hour and a half from his common-place
book, of kings and great men retiring to private
situations. Scarce anything of Scripture in it
18^ April On the earnest invitation of the
Earl of Essex, I went with him to his house at
Cashiobury, in Hertfordshire.* It was on Sunday,
but going early from his house in the square of St.
James,^ we arrived by ten o'clock ; this he thought
too late to go to church, and we had prayers in his
^ [Francis Marshy 1627-93^ at this date Bishop of Kilmore
and Ardagh^ and eventually Archbishop of Dublin. His wife
was Jeremy Taylor's second daughter^ Mary. Taylor died in
1667.1
* [John Eveljm of Wotton, d. 169 Imaged thirty-eight {see post,
under 10th February, I68I).]
^ [Dr. Thomas Pierce (see ante, vol. ii. p. 11 6).]
* [Cassiobury (or Cashiobury) Park, near Watford, Herts, still
the seat of the £ssex family. Hugh May's house, visited by
Evelyn, was erected by Arthur Capel, first Earl of Essex, 1631-83,
after his return from Ireland in l677. It was pulled down in
1800; and a new Gothic mansion, from the designs of James
Wyatt, erected in its place. There is a sumptuous volume by
John Britton on Cassiobury. 1
* [On the north side of tne Square.]
1680
JOHN EVELYN 45
chapeL The house is new, a pl&in fabric, built by
my ftiendt Mr. Hugh May. There are divers fair
and good rooms, and excellent carving by Gibbons,
especially the chimney-piece of the library. There
is in the porch, or entrance, a painting by Verrio,
of Apollo and the Liberal Arts. One room
parqueted with yew, which I liked well Some of
the chimney mantels are of Irish marble, brought
by my Lord from Ireland, when he was Lord-
Lieutenant,^ and not much inferior to Italian.
The tynipanum, or gable, at the front is a basso-
riUevo of Diana huntii^, cut in Portland stone,
tiandsomely enough. I do not approve of the
middle doors being round: but, whai the hall is
finished, as designed, it being an oval with a cupola,
together with the other wing, it will be a very noble
piuace. The library is large, and very nobly
lumished, and all the books are richly bound and
gilded ; but there are no MSS., except the Parlia-
ment Rolls and Journals, the transcribing and
binding of which cost him, as he assured me, £500.
No man has been more industrious than this
noble Lord in planting about his seat, adorned with
walks, ponds, and other rural elegancies ; but the
soil is stony, churlish, and uneven, nor is the water
near enough to the house, though a very swift and
clear stream runs within a flight-shot from it in
the valley, which may fitly be called Coldbrook,
it being indeed excesidve cold, yet producing fair
trouts. It is pity the house was not situated to
more advanta^ : but it seems it was built just
where the old one was, which I believe he only
meant to repair ; this leads men into irremediable
errors, and saves but a little.
The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood,
but the coldness of the place hinders the growth.
Black cherry trees prosper even to considerable
1 [1672-77.]
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timber, some being eighty feet long; they make
also very handsome avenues. There is a pretty
oval at the end of a fair walk, set about with treble
rows of Spanish chestnut trees.
The gardens are very rare, and cannot be other-
wise, having so skilful an artist to govern them as
Mr. Cook,^ who is, as to the mechanic part, not
ignorant in mathematics, and pretends to astrology.
There is an excellent collection of the choicest
fruit.
As for my Lord, he is a sober, wise, judicious,
and pondering person, not illiterate beyond the
rate of most noblemen in this age, very well versed
in English History and affairs, industrious, frugal,
methodical, and every way accompUshed. His Lady ^
(being sister of the late Earl of Northumberland)
is a wise, yet somewhat melancholy woman, setting
her heart too much on the little lady, her daughter,
of whom she is over fond. They have a hopeful
son at the Academy.*
My Lord was not long since come from his
Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, where he showed his
abilities in administration and government, as well
as prudence in considerably augmenting his estate
without reproach. He had been Ambassador
Extraordinary in Denmark, and, in a word, such
a person as became the son of that worthy hero
his father to be, the late Lord Capel, who lost his
life for King Charles I.*
^ [Moses Cook^ author^ like Evelyn^ of a book on Forest
Treesy l675. He planted the park, and laid out the gardens.]
2 [Elizabeth, daughter of Algernon Percy, tenth Earl of
Northumberland, and sister of Josceline, eleventh Earl, who died
in 1670. Her daughter, Anne, eventually married Charles, thiid
Earl of CarHsle.]
* [Algernon Capel, d, 1710, afterwards second Earl, and
Constable of the Tower under Anne.]
* [Arthur Capel, first Baron Capel of Hadham (see ante, vol. ii.
p. 8).;i
1580 JOHN EVELYN 47
We spent our time in the mornings in walking,
or riding, and contriving [alterations], and the
afternoons in the library, so as I passed my time
for three or four days with much satisfaction. He
was pleased in conversation to impart to me divers
Srticulars of state, relating to the present times,
e being no great friend to the D ^ was now
laid aside, his int^rity and abilities being not so
suitable in this conjuncture. — 2hst. I returned to
London.
80tk April To a meeting of the executors of
late Viscountess Mordaunt's estate, to consider of
the sale of Parson's Green, being in treaty with
Mr. Loftus, and to settle the half-year s account.^
1^ May. Was a meeting of the feoffees of the
poor of our parish. This year I would stand one
of the collectors of their rents, to give example to
others. My son was added to the feoffees.
This afternoon came to visit me Sir Edward
Deering, of Surrendon, in Kent, one of the Lords
of the Treasury, with his daughter, married to my
worthy friend. Sir Robert Southwell, Clerk of the
Council, now Extraordinary Envoy to the Duke
of Brandenburg, and other Princes in Germany,
as before he had been in Portugal, being a sober,
wise, and virtuous gentleman.
ISth. I was at the funeral of old Mr. Shish,
master-shipwright of his Majesty's Yard here, an
honest and remarkable man, and his death a public
loss, for his excellent success in building ships ^
(though altogether illiterate), and for breeding
up so many of his children to be able artists.^ 1
held up the pall with three knights, who did him
that honour, and he was worthy of it. It was
1 fDuke of York J 2 ["See atUe,p. 41.]
• He built the Charles (see atUe, vol. ii. p. 286).]
* [Two of his sons were master-shipwrights, and are buried at
Depnbrd.]
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the custom of this good man to rise in the
night, and to pray, kneeling in his own coffin,
which he had lying by him for many years. He
was bom that famous year, the Gunpowder-plot,
1605.
14M June. Came to dine with us the Countess
of Clarendon,^ Dr. Lloyd, Dean of Bangor (since
Bishop of St. Asaph),^ Dr. Burnet, author of the
History of the Beformationj and my old friend,
Mr. Henshaw. After dinner, we all went to see
the Observatory, and Mr. Flamsteed,' who showed
us divers rare instruments, especially the great
quadrant
2Uh July. Went with my wife and daughter
to Windsor, to see that stately court, now near
finished. There was erected in the court the
King on horseback, lately cast in copper, and set
on a rich pedestal of white marble, the work of Mr.
Gibbons,^ at the expense of Toby Rustat,^ a page
of the back stairs, who by his wonderful frugality
had arrived to a great estate in money, and did
many works of charity, as well as this of gratitude
to his master, which cost him £1000. He is a very
simple, ignorant, but honest and loyal creature.
We all dined at the Countess of Sunderland's,
afterwards to see Signor Verrio's garden,^ thence to
Eton Collie, to salute the Provost,^ and heard a
Latin speech of one of the alumni (it being at the
election) and were invited to supper ; but took our
leave, and got to London that night in good time.
1 [See ante, vol. ii. p. 155.]
2 [Dr. William Lloyd, 1627-1717, at this date Bishop of St.
Asaph (see pogt, p. 232).]
* [See ofUe, vol. ii. p. 394.1 * [See ante, vol. ii. p. 317.1
& Tobias Rustat, 1 606-94, Yeoman of the Robes to Charles II.,
1 650-85. He was a great benefactor to Jesus College, Cambridge ;
in particular by an endowment of scholarships there for the
benefit of young students, orphan sons of clergymen.
^ [See ante, p. 37.] '' [Dr. Cradock (see ante, p. 35),]
iMO JOHN EVELYN 49
26th July. My most noble and illustrious friend,
the Earl of Ossory,^ espying me this morning after
sermon in the privy gallery, calling to me, t(dd me,
he was now goiig his journey (meaning to Tangier,
whither he was designed Governor, and General of
the forces, to r^^in we losses we had lately sustained
from the Moors, when Inchiquin was Governor).^
I asked if he would not call at my house (as he
always did whenever he went out of England on
any exploit). He said he must embark at Ports-
mouth, *' wherefore let you and I dine together
to-day ; I am quite alone, and have sometmng to
imnart to you; I am not well, shall be private,
ana desire your company."
Bemg retired to his lodgmgs, and set down on a
couch, he sait to his secretary for the copy of a
letter which he had written to Lord Sunderland
(Secretary of State), wishing me to read it ; it was
to take notice how ill he resented it, that he should
tell the King before Lord Ossory s &ce, that Tangier
was not to be kept,* but would certainly be lost,
and yet added that it was fit Lord Ossory should
be sent, that they might give some account of it to
the world, meaning (as supposed) the next Parlia-
ment, when all such miscarriages would probably
be examined ; this Lord Ossory took very ill of
Lord Sunderland, and not kindly of the King, who
tesolving to send him with an incompetent forces
seemed, as his Lordship took it, to be willing to
cast him away, not only on a hazardous adventure,
but in most men's opinion, an impossibility, seeing
there was not to be above 800 or 400 horse, and
4000 foot for the garrison and all, both to defend
^ [See ante, vol. iL p. 21.]
' [WilBiim O'Brien, second Earl of Inchiquin, 1638-92;
Governor of Tangier, 1674-80.]
' [Tangier h«l been part of the dowij of Catherine of
Bnganasa. It was abandoned in l68S and the works blown up.]
VOL. Ill E
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the town, form a camp, repulse the enemy, and
fortify what ground they should get in. This
touched my Lord deeply, that he should be so
little considered as to put him on a business in
which he should probably not only lose his repu-
tation, but be charged with all the miscarriage and
ill success ; whereas, at first they promised 6000
foot and 600 horse effective.
My Lord, being an exceeding brave and valiant
person, and who had so approved himself in divers
signal battles, both at sea and land; so beloved
and so esteemed by the people, as one they
depended on, upon all occasions worthy of such
a captain; — he looked on this as too great an
indifference in his Majesty, after all his services,
and the merits of his father, the Duke of Ormonde,
and a design of some who envied his virtue. It
certainly took so deep root in his mind, that he
who was the most void of fear in the world (and
assured me he would go to Tangier with ten men
if his Majesty commanded him) could not bear up
against this unkindness. Having disburdened him*
self of this to me after dinner, he went with his
Majesty to the Sheriffs' at a neat supper in Fish-
mongers' Hall; but, finding nimself ill, took his
leave immediately of his Majesty, and came back
to his lod^ii^- Not resting well this night, he
was persuadea to remove to Arlington House, for
better accommodation. His disorder turned to a
malignant fever, which increasing, after all that
six of the most able physicians could do, he
became delirious, with intervals of sense, during
which Dr. Lloyd (after Bishop of St Asaph) ad-
ministered the Holy Sacrament, of which I also
participated. He died the Friday following, the
80th July, to the universal grief of all that knew
or heard of his ^reat worth, nor had any a greater
loss than myseUf. Oft would he say I was the
1680 JOHN EVELYN 51
oldest acquaintance he had in England (when his
fiither was in Ireland), it being now of about
thirty years, contracted abroad, when he rode in
the A(»demy in Paris, and when we were seldom
asunder.^
His Majesty never lost a worthier subject, nor
&ther a better or more dutiful son; a loving,
generous, good-natured, and perfectly obliging
mend ; one who had done innumerable kindnesses
to several before they knew it; nor did he ever
advance any that were not worthy : no one more
brave, more modest; none more humble, sober,
and every way virtuous. Unhappy England in
this illustrious person's lossl Universal was the
mourning for hun, and the eulogies on him; I
staid night and day by his bedside to his last gasp,
to close his dear eyes ! O sad father, mother, wife,
and children ! What shall I add ? He deserved
aQ that a sincere friend, a brave soldier, a virtuous
courtier, a loyal subject, an honest man, a bounti-
ful master, and good Christian, could deserve of
his prince and country. One thing more let me
note, that he often expressed to me the abhorrence
he had of that base and unworthy action which
he was put upon, of engaging the Smvma fleet ^ in
time of peace, in which though he behaved himself
like a great captain, yet he told me it was the only
blot in his life, and troubled him exceedingly.
Though he was commanded, and never examined
further when he was so, yet he always spake of it
with regret and detestation. The Countess was at
the seat of her daughter, the Countess of Derby,
about 200 miles off.'
80th August. I went to visit a French gentle-
1 1 [See andt, vol. ii. p. 21.1 > [See aaOe, vol. ii p. 339]
* [She was the eldest daughter of Heniy de Nassau^ Lord
of Auverquerque ; and her own eldest daughter had married
William Richard, ninth Earl of Derby.]
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man, one Monsieur Chardin,^ who having been
thrice in the East Indies, Persia, and other remote
countries, came hither in our return -sliips from
those parts, and it being reported that he was a
very curious and knowing man, I was desired by
the Royal Society to salute him in their name,
and to invite him to honour them with his com-
pany. Sir Joseph Hoskins^ and Sur Christopher
Wren accompanied me. We found him at his
lodgings in his Eastern habit, a very handsome
person, extremely affable, a modest, well-bred man,
not inclined to talk wonders. He spake Latin,
and understood Greek, Arabic, and Persian, from
eleven years' travels in those parts, whither he went
in search of jewels, and was become very rich. He
seemed about 86 years of age. After the usual
civilities, we asked some account of the extra-
ordinary thimrs he must have seen in travellinir
over l>5d CZse ,*«es where few. if «,j. northed
Europeans used to go, as the Black and Caspian
Sea, Mingrelia, Bagdad, Nineveh, Persepolis, etc
He told us that the things most worthy of our
sight would be, the draughts he had caused to be
made of some noble ruins, etc. ; for that, besides
his own little talent that way, he had carried two
good painters with him, to draw landscapes,
measure and design the remains of the palace
which Alexander burnt in his frolic at Persepolis,
with divers temples, columns, riUevos, and statues,
^ [Afterwards Sir John, 1643-1712. Though a foreigner, he
was knighted by Charles II. in 168I. He was a jewel merchant,
and an enterprising traveller in Persia and the East, his accounts
of which, 167 1-1 71 1^ are still valuable. He died and was buried
at Chiswick; but he has a memorial in Westminster Abbey.
Bolton House, Tumham Green, where he lived, was pulled down
about 1880. His name is, however, perpetuated in Chardin
Road (Phillimore and Whitear's Chimidk, 1897, pp. 157, 172,
274).]
8 [John Hoskins, l6S4-1705 ; President of the Royal Society,
1682-83. He was not knighted at this date.]
1680 JOHN EVELYN 58
yet extant, which he afBnned to be sculpture far
exceedmg anything he had observed either at
Rome, in Greece, or in any other part of the
world where magnificence was in estimation. He
said there was an inscription in letters not inteUi*
gible, though entire. He was sorry he could not
gratify the curiosity of the Society at present, his
things not being yet out of the ship ; but would
wait on them with them on his return from Paris,
whither he was going the next day, but with inten-
tion to return suddenly, and stay longer here, the
persecution in France not suffering Protestants,
and he was one, to be quiet
He told us that Nineveh was a vast city, now
all buried in her ruins, the inhabitants building on
the subterranean vaults, which were, as appeared,
the first stories of the old city ; ^ that there were
firequently found huge vases of fine earth, columns,
and other antiquities; that the straw which the
Egyptians required of the Israelites, was not to
bum, or cover the rows of bricks as we use, but
being chopped small to mingle with the clay,
whidi being dried in the sun (for they bake not
m the furnaces) would else cleave asunder ; that in
Persia are yet a race of Ignicolae, who worship
the sun and the fire as Gods ; that the womai of
Georgia and Mingrelia were universally, and with-
out any compare, the most beautifiil creatures for
diape, features, and figure, in the world, and there*
fore tike Grand Seignor and Bashaws had had from
thence most of their wives and concubines ; that
there had within these hundred years been Amazons
amongst them, that is to say, a sort or race of
valiant women, given to war; that Persia was
extremely fertile ; he spoke also of Japan and
China, and of the many great errors of our late
geographers, as we suggested matter for discourse.
1 See ante, vol. iL pp. S66-67.
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We then took our leaves, failing of seeing his
Eapers; but it was told us by others that indeed
e durst not open, or show them, till he had first
showed them to the French King ; but of this he
himself said nothing.
27id September. I had an opportunity, his
Majesty being still at Windsor, of seeing his
private library at Whitehall, at my fuU ease. I
went with expectation of finding some curiosities,
but, though tnere were about 1000 volumes, there
were few of importance which I had not perused
before. They consisted chiefly of such books as
had from time to time been dedicated, or pre*
salted to him; a few histories, some Travels and
French books, abundance of maps and sea charts,
entertainments and pomps, buildings and pieces
relating to the Navy, some mathematical instru-
ments ; but what was most rare, were three or four
Romish breviaries, with a great deal of miniature
and monkish painting and gilding, one of which
is most exquisitely done, both as to the figures,
grotesques, and compartments, to the utmost of
that curious art There is another in which I find
written by the hand of King Henry VII., his
giving it to his dear daughter, Margaret, after-
wards Queen of Scots, in which he desires her to
?ray for his soul, subscribing his name at length,
^here is also the process of the philosophers' great
elixir, represented in divers pieces of excellent
miniature, but the discourse is in high Dutch, a
MS. There is another MS. in quarto, of above
800 years old, in French, being an institution of
physic, and in the botanical part the plants are
curiously painted in miniature; also a folio MS.
of good thickness, being the several exercises, as
Themes, Orations, Translations, etc., of King
Edward VI., all written and subscribed by his
own hand, and with his name very legible, and
Si
1"
if
5>. A:
l^4!1ll^l^4Jll^^^%^
r:^lJ^
1680 JOHN EVELYN 55
of the Greek interleaved and corrected
after the manner of schoolboys' exercises, and that
exceedingly well and proper ; with some epistles to
his preceptor, which show that young Prince to
have been extraordinarily advanced in learning,
and as Cardan, who had been in England, afiirmed,
stupendously knowing for his age. There is like-
wise his Journal,^ no less testifying his early ripe-
ness and care about the affairs of state.
There are besides many pompous volumes, some
embossed with gold, and intaglios on agates^
medals, etc I spent three or four entire days,
locked up, and alone, amonff these books and
curiosities. In the rest of the private lodgings
contiguous to this, are divers of the best pictures
of the great masters, Raphael, Titian, etc., and,
in my esteem, above all, the Noli me tangere of
our Blessed Saviour to Mary Magdalen after his
Resurrection, of Hans Holbein; than which I
never saw so much reverence and kind of heavenly
astonishment expressed in a picture.
There are also divers curious clocks, watches,
and pendules of exquisite work, and other curiosities.
An ancient woman who made these lodgings clean,
and had all the keys, let me in at pleasure for a
small reward, by means of a friend.
Qth September. I dined with Sir Stephen Fox,^
now one of the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury. This gentleman came first a poor boy
from the choir of Salisbury, then he was taken
notice of by Bishop Duppa, and afterwards waited
on my Lord Percy (brother to Algernon Earl of
Northumberland), who procured for him an inferior
place amongst the Clerks of the Kitchen and Green-
Cloth side, where he was found so humble, diligent,
^ Several extracts from this journal are made by Burnet in
his Higtory of the Reformaium,
* [See aide, vol. ii. p. 249.]
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industrious, and prudait in his behaviour, that his
Majesty being in exile, and Mr. Fox waiting, both
the Ejng and Lords about him frequently employed
him about their af&irs, and trusted him hoih with
receiving and paying the little monev they had.
Retuminff with his Majesty to England, after great
wants and great sufferings, his Majesty found him
so honest and industrious, and withal so capable
and ready, that, being advanced from Clerk of the
Kitchen to that of the Green-Cloth, he procured
to be Paymaster to the whole Army, and by his
dexterity and punctual dealing he obtained such
credit among the bankers, that he was in a short
time able to borrow vast sums of them upon any
exigence. The continual turning thus of money,
and the soldiers' moderate allowance to him for
keeping touch with them, did so enrich him, that
he is believed to be worth at least £200,000,
honestly got and unenvied; which is next to a
miracle. With all this he continues as humble and
ready to do a courtesy as ever he was.
He is generous, and lives very honourably, of a
sweet nature, well-spoken, well-bred, and is so highly
in his Majesty's esteem, and so useful, that being
long since made a knight, he is also advanced to be
one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury,
and has the reversion of the Cofferer's place after
Harry Brouncker. He has married his eldest
daughter to my Lord Comwallis, and gave her
£12,000, and restored that entangled &mily besides.
He matched his son to Mrs. Trollop, who brings
with her (besides a great sum) near, if not alto-
gether, £2000 per annum. Sir Stephen's lady (an
excellent woman) is sister to Mr. Whittle, one of
the King's chirurgeons. In a word, never was
man more fortunate than Sir Stephen; he is a
handsome person, virtuous, and very religious.
28rd September. Came to my house some
1680 JOHN EVELYN 57
German strangers and Signor Pietro, a fetmous
musician, who had been long in Sweden in Queen
Christina's Court ; ^ he sung admirably to a guitar,
and had a perfect good tenor and base, and had set
to Italian composure many of Abraham Cowley's
pieces which showed extremely well He told me
that in Sweden the heat in some part of summer
was as excessive as the cold in winter; so cold,
he affirmed, that the streets of all the towns are
desolate, no creatures stirring in them for many
months, all the inhabitants retiring to their stoves.
He spake high things of that romantic Queen's
learning and skill in languages, the majestyi^of her
behaviour, her exceeding wit, and that the histories
she had read of other countries, especially of Italy
and Rome, had made her despise her own. That
the real occasion of her resigning her crown was
the noblemen's importuning her to marrVf and the
promise which the Pope had made her of procuring
her to be Queen of Naples, which also caused her
to chaise her religion ; but she was cheated by his
crafty Holiness,^ working on her ambition ; that
the reason of her killing her secretary at Fontaine-
bleau,' was, his reveamig that intrigue with the
^ [Christiiia^ Queen of Sweden, l626-89> daughter of Gustavus
Adolphus. She had abdicated in June^ l654, and at this date
vras leading an eccentric life at Rome. Edward Browne writes
thus of her in January, 1665 : *' I was the other night at the
Qneene of Sweden's, shee is low and fat, a little crooked ; goes
commonly with a velvet coat, cravat, and man's perruke ; shee is
continaally merry, hath a free carriage with her, talks and laughs
with all strangers, whom shee entertains, once in a weake, with
rnusiek, and now this camivall every other night with comedies "
(Sir T. Browne's Works, 18S6, i. 86>]
^ Pope Alexander VII., of the family of Chigi, at Siena.
^ [The Marquis Monaldeschi, her Chamberlain and quondam
favourite. In 1657, she subjected him to a mock trial for high
treason ; and then had him assassinated by three men in the
GaUrie dei Cerfs, under the eyes of a priest for whom she had
previously sent to confess him*]
58 THE DIARY OF i»8o
Pope. But, after all this, I rather believe it was
her mad prodigaUty and extreme vanity, which had
consumed those vast treasures the great Adolphus,
her father, had brought out of Germany during his
[campaigns] there and wonderful successes; and
that, if she had not voluntarily resigned, as foresee-
ing the event, the Estates of her kingdom would
have compelled her to do so.
With October. I went to London to be private,
my birthday being the next day, and I now arrived
at my sixtieth year; on which I began a more
solemn survey of my whole life, in order to the
making and confirming my peace with God, by an
accurate scrutiny of all my actions past, as &r as I
was able to call them to mind. How difficult and
uncertain, yet how necessary a work 1 The Lord
be merciful to me, and accept me 1 Who can tell
how oft he ofiendeth ? Teach m^ therefore, so to
number my days, that I may apply my heart unto
wisdom, and make my calling and election sure.
Amen, Lord Jesus 1
81^^. I spent this whole day in exercises. A
stranger preached at Whitehall^ on Luke xvL
80, 81. I then went to St. Martin's, where the
Bishop of St. Asaph ' preached on 1 Peter iii. 15 ;
the holy Communion followed, at which I parti-
cipated, humbly imploring God's assistance in
the great work I was entering into. In the
afternoon, I heard Dr. Sprat, at St. Margaret's,
on Acts xviL 11.
I began and spent the whole week in examining
my life, begging pardon for my faults, assistance
and blessing for the future, that I might, in some
sort, be prepared for the time that now drew
near, and not have the great work to begin, when
one can work no longer. The Lord Jesus help
^ Probably to the King's household, very early in the morning,
as the custom was. ^ [See cade, p. 48.]
i«80 JOHN EVELYN 59
and assist me I I therefore stirred little abroad till
the 5th November, when I heard Dr. Tenison,* the
now vicar of St Martin's ; Dr. Lloyd, the former
incumbent, being made Bishop of St Asaph.
1th November. I participated of the Blessed
Communion, finishing and confirming my resolu-
tions of giving myself up more entirely to God, to
whom I nad now most solemnly devoted the rest
of the poor remainder of life in this world ; the
Lord enabling me, who am an unprofitable servant,
a miserable sinner, yet depending on his infinite
goodness and mercy accepting my endeavours.
15tfu Came to dine with us Sir Richard
Anderson,' his lady, son, and wife, sister to my
daughter-in-law.
With. The anniversan^ election at the Royal
Society brought me to London, where was chosen
President that excellent person and great philo-
sopher, Mr. Robert Boyle,' who indeed ougnt to
have been the very first ; but neither his infirmity
nor his modesty could now any longer excuse him.
I desired I might for this year be left out of the
Council, by reason my dwelling was in the country.
The Society according to custom dined together.
This signal day b^un the trial (at which I was
present) of my Lord Viscount Stafford,^ for conspir-
mg the death of the King; second [fifth ?] son to my
Lord Thomas Howard Karl of Arundel and Surrey,^
Earl Marshal of England, and grandfather to the
present Duke of Norfolk,* whom I so well knew,
1 [Dr. Thomas Tenison, 1636-1715, at this date Rector of St.
liartin's in the Fields, eventually Archbishop of Canterbury.]
« [Of Pendley (see poH, under l6th May, 168S).]
' 'See atUey vol. ii. p. 110.]
^ See anU, p. 26. He was the oldest of the five prisoners in
the Tower (see voL ii. p. 307), being sixty-six ; and, according to
Beresby, was selected because he was deemed ^^ weaker than the
other lords, . . , and so less able to make his defence" (Memoirs^
lS75,p. 194).]
^ [See aiUe, vol. i p. 22.] ^ [See ante, p. l6.]
60 THE DIARY OF i«8o
and from which excellent person I receiyed so many
favours.^ It was likewise his birthday.^ The trial
was in Westminster-Hall/ before the King, Lords,
and Commons ; just in the same manner as, forty
years past,^ the great and wise Earl of Strafford
(there being but one letter differing their names)
received his trial for pretended ill government in
Ireland, in the very same place, this Lord Stafford's
father being then High-StewanL^ The place of
sitting was now exalted some considerable height
from the paved floor of the Hall, with a stage of
boards. The throne, woolpacks for the Judges,
long forms for the Peers, chair for the Lord
Steward, exactly ranged, as in the House of Lords.
The sides on both hands scaffolded to the very
roof for the members of the House of Commons.
At the upper end, and on the right side of the
King's state, was a box for his Majesty, and on the
left, others for the great ladies, and overhead a
gallery for ambassadors and public ministers. At
the lower end, or entrance, was a bar, and place
for tlie prisoner, the Lieutenant of the Tower
of London, the axe-bearer and guards, my Lord
Stafford's two daughters, the Marchioness of
Winchester ^ being one ; there was likewise a box
for my Lord to retire into. At the right hand, in
another box, somewhat higher, stood the witnesses ;
at the left, the managers, in the name of the
Commons of England, namely, Seijeant Maynard
1
2
8
^Evelyn here means the aforesaid Lord Thomas Howard.]
[Lord Stafford was bom 30th November^ l6l4.]
'" ' To the shortening the promenade of the lawyers and the
severe oppression of the shops^' which ordinarily occupied its
floor" (Trevelyan's England under the Stuarts, 1904^ p. 418).]
« rin 1641 (see ante, vol. i. p. 22>]
See ante, vol. i. p. 22.]
Widow and third wife of John^ fifth Marquess of Winchester
id. 1d75), who held Basing House for Charles L against the
Parliamentarians till it was burned down.]
6
6
1680 JOHN EVELYN 61
(the great lawyer, the same who prosecuted the
cause against the Earl of Strafford forty years
before, being now near eighty years of age),^ Sir
William Jones, late Attorney-General, Sir Francis
Winnington, a famous pleader, and Mr. Treby,
now Recorder of London,^ not appearing in their
gowns as lawyers, but in their cloaks and swords,
as representing the Commons of England : to these
were joined Mr. Hampden,' Dr. Sacheverell,^ Mr.
Poule, Colonel Titus» Sir Thomas Lee, all gentle-
men of quality, and noted parliamentary men.
The two first days, in which were read the commis-
sion and impeachment, were but a tedious entrance
into matter of &ct, at which I was but little
present. But, on Thursday, I was commodiously
seated amongst the Commons, when the witnesses
were sworn and examined. The principal witnesses
were Mr. Oates (who called himself Dr.), Mr.
Dugdale,^ and Turberville.^ Oates swore that he
delivered a commission to Viscount Stafford from
the Pope, to be Paymaster -General to an army
intended to be raised; — Dugdale, that being at
Lord Aston*^ the prisoner dealt with him plainly
to murder his Majesty; and Turberville, that at
Paris he also proposed the same to hinL^
1 ^ir John MajDATd, 1602-90.1
< George Treby, 1644-1700, afterwards Chief Justice of the
CoDunon Pleas, and knighted in 1681. He was also member of
Parliament for Piympton, in Devonshire, where he was bom.
' [John Hampden, 1656-96, grandson of John Hampden.]
« William Sacheverell, l6S8-91, the politician.]
^ [Stephen Dugdale, 1640-83, the informer. Lord Aston's
steward.]
« TEdwaid Turberville, the informer, 1648-81.]
^ [^Thej seemed so positive in this and other dangerous
evidence," says Reresby, ''that myself that sat and heard most
of the trial knew not what to believe, had the evidence been
men of any credit ; but such incoherences, and indeed contradic-
tions in my judgment, appeared towards the latter end of the
trial, that for my own part I was satisfied at last of its untruth "
(Jtfammv, 1875, p. 194).]
62 THE DIARY OF leso
8rd December. The depositions of my Lord's
witnesses were taken, to invalidate the Eang's
witnesses; they were very slight p»sons» but,
being fifteen or sixteen, they took up all that day,
and in truth they rather did my Lord injury than
service.
Uh. Came other witnesses of the Commons to
corroborate the King's, some being Peers, some
Commons, with others of good qufdity, who took
off all the former day's objections, and set the
King's witnesses recti in CurtcL
6th. Sir William Jones summed up the
evidence; to him succeeded all the rest of the
managers, and then Mr. Henry Poule^ made a
vehement oration. After this my Lord, as on all
occasions, and often during the trial, spoke in his
own defence, denying the charge altogether, and
that he had never seen Oates, or Turberville, at the
time and manner affirmed : in truth, their testimony
did little weigh with me ; Dugdale's only seemed
to press hardest, to which my Lord spake a great
while, but confusedly, without any method.
One thing my Lord said as to Oates, which I
confess did exceedingly affect me : That a person
who during his depositions should so vauntingly
brag that though he went over to the Church of
Rome, yet he was never a Papist, nor of their
religion, all the time that he seemed to apostatise
from the Protestant, but only as a spy ; though he
confessed he took their sacrament, worshipped
images, went through all their oaths, and discipline
of their proselytes, swearing secrecy and to be
£Euthful, but with intent to come over again and
betray them ; — ^that such an hypocrite, that had so
deeplv prevaricated as even to turn idolater (for so
we of the Church of England termed it), attesting
God so solemnly that he was entirely theirs and
^ [A manager.]
1680
JOHN EVELYN 68
devoted to their interest, and consequently (as
he pretaided) trusted ; — I say, that the witness
of such a profligate wretch should be admitted
against the life of a peer, — ^this my Lord looked
upon as a monstrous thing, and such as must
needs redound to the dishonour of our religion and
nation. And verily I am of his Lordship's opinion :
such a man's testimony should not be taken against
the life of a dog. But the merit of something
material which he discovered against Coleman,^ put
him in such esteem with the Parliament, that now,
I fiuicy, he stuck at nothing, and thought every-
body was to take what he said for gospel The
consideration of this, and some other circumstances,
b^an to stagger me ; particularly how it was
possible that one who went among the Papists on
such a design, and pretended to be intrusted with
so many letters and commissions from the Pope
and the party, nay and dehvered them to so many
great persons, should not reserve one of them to
show, nor so much as one copy of any commission,
which he who had such dexterity in opening letters
might certainly have done, to the undeniable con-
viction of those whom he accused ; but, as I said,
he gamed credit on Coleman. But, as to others
whom he so madly flew upon, I am little inclined
to believe his testimony, he being so slight a
Serson, so passionate, ill-bred, and of such impu-
ent behaviour ; nor is it likely that such piercing
politicians as the Jesuits should trust him with so
high and so dangerous secrets.
7th December. On Tuesday, I was again at the
trial, when judgment was demanded ; and, after my
Lord had spoken what he could in denying the
fact, the managers answering the objections, the
Peers adjourned to their House, and within two
hours returned again. There was, in the mean-
1 See mU, p. 26.
64 THE DIARY OF
1680
time^ this question put to the judges, '^whether
there being but one witness to any single erime^ or
act, it could amount to convict a man of treason. *"
They gave an unanimous opinion that in case of
treason they all were overt acts, for though no man
should be condemned by one witness for any one
act, yet for several acts to the same intent, it was
valid; which was my Lord's case. This beinff
past, and the Peers in their seats again, the Loid
Chancellor Finch ^ (this day the Lord High Steward)
removing to the woolsack next his Majesty's state,
after summoning the Lieutenant of the Tower to
bring forth his prisoner, and proclamation made for
silence, demanded of every peer (who were in
all eighty -six) whether William, Lord Viscount
Stafford, were guilty of the treason laid to his
charge, or not guilty.
Then the Peer spoken to, standing up, and
laying his right hand upon his breast, said Guilty,
or Not guilty, upon my honour, and then sat
down, the Lord Steward noting their sufirages as
they answered upon a paper: when all had done^
the number of Not guil^ being but 81, the Guilty
55 : and then, after proclamation for silence again,
the Lord Steward directing his speech to the
prisoner, against whom the axe was turned edge*
ways and not before, in aggravation of his crime,
he being ennobled by the King's father, and since
received many favours from his present Majesty :
after enlarging on his offence, deploring first his
own unhappiness that he who had never condemned
any man before should now be necessitated to
begin with him, he then pronounced sentence of
death by hanging, drawing, and quartering, accord-
ing to form, with great solemnity and dreadftd
gravity ; and, after a short pause, told the prisoner
that he believed the Lords would intercede for the
^ [See anie, voL ii p. 218.]
lew JOHN EVELYN 65
omission of some circumstances^ of his sentence,
beheading only excepted; and then breaking his
white sti^, the Court was dissolved. My Lord
Stafford during all this latter part spake but little,
and only gave their Lordships thanks after the
sentence was pronounced ; and indeed behaved
himself modestly, and as became him.^
It was observed that all his own relations of
his name and family condemned him, except his
nephew, the Earl of Arundel," son to the Duke of
Norfolk. And it must be acknowledged that the
whole trial was carried on with exceeding gravity :
so stately and august an appearance I had never
seen before ; for, besides the innumerable spectators
of gentlemen and foreign ministers, who saw and
heiurd all the proceedings, the prisoner had the
consciences of all the Commons of England for his
aocusers» and all the Peers to be his Judges and
Jury. He had likewise the assistance of what
counsel he would, to direct him in his plea, who
stood hy hiuL And yet I can hardly think that
a person of his age and experience should engage
men whom he never saw before (and one of tiiem
that came to visit him as a stranger at Paris) point
blank to murder the King : God only who searches
hearts, can discover the truth. Lord Stafford was
not a man beloved, especially of his own family.
12th December. This evening, looking out of my
chamber- window towards the west, I saw a meteor
^ [Drawing and quartering^ which the King remitted. What
Bnrice's Peera^ caUs this '^ iniquitous attainder/' was not re-
versed until 1824.1
^ [" He heard nis accusers^ and defended himself with great
resolution^ and received his sentence with no less courage^ which
stayed by him till he laid his head upon the block [see /mm<^
p- ^^ protesting his innocence to the last " (Reresby's Memoirsy
1875, p. 194>1
• [Henry Howard, Earl of Arundel (Lord Mowbray), afterwards
seventh Duke of Norfolk, 1655-1701 (see anie, vol. ii. p. 190>]
VOL. Ill F
66 THE DIARY OF laai
of an obscure bright colour, very much in shape
like the blade of a sword, the rest of the sky very
serene and clear. What this may portend, God
only knows; but such another phenomenon I
remember to have seen in 1640, about the trial of
the great Earl of Strafford, preceding our bloody
Rebellion.^ I pray God avert his judgments 1 We
have had of late several comets, which though I
believe appear from natural causes, and of them-
selves operate not, yet I cannot despise them.
They may be warnings from God, as they commonly
are forerunners of his animadversions. After many
days and nights of snow, cloudy and dark weather,
the comet was very much wasted.
nth December. My daughter-in-law was brought
to bed of a son, christened Richard.^
22nd. A solemn public Fast that God would
prevent all Popish plots, avert his judgments, and
give a blessing to the proceedings of parliament
now assembled, and which struck at the succession
of the Duke of York.
29th. The Viscount Stafford was beheaded on
Tower Hill.»
1680-1 : 10^^ February. I was at the wedding
of my nephew, John Evelyn of Wotton, married
by the Bishop of Rochester at Westminster, in
Henry VII.'s chapel, to the daughter and heir of
Mr. Eversfield, of Sussex, her portion £8000. The
solenmity was kept with a few friends only at Lady
Beckford's, the lady's mother.*
8/A March. Visited and dined at the Earl of
Essex's, with whom I spent most of the afternoon
alone. Thence to my (yet Uving) godmother and
kinswoman, Mrs. Keightley,* sister to Sir Thomas
1 [See ante, vol. i. p. 62.]
s See pott, 6th September, 1681.]
» See oMtCy p. 65.1 * P®^ ^"^^ P* **•]
^ Rose^ daughter of Thomas Evelyn of Long Ditton^ married
Thomas Keightley of Staffordshire (see oMUy vol. i. p. 5).]
1681 JOHN EVELYN 67
Evelyn, and niece to my father, being now eighty-
six years of age, sprightly, and in perfect health,
her eyes serving her as well as ever, and of a
comely countenance, that one would not suppose
her above fifty.
21th March. The Parliament now convened at
Oxford. Great expectation of his Royal High-
ness's case as to the succession,^ against which the
House was set.
An extraordinary sharp cold spring, not yet a
leaf on the trees, frost and snow lying : whilst the
whole nation was in the greatest ferment.
nth April I took my leave of Dr. Lloyd
(Bishop of St. Asaph) ^ at his house in Leicester
Fields, now going to reside in his diocese.
\2th. I dSned at Mr. Brisbane's, Secretary to
the Admiralty,' a learned and industrious person,
whither came Dr. Burnet, to thank me for some
papers I had contributed towards his excellent
Higtory of the Reformation.^
2Qth. I dined at Don Pietro Ronquillo's, the
Spanish Ambassador, at Wild House,'^ who used
me with extraordinary civility. The dinner was
^entiful, half after the Spanish, half after the
English way. After dinner, he led me into his
bedchamber, where we fell into a long discourse
concerning religion. Though he was a learned
man in politics, and an advocate, he was very
Ignorant in religion, and able to defend any
^ [Charles proposed that James should be banished, and
William or Mary be made Regent. The Commons rejected this,
as the Court really wished they would.]
' [See ante, p. 48.]
' See poH, under 26th October, 1683.J
^ Burnet's Hixtory of the Refomudum of the Church of
England was published 1679-1715.1
* [Weld, or Wild House, on the site of Little WUd Street,
Lmcohi's Inn Fields, was pulled down drca l695 (see pati, 9th
December, l688).]
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•
point of controversy ; he was, however, far from
being fierce. At parting, he earnestly wished me
to apply humbly to the Blessed Virgin to direct me,
assuring me that he had known divers who had been
averse from the Roman Catholic religion, wonder-
fully enlightened and convinced by her intercession.
He importuned me to come and visit him often.
29thApriL But one shower of rain all this month.
5th May. Came to dine with me Sir William
Fermor,^ of Northamptonshire, and Sir Christopher
Wren, his Majesty's Architect and Surveyor, now
building the Cathedral of St Paul, and the Column
in memory of the City's conflagration,^ and was in
hand with the building of fifty parish churches. A
wonderful genius had this incomparable person.
16th. Came my Lady Sunderland,' to desire that
I would propose a match to Sir Stephen Fox * for
her son. Lord Spencer,* to marry Mrs. Jane, Sir
Stephen's daughter. I excused myself all I was
able ; for the truth is, I was afraid he would prove
an extravagant man : for, though a youth of
extraordinary parts, and had an excellent education
to render him a worthy man, yet his early inclina-
tions to extravagance made me apprehensive, that
I should not serve Sir Stephen by proposing it,
like a friend ; this being now his only daughter,
well-bred, and likely to receive a large share of
her father s opulence. Lord Sunderland was much
sunk in his estate by gaming and other prodi-
galities, and was now no longer Secretary of
ttate, having fallen into displeasure of the King
for siding with the Commons about the succession ;
but which, I am assured, he did not do out of his
See ante, p. 30.]
'The Monument was erected 1671-77.]
See ante, vol. ii. p. 380.1 ^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 249.1
Xiord Spencer died bdrore his father, who was succeeded
by his second son, Charles (see post, p. 238).]
s
8
5
1681 JOHN EVELYN 69
own inclination, or for the preservation of the
Protestant religion ; but by mistaking the ability
of the party to carry it However, so earnest and
importunate was the Countess, that I did mention
it to Sir Stephen, who said that it was too great an
honour, that his daughter was very young as well
as my Lord, and he was resolved never to marry
her without the parties' mutual liking ; with other
objections which I neither would nor could con-
tradict He desired me to express to the Countess
the great sense he had of the honour done him,
that his daughter and her son were too young ;
that he would do nothing without her liking,
which he did not think her capable of expressing
judiciously, till she was sixteen or seventeen years
of age, of which she now wanted four years, and
that I would put it off as civilly as I could.
20th May. Our new curate preached, a pretty
hopeful young man, yet somewhat raw, newly
come from collie, full of Latin sentences, which
in time will wear off. He read prayers very well
25th. There came to visit me Sir William
Walter and Sir John Elowes : and, the next day,
the Earl of Kildare,^ a young gentleman related to
my wife, and other company. There had scarce
faUen any rain since Christmas.
2nd June. I went to Hampton Court, when the
Surrey gentlemen presented their addresses to his
Majesty, whose hand I kissed, introduced by the
Duke of Albemarle. Being at the Privy Council,
I took another occasion of discoursing with Sir
Stephen Fox about his daughter and to revive that
business, and at last brought it to this : That, in
case the young people liked one the other, after
four years, he first desiring to see a particular of
my Lord's present estate if I could transmit it to
him privately, he would make her portion £14,000,
1 John FitzGerald, 18th Earl of Kildare, 1661-1707.
70 THE DIARY OF i«i
though to all appearance he might likely make it
£50,000 as easily, his eldest son having no child,
and growing very corpulent.
i2th June. It stiU continued so great a drought
as had never been known in England, and it was
said to be universal.
lUh August. No sermon this afternoon, which
I think did not happen twice in. this parish these
thirty years ; so gracious has God been to it, and
indeed to the whole nation : God grant that we
abuse not this great privilege, either by our wanton-
ness, schism, or unfaithfulness, under such means
as he has not favoured any other nation under
Heaven besides 1
2!^d. I went to Wotton, and, on the following
day, was invited to Mr. Denzil Onslow's at his seat
at Pyrford,^ where was much company, and such
an extraordinary feast, as I had hardly seen at any
country gentleman's table. What made it more
remarkable was, that there was not anything save
what his estate about it did afford ; as venison,
rabbits, hares, pheasants, partridges, pigeons, quails,
poultry, all sorts of fowl in season from his own
decoy near his house, and all sorts of firesh fish.
After dinner, we went to see sport at the decoy,
where I never saw so many herons.
The seat stands on a flat, the ground pasture,
rarely watered, and exceedingly improved since
Mr. Onslow bought it of Sir Robert Parkhurst,
who spent a fair estate. The house is timber, but
commodious, and with one ample dining-room, the
hall adorned with paintings of fowl and huntings,
etc., the work of Mr. Barlow,^ who is excellent in
this kind from the life.
^ [Pyrford, or Pirford Park (now converted into farm land\
not far from Ripley. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's (1621-31),
once lived here. Lord Onslow is Lord of the Manor.]
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 109.]
1681 JOHN EVELYN 71
80th August From Wotton I went to see Mr,
Hussey ^ (at Sutton in Shere), who has a very pretty
seat well watered, near my brother's. He is the
neatest husband for curious ordering his domestic
and field accommodations, and what pertains to
husbandry, that I have ever seen, as to his granaries,
tacklings, tools, and utensils, ploughs, carts, stables,
wood -piles, wood -house, even to hen-roosts and
hog-troughs. Methought, I saw old Cato, or
Varro, in him ; all substantial, all in exact order.
The sole inconvenience he lies under, is the great
quantity of sand which the stream brings along
with it, and fills his canals and receptacles for
&h too soon. The rest of my time of stay at
Wotton was spent in walking about the grounds
and goodly woods, where I have in my youth so
often entertained my solitude ; and so, on the 2nd
of September, I once more returned to my home.
6tn September. Died my pretty grandchild, and
was interred on the 8th [at Deptford].^
14/A. Dined with Sir Stephen Fox, who proposed
to me the purchasing of Chelsea College,' which
his Majesty had sometime since given to our
Society, and would now purchase it again to build
an hospital, or infirmary for soldiers there, in
which he desired my assistance as one of the
Council of the Royal Society.
15th. I had another opportunity of visiting his
Majesty's private library, at Whitehall.*
To Sir Samuel Morland's to see his house and
mechanics.^
^ See ioUe, voL ii. p. 815. ^ [See ante, p. 66.1
* [See ante, voL ii. p. 296.] * See ante, p. 54.J
^ In Lambeth, at what is now Vauxhall, where Sir Samuel
Morland had fitted up a house. It contained a large room^
furnished magnificently^ and elaborate fountains constructed in
the garden. He was much in favour with Charles the Second
for services he had rendered to him while abroad^ and this is
probablj the place to which it is said the King and his Ladies
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17th September. I went with Monsieur Foubert
about taking the Countess of Bristol's house for an
academy, he being lately come from Paris for his
religion, and resolving to settle here.^
2Br(L I went to see Sir Thomas Bond's fine
house and garden, at PeekhauL^
2nd October. I went to Camberwell, where that
good man Dr. Parr ' (late chaplain to Archbishop
Ussher) preached on Acts xvL SO.
11th. To Fulham, to visit the Bishop of London,*
in whose garden I first saw the Sedum arborescens
in flower, which was exceedingly beautiful
5th N&oeniber. Dr Hooper^ preached on Mark
xii. 16, 17, before the King, of the usurpation of the
Church of Rome. This is one of the first rank of
pulpit men in the nation.
15^^ I dined with the Earl of Essex,^ who, after
dinner in his study, where we were alone, related to
me how much he had been scandalised and injured
used to cross the water to go to. See Manning and Bray's Surrof,
iii 489-91* Sir Samuel became blind at last, and seems to have
suffered from a sort of religious melancholy. See ante, vol. ii.
p. 276 ; and poH, under l6th June, l683, and 25th October, 1695.
^ [In July, l680. Major Foubert's Academy on the French
model, " for riding, fencing, dancing, branding arms, and mathe-
matics," was in Sherwood (or Shenard) Street, PiccadiUy, near the
Haymarket. It was there in 1 681 and 1682. Then apparently
it was moved to the passage known by his name, connecting King
Street with Swallow Street ; and here it remained until, in 1813-
20, part of Swallow Street was pulled down for the Regent Street
improvements. There is a coloured drawing of Foubert' s Academy
by C. Tomkins, 1801, in the British Museum. It was in Foubert's
Academy that the younger Konigsmarck, Philip, was living with
his Governor at the time of Thjmne's murder (see post, under
15th November); and here also for a few days, at the same
date, lodged the elder brother, Carl Johann von Konigsmarck,
the principal in that affair (Memoirs of Sir John Rereshy, 1875,
p. 237).]
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 392.] ' [See ante, vol. ii. p. 338.]
^ Dr. Compton (see ante, voL ii. p. 299)']
^ [Dr. George Hooper, 1640-1727, afterwards Bishop of Bath
and Wells.] ^ [See ante, p. 44.]
1681 JOHN EVELYN 78
in the report of his being privy to the marriage of
his Lady s niece, the rich young widow of the late
Lord Ogle, sole daughter of the Earl of Northum-
berland; showing me a letter of Mr. Thynne's,
excusing himself for not communicating his marriage
to his Lordship. He acquainted me also with the
whole story of that unfortunate lady being betrayed
by her grandmother, the Countess of Northumber-
land, and Colonel Bret, for money; and that
though, upon the importunity of the Duke of
Monmouth, he had delivered to the grandmother
a particular of the jointure which Mr. Thynne
pretended he would settle on the lady, yet he totally
discouraged the proceeding, as by no means a
competent match for one that both by birth and
fortune might have pretended to the greatestprince
in Christendom ; that he also proposed the Earl of
Kingston, or the Lord Cranburn, but was by no
means for Mr. Thynne.^
^ Thomas Thynne, of Longleat Hall, Wilts, 1648-82, commonly
known as " Tom of Ten Thousand " (a year), and the " Issachar "
of Diyden's Absalom and AckUopheL In 168I he had married
Elizabeth Percy (1667-1722), only surviving daughter and heiress
of Josceline, eleventh and last Earl of Northumberland, and
widow of Henry Cavendish, Earl of Ogle ; but she had fled
from Thynne into Holland shortly after the ceremony. [He
was shot in his coach at the lower end of St. Alban's Street,
near the Haymarket, on February 12, l682, by one Colonel
Christopher Vratz, and two others, a Swedish lieutenant, John
Stem, and a Polander, all three acting, it was believed, in the
interests of Count Carl Johann von Konigsmarck (elder brother
of Philip, afterwards the lover of Sophia Dorothea of Celle), a
former suitor of Lady Ogle. Konigsmarck contrived to get off,
bat Vratz and his colleagues were hanged, March 10, on the spot
where the murder was committed, llieir victim was buried in
Westminster Abbey, where there is a bas-relief depicting his
death. Sir John Reresby, at this date (like Sir Edmund Beny
Godfrey) a Justice of Peace for Middlesex and Westminster, was
very active in this case, of which he gives an account at pp. 235-
241 of his Memoirs, 1875.] It may be added, assuming the truth
of what Lord Essex conveyed to Evelyn in the text, that the
inclinations of the lady were not consulted in her second union ;
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19^ Naoember. I dined with my worthy friend,
Mr. Erskine,^ Master of the Charter-house, uncle
to the Duchess of Monmouth ; a wise and learned
gentleman, fitter to have been a privy councillor and
minister of state than to have been laid aside.
2Uh. I was at the audience of the Russian
Ambassador before both their Majesties in the
Banqueting-house. The presents were carried
before him, held up by his followers in two ranks
before the King's State, and consisted of tapestry
(one suite of which was doubtlessly brought from
France as being of that fabric, the Ambassador
having passed through that kingdom as he came
out of Spain), a large Persian carpet, furs of sable
and ermine, etc. ; but nothing was so splendid and
exotic as the Ambassador who came soon after the
King*s restoration.' This present Ambassador was
exceedingly offended that his coach was not per-
mitted to come into the Court, till, being told that
no King's Ambassador did, he was pacified, yet re-
quiring an attestation of it under the hand of Sir
Charles Cotterell, the Master of the Ceremonies ;
being, it seems, afraid he should offend his Master,
if he omitted the least punctilio. It was reported
he condemned his son to lose his head for shaving
and this may have given rise to the suspicion that she encouraged
Count Konigsmarck's addresses^ and was privy to his designs upon
her husband. [She afterwards (l682) married Charles Seymour,
sixth Duke of Somerset (1662-1748), and was attacked in Swift's
Windsor Prophecy (171 1) :—
And, dear Englond, if ouffht I understond.
Beware of Carrots^ from Iforthumb^rlond ;
Carrots sown Tkynne a deep root may get,
If so be they are in Samer Mt ;
Their Conynp$ mark thou ; for I have been told
They a$S€unne when young, and poison when old, etc.]
^ [William Erskine, d, l6S5. He was Master of Charterhouse
1677-85, and Cup-bearer to Charles II. The Duchess of Mon-
mouth was Ann Scott, Countess of Bucdeuch.]
2 [See ante, vol ii, p. 197.]
1683 JOHN EVELYN 75
off his beard, and putting himself in the French mode
at Paris, and that he would have executed it, had
not the French King interceded — but qy. of this.
doth Nffoember. Sir Christopher Wren chosen
President [of the Royal Society], Mr. Austine,
Secretary, with Dr. Plot,^ the ingenious author of
the History of Oafordshire. There was a most
illustrious appearance.
1681-2 : 1 \tk January. I saw the audience of the
Morocco Ambassador,^ his retinue not numerous.
He was received in the Banqueting-house, both
their Majesties being present. He came up to
the throne without making any sort of reverence,
not bowing his head, or body. He spake by a
renegado Englishman, for whose safe return there
was a promise. They were all clad in the Moorish
habit, cassocks of coloured cloth, or silk, with
buttons and loops, over this an alha^ga^ or white
woollen mantle, so large as to wrap both head and
body, a sash, or small turban, naked-legged and
armed, but with leather socks like the Turks, rich
seymitar, and large calico sleeved shirts. The
Ambassador had a string of pearls oddly woven
in his turban. I fancy the old Roman habit was
little different as to the mantle and naked limbs.
He was a handsome person, well-featured, of a wise
look, subtle, and extremely civil. Their presents
were lions and ostriches;' their errand about a
#
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 881.]
' Named Hamet. He made his public entry through
London the fifth of this month. On the thirtieth of May
following, he was entertained at Oxford ; and, about the same
time, dined with Elias Ashmole, who made him a present of a
magnifying glass. July 14, the Ambassador took his leave of the
King^ and on the 23rd of tiie same month embarked for his own
country. There is a large print of him by Robert White.
' '^That Ambassador's present to the King was two Hons
and thirty ostriches^ which his Majesty laughed at, saying he
knew nothing fitter to return than a flock of geese " (Reresby's
Memoirt, 1875, p. 282).
76 THE DIARY OF ie82
peace at Tangier. But the concourse and tumult
of the people was intolerable, so as the officers
could keep no order, which these strangers were
astonished at at first, there being nothing so
regular, exact, and performed with such silence, as
is on all these public occasions of their country,
and indeed over all the Turkish dominions.
l^th January. Dined at the Bishop of Roches-
ter's,^ at the Abbey, it being his marriage -day,
after twenty-four years. He related to me how
he had been treated by Sir William Temple,
foreseeing that he might be a del^ate in the con-
cern of my Lady Ogle now likely to come in
controversy upon her marriage with Mr. Thynne ;
also, how earnestly the late Earl of Danby, Lord
Treasurer,^ sought his friendship, and what plain
and sincere advice he gave him firom time to time
about his miscarriages and partialities; particu-
larly his outing Sir John Duncombe ' from being
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir Stephen
Fox, above all, from Paymaster of the Army.
The Treasurer's excuse and reason was, that Fox's
credit was so over-great with the bankers and
monied men, that he could procure none but by
his means; ^^for that reason," replied the Bishop,
^^I would have made him my friend. Sir Stephen
being a person both honest and of credit" He
told him likewise of his stateliness and difficulty
of access, and several other miscarriages, and which
indeed made him hated.
2Mh. To the Royal Society, where at the
Council we passed a new law for the more
accurate consideration of candidates, as whether
they would really be useful ; also, concerning the
1 [Dr.
« [The
Dolben (see ante, p. ll).l
~ oie ti]
The Earl of Danby did not die till 1712. At this moment
he was a prisoner in the Tower. Evelyn possibly means he was
no longer Lord Treasurer.] • [See ante, vol. ii. p. 247.]
1682 JOHN EVELYN 77
honorary members, that none should be admitted
but by diploma.
This evening, I was at the entertainment of the
Morocco Ambassador at the Duchess of Ports-
mouth's glorious apartments at Whitehall/ where
was a great banquet of sweetmeats and music ;
but at which both the Ambassador and his retinue
behaved themselves with extraordinary moderation
and modesty, though placed about a long table, a
lady between two Moors, and amongst t£ese were
the King's natural children, namely Lady Lichfield
and Sussex, the Duchess of Portsmouth, Nelly,
etc., concubines, and cattle of that sort, as splendid
as jewels and excess of bravery could make them ;
the Moors neither admiring nor seeming to regard
anything, furniture or the like, with any earnest-
ness, and but decently tasting of the banquet
They drank a little milk and water, but not a drop
of wine ; they also drank of a sorbet and jacolatt ; '
did not look about, or stare on the ladies, or
express the least surprise, but with a courtly
negligence in pace, countenance, and whole
behaviour, answering only to such questions as
were asked with a great deal of wit and gallantry,
and so gravely took leave with this compliment,
that God would bless the Duchess of Portsmouth
and the Prince her son, meaning the little Duke of
Richmond. The King came in at the latter end,
just as the Ambassador was going away. In this
manner was this slave (for he was no more at
home) entertained by most of the nobility in town,
and went often to Hyde Park on horseback, where
he and his retinue showed their extraordinary
activity in horsemanship, and flinging and catching
their lances at fiiU speed; they rode very short,
and could stand upright at full speed, managing
their spears with incredible agility. He went
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 385.] ^ Sherbet and chocolate.
78 THE DIARY OF
1682
sometimes to the theatres, where upon any
foolish or fantastical action, he could not forbear
laughing, but he endeavoured to hide it with
extraordinary modesty and gravity. In a word,
the Russian Ambassador, still at Court, behaved
himself like a clown, compared to this civil
heathen.
21th January. This evening, Sir Stephen Fox
acquainted me again with his Majesty*s resolution
of proceeding in the erection of a Royal Hospital
for emerited soldiers on that spot of ground which
the Royal Society had sold to his Majesty for
£1800,^ and that he would settle £5000 per annum
on it, and build to the value of £20,000 for the
relief and reception of four companies, namely, 400
men, to be as in a college or monastery. I was
therefore desired by Sir Stephen (who had not
only the whole managing of this, but was, as I
perceived, himself to be a grand benefactor, as
well it became him who had gotten so vast an
estate by the soldiers) to assist him, and consult
what method to cast it in, as to the government
So, in his study we arranged the governor, chaplain,
steward, house-keeper, chirurgeon, cook, butler,
gardener, porter, and other officers, with their
several salaries and entertainments. I would
needs have a library, and mentioned several books,
since some soldiers might possibly be studious,
when they were at leisure to recollect Thus we
made the first calculations, and set down our
thoughts to be considered and digested better, to
show his Majesty and the Archbishop. He also
ensa^ced me to consider of what laws and orders
were fit for the government, which was to be
in every respect as strict as in any religious
convent
After supper, came in the famous treble, Mr.
1 [See amUy p. 71.]
i«2 JOHN EVELYN 79
Abell,* newly returned from Italy ; I never heard
a more excellent voice; one would have sworn
it had been a woman's, it was so high, and so
well and skilfully managed, being accompanied by
Signor Francesco on the harpsichord.^
28/A January. Mr. Pepys, late Secretary to the
Admiralty, showed me a large folio containing
the whole mechanic part and art of building royiu
ships and men of war, made by Sir Anthony
Deane,' being so accurate a piece from the very
keel to the lead block, rigging, guns, victualling,
manning, and even to every individual pin and
nail, in a method so astonishing and curious, with
a draught, both geometrical and in perspective,
and several sections, that I do not think the world
can show the like. I esteem this book as an
extraordinary jewel
1th February. My daughter, Mary, began to
learn music of Signor Bartholomeo,' and dancing
of Monsieur Isaac,'^ reputed the best masters.
Having had several violent fits of an ague,
recourse was had to bathing my legs in milk up to
the knees, made as hot as I could endure it ; and
sitting so in it in a deep chum, or vessel, covered
with blankets, and drinking carduus posset,^ then
going to bed and sweating, I not only missed that
1 [John Abell, l660-17l6, "Gentleman of His Majesty's
Chapel," 1679. He had been sent by Charles II. to cultivate
his vcrfce in Italy, 1681-82.]
* [See anU, vol. ii p. 373.]
* Sir Anthony Deane, 1638-1721, shipbuilder and F.R.S.]
* See atiUy p. 40.]
* Isaac was a famous dancing-master : —
And l9aa/o'$ Rigadoon shall live as long.
As Raphael*8 painting, or as Vila's song.
There is a print of him by G. White after L. Goupy. He is
mentioned in Toiler , No. 109.]
^ [CaTduui Benedictus, or Blessed Thistle, used as a posset-
drink for fevers (Miller's Herbal, 1722, p. 114).]
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1682
expected fit, but had no more, only continued weak,
that I could not go to church till Ash- Wednesday,
which I had not missed, I think, so long in twenty
years, so gracious had God been to me.
After this warning and admonition, I now began
to look over and methodise all my writings,
accounts, letters, papers; inventoried the goods,
and other articles of the house, and put things into
the best order I could, and made my wiU; that
now, growing in years, I might have none of these
secular things and concerns to distract me, when it
should please Almighty God to call me from this
transitory life. With this, I prepared some special
meditations and devotions for the time of sickness.
The Lord Jesus grant them to be salutary for my
poor soul in that day, that I may obtain mercy and
acceptance I
1st March. My second grandchild was bom, and
christened the next day by our vicar at Sayes Court,
by the name of John.^ I beseech God to bless him !
2nd. Ash- Wednesday. I went to church : our
vicar preached on Proverbs, showing what care and
vigilance was required for the keeping of the heart
upright The Holy Communion followed, on which
I gave God thanks for his gracious dealing with
me in my late sickness, and affording me this
blessed opportunity of praising Him in the congre-
gation, and receiving the cup of salvation with new
and serious resolutions.
Came to see and congratulate my recovery. Sir
John Lowther,* Mr. Herbert,' Mr. Pepys, Sir
Anthony Deane,* and Mr. HilL*
1 John Evelyn^ d, 1763, He became his grandfathers
successor^ and was created a baronet in 1713. He married
Ann, daughter of Edward Boscawen ^see ante, p. 20).
* [See ante, p. 11.1
* 'See ante, p. 79.'
6
* [Ix>rd Herbert's nephew.]
Abraham Hill, 1635-1721, Treasurer to the Royal Society.]
itts JOHN EVELYN 81
lOtk March. This day was executed Colonel
ViatZy and some of his accomplices, for the exe-
crable murder of Mr. Thynne,^ set on by the prin-
cipal Konigsmarck. He went to execution like an
undaunted hero, as one that had done a £riendly office
for that base coward. Count Konigsmarck, who had
hopes to marry his widow, the rich Lady Ogle, and
was acquitted by a corrupt jury, and so got away.
Vratz told a friend of mine who accompanied him
to the gallows, and gave him some advice, that he
did not value dying of a rush, and hoped and
believed God would deal with him like a gentleman.
Never man went, so unconcerned for his sad fete.*
24/A. I went to see the corpse of that obstinate
creature. Colonel Vratz, the King permitting that
his body should be transported to his own country,
he being of a good femily, and one of the first em-
bahned by a particular art, invented by one William
Russell, a coffin-maker, which preserved the body
without disbowelling, or to appearance usii^ any
bituminous matter.' The fiesh was florid, soft, and
full, as if the person were only sleeping. He had
now been dead near fifteen days, and lay exposed
in a very rich coffin lined with lead, too magnificent
for so daring and horrid a murderer.
1 rSee anie, p. 73.]
' [Beresby confinns this account {Memoirs, 1875, p. 243).
''The captain (Vratz) died without any expression of fear, or
laying any guilt upon Count Coningsmark. Seeing me in my
coach as he passed in the cart to execution^ he bowed to me
with a steady look^ as he did to those he knew among the
niectators, before he was turned off; in fine^ his whole carriage^
fiom his first being apprehended till the last^ relished more of
gallantiT than religion." Reresby says that Vratz had led a
ferlom nope at the siege of Mons^ ''where only two besides
himself, of Bfty under his command^ came off with life " (ibid,
p. 23^0:]
* [Tar was used in these cases. " Have you brought the saw-
dust and Tar for embalming ? " — says Sable^ the undertaker, in
Sc. L of Steele's Funeral, 1701.]
VOL. Ill G
8S THE DIART OF i«b
At the meetiiig of the Royal Society were
exhibited some pieces of amber sent by the Duke
of Bnmdenbuig, m one of which was a spider, m
another a gnat» both very entire. There was a dis-
course of the tingeiiw of ^ass, espedaUy with red,
and the difficulty of midii^ any red colour efiectual
to poietmte ^ass, among the glass-painters ; that
the most diaphanous, as blue;, yellow, etc., did not
enter into the substance of what was ordinarily
painted, more than very shallow, unless incorporated
in the metal itself other reds Bud whites not at all
beyond the superficies.
5th ApriL To the Royal Society, where at a
Council was r^ulated wluit collections should be
published monthly, as formerly the transactions,
which had of late been discontinued, but were now
much called for by the curious abroad and at home.
12th. I went this afternoon with several of
the Royal Society to a supper which was all
dressed, both fish and flesh, m Monsieur Papin's
digesters, by which the hardest bones of beef itself
and mutton, were made as soft as cheese, without
water or oilier liquor, and with less than eight
ounces of coals, producing an incredible quantity
of gravy ; and for close of all, a jelly made of the
bones of bee^ the best for clearness and good
relish, and the most delicious that I had ever seen,
or tasted. We eat pike and other fish bones, and
aU without impediment; but nothing exceeded
the pigeons, which tasted just as if baked in a pie,
all these being stewed in their own juice, without
any addition of water save what swam about the
digester, as in baJneo; the natural juice of all
these provisions acting on the grosser substanc^
reduced the hardest bones to tenderness ; but it is
best descanted with more particulars for extracting
tinctures, preserving and stewing fruit, and saving
fuel, in Dr. Papin's book, published and dedicated
1682 JOHN EVELYN 88
to our Society, of which he is a member. He is
since gone to Venice with the late Resident here
(and also a member of om* Society), who carried
this excellent mechanic, philosopher, and physician,
to set up a philosophical meeting in that city.
This philosophical supper caused much mirth
amongst us, and exceeaingly pleased all the com-
pany. I sent a glass of the jelly to my wife, to
the reproach of all that the ladies ever made of
their best hartshorn.^
The season was unusually wet, with rain and
thunder.
25th May. I was desired by Sir Stephen Fox
and Sir Christopher Wren to accompany them to
Lambeth, with the plot and design of the College
to be built at Chelsea, to have the Archbishop's
approbation.* It was a quadrangle of 200 feet
square, after the dimensions of the larger quad-
rangle at Christ-Church, Oxford, for the accom-
modation of 440 persons, with governor and
officers. This was agreed on.
The Duke and Duchess of York were ^ust now
come to London, after his escape and shipwreck,'
as he went by sea for Scotland.
1 Denys Papin, or Papinus^' 1647-1 7 12> a French phjrsician
and mathematician^ who possessed so remarkable a knowledge
of mathematics^ that he very nearly brought the invention of
the steam-engine into working order. He assisted Mr. Boyle
in his pnemnatic experiments, and was afterwards mathematical
professor at Marburg^ 1688-95. ^ [See ante, p. 71.]
* [He had been shipwrecked in returning to Scotland after
his last visit to London. " Mm^ 12 [1682]. Came account that
the ship caUed the Gloucesier, a thira-rate^ in which the Duke
went for Scotland^ was cast away on Yarmouth sands^ and that
aU the passengers^ save the Duke and about l60 persons, were
drowned. Among those that were lost were my Lord O'Brien
and Lord Roxburghe, Mr. Hyde, my Lord Clarendon's brother ;
all which proved too true " {Metnoin of Sir John Reresiw, 1875,
p. 850). See poH, under 26th March, l685. Pepjrs might have
been among the number ; but he had preferred to go in his own
jracht — the Catharine.]
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2Sth May. At the Rolls' chapel preached the
famous Dr. Burnet on 2 Peter L 10, describing
excellently well what was meant by election ; viz.
not the eiSect of any irreversible decree, but so
called because they embraced the Gospel readily,
by which they became elect, or precious to God.
It would be very needless to make our calling and
election sure, were they irreversible and what the
rigid Presbyterians pretend. In the afternoon, to
St. Lawrence's church, a new and cheerful pile.^
29th. I gave notice to the Bishop of Rochester
of what Maimburg had published about the motives
of the late Duchess of York's perversion, in his
History of Ccdxnnisvi; and did myself write to
the Bishop of Winchester* about it, who being
concerned in it, I urged him to set forth his
vindication.
81^^. The Morocco Ambassador being admitted
an honorary member of the Royal Society, and
subscribing his name and titles in Arabic, I was
deputed by the Council to go and com^iment him.
19th June. The Bantam,' or East India
Ambassadors (at this time we had in London the
Russian, Moroccan, and Indian Ambassadors),
being invited to dine at Lord George Berkeley's *
(now Earl), I went to the entertainment to con-
template the exotic guests. They were both very
hara-favoured, and much resembling in countenance
some sort of monkeys. We eat at two tables, the
Ambassadors and interpreter by themselves. Their
^ [St. Lawrence^ Jewry, in the Ward of Cheap, built by Wreo,
167 1-80. It is perhaps the most carefully fiidshed of Wren's
churches.]
* Dr. Morley.
' The name of one was Pungearon Nia Para ; of the other
Kaia Nebbe, or Keay Nabee. There are prints existing of both,
representing them exactly as here described. There were others
in the embassy, but probably of inferior degree.
^ [See antCf vol. ii. p. 134.]
1682 JOHN EVELYN 85
garments were rich Indian silks, flowered with
gold, viz. a dose waistcoat to their knees, drawers,
naked l^s, and on their heads caps made like
fruit -baskets. They wore poisoned daggers at
their bosoms, the hafts carved with some ugly
serpents' or devils' heads, exceeding keen, and of
Damascus metal They wore no swords The
second Ambassador (sent it seems to succeed in
case the first should die by the way in so tedious
a journey), having been at Mecca, wore a Turkish
or Arab sash, a little part of the linen hanging
down behind his neck, with some other difference
of habit, and was half a negro, bare legged and
naked feet, and deemed a very holy man. They
sate crossed-legged like Turks, and sometimes in
the posture of apes and monkeys ; their nails and
teeth as black as jet, and shining, which being the
effect, as to their teeth, of perpetually chewing
betel to preserve them from the tooth-ache, mucn
raging in their country, is esteemed beautiful.
The first ambassador was of an olive hue, a flat
face, narrow eyes, squat nose, and Moorish lips, no
hair appeared ; they wore several rings of silver,
gold, and copper on their fingers, which was a
token of knighthood, or nobility. They were of
Java Major, whose princes have been turned
Mahomedans not above fifty years since; the
inhabitants are still pagans and idolaters. They
seemed of a dull and heavy constitution, not
wondering at anything they saw ; but exceedingly
astonished how our law gave us propriety in our
estates, and so thinking we were all kings, for they
could not be made to comprehend how subjects
could possess anything but at the pleasure of their
Prince, they being aU slaves; they were pleased
with the notion, and admired our happiness. They
were very sober, and I believe subtle in their way.
Their meat was cooked, carried up, and they
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attended by several ht slaves, who had no covering
save drawers, which appeared very uncouth and
loathsome. They eat tneir pilau, and other spoon-
meat, without spoons, taking up their pottage in
the hollow of their fingers, and very dexterously
flung it mto theu- mouths without spillmg a drop.
17th July. Came to dine with me;, the Duke of
Grafton and the young Earl of Ossory,^ son to my
most dear deceased friend.
SOt/u Went to visit our good neighbour, Mr.
Bohun,' whose whole house is a cabinet of all
elegancies, especially Indian ; in the hall are con-
trivances of Japan screens, instead of wainscot;
and there is an excellent pendule clock ^iclosed in
the curious flower- work of Mr. Gibbons, in the
middle of the vestibule. The landscapes of the
screens represent the manner of living, and country
of the Chinese. But, above all, his lady's cabinet
is adorned on the fret, ceilmg, and chimney-piece,
with Mr. Gibbons best carving. There are also
some of Streater s ' best paintings, and many rich
curiosities of gold and silver as growing in the
mines. The gardens are exactly kept, and the
whole place very agreeable and well watered. The
owners are good neighbours, and Mr. Bohun has
also built and endowed an hospital for eight poor
people, with a pretty chapel, and every necessary
accommodation.
1^ Atigust. To the Bishop of London at Fulham,
to review the additions which Mr. Marshall^ had
made to his curious book of flowers in miniature,
and collection of insects.
Uh. With Sir Stephen Fox, to survey the founda-
tions of the Royal Hospital begun at Chelsea.
^ [James Butler, 1665-1745, afterwards second Duke of
Ormonde.]
> This was at Lee in Kent (see atde, p. 37).
' [See amiey vol. ii. p. Sll.]
^ [William Marshall (see ante, vol. ii. p. 1 1 n.).]
1689 JOHN EVELYN 87
9th August. The Council of the Royal Society
nad it recommended to them to be trustees and
visitors, or supervisors, of the Academy which
Monsieur Foubert ^ did hope to procure to be built
by subscription of worthy ^entlem^i and noblemen,
for the education of youl£, and to lessen the vast
expense the nation is at yearlv by sending children
into France to be taught miUtary exercises. We
thought good to give him all the encouragement
our recommendation could procure.
15th. Came to visit me Dr. Rogers, an acquaint-
ance of mine long since at Padua.' He was then
Consul of the English nation, and student in that
University, where he proceeded Doctor in Physic ;
presenting me now with the Latin oration he lately
made upon the famous Dr. Harvey's anniversary
in the CfoUege of Physicians, at London.
20th. This ni^ht I saw another comet, near
Cancer, very bright, but the stream not so long as
the former.
29th. Supped at Lord Clarendon's, with Lord
Hyde,* his orother, now the great fistvourite, who
invited himself to dine at my house the Tuesday
following.
80th [81st^ October. Being my birthday, and I
now entering my great dimacterical of 68, after
serious recoUections of the years past, giving
Almi^^hty God thanks for all his merciful preserva-
wind forbearance, begging pardon for^my sins
and unworthmess, and his blessing on me the year
entering; I went with my Lady Fox to survey
her building, and give some directions for the
garden at Chiswick; the architect is Mr. May;
somewhat heavy and thick, and not so well under-
stood; the garden much too narrow, the place
2 [See ante, p. 72.] > [See anie, vol. i. p. 306.]
' [Lawrence Hyde^ 1641-171 1> second son of Lord Clarendon,
created Viscount Hjde and first Earl of Rochester in l681.]
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without water, near a highway, and near another
great house of my Lord Burlington, little land
about it, so that I wonder at the expense; but
women will have their wilL^
26th November. I was invited to dine with
Monsieur Lionberg, the Swedish Resident, who
made a magnificent entertainment, it bein^ the
birthday of his King. There dined the Dime of
Albemarle, Duke of Hamilton, Earl of Bath, Earl
of Aylesbury, Lord Arran,^ Lord Castlehaven, the
son of him who was executed fifty years b^ore,
and several great persons. I was exceedingly
afraid of drinking (it being a Dutch feast), but the
Duke of Albemarle being that night to wait on his
Majesty, excess was prohibited ; and, to prevent
all, I stole away and left the company as soon as
we rose from table.
28th. I went to the Council of the Royal
Society, for the auditing the last year's account,
where I was surprised with a fainting fit that for a
time took away my sight ; but God being merciful
to me, I recovered it after a short repose.
80^/^. I was exceedingly endangered and impor*
^ [This house — a comer of which is shown in Kip's print
(1708^ of Lord Burlington's house at Chiswick — was built by
May for Sir Stephen Fox. He made it his principal residence
— says Lysons (Envitxms of London, 2nd ed.^ 1811, ii. 133)—
when he had retired from public business. '^King Williun
was so pleased with it, that he is said to have exclaimed to
the Earl of Portland, upon his first visit, ^ This place is per-
fectly fine ; I could live here five days/ This, it seems, was his
usual expression when he was much pleased with a situation."
It passed to Sir Stephen's youngest son, Henry, and then to
others. When Lysons wrote, it was inhabited by Lady Mary
Coke. After her death, the property was acquired by the
Duke of Devonshire; the house was pulled down in 1812, and
the grounds were added to Chiswick House. Bowack speaks
(1705-6) of the gardens as ^'extraordinarily fine" (Phillimore
and Whitear's Ckitwick, 1897, pp. 12, 40, 268).]
* [James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, eldest son of the Duke of
Hamilton.]
1688 JOHN EVELYN 89
tuned to stand the election,^ having so many voices,
but by favour of my friends, and regard of my
remote dwelling, and now frequent infirmities,
I desired their suffices might be transferred to
Sir John Hoskins,^ one of the Masters of Chancery ;
a most learned virtuoso as well as lawyer, who
accordingly was elected.
7M December. Went to congratulate Lord Hyde
(the great favourite), newly made Earl of Rochester,'
and lately marrying his eldest daughter to the Earl
of Ossory.
ISth. I sold my East India adventure of £250
principal for £750 to the Royal Society, after I had
been in that company twenty -five years, being
extraordinary advantageous, by the blessing of God.
1682-8 : 2Qrd January. Sir Francis North,^ son
to the Lord North, and Lord Chief Justice, being
made Lord Keeper on the death of the Earl of
Nottingham, the Lord Chancellor, I went to con-
gratulate him. He is a most knowing, learned,
and ingenious man, and, besides being an excellent
person, of an mgenuous and sweet disposition, very
skilful in music, painting, the new phUosophy, and
politer studies.
29ih. Supped at Sir Joseph Williamson's,^
where was a select company of our Society, Sir
William Petty, Dr. Gale (that learned school-
master of St Paul's),^ Dr. Whistler,^ Mr. Hill," etc.
The conversation was philosophical and cheerful.
:g
^ For President of the Royal Society.
'SirJohnHoskins, 1634-1705; P.R.S. 1682-83.]
"Jee supra, p. 87. * [See cade, vol. ii. p. 344.]
3 j^e aidey vol. ii. p. 220.]
« Dr. Thomas Gale, 1635-1702; he was Greek Professor at
Cambridge, High Master of St. Paul's School, 1672-97, and
subsequently Dean of York. He was the author of several
scholastic works ; and was counted among the most learned men
of his time.
7 [See ante, vol. ii. p. 389.] * [See ante, p. 80.]
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on divers considerable questions proposed; as of
the hereditary succession of the Roman Emperors ;
the Pica mentioned in the pre&ce to our Common
Prayer, which signifies only the Greek KalendariunL
These were mixed with lighter subjects.
2nd February. I made my court at St. James's,
when I saw the sea- charts of Captain Collins,^
which that industrious man now brought to show
the Duke, having taken all the coasting from the
mouth of the Thames as far as Wales, and exactly
measuring every creek, island, rock, soundings,
harbours, sands, and tides, intending next spring to
proceed till he had finished the whole island, and
that measured by chains and other instruments:
a most exact and useful undertaking. He affirmed,
that of all the maps put out since, there are none
extant so true as those of John Norden,' who
gave us the first in Queen Elizabeth's time; all
since him are erroneous.
12th. This morning, I received the news of the
death of my father-in-law. Sir Richard Browne,'
Knt and Bart, who died at my house at Sayes
Court this day at ten in the morning, after he had
laboured under the gout and dropsy for near six
months, in the 78th year of his age. The funeral
was solemnised on the 19th at Deptford, with as
much decency as the dignity of the person, and our
relation to him, required ; there bemg invited the
Bishop of Rochester, several noblemen, knights,
and all the fraternity of the Trinity Company, of
which he had been Master, and others of the
country. The vicar preached a short but proper
^ Probably John Collins, 1625-83, who had been in the naval
service of Venice, and who was employed at this time as an
aocowitant in some of the Government offices, was a contributor
to the Transactions of the Royal Society, and wrote several
mathematical works.
' [John Norden, 1548-1625, topographer and surveyor.]
* [See ante, vol. i. p. 68.]
168S JOHN EVELYN 91
discourse on Psalm xxxix. 10, on the frailty of our
mortal condition, concluding with an ample and
well-deserved eulogy on the defunct, relating to his
honourable birth and ancestors, education, learning
in Greek and Latin, modem languages, travels,
public employments, signal lovalty, character abroad,
andparticularly the honour of supporting the Church
of England in its public worship during its persecu-
tion by the late rebels' usurpation and regicide, by
the suffrages of divers Bishops, Doctors of the
church, and others, who found such an asylum in
bis house and family at Paris, that in their disputes
with the Papists (then triumphing over it as utterly
lost) they used to argue for its visibility and exist-
ence from Sir R. Browne's chapel and assembly
there. Then he spoke of his great and loyal suffer-
ings during thirteen years' exile with his present
Majesty, his return with him in the signal year
1660; his honourable employment at home, his
timely recess to recollect himself, his great age,
infirmities, and death.
He gave to the Trinity Corporation that land
in Deptford on which are built those alms-houses
for twenty-four widows of emerited seamen.^ He
was bom the famous year of the Gunpowder
Treason, in 1605, and being the last [male] of his
family, left my wife, his omy daughter, heir. His
grandfather. Sir Richard Browne, was the great
instrument under the great Earl of Leicester
(fiEivourite to Queen Elizabeth) in his government
of the Netherlands. He was Master of the
Household to King James, and Cofferer ; I think
was the first who r^ulated the compositions
through England for the King's Household,
provisions, progresses,' etc., which was so high
^ [See a$dei vol. ii. p. 323.]
^ Notice was taken of this in a previous passage of the Diary,
The different counties were to find provisions of different sorts.
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a service^ and so grateful to the whole nation,
that he had acknowledgments and public thanks
sent him from all the counties; he died by the
rupture of a vein in a vehement speech he made
about the compositions in a Parliament of King
James. By his mother's side he was a Gunson,
Treasurer of the Navy in the reigns of Henry the
Eighth, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, and,
as by his lar^e pedigree appears, related to divers
of the English nobility. Thus ended this honour-
able person, after so many changes and tossings to
and fro, in the same house 'vmere he was bom*
** Lord, teach us so to number our days, that we
may apply our hearts unto wisdom ! ^
By a special clause in his will, he ordered that
his body should be buried in the church -yard
under the south-east window of the chancel,
adjoining to the burying -places of his ancestors,
since they came out of Essex to Sayes Court,^
he being much o£Pended at the novel custom of
burying every one within the body of the church
and chancel; that being a favour heretofore
granted to martyrs and great persons ; this excess
of making churches charnel-houses being of ill and
irreverent example, and prejudicial to the health
of the Uving, besides the continual disturbance of
the pavement and seats, and several other indecen-
cies. Dr. Hall, the pious Bishop of Norwich,^
would also be so interred,' as may be read in his
testament
16th March. I went to see Sir Josiah Child's
which were collected hy officers called purveyors, whose extor-
tions often excited the attention of Parliament (see Archeeologia,
vol. viiL pp. S29-62>
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 3.1
2 [Joseph Hall, 1574-1656; Bishop of Norwich, 1641-47.]
' As was afterwards, at Fulham, Dr. Compton, Bishop of
London, who used to say, " The church-yard for the dead, the
church for the living."
1688 JOHN EVELYN 98
prodigious cost in planting walnut trees about his
seaty^ and making fishponds, many miles in circuit,
in Epping Forest, in a barren spot, as oftentimes
these suddenly monied men for the most part seat
themselves. He from a merchant s apprentice,
and management of the East India Company's
stock, being arrived to an estate ('tis said) of
£200,000 ; and lately married his daughter to the
eldest son of the Duke of Beaufort, late Marquis
of Worcester, with £50,000 portional present, and
various expectations.
I dined at Mr. Houblon's,' a rich and gentle
French merchant, who was building a house in the
Forest, near Sir J. Child's, in a place where the
late Earl of Norwich dwelt some time, and which
came from his lady, the widow of Mr. Baker.
It will be a pretty villa, about five miles from
WhitechapeL
ISth March. I went to hear Dr. Homeck'
preach at the Savoy Church, on Phil. ii. 5. He
was a German bom, a most pathetic preacher, a
person of a saint-like life, and hath written an
excellent treatise on Consideration.^
20th. Dined at Dr. Whistler's,*^ at the
1 [At Wanstead in Essex. Sir Josiah Child, 1 630-99, bought
the Manor in 1667 from Sir Robert Brookes, to whom it had
been transferred by the Duke of York. Child was the autocrat
of the East India Company, and the author of A New Discourse
of Trade, 1668. His son Richard was created Viscount Castle-
maine in 1718, and Earl Tylney in 1732. The first Wanstead
House made way for a second, now also pulled down.]
« [See ante, p. 27.1
« [r
^Dr. Anthony Homeck, 1641-97. He wrote, inter alia, The
He^py Ascetick, l681, for the sixth edition of which, 1724,
Hogarth engraved a frontispiece; and he was the ancestor of
Goldsmith's '* Jessamy Bride."]
^ The full title is The great Law of Consideration, or a
Diseourse wherein the nature, usefulness, and absolute necessity of
Consideration, in order to a trufy serious and religious life, are Uad
open. It went through several editicms.
» [See ante, p. 89j
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Physicians' Coll^e^ with Sir Thomas Millington»^
both learned men ; Dr. W. the most facetious man
in nature^ and now C^isor of the College. I was
here consulted where they should build their
library; it is pity this CoUege is built so near
Newgate Prison, and in so obscure a hole,* a
fault in placing most of our public buildings and
churches in the City, through the avarice of some
few men, and his Majesty not overruling it, when
it was in his power after the dreadful conflagration.
21gt Mar en. Dr. Tenison preached at WTiitehall
on 1 Cor. vL 12 ; I esteem him to be one of the
most profitable preachers in the Church of England,
being also of a most holy conversation, very
learned and ingenious. The pains he takes and
care of his parish will, I fear, wear him out, which
would be an inexpressible loss.'
2Uk I went to hear Dr. Charleton's lecture
on the heart in the Anatomy Theatre at the
Physicians' College.*
80tk To London, in order to my passing the
following week, for the celebration of the Easter
now approaching, there being in the Holy Week
so many eminent preachers officiating at the Court
and other places.
6th April. Good Friday. There was in the
afternoon, according to custom, a sermon before
the King, at Whitehall; Dr. Sprat* preached for
the Bishop of Rochester.
1 rSir Thomas Millington, F.R.S., 1628-1704.]
^ [It was in Warwick Lane^ Newgate Street^ and was palled
down in 1866.1 The present College in Pall Mall East was
opened by Sir Hemy Halford in 1825.
» [See ante, p. 59. He lived until 1715.]
* Dr, Walter Charleton, l6l9-1707, was with Charles II.
during his exile^ in the capacity of phjrsidan^ and returned with
him at the Restoration. He wrote on natural history^ antiquities^
theology^ medicine, and natural philosophy.
fi [See ante, voL ii p. 300.]
1688 JOHN EVELYN 95
nth April I was at the launching of the last
of the thirty ships ordered to be new built by Act
of Parliament, named the Neptune^ a second-rate,
one of the goodliest vessels of the whole navy,
built by my kind neighbour, youn^ Mr. Shish/
his Majesty's master-shipwright of this dock.
1^ May. I went to Blackheath, to see the new
fair, being the first procured by the Lord Dart-
mouth.^ This was the first day, pretended for the
sale of cattle, but I think in truth to enrich the
new tavern at the bowling-green, erected by
Snape,' his Majesty's farrier, a man full of pro-
jects. There appeared nothing but an innumer-
able assembly of drinking people from London,
pedlars, etc., and I suppose it too near London
to be of any great use to the country.*
March was unusually hot and dry, and all April
excessively wet
I planted all the out-limits of the garden and
long walks with holly.^
9th. Dined at Sir Gabriel Sylvius's,* and thence
to visit the Duke of Norfolk, to ask whether he
would part with any of his cartoons and other
drawings of Raphael, and the great masters ; he
^ [Perhaps John Shish^ d. l686^ Jonas Shish's eldest son.
See anie, p. 47> for account of Shish the elder.l
^ [George Legge^ first Baron Dartmouth^ 1648-91 ; Master of
the TVinity House, 1683 ; Admiral and Commander of the Fleets
1688-89.]
s Granger mentions a print of this person by White, and
sajs he was father of Dr. Snape, of Eton ; members of the same
fimily had been serjeant- farriers to the Sovereign for three
hundred years.
^ [It " lasted as a ' hog ' and pleasure fair, being held on May
1£ and October 11, till 1872, when it was suppressed by an
Order signed by the Home Secretary" (Thome's Efwironi of
LomUm, 1876, p. 48>] '
^ Evelyn adds a note : '' 400 feet in length, 9 feet high, 5 in
diameter, in my now mined garden, thanks to the Czar of
Muscovy." — Syka, book ii. chap. vi.
* [See anie, p. 11.]
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told me if he might sell them all together he
would, but that the late Sir Peter Lely (our
famous painter) had gotten some of his best. The
person who desired me to treat for them was
Vander Douse^ grandson to that great scholar,
contemporary and friend of Joseph Scaliger.
16th May. Came to dinner and visit [me] Sir
Richard Anderson,^ of Pendley, and his lady, with
whom I went to London.
Sth June. On my return home from the Royal
Society, I found Mr. Wilbraham, a young gentie-
man of Cheshire.
11th. The Lord Dartmouth was elected Master
of the Trinity House ; son to George L^ge,* late
Master of the Ordnance, and one of the Grooms
of the Bedchamber; a great favourite of the
Duke's, an active and understanding gentleman
in sea-affairs.
18th. To our Society, where we received the
Count de Zinzendorp, Ambassador from the Duke
of Saxony, a fine young man : we showed him
divers experiments on the magnet, on which subject
the Society were upon.
16th. I went to Windsor, dining by the way at
Chiswick,' at Sir Stephen Fox's, where I found
Sir Robert Howard* (that universal pretender),
and Signor Verrio, who brought his draught and
designs for the painting of the staircase of Sir
Stephen's new house.
That which was new at Windsor since I was
last there, and was surprising to me, was the in-
comparable fresco painting in St. George's Hall,
representing the legend of St. George, and triumph
of the Black Prince, and his reception by Edward
^ [See oHte, p. 59*]
3 [William Legge, 1609-70; Lieutenant-General of the
Ordnance, l660.]
* [See ante, p. 87.] ^ [See aiUe, vol. iL p. 197.]
i«88 JOHN EVELYN 97
III. ; the voUoy or roof, not totally finished ; then
the Resurrection in the Chapd, where the figure
of the Ascension is, in my opinion, comparable to
any paintings of the most famous Roman masters ;
the Last Supper, also over the altar. I liked the
contrivance of the unseen organ behind the altar,
nor less the stupendous and beyond all description
the incomparable carving of our Gibbons, wno is,
without controversy, the neatest master both for
invention and rareness of work, that the world
ever had in any age; nor doubt I at all that he
will prove as great a master in the statuary art
Verrio's invention is admirable, his ordonnance ^
full and flowing, antique and heroical ; his figures
move; and, if the walls hold (which is the only
doubt by reason of the salts which in time and in
this moist climate prejudice), the work will preserve
his name to ages.^
There was now the terrace brought almost
round the old Castle ; the grass made clean, even,
and curiously turfed ; the avenues to the new park,
and other walks, planted with elms and limes, and
a pretty canal, and receptacle for fowl ; nor less
observable and famous is the throwing so huge
a quantity of excellent water to the enormous
height of the Castle, for the use of the whole
house, by an extraordinary invention of Sir Samuel
MorlandL'
Vlth Jmie. I dined at the Elarl of Sunderland's
with the Earls of Bath, Castlehaven, Lords
Viscounts Fauconberg, Falkland,^ Bishop of
London,^ the Grand Master of Malta, brother to
^ [Ordonnance in painting » general disposition of parts.]
' [For these works, which occupied several years, Verrio
received nearly £7000* He also acted as Master C^urdener.]
■ See antCy p. 71.
^See ftoHy under 30th May, 1694-]
"Dr. Compton (see anie^ vol. ii. p. 299)*]
VOL. Ill H
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the Duke de Vend6me (a young wild spark),^ and
Mr. Dryden, the poet.* After evening prayer, I
walked in the park with my Lord Clarendon,
where we fell into discourse of the Bishop of
Salisbury (Dr. Seth Ward),* his subtlety, etc
Dr. Durel,* late Dean of Windsor, being dead.
Dr. Turner,' one of the Duke's chaplains, was
made dean.
I visited my Lady Arlington, Groom of the
Stole to her Majesty,^ who being hardly set down
to supper, word was brought her that the Queen
was going into the park to walk, it being now near
eleven at night ; the alarm caused the Countess to
rise in all haste, and leave her supper to us.
By this one may take an estimate of the
extreme slavery and subjection that courtiers live
in, who have not time to eat and drink at their
pleasure. It put me in mind of Horace's MoasCy
and to bless God for my own private condition.
Here was Monsieur de TAngle, the famous
minister of Charenton, lately fled from the persecu-
tion in France, concemmg the deplorable condition
of the Protestants there.
\%th June. I was present, and saw and heard
the humble submission and petition of the Lord
Mayor, Sheriffs, and Aldermen, on behalf of the
City of London, on the quo warranto against their
charter, which they delivered to his Majesty in the
1 [Philippe de Vendome, 1655-1727, second son of the Duke
de Venddme and Laure Maneini, sister of the Duchess Mazaiin.
He was " grand prieur " de France. The Duchess of Portsmouth
took a fancy to him; and Charles II. hurried him out of the
country (Airy, Charlu ILy 1901, p. 271).]
2 [See cade^ vol. ii. p. 367. He was made Collector of Customs
for the port of London in this year.]
* [See ante, vol. ii. p. 76.] * [See ante, p. 28.]
* [Dr. Francis Turner, 1638-1700, afterwards Bishop of
Rochester (see jmm^, under 30th March, 1684).]
• [See anUy vol. ii. p. 357.]
The tale told by Cervius, Satires^ Book ii. Sat. vi.]
1688 JOHN EVELYN 99
presence-chamber. It was delivered kneeling, and
then the King and Council went into the council-
chamber, the Mayor and his brethren attending
still in the presence-chamber. After a short space,
they were called in, and my Lord Keeper made a
speech to them, exaggerating the disorderly and
riotous behaviour in the late election, and polling
for FapiUon and Du Bois after the Common-haU
had been formally dissolved; with other mis-
demeanours, libels on the government, etc., by
which they had incurred his Majesty's high dis-
pleasure; and that but for this submission, and
under such articles as the King should require
their obedience to, he would certainly enter
judgment against them, which hitherto he had
suspended. The things required were as follows :
that they should neither elect Mayor, Sheriff^,
Aldermen, Recorder, Common Serjeant, Town-
Clerk, Coroner, nor Steward of Southwark, with-
out his Majesty's approbation ; and that if they
presented any his Majesty did not like, they
should proceed in wonted manner to a second
choice; if that was disapproved, his Majesty to
nominate them; and if within five days they
thought good to assent to this, all former mis-
carriages should be forgotten. And so they
tamely parted with their so ancient privileges after
they had dined and been treated by the King.
This was a signal and most remarkable period.
What the consequences will prove, time will show.
Divers of the old and most learned lawyers and
judges were of opinion that they could not forfeit
their charter, but might be personally punished
for their misdemeanours ; but the plurality of the
younger judges and rising men judged it otherwise.
The Popish Plot also, which had hitherto made
such a noise, began now sensibly to dwindle,
through the folly, knavery, impudence, and giddi-
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ness of Oates, so as the Papists b^an to hold up
theu- heads higher than ever, and those who had
fled, flocked to London from abroad. Such sudden
changes and eager doings there had been, without
anything steady or prudent, for these last seven
years,
19th June. I returned to town in a coach with
the Earl of Clarendon/ when passing by the
glorious palace of his father/ built but a few
years before, which they were now demolishing,
being sold to certain undertakers, I turned my
head the contrary way till the coach had gone
past it, lest I might minister occasion of speiuking
of it ; which must needs have grieved him, that in
so short a time their pomp was fallen.
2Sth. After the Popisn Plot, there was now a
new and (as they caUed it) a Protestant Plot
discovered,' that certain Lords and others should
1 [See ante, p. 87.]
« tit - -
had been sold by Clarendon's sons to Clnistopher
Monck, the second and last Duke of Albemarle^ for £26,000,
having cost X40,000. At this date it was called Albemarle
House. Albemarle sold it for JB35,000 to Sir Thomas Bond,
who pulled it down, and built Bond Street and Albemarle
BuOdings on its site (see pott, under 18th September, l68S).]
' [The Rje House Plot, so called from the house on the Lea
near Hoddesdon in Herts (then occupied hj the conspirator
Richard Rumbold), which was to have been the scene of the
assassination — '^ a place so convenient for such a villany as scarce
to be found in England," writes Bramston ; " besides the close-
ness of the way over the river by a bridge, gates to pass, a strong
hedge on one side, brick walls on the other" (Autobiography,
1 845, p. 1 82). Reresby adds some details to Evelyn's account.
'^ June 26. Came the report of a dangerous conspiracy against the
life of our sovereign lord the King, laid by the anti-Court party,
composed of such as had been disappointed of preferments at
Court, and of Protestant dissenters. It was also against the
Duke of York, and intended to have shot the King and the Duke
coming from Newmarket in their coach, the certain day of his
return being known, by forty men well armed, who, aner the
blow given, were to fly to London, and to report that the papists
had done it. In London there was a body of men ready to rise.
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and management relating to France, to Popery, to
the persecution of the Dissenters, etc. They were
discovered by the Lord Howard of Escrick and
some false brethren of the club, and the design
happily broken ; had it taken effect, it would, to
all appearance, have exposed the Government to
unknown and dangerous events ; which God avert !
Was bom my grand-daughter at Sayes Court,
and christened by the name of Martha Maria,^ our
Vicar officiating. I pray God bless her, and may
she choose the better part I
18th July. As I was visiting Sir Thomas
Yarborough and his lady^ in Covent Garden, the
astonishing news was brought to us of the Earl
of Essex having cut his throat, having been but
three days a prisoner in the Tower, and this
happening on the very day and instant that Lord
Russell was on his trial, and had sentence of death.
This accident exceedingly amazed me, my Lord
Essex being so well known by me to be a person
of such sober and religious deportment, so well at
his ease, and so much obliged to the King. It is
certain the King and Duke were at the Tower,
and passed by his window about the same time
this morning, when my Lord asking for a razor,
shut himself into a closet, and perpetrated the
horrid act Yet it was wondered by some how it
was possible he should do it in the manner he was
found, for the wound was so deep and wide, that
being cut through the gullet, wind-pipe, and both
the jugulars, it reached to the very vertebrae of the
neck, so that the head held to it by a very little
skin as it were ; the gapping too of the razor, and
cutting his own fingers, was a little strange; but
^ rSee poH, under 28th August, 1683.]
^ The ladj was Maiy Blagge, of whom Anthony Hamilton
sajs so much in his seventh chapter; and sister of Mai^raret
Blagge^ of whom Evelyn writes so often.
1683 JOHN EVELYN 108
more, that having passed the jugulars he should
have strength to proceed so far, that an execu-
tioner could hardly have done more with an axe.
There were odd reflections upon it^
The fatal news coming to Hicks s Hall^ upon
the article of my Lord Russell's trial, was said to
have had no little influence on the Jury and all the
Bench to his prejudice. Others said that he had
himself on some occasions hinted that in case he
should be in danger of having his life taken from
him by any public misfortune, those who thirsted
for his estate should miss of their aim ; and that
he should speak favourably of that Earl of
Northumberland,' and some others, who made
away with themselves; but these are discourses
so unlike his sober and prudent conversation, that
I have no inclination to credit them. What might
instigate him to this devilish act, I am not able to
conjecture. My Lord Clarendon, his brother-in-
law, who was with him but the day before, assured
me he was then very cheerful, and declared it to be
the effect of his innocence and loyalty ; and most
believe that his Majesty had no severe intentions
against him, though he was altogether inexorable
as to Lord Russell and some of the rest. For my
part, I believe the crafty and ambitious Earl of
dhaftesbury^ had brought them into some dislike
of the present carriage of matters at Court, not
with any design of destroying the monarchy
1 Bishop Burnet^ after making inquiry, bj desire of the
Countess, declares that he does not believe that Essex was
murdered (History of His Onm Times, 17S4, vol. i. pp. 569-70).
^ [The Sessions House of the County of Middlesex^ in St.
Johns Street, Clerkenwell. Here Russell was condenmed to
death ; and Konigsmarck acquitted ^see ante, p. 73).]
Qabe
^ Heniy Percy, 1532-85, eighth Earl of Northuniberland, the
great-grandfather of Essex's wife, had shot himself in the Tower,
to which he had been committed on a charge of high treason.
« [See ante, vol. ii. p. 292]
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(which Shaftesbury had in confidence and for
unanswerable reasons told me he would support
to his last breath, as having seen and felt the
misery of being under mechanic tyranny), but
perhaps of setting up some other whom he might
govern, and frame to his own platonic fancy,
without much r^ard to the religion established
under the hierarchy, for which he had no esteem ;
but when he perceived those whom he had engaged
to rise, fail of his expectations, and the day past,
reproaching his accomplices that a second day for
an exploit of this nature was never successful, he
gave them the slip, and got into Holland, where
the fox died,^ three months before these unhappy
Lords and others were discovered or suspected.
Every one deplored Essex and Russell, especially
the last, as being thought to have been drawn in
on pretence only of endeavouring to rescue the
King from his present counsellors, and secure
religion from Popery, and the nation from arbitrary
government, now so much apprehended; whilst
the rest of those who were fled, especially Ferguson
and his gang, had doubtless some bloody design to
get up a Commonwealth, and turn all things topsy-
turvy. Of the same tragical principles is Sidney.
I had this day much discourse with Monsieur
Pontac, son to the famous and wise prime
President of Bordeaux.' This gentleman was
owner of that excellent vignoble of Pontac and
O'Brien, from whence come the choicest of our
Bordeaux wines ; and I think I may truly say of
him, what was not so truly said of St. Paul, that
^ [22nd Januaiy, l6S3.]
^ Amaud de Pontac. The son's eating-house was in
Abchurch Lane^ City. "We all dined at Pontac's as usual " —
sajs Evelyn, 30th November, l693, referring to the Rojal
Society. They continued to dine there tHl 1746. Swift
mentions this popular resort
1683 JOHN EVELYN 105
much learning had made him mad. He had
studied well in philosophy, but chiefly the Rabbins,
and was exceedingly addicted to cabalistical fancies,
an eternal hablador [romancer], and half distracted
by reading abundance of the extravagant Eastern
Jews. He spoke all languages, was very rich, had
a handsome person, and was well-bred, about forty-
five years of age.
lUh July. I visited Mr. Fraser, a learned Scots
gentleman, whom I had formerly recommended to
Lord Berkeley for the instruction and government
of his son, since dead at sea.^ He had now been
in Holland at the sale of the learned Heinsius's
library,^ and showed me some very rare and curious
books, and some MSS., which he had purchased to
good value. There were three or four Herbals in
miniature, accurately done, divers Roman antiquities
of Verona, and very many books of Aldus's im-
pression.
15^^ A stranger, and old man, preached on
Jerem. vL 8, the not hearkening to instruction,
S>rtentous of desolation to a people ; much after
ishop Andrews s method, full of logical divisions,
in short and broken periods, and Latin sentences,
now quite out of &shion in the pulpit, which is
grown into a far more profitable way, of plain and
practical discourses, of which sort this nation, or
any other, never had greater plenty or more pro-
fitable (I am confident) ; so much has it to answer
for thriving no better on it
The public was now in great consternation on
the late plot and conspiracy; his Majesty very
melancholy, and not stirring without double
guards; all the avenues and private doors about
Whitehall and the Park shut up, few admitted to
walk in it The Papists, in the meantime, very
jocund ; and indeed with reason, seeing their own
^ [See ojde, vol. ii. p. 108.] > [See aide, vol. i. p. 41.]
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plot brought to nothing, and turned to ridicule,
and now a conspiracy of Protestants, as they called
them.
The Turks were likewise in hostility agamst the
German Emperor, almost masters of the Upper
Hungary, and drawing towards Vienna. On the
other side, the French King (who it is believed
brought in the infidels) disturbing his Spanish and
Dutch neighbours, having swallowed up almost all
Flanders, pursuing his ambition of a fifth universal
monarchy ; and all this blood and disorder in
Christendom had evidently its rise from our
defections at home, in a wanton peace, minding
nothing but luxury, ambition, and to procure
money for our vices. To this add our irreligion
and atheism, great ingratitude, and self-interest ;
the apostasy of some, and the sufiering the French
to grow so great, and the Hollanders so weak. In
a word, we were wanton, mad, and surfeiting with
prosperity ; every moment unsettling the old founda-
tions, and never constant to anything. The Lord
in mercy avert the sad omen, and that we do not
provoke Him till He bear it no longer I
This summer did we suffer twenty French men-
of-war to pass our Channel towards the Sound,
to help the Danes against the Swedes, who had
abandoned the French interest; we not having
ready sufficient to guard our coasts, or take
cognizance of what they did; though the nation
never had more, or a better navy, yet the sea had
never so slender a fleet.
19th July. George, Prince of Denmark,^ who had
landed this day, came to marry the Lady Anne,^
daughter to the Duke ; so I returned home, having
seen the young gallant at dinner at Whitehall.
20tk. Several of the conspirators of the lower
form were executed at Tyburn ; and the next day,
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 196.] * [Aftenrards Queen Anne.]
W83 JOHN EVELYN 107
21st July. Lord Russell was beheaded in
Lincoln's Inn Fields, the executioner giving him
three butcherly strokes. The speech he made, and
the paper which he gave the Sheriff declaring his
innocence, the nobleness of the family, the piety
and worthiness of the unhappy gentleman, wrought
much pity, and occasioned various discourses on
the plot
25th. I again saw Prince George of Denmark : ^
he had the Danish countenance, blonde, of few
words, spoke French but ill, seemed somewhat
heavy, but reported to be valiant, and indeed he
had bravely rescued and brought off his brother,
the King of Denmark, in a battle against the Swedes,
when both these Kings were engaged very smartly.
28th. He was married to the Lady Anne at
Whitehall. Her court and household to be
modelled as the Duke's, her father, had been;
and they to continue in England.
1^/ Atigust. Came to see me Mr. Flamsteed,
the famous astronomer,* from his Observatory
at Greenwich, to draw the meridian from my
pendule, etc.
2nd. The Countesses of Bristol and Sunderland,
aunt and cousin-german of the late Lord Russell,
came to visit me, and condole his sad fate. The
next day, came Colonel Russell, uncle to the late
Lord Russell, and brother to the Earl of Bedford,
and with him Mrs. Myddleton, that famous and
indeed incomparable beauty,' daughter to my
relation. Sir Robert Needham.
19th. I went to Bromley to visit our Bishop,^
* [See ante, p. 106.] * [See ante, vol. ii. p. 394.]
^ [Jane Needham^ l645-9S^ married to Charles Myddleton in
1660. The Duke of York^ Grammont^ and Waller were among
her many admirers^ and she bade fair at one time to rival the
Duchess of Cleveland.]
^ [Of Rochester. Dr. John Dolben was Archbishop of York,
1683-86.]
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and excellent neighbour, and to congratulate his
now being made Archbishop of York, On the
28th, he came to take his leave of us, now
preparing for his journey and residence in his
province.
2Sth AugasL My sweet little grandchild, Martha
Maria, died, and on the 29th was buried in the
parish church.^
2fnd September. This morning, was read in the
church, after the Office was done, the Declaration
setting forth the late conspiracy against the King's
person.
%rd. I went to see what had been done by the
Duke of Beaufort on his late purchased house at
Chelsea,' which I once had the selling of for the
Countess of Bristol; he had made great altera-
tions, but might have built a better house with
the materials and the cost he had been at.
Saw the Countess of Monte Feltre, whose
husband I had formerly known ; he was a subject
of the Pope's, but becoming a Protestant he resided
in England, and married into the family of the
Savilles, of Yorkshire. The Count, her late
husband, was a very learned gentleman, a great
politician, and a goodly man. She was accom-
panied by her sister, exceedingly skilled in painting,
nor did they spare for colour on their own faces.*
They had a great deal of wit
9^^ It being the day of public thanksgiving for
his Majesty's late preservation, the former declara-
tion was again read, and there was an Office used,
composed for the occasion. A loyal sermon was
preached on the divine right of Kings, from Psalm
cxliv. 10. " Thou hast preserved David from the
peril of the sword."
\bth. Came to visit me the learned anatomist,
1 [See iwte, p. 102.1 « [See ajde, p. 27.]
• [See ante, vol. ii. p. 72.]
i«83 JOHN EVELYN 109
Dr. Tyson,^ with some other Fellows of our
Society.
16th September. At the elegant villa and garden
of Mr. Bohun, at Lee.' He showed me the zinnar
tree, or platanus, and told me that since they had
planted this kind of tree about the city of Ispahan,
in Persia, the plague, which formerly much infested
the place, had exceedingly abated of its mortal
effects, and rendered it very healthy.
18^^ I went to London, to visit the Duchess
of Grafton, now great with child, a most virtuous
and beautiful lady.' Dining with her at my Lord
Chamberlain's, met my Lord of St. Albans,* now
grown so blind, that he could not see to take his
meat. He has lived a most easy life, in plenty even
abroad, whilst his Majesty was a sufferer ; he has
lost immense sums at play, which yet, at about
eighty years old, he continues, having one that sits
by him to name the spots on the cards. He eat
and drank with extraordinary appetite. He is
a prudent old courtier, and much enriched since his
Majesty's return.
After dinner, I walked to survey the sad
demolition of Clarendon House, that costly and
only sumptuous palace of the late Lord Chancellor
Hyde, where I have often been so cheerful with
him^ and sometimes so sad : ^ happening to make
him a visit but the day before ne fled from the
angry Parliament/ accusing him of mal- adminis-
tration, and being envious at his grandeur, who
from a private lawyer came to be father-in-law to
^ Doctor Edward Tyson^ 1 650-1 708, anatomical lecturer in
Surgeons' Hall^ and physician to Bethlehem and Bridewell
hospitals. He published The AnaUnmf of a Porpoise dissected at
Gresham College, and The Anatomy of a Pigmy compared with a
Monkev, an Ape, and a Man, 4tto, 1698-99*
« [See ante, p. 86.] » [See ante, p. 38,]
* See ante, vol. ii. p. 149.1 * [See ante, p. 100.]
* See ante, vol. ii. p. 284.J
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the Duke of York, and as some would suggest,
designing his Majesty's marriage with the Infanta
of Portugal, not apt to breed. To this they
imputed much of our unhappiness ; and that he,
being sole minister and favourite at his Majesty's
restoration, neglected to gratify the King's suffering
party, preferring those who were the cause of our
troubles. But perhaps as many of these thuigs
were injuriously laid to his charge, so he kept the
government fSar steadier than it has proved since.
I could name some who I think contributed greatly
to his ruin, — the buffoons and the misses^ to whom
he was an eye-sore. It is true he was of a jolly
temper, after the old English fashion ; but France
had now the ascendant, and we were become quite
another nation. The Chancellor gone, and dymg
in exile, the Earl his successor sold that which cost
£50,000 building, to the youn^ Duke of Albemarle
for £25,000, to pay debts which how contracted
remains yet a mystery, his son being no way a
prodigal Some imagine the Duchess his daughter
had been chargeable to him. However it were,
this stately palace is decreed to ruin, to support
the prodigious waste the Duke of Albemarle
had made of his estate, since the old man died.
He sold it to the highest bidder, and it fell to
certain rich bankers and mechanics, who gave for it
and the ground ^ about it, £35,000 ; they design a
new town, as it were, and a most magnificent piazza
[square]. It is said they have already materials
towards it with what they sold of the house alone,
more worth than what they paid for it See the
vicissitudes of earthly things 1 I was astonished
at this demolition, nor less at the little army of
labourers and artificers levelling the ground, lay-
ing foundations, and contriving great buildings
^ [According to the Rate-Books of St. Martin's there were, in
1688, 24 acres of land attached to the house.]
i«88 JOHN EVELYN 111
at an expense of £200,000, if they perfect their
design.^
19th September. In my walks I stepped into a
goldbeater's workhouse, where he showed me the
wonderful ductility of that spreading and oily
metal He said it must be finer than the standard,
such as was old angel-gold, and that of such he
had once to the value of £100 stamped with the
agnus deif and coined at the time of the holy war ;
which had been found in a ruined wall somewhere
in the north, near to Scotland, some of which he
beat into leaves, and the rest sold to the curiosi in
antiquities and medals.
28rd. We had now the welcome tidings of the
King of Poland raising the siege of Vienna, which
had given terror to all Europe, and utmost reproach
to the French, who it is believed brought in the
Turks for diversion, that the French King might
the more easily swallow Flanders, and pursue his
unjust conquest on the empire, whilst we sat
^ In a letter to Lord Combury^ dated Sayes Courts 20th
Janiiaiy, 1665-66, Evelyn, having then just returned from a visit
to Clarendon House, says : '* I went with prejudice and a critical
spirit, incident to those who fancy they know anything in art ;
I acknowledge that I have never scene a nobler pile. My old
friend [Pratt, the architect, see vol. ii. p. 102] and fellow-traveller
(inhabitants and co-temporaries at Rome) has perfectly acquitted
himself. It is, without hyperbole, the best contrived, the most
usefull, gracefuU, and magnificent house in England ; I except
not Audley End, which, though larger and full of gaudy barbarous
ornaments, does not gratifie judicious spectators. Here is state
and use, solidity and beauty, most symmetrically combined
together. Nothing abroad pleases me better, nothing at home
approches it. I have no designe to gratifie the architect beyond
what I am obliged as a professed honorer of virtue wheresoever
'Us conspicuous ; but when I had seriously contemplated every
roome (for I went into 'em all, from the cellar to the platforme
on the roofe), scene how well and judiciously the walls were
erected, the arches cut and tum'd, the timber brac'd, their
scantlings and contignations disposed, I was most highly satisfied,
and do acknowledge myselfe to have much improved by what I
observ'd."
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unconcerned and under a deadly charm from
somebody.^
There was this day a collection for rebuilding
Newmarket, consumed by an accidental fire, which
removing his Majesty thence sooner than was
intended, put by the assassins, who were dis-
appointed of their rendezvous and expectation
by a wonderful providence.* This made the King
more earnest to render Winchester the seat of his
autumnal field-diversions for the future, designing
a palace there,' where the ancient castle stood ;
in&iitely indeed preferable to Newmarket for
prospects, air, pleasure, and provisions. The
surveyor has already begun the foimdation for a
palace, estimated to cost £85,000, and his Majesty
is purchasing ground about it to make a park, etc.
Mh October. I went to London, on receiving a
note from the Countess of Arlington, of some con-
siderable charge or advantage I might obtain by
applying myself to his Majesty on this signal
conjuncture of his Majesty entering-up judgment
against the City-charter ; the proposal made me I
wholly declined, not being well satisfied with these
violent transactions, and not a little sorry that his
Majesty was so often put upon things of this nature
^ [See ante, p. 106. The siege of Vienna was raised by John
Sobieski^ who defeated a Turkish army, 100^000 strong, 12th
September^ l683.]
2 [See ante, p. 101. " He was saved only by the accident of
the fire ; . . . which destroyed his palace there [at Newmarket]
and thus caused him to go back to London a few days earlier
than was expected" (Airy's Charles IL, 1901, p. 265).]
^ [On the site of Winchester Castle. It was planned by
Wren after the model of Versailles, and begun in March of this
year. Part only was finished at Charles's death ; and this part
was turned into a barracks in 1796, and burned down in 1894.
The King talked of the building in his last days ; and, according
to Airy's Charles II., 1901, p. 201, ,£90,000 found in the strong-
box after his death, was supposed to be destined for it (see post,
under l6th September, l685).]
5^,. {lfi„cAeM irffPorUmouH,,
1688 JOHN EVELYN J»'
against so great a City, the consequ^iK"
may be so much to his prejudices- '
home. At this time» the^,>
Pemberton was displaced.V-- ' ^
most learned of the >^'
Sir George JeflB^^
most ignorap* » • /
Treby,' R .*) . and
one ^ iS place,
T^' '\en were
.rj. fs i>f the
• • : Kuns of
I
moil* . '* ' i' ■ » * ' -.rit*
.iiid th(M . c hII ^ij' »v » i - » !..
Prudent m. • . old t*< ..a :?
» « •«
, « ' »
f'i
• Following i. /tins t^oim: / ■ » • .^ ^he
'rallery, I went v the fcA' v. :»•' •'. .«'! hin;.
into the Duchess o* iN»rt>:n(>»it). s ,.-. :..-•• /
witiiiri her bedcharuber, avIu re ' .■ ^i .u ^vt
n^.oming loose garment her n-.tiv)^ i* jL'./. !,vi,
newly out of her bed, his Alojes^v ♦ ? ; ^'. : . : m ^ i
standing about her; but thai win.:
curiosity was the rich and spleuuiii i
woman's apartment,'^ now twice rw
down and rebuilt to satisfy her I
c\peusive pleasures, whilst her M • v . - . .. >
^ >'ir Fraiuis Peml)ert4»n, l62»'i-97. M^ ••* • - . j« i *v>i
\s-.'.rit of zeal against Lord Russell.]
- \(t*.oxz,t, Jeffrt-ys, first Baron JeffVevs of vVrni, i'*4S-8'i who
had been active m proseculiiig Lord KusscH. A-ry {('harUa II.,
l<KyI, p. 2ii'i) calls hmi "tlie wickedest man in hl.r^liJ» History-"
- -O.itc^ only excepted.]
** 'Ste aniCy p, 6l.j
* [Sir Thomas Jenner, l()37-1707.j
* [See anUf vol. ii. p. 385.]
VOL. Ill I
1683 JOHN EVELYN 118
against so great a City, the consequence whaeof
may be so much to his prejudice ; so I returned
home. At this time» the Lord Chief-Justice
Pemberton was displaced.^ He was held to be the
most learned of the judges, and an honest man.
Sir Greorge Jeffireys ' was advanced, reputed to be
most ignorant, but most daring. Sir Greorge
Treby,' Recorder of London, was also put by, and
one Jenner,^ an obscure lawyer, set in his place.
Eight of the richest and chief aldermen were
removed, and all the rest made only justices of the
peace, and no more wearing of gowns, or chains of
gold; the Lord Mayor and two SherijQs holding
their places by new grants as custodes, at the King's
pleasure. The pomp and grandeur of the most
august City in the world thus changed face in a
moment ; which gave great occasion of discourse
and thoughts of hearts, what all this would end in.
Prudent men were for the old foundations.
Following his Majesty this morning through the
gallery, I went with the few who attended him,
into the Duchess of Portsmouth's dressing-^oam
within her bedchamber, where she was in her
morning loose garment, her maids combing her,
newly out of her bed, his Majesty and the gallants
standing about her; but that which engaged my
curiosity was the rich and splendid furniture of this
woman's apartment,^ now twice or thrice pulled
down and rebuilt to satisfy her prodigal and
expensive pleasures, whilst her Majesty's does not
^ [Sir Fnuids Pemberton, 1625-97. He was displaced for
want of seal against Lord RusselL]
' [George Jeffreys, first Baron Jefirejs of yiem, 1648-899 who
had been active in prosecuting Lord Russell. Airy (Carles IL,
1901, p. SSS) calls him ''the wickedest man in English History "
— Oates only excepted.]
' [See ante, p. 01.]
« [Sir Thomas Jenner, l6S7-1707.]
'See ante, voL ii. p. SS5.]
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exceed some gentiemen's ladies in furniture and
accommodation. Here I saw the new fabric of
French tapestry, for design, tenderness of work,
and incomparable imitation of the best paintings,
beyond anything I had ever beheld. Some pieces
had VersaUles, St Germain, and other palaces of
the French King, with huntings, figures, and
landscapes, exotic fowls, and all to the life rarely
done. Then for Jajpan cabinets, screens, pendule
clocks, great vases of wrought phtte, tables, stands,
chimney-furniture, sconces, branches, braseras,^ etc.,
all of massy silver and out of number, besides some
of her Majesty's best paintings.
Surfeiting of this, I dined at Sir Stephen Fox's ^
and went contented home to my poor, but quiet
villa. What contentment can there be in the
riches and splendour of this world, purchased with
vice and dishonour ?
10th October. Visited the Duchess of Grafton,'
not yet brought to bed, and dining with my Lord
Chamberlain (her father), went with them to see
Montagu House,^ a palace lately built by Lord
Montagu, who had married the most beautiful
Countess of Northumberland.^ It is a stately and
ample palace. Signor Verrio's fresco paintings,
especially the funeral pile of Dido, on the staircase,
the labours of Hercules, fight with the Centaurs,
his effeminacy with Dejanira, and Apotheosis or
reception among the Gods, on the walls and roof
of the great room above, — I think exceeds any-
^ Brasiert : — *' a large vessel, or moving-hearth of silver, for
coals, transportable into any room^ mach used in Spain ** (Evelyn's
Fop-Dictionanf, 169O).
2 [See ante, p. 86.] « rsee ante, p. 109.]
^ See ante, p. 38, and post, under 19th January, I086.
^ See ante, vol. ii. p. 391. He succeeded as Baron Montagu
in 1684. His wife was Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas
Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, widow of Josceline Percy,
the eleventh and last Earl of Northumberland (of that family).
1688 JOHN EVELYN 115
thing he has yet done, both for design, colouring,
and exuberance of invention, comparable to the
greatest of the old masters, or what they so cele-
brate at Rome. In the rest of the chamber are
some excellent paintings of Holbein, and other
masters. The garden is large, and in good air,
but the fronts of the house not answeraUe to the
inside. The court at entry, and wings for offices
seem too near the street, and that so very narrow
and meanly built, that the corridor is not in pro-
portion to the rest, to hide the court from being
overlooked by neighbours ; all which might have
been prevented, had they placed the house further
into the ground, of which there was enough to
spare. But on the whole it is a fine palace, built
after the French pavilion-way, by Mr. Hooke, the
Curator of the Royal Society. There were with
us my Lady Scroope, the great wit, and Monsieur
Chardin,^ the celebrated traveller.
1 9th October. Came to visit me my old and worthy
friend, Mr. Packer,* bringing with him his nephew
Berkeley, grandson to the honest judge. A most
ingenious, virtuous, and religious gentleman, seated
near Worcester,*^ and very curious in gardening.
nth. I was at the court-leet of this manor,* my
Lord Arlington his Majesty's High-Steward.
2Qth. Came to visit and dine with me, Mr.
Brisbane,^ Secretary to the Admiralty, a learned
and agreeable man.
SOth. I went to Kew to visit Sir Henry Capel,
brother to the late Earl of Essex ; ^ but he being
gone to Cashiobury, after I had seen his garden^
and the alterations therein, I returned home. He
^ [See ante, p. 52.] ^ [See anU, vol. ii. p. 6l.]
^ [At Groomsbridge.]
* The manor of Deptford-le-Strond^ aUas West Grreenwich.
* [See anUy p. 67.] • [See anU, vol. ii. p. 272.]
"* Archagologia, vol. xii. p. 185.
116 THE DIARY OF les^
had repaired his house, roofed his hall with a kind
of eupola, and in a niehe was an artificial fountain ;
but the room seems to me over-melancholy, yet
miirht be much improved by havini? the waUs well
pitted d/re«co. fhe two ^-hoL^ for oranges
and myrtles communicating with the rooms below,
are very well contrived. There is a cupola made
with pole- work between two elms at the end of a
walk, which being covered by plashing ^ the trees
to them, is very pretty ; for the rest there are too
many fir trees in the garden.
17tk November. I took a house in Villiers Street,.
York Buildings, for the winter, having many
important concerns to dispatcli^ and for the
education of my daughters.
28rdL The Duke of Monmouth, till now pro*
claimed traitor on the pretended plot for which
Lord Russell was lately beheaded, came this even-
ing to Whitehall and rendered himself, on which
were various discourses.
26tfu I went to compliment the Duchess of
Grafton, now lymg-m of her first child, a son,^
which she called for, that I might see it She
was become more beautiful, if it were possible,,
than before, and fiill of virtue and sweetness. She
discoursed with me of many particulars, with
great prudence and gravity beyona her years.
29tn. Mr. Forbes showed me the plot of the
garden making at Burghley,' at my Lord Exeter's,
which I look^ on as one of the most noble that I
had seen.
1 [Plaiting.]
' Charles, who succeeded his father, mortallj wounded in
1690 at the siege of Cork. This son was Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland, Lord Cbamberlain, Privy Councillor, E.G., etc., in the
reigns of Anne, Greorge I., and Creorge IL There is a fine whole-
length mezKotinto of him by Faber.
' TBurghley House, on the Welland, near Stamford— the
** Burleigh-house by Stamford-town " of Tennyson's poem.]
1M3 JOHN EVELYN 117
The whole court and town m solemn mourning
for the death of the King of Portugal, her Majesty s
brother,*
80th November. At the anniversary dinner of
the Royal Society the King sent us two does.
Sir Cynl Wyche * was elected President
5th December. I was this day invited to a
wedding of one Mrs. Castle, to whom I had some
obligation, and it was to her fifth husband, a Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of the City. She was the daughter
of one Burton, a broom-man, by his wife, who
sold kitchen-stuff in Kent Street, whom God so
blessed that the fiither became a very rich, and was
a very honest man ; he was sheriff of Surrey,' whae
I have sat on the bench with him. Another of
his daughters was married to Sir John Bowles ;^
snd this daughter was a joUy friendly woman.
There was at the wedding the Lord Mayor, the
Sheriff, several Aldermen and persons of quality ;
above all. Sir George Jefireys, newly made Lord
Chief- Justice of England,^ with Mr. Justice
W3rthens, danced with the bride, and were exceed-
ing merry. These great men spent the rest of the
afternoon, till eleven at night, in drinking healths,
taking tobacco, and talking much beneath the
gravity of Judges, who had but a day or two before
condemned Mr. Algernon Sidney,* who was exe-
cuted the 7th on Tower- Hill, on the single
witness of that monster of a man. Lord Howard
of Escrick, and some sheets of paper taken in Mr.
Sidney's study, pretended to be written by him,
but not fully proved, nor the time when, but appear-
ing to have been written before his Majesty's
restoration, and then pardoned by the Act of
1 [Alphonso VI., d. ISth September, 1683.]
> [Sir Cyril Wjche, 1682-1707. He married Evelyn's nieee
(see under 15th May, l692>] * In l678.
« [See ante, p. 118.] ^ [See ante, p. 101.]
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Oblivion ; so that though Mr. Sidney was known
to be a person obstinately averse to government
by a monarch (the subject of the paper was in
answer to one by Sir £• Filmer), yet it was thought
he had very hard measure. There is this yet
observable, that he had been an inveterate enemy to
the last king, and in actual rebellion against him ;
a man of neat courage, great sense, great parts,
which he ^owed both at his trial and death ; for,
when he came on the scaffold, instead of a speech,
he told them only that he had made his peace with
God, that he came not thither to talk, but to die ;
put a paper into the sheriff's hand, and another into
a friend's ; said one prayer as short as a grace, laid
down his ^eck, and bid the executioner do\is office.
The Duke of Monmouth, now having his
pardon, refuses to acknowledge there was any
treasonable plot; for which he is banished White-
hall. This was a great disappointment to some
who had prosecuted Trenchard, Hampden, etc.,
that for want of a second witness were come out
of the Tower upon their habeas corpus.
The King had now augmented his guards with
a new sort of dragoons,^ who carried also gren-
adoes, and were habited after the Polish manner,
with long peaked caps, very fierce and fantastical.
7th Decembe7\ I went to the Tower, and visited
the Earl of Danby, the late Lord High Treasurer,
who had been imprisoned four years : ^ he received
me with great kindness. I dined with him, and
stayed till night We had discourse of many
things, his Lady railing sufficiently at the keeping
her husband so long in prison. Here I saluted
the Lord Dunblane's wife,^ who before had been
^ [See ante, p. 14.] ^ [See anie, vol. ii. p. 31.]
^ Feregrine Osborne^ Viscount Dunblane, 1658-1 729>70ungest
son of the Earl of Danby, so created in his father's lifetime, and
afterwards inheritor of his title and estate.
1684 JOHN EVELYN 119
married to Emerton, and about whom there was
that scandalous business before the delegates.
28rd December. The small-pox very prevalent
and mortal ; the Thames frozen.
26tk. I dined at Lord Clarendon's, where I
was to meet that ingenious and learned gentleman,
Sir George Wheler,^ who has published the ex-
cellent description of Africa and Greece, and who,
being a knight of a very fair estate and young, had
now newly entered into Holy Orders.
^th. I went to visit Sir John Chardin,^ a
French gentleman, who had travelled three times
by land into Persia, and had made many curious
researches in his travels, of which he was now
setting forth a relation. It being in England this
year one of the severest frosts that has happened
of many years, he told me the cold in Persia was
much greater, the ice of an incredible thickness;
that they had little use of iron in all that country,
it being so moist (though the air admirably clear
and h^thy) that oil would not preserve it from
rusting, so that they had neither clocks nor watches ;
some padlocks they had for doors and boxes.
80tk. Dr. Sprat,' now made Dean of West-
minster, preached to the Kin^ at Whitehall, on
Matt vL 24. Recollecting the passages of the
past year, I gave God thanks for his mercies, pray-
ing his blessing for the future.
1688-4: 1^ January. The weather continuing
intolerably severe, streets of booths were set upon
the Thames ; the air was so very cold and thick, as
of many years there had not been the like. The
small-pox was very mortal.
1 [Sir George Wheler, 1650-172S. His travels took place
1673-76, and he was knighted in l68S^ in which year he published
his Joumej^ into Greece. He became Rector of Houghton-le
Springy Durham^ in 1709 (see post, under S4th October, 1686).]
> l^ee ante, p. 115.] * [See ante, vol. ii. p. 300,]
120 THE DIARY OF lew
2nd January. I dined at Sir Stephen Fox's :^ after
dinner came a fellow who eat live charcoal, glowingly
i^ited, quenching them in his mouth, and then
champing and swallowing them down. There was a
dog also which seemed to do many rational actions.
ath. The river quite frozen*'
9th. I went across the Thames on the ice, now
become so thick as to bear not only streets of
booths, in which they roasted meat, and had divers
shops of wares, qmte across as in a town, but
coaches, carts, and horses passed over. So I went
from Westminster -stairs to Lambeth, and dined
witli the Archbishop : * where I met my Lord
Bruce,* Sir George Wheler, Colonel Cooke, and
several divines. After dinner and discourse with
his Grace till evening prayers. Sir George Wheler
and I walked over t£e ice from LambeUi-stairs to
the Horse-ferry.
lO^A. I visited Sir Robert Reading,* where after
supper we had music, but not comparable to that
which Mrs. Bridgeman made us on the guitar with
such extraordinary skiU and dexterity.
IQth. The Thames was filled with people and
teats, selling all sorts of wares as in the City.
2Uh. The frost continuing more and more severe,
the Thames before London was still planted with
booths in formal streets, all sorts of trades and
shops furnished, and full of commodities, even to
a printing-press, where the people and ladies took
a fancy to nave their names printed, and the day
and year set down when printed on the Thames : ^
1 \C^, Richardson^ anU, vol. ii. p. 352.]
^ [There are several representations of this '' prodigious Frost,"
one of which is here reproduced.] * [Dr. Bancroft.]
* [See anU, vol. L p. 297.] * pee anU, p. l6.]
^ Braj thus describes one of these cards of Frost Fair.
'' Within a treble border^ * Mons' et Mad"* Justel. Printed on
the River of Thames being frozen. In the d6th year of King
Charles the II., February the 5th, l683.' "
1684 JOHN EVELYN 121
this humour took so universaUy, that it was esti-
mated the printer gained £5 a day, for printing a line
only, at sixpence a name, besides what he got by
baliadsy etc. Coaches plied from Westminster to
the Temple, and from several other stairs to and
fro, as in the streets, sleds, sliding with skates, a
buU-baiting, horse and coach races, puppet-plays and
interludes, cooks, tippling, and other lewd places,
so that it seemed to be a bacchanalian triumph,
or carnival on the water, whilst it was a severe
judgment on the land, the trees not only splitting
as if lightning-struck, but men and cattle perishing
in divers places, and the very seas so locked up
with ice, that no vessels could stir out or come in.
The fowls, fish, and birds, and all our exotic plants
and greens, universally perishing. Many parks of
deer were destroyed, and all sorts of fuel so dear,
that there were great contributions to preserve the
poor alive. Nor was this severe weather much less
intense in most parts of Europe, even as far as
Spain and the most southern tracts. London, by
reason of the excessive coldness of the air hindering
the ascent of the smoke, was so filled with the
fuliginous steam of the sea-coal, that hardly could
one see across the streets, and this filling the lunffs
with its gross particles, exceedingly obstructed the
breast, so as one could scarcely breathe. Here was
no water to be had from the pipes and engines, nor
could the brewers and divers other tradesmen work,
and every moment was full of disastrous accidents.
4dh February. I went to Sayes Court to see how
the frost had dealt with my giurden, where I found
many of the greens and rare plants utterly destroyed.
The oranges and myrtles very sick, the rosemary
and laurels dead to all appearance, but the cypress
likely to endure it^
^ [He gives details of the devastation in bis letter to the Royal
Socie^ (see paH, p. 125). The severe weather even killed his
tortoise.]
122 THE DIARY OF im
5th February. It began to thaw, but froze a^ain.
My coach crossed from Lambeth to the Horse-rcrry
at Milbank, Westminster. The booths were almost
all taken down ; but there was first a map or land-
scape cut in copper representing all the manner of
the camp, and the several actions, sports, and pas-
times thereon, in memory of so signal a frost.
1th. I dined with my Lord Keeper [North],^ and
walking alone with hhn some tune in his gallery,
we had discourse of music He told me he had
been brought up to it from a child, so as to sing
his part at first sight. Then speaking of painting,
of which he was also a great lover, and other
ingenious matters, he desired me to come oftener
to him.
8/A. I went this evening to visit that great and
knowing virtuoso. Monsieur Justel.* The weather
was set in to an absolute thaw and rain ; but the
Thames still frozen.
10th. After eight weeks missing the foreign
posts, there came abundance of intelligence from
abroad.
12tL The Earl of Danby, late Lord Treasurer,
together with the Roman Catholic Lords impeached
of high treason in the Popish Plot, had now their
habeas corpus^ and came out upon bail, after five
years' imprisonment in the Tower.' Then were
also tried and deeply fined Mr. Hampden^ and
others, for being supposed of the late plot, for
which Lord Russell and Colonel Sidney suffered ;
^ [See ante, voL ii. p. 344.]
2 Henry Justel^ Io20-9S, created D.C.L. by the University
of Oxford in \6l5y on presenting to the Bodleian the MSS. of
his father^ Christopher Justel^ a learned writer on ecclesiastical
antiquities. Both were bom in France; but the son fled to
England to avoid persecution as a Protestant^ and was appointed
Keeper of the King's Library at St. James's. He published his
father's Biblioiheca Juris Canonici Veteru in l66l.
• [See ante, p. 118.] * [See ante, p. 101.]
1S84 JOHN EVELYN 128
as also the person who went about to prove that
the Earl of Essex had his throat cut in the Tower
by others ; likewise Mr. Johnson, the author of that
fiimous piece called JvMan}
\5th February. News of the Prince of Orange
having accused the Deputies of Amsterdam oi crimen
Icesce Mqjestatist and being pensioners to France.
Dr. Tenison ^ conmiunicated to me his intention
of erecting a library * in St. Martin's parish, for the
public use, and desired my assistance, with Sir
Christopher Wren, about the placing and structure
thereof, a worthy and laudable design. He told
me there were thirty or forty young men in orders
in his parish, either governors to young gentlemen
or chaplains to noblemen, who being reproved by
him on occasion for frequenting taverns or coffee-
houses, told him they would study or employ their
time better, if they had books. This put the pious
Doctor on this design ; and indeed a great reproach
it is that so great a city as London should not have
a public library becoming it There ought to be
one at St. Paul's ; the west end of that church (if
ever finished) would be a convenient place.
28rd. I went to Sir John Chardin,* who desired
^ Samuel Johnson^ 1649-1703, a clergyman, and the **Ben
Jochanan " of Dryden, who was distinguished by the rigour of
his writings against the Coiurt; particularly by his Julian the
ApogtaU (1683), directed at the Duke of York, a recent convert
to Popery. For these he was fined, imprisoned, put in the
pillory, whipped at the cart's tail, and degraded from the priest-
hood : nevertheless, he was not silenced ; and he lived to see the
Revolution, which placed William of Orange on the throne ;
whereupon he received a present of £1000, and a pension of £300
per annum, for the joint lives of himself and his son.
* [See ante, p. 59.]
' [It was in Castle Street, St. Martin's Lane. Wren designed
it. it was the first public library in London. In June, 1 86l, the
books (4000 volumes) were sold in aid of the endowment of the
Tenison School, now located on the site of Hogarth's old house
on the east side of the Fields. They brought nearly £2000.]
* [Sec anU, p. 52.]
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my assistance for the engraving the plates, the
translation, and printing his History of that wonder-
ful Persian Monument near Persepolis, and other
rare antiquities, which he had caused to be drawn
from the originals in his second journey into Persia,
which we now concluded upon. Afterwards, I
went with Sir Christopher Wren to Dr. Tenison,
where we made the drawing and estimate of the
expense of the library, to be begun this next spring
near the Mews.^
Great expectation of the Prince of Oranpe's
attempts in Holland to bring those of Amster£un
to consent to the new levies, to which we were
no friends, by a pseudo-politic adherence to the
French interest
26th February. Came to visit me Dr. Turner,
our new Bishop of Rochester.^
2Sth. I dined at Lady Tuke's, where I heard
Dr. Wallgrave' (physician to the Duke and
Duchess) play excdlently on the lute.
7th March. Dr. Meggot, Dean of Winchester,*
preached an incomparable sermon (the King being
now gone to Newmarket), on Heb. xiL 15, show-
ing and pathetically pressing the care we ought to
have lest we come short of the grace of God«
Afterwards, I went to visit Dr. Tenison at
Kensington, whither he was retired to refresh,
after he had been sick of the small-pox.
\bth. At Whitehall preached Mr. Henry
Godolphin,^ a prebend of dt. Paul's, and brother
to my dear friend Sidney, on Isaiah Iv. 7. I
dined at the Lord Keeper s, and brought him to
Sir John Chardin, who showed him his accurate
drafts of his travels in Persia.^
1
8
4
6
See WHtty p. 123.] > [See wnUi p. 98.]
See cmiey vol. ii. p. 373.1
See amUy vol. ii. p. 247.J
See anUy p. 37.] * [See a«fo, p. 52.]
1684 JOHN EVELYN 125
2Sth March. There was so great a concourse of
people with their children to be touched for the evil»^
that six or seven were crushed to death by pressing
at the chirurgeon's door for tickets. The weather
b^an to be more mild and tolerable; but there
was not the least appearance of any spring.
80th. Easter -day. The Bishop of Rochester'
preached before the King ; after which his Majesty,
accompanied with three of his natural sons, the
Dukes of Northumberland, Richmond, and St.
Albans (sons of Portsmouth, Cleveland, and
Nelly), went up to the altar; the three boys
entering before the King within the rails, at the
right hand, and three Bishops on the left, viz.
London (who officiated), Durham, and Rochester,
with the Sub-dean, Dr. Holder. The King, kneeling
before the altar, making his offering, the Bishops
first received, and then his Majesty; after which
he retired to a canopied seat on the right hand.
Note, there was peifume burnt before the office
b^an. I had received the sacrament at Whitehall
early with the Lords and Household, the Bishop
of London officiating. Then went to St Martin's,
where Dr. Tenison preached (recovered from the
small-pox) ; then went again to Whitehall as above.
In the afternoon, went to St Martin's again.
^th ApriL I returned home with my family
to my house at Sayes Court, after five months'
residence in London ; hardly the least appearance
of any spring.
dlQth. A letter of mine to the Royal Society
concerning the terrible effects of the past winter
being rea^ they desired it might be printed in the
next part of their Transactions.^
^ rSee anie, voL ii. p. 148.1 * [Dr. Turner (see amte, p. 124).]
* This was done (Philosophical TnmsacUoni, No. 158, l684^ p.
559\ There is an abstract of the letter in Evelyn's MisceUaneoui
WrUings, 1825, pp. 692-96.
126 THE DIARY OF i684
10/A May. I went to visit my brother in
Surrey. Called by the way at Ashtead, where
Sir Robert Howard (Auditor of the Exchequer)
entertained me very civilly at his new-built house,
which stands in a park on the Down/ the avenue
south; though down hill to the house, which is
not great, but with the out-houses very convenient.
The staircase is painted by Verrio with the story
of Astraea ; amongst other figures is the picture of
the Painter himself, and not unlike him ; the rest
is well done, only the columns did not at all please
me ; there is also Sir Robert's own picture in an
oval ; the whole in fresco. The place has this
great defect, that there is no water but what is
drawn up by horses from a very deep well.
lltL Visited Mr. Higham,^ who was ill, and
died three days after. His grandfather and father
(who christened me), with himself, had now been
rectors of this parish [Wotton] 101 years, viz, from
May, 1588.
12th. I returned to London, where I found the
Commissioners of the Admiralty abolished, and
the office of Admiral restored to the Duke, as to
the disposing and ordering all sea business; but
his Majesty signed all petitions, papers, warrants,
and commissions, that the Duke, not acting as
admiral by commission or office, might not incur
the penalty of the late Act against Papists and
Dissenters holding offices, and refusing the oath
and test. Every one was glad of this change, those
in the late Commission being utterly ignorant in
their duty, to the great damage of the Navy.
^ [Ashtead Estate was sold in 1680 by Henry Howard, Duke
of Norfolk^ to Sir Robert Howard^ sixth son of 'Hionias, first Earl
of Berkeley. He built a new house near the old mansion of the
Howards, where he was visited by Charles II., James II., and
William III. This was pulled down in the last quarter of the
eighteenth century and another took its place.]
2 [See an/tf, vol. ii. p. 68.]
im JOHN EVELYN 127
The utter ruin of the Low Country was
threatoied by the si^;e of Luxemburg, if not
timely relieved, and by the obstinacy of the
Hollanders, who refused to assist the Prince of
Orange, being corrupted by the Fraich.
16/A May. I received £600 of Sir Charles
Bickerstaff for the fee-farm of Pilton, in Devon.
26th. Lord Dartmouth was chosen Master of
the Trinity Company, newly returned with the
fleet from blowing up and demolishing Tangier.^
In the sermon preached on this occasion. Dr. Can
observed that, m the 27th chapter of the Acts of
the Apostles, the casting anchor out of the fore-
ship had been cavilled at as betraying total
ignorance : that it is very true our seamen do not
do so ; but in the Mediterranean their ships were
built differently from ours, and to this day it was
the practice to do so there.
Luxemburg was surrendered to the French,
which makes them master of all the Netherlands,
gives them entrance into Germany, and a fair
game for universal monarchy; which that we
should suffer, who only and easily might have
hindered, astonished all the world. Thus is the
poor Prince of Orange ruined, and this nation and
all the Protestant interest in Europe following,
unless God in His infinite mercy,. as oy a miracle,
interpose, and our great ones alter their counsels.
The French fleet were now besieging Genoa, but
after bummg much of that beautiful city with their
bombs, went off with disgrace.
lltk June. My cousin, Vemey, to whom a very
great fortune was fallen, came to take leave of us,
going into the country ; a very worthy and virtuous
young gentleman.
12th. I went to advise and give directions about
the buildmg two streets in Berkeley Gardens,
^ [See ante, p. 95.]
128 THE DIARY OF i684
reserving the house and as much of the garden as
the breadth of the house. In the meantime, I
could not but deplore that sweet place ^ (by far the
most noble gardens, courts, and accommodations,
stately porticoes, etc., anywhere about the town)
should be so much straitened and turned into
tenements. But that magnificent pile and gardens
contiguous to it, built by the late Lord Chancellor
Clarendon, being all demolished, and designed for
fiazzas and buudings,' was some excuse for my
jady Berkeley's resolution of letting out her
ground also for so excessive a price as was offered,
advancing near £1000 per annum in mere ground-
rents; to such a mad intemperance was the age
come of building about a city, by far too dis-
proportionate already to the nation: I having in
my time seen it almost as large again as it was
within my memory.
22nd June. Last Friday, Sir Thomas Armstrong
was executed at Tyburn for treason, without trial,
having been outlawed and apprehended in Holland,
on the conspiracy of the Duke of Monmouth, Lord
Russell, etc., which gave occasion of discourse to
people and lawyers, in r^ard it was on an out-
lawry that juc^ment was given and execution.'
2nd July. 1 went to the Observatory at Green-
wich, where Mr. Flamsteed ^ took his observations
1 ^ [Beikelej House (see aute, voL ii. p. 243).]
< See oHte, p. 109.]
' See ante, p. 101. When brought up for judgment^ Arm-
strong insisted on his right to a trials the Act giving that right
to those who came in iidthin a year^ and the jear not having
expired. Jeffreys refused it; '^and when Amutrong insisted,
that he asked nothing but the law, Jefferies in his brutal waj
said, he should have it to the full ; and so ordered his execution
within six dajs." When Jeffireys went to the King at Windsor
soon after, the King took a ring from his finger and gave it to
Jeffirejs (Burnet's Hitiory of His Onm Time, 1724, i. pp. 579-80).
« [See ante, p. 107.]
1684 JOHN EVELYN 129
of the eclipse of the sun, now almost three parts
obscured.
There had been an excessive hot and dry spring,
and such a drought still continued as never was in
my memory.
18th July. Some small sprinkling of rain ; the
leaves dropping from the trees as in autumn.
25th. I dined at Lord Falkland's,^ Treasurer of
the Navy, where after dinner we had rare music,
there being amongst others, Signor Pietro Reggio,
and Signor John Baptist, both famous, one for his
voice, the other for playing on the harpsichord, few
if any in Europe exceeding him. There was also
a Frenchman who sung an admirable bass.
26th. I returned home, where I found my Lord
Chief-Justice [Jeffreys], the Countess of Clarendon,
and Lady Catherine Fitzgerald, who dined with
me.
10th August. We had now rain after such a
drought as no man in England had known.
24/A. Excessive hot. We had not had above
one or two considerable showers, and those storms,
these eight or nine months. Many trees died for
the want of refreshment.
81^. Mr. Sidney Godolphin was made Baron
Godolphin.
2Qth September. The King being returned from
Winchester, there was a numerous Court at
WhitehaU.
At this time the Earl of Rochester was removed
from the Treasury to the Presidentship of the
Council ; Lord Godolphin was made first Com-
missioner of the Treasury in his place; Lord
Middleton (a Scot) ^ made Secretary of State, in
the room of Lord Godolphin. These alterations
being very unexpected and mysterious, gave great
occasion of discourse.
^ [See anU, p. 97.] « [See atOe, vol. u. p. 273.]
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There was now an Ambassador from the
of Siam, in the East Indies, to his Majesty.
22nd October. I went with Sir William
Godolphin to see the rhinoceros, or miicom, being
the first that I suppose was ever brought into
England. She belonged to some East India
merchants, and was sold (as I remember) for
above £2000. At the same time, I went to see
a crocodile, brought from some of the West India
Islands, resembling the E^ptian crocodile.
24tth. I dined at Sir Stephen Fox's with the
Duke of Northumberland.^ He seemed to be a
young gentleman of good capacity, well-bred,
civil, and modest: newly come from travel, and
had made his campaign at the si^e of Luxemburg.
Of all his Majesty's children (of which he had now
six Dukes) this seemed the most accomplished and
worth the owning. He is extraordinaiy handsome
and well-shaped. What the Dukes of Richmond
and St Albans will prove, their youth does not
yet discover ; they are very pretty Doys.
26tfu Dr. Goodman preached before the King
on James ii 12, concemmg the law of liberty : an
excellent discourse and in good method. He is
author of The Prodigal Son^ a treatise worth
reading, and another of the old religion.
27tn. I visited the Lord Chamberlain, where
dined the black Baron and Monsieur Flamerin,
who had so long been banished France for a duel.
2Sth. I carried Lord Clarendon through the
City, amidst all the squibs and bacchanalia of the
Lord Mayor's show, to the Royal Society, where
he was proposed a member ; and then treated him
at dinner.
I went to St Clement's, that pretty built and
contrived church, where a young divine gave us
^ [George FitzRoy, Duke of Northumberland, l665-17l6,
youngest son of Charles II. bj Lady Castlemaine.]
1084 JOHN EVELYN 181
an eloquent sermon on 1 Cor. vL 20, inciting to
gratitude and glorifying God for the fabric of our
bodies and the dignity of our nature.
2nd November. A sudden change from
temperate warm weather to an excessive cold
rain, frost, snow, and storm, such as had seldom
been known. This winter weather began as early
and fierce as the past did late; till about
Christmas there then had been hardly any winter.
4ih. Dr. Turner,^ now translated from Rochester
to Ely upon the death of Dr. Peter Gunning,
preached before the King at Whitehall on Romans
iii 8, a very excellent sermon, vindicating the
Church of England against the pernicious doctrines
of the Church of Rome. He challenged the pro-
ducing but of five clergymen who forsook our
Church and went over to that of Rome, during all
the troubles and rebellion in England, which lasted
near twenty years ; and this was to my certain
observation a great truth.
15th. Being the Queen's birthday, there were
fireworks on the Thames before Whitehall, with
pageants of castles, forts, and other devices of
girandolas,' sernents, the King and Queen's arms
and mottoes, all represented in fire, such as had
not been seen here. But the most remarkable
was the several fires and skirmishes in the very
water, which actually moved a long way, burning
under the water, now and then appearing above
it, giving reports like muskets and cannon, with
grenadoes and innumerable other devices. It is
said it cost £1500. It was concluded with a ball,
where all the young ladies and gallants danced, in
the great hall. The court had not been seen so
1 rSee ante, p. 98.]
^ [Revolving fireworics. Lassels, Voyage of liafy, l6lO, vol.
iL p. 250^ speaks of " the Girandola and Jireworkei on S. Peter's
Eve, and divers sach like sacred triumphs."]
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brave and rich in apparel since his Majesty's
Restoration.
80<A November. In the morning. Dr. Fiennes,
son of the Lord Say and Sele, preached before
the Kington Joshua xxi. 11.
Srd Itecember. I carried Mr. JusteP and Mr.
Slingsby (Master of the Mint) to see Mr. Sheldon's
collection of medals.^ The series of Popes was
rare, and so were several amongst the moderns,
especially that of John Huss's martyrdom at
Constance ; of the Roman Emperors, Consulars,
some Greek, etc., in copper, gold, and silver ; not
many truly antique ; a medallion of Otho, Paulus
iEmilius, etc., hardly ancient. They were held at
a price of £1000 ; but not worth, I judge, above
£200.
7th. I went to see the new church at St.
James's,' el^antly built; the altar was especially
adorned, the white marble enclosure curiously
and richly carved, the flowers and garlands
about the walls by Mr. Gibbons in wood ;
a pelican with her young at her breast, just
over the altar in the carved compartment and
border, environing the purple velvet fringed with
I. H. S. richly embroidered, and most noble plate,
were given by Sir R. Geere, to the value (as
was sdd) of £200. There was no altar anywhere
in England, nor has there been any abroad more
handsomely adorned.
17th. Early in the morning I went into St
James's Park to see three Turkish, or Asian
horses, newly brought over, and now first showed
1 [See ante, p. 122.1
2 Mr. Ralph Sheldon^ 1 623-84^ the antiquary.]
* In Piccadilly, and built by Wren at the expense of the
Duke of St. Albans (see vol. ii. p. 149). It was consecrated in
July of this year. The carving over the altar and the font are
by Grinling Gibbons. Wren was very much pleased with the
internal accommodation afforded.]
r^r^^i«H#^ap«
1084 JOHN EVELYN 188
to his Majesty, There were four, but one of them
died at sea, being three weeks coming from Ham-
burgh. They were taken from a Bashaw at the
siege of Vienna, at the late famous raising that
leaguer.^ I never beheld so delicate a creature
as one of them was, of somewhat a bright bay,
two white feet, a blaze; such a head, eyes, ears,
neck, breast, belly, haunches, l^s, pasterns, and
feet, in all regards, beautiful, and proportioned to
admiration ; spirited, proud, nimble, making halt,
turning with that swiftness, and in so small a
compass, as was admirable. With all this so
gentle and tractable as called to mind what I
remember Busbequius speaks of them, to the
reproach of our grooms in Europe, who bring up
their horses so churlishly, as makes most of them
retain their ill habits. They trotted like does, as
if they did not feel the ground. Five hundred
guineas was demanded for the first; 800 for the
second ; and 200 for the third, which was brown.
All of them were choicely shaped, but the two
last not altogether so perfect as tne first
It was judged by the spectators, among whom
was the King, Prince of Denmark,^ Duke of York,
and several of the Court, noble persons skilled in
horses, especially Monsieur Foubert® and his son
(provost masters of the Academy, and esteemed of
the best in Europe), that there were never seen
any horses in these parts to be compared with
them. Add to all this, the furniture^ consisting
of embroidery on the saddle, housings, quiver,
bow, arrows, scymitar, sword, mace, or battle-axe,
a la Turcisq; the Bashaw's velvet mantle furred
with the most perfect ermine I ever beheld; all
which, ironwork in common furniture, being here
^ [See anie^ vol. i. p. 27. Scott uses the word in this sense
in eh. xxvi. of Old MorUdUifJ]
2 [See ante, p. 107.] » [See ante, p. 72.]
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of silver, curiously wrought and double gilt, to
an incredible value. Such and so extraordinary
was the embroidery, that I never saw anything
approaching it. The reins and headstall were of
crimson siU:, covered with chains of silver gilt.
There was also a Turkish royal standard of a
horses tail, tc^ether with aU sorts of other
caparisons belonging to a general's horse, by which
one may estimate how gallantly and magnificently
those infidels appear in the field; for nothing
could be seen more glorious. The gentleman
(a German) who rid the horse, was in all this garb.
They were shod with iron made round and closed
at the heel, with a hole in the middle about as
wide as a shilling. The hoofs most entire.
ISth Deceifiber. I went with Lord Comwallis ^
to see the young gallants do their exercise, Mr.
Foubert having newly raUed m a manege, and
fitted it for the academy. There were the Dukes
of Norfolk* and Northumberland,' Lord New-
burgh, and a nephew of (Duras) Earl of Fevers-
ham.^ The exercises were, 1, running at the
ring ; 2, flinging a javelin at a Moor s head ; 8,
discharging a pistol at a mark; lastly, taking up
a gauntlet with the point of a sword; all these
performed in full speed. The Duke of Northum-
berland hardly missed of succeeding in^ every one,
a dozen times, as I think. The Duke of Norfolk
did exceeding bravely. Lords Newbuigh and
Duras seemed nothing so dexterous. Here I saw
the difference of what the French call " hel homme
h cheoal^^ and " hon homme a clieval'' ; the Duke of
Norfolk being the first, that is rather a fine person
on a horse, the Duke of Northumberland being
both in perfection, namely, a graceful person and
an excellent rider. But the Duke of Norfolk told
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. l62.] ^ rg^^ ^„/^^ yq]^ j^ p^ 312.]
* [See ante, p. 130.] * [See ante, vol. ii. p. 385.]
1696 JOHN EVELYN 185
me he had not been at this exercise these twelve
years before. There were in the field the Prince
of Denmark,^ and the Lord Lansdowne, son of the
Earl of Bath«^ who had been made a Count of the
Empire last summer for his service before Vienna.
20th December. A villainous murder was per-
petrated by Mr. St John, eldest son to Sir Walter
St John, a worthy gentleman, on a knight of
quality,* in a tavern. The offender was sentenced
and reprieved. So many horrid murders and duels
were committed about this time as were never
before heard of in England ; which gave much
cause of complaint and murmurings.
1684-5 : J st January. It proved so sharp weather,
and so long and cruel a frost, that the Thames was
frozen across, but the frost was often dissolved, and
then froze again.
11th. A young man preached upon St Luke
xiiL 5, after the Fresbyterian tedious method and
repetition.
24ith. I dined at Lord Newport's,^ who has
some excellent pictures, especially that of Sir
Thomas Hanmer,* by Vandyck, one of the best
he ever painted ; another of our English Dobson's
painting ; ® but, above all, Christ in the Virgin s
^ [See ante, p. 133.]
2 [See post, under 2nd September^ 1701.]
* Sir William Estcourt. The catastrophe arose from a sudden
quarrel^ and great doubts arose whether the offence was more
than manslaughter; but St. John was advised to plead guilty,
and then had a pardon, for which he paid J&I6OO. Exactly one
hundred years before, one of his family had been tried for a
similar offence and acquitted, but he was obliged to go abroad,
though he was afterwards employed (Manning and Bray's Surrey,
iii. 330, App. cxx.).
* [See ante, vol. ii. p. l62.]
5 [r
[See ante, vol. ii. p. 1 20. In 1 838 the portrait here mentioned
was in the possession of Sir Henry Bunbury, Bt. {Hanmer Carre-
spondence, 1838, p. 2).]
^ WilHam Dobson, 1 610-46, a portrait painter, who succeeded
Vandyck in the employments he held under Charles I.
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lap, by Poussin, an admirable piece ; with some-
thing of most other famous hands.
25th January. Dr. Dove^ preached before the
King. I saw this evening such a scene of profuse
gaming, and the King in the midst of his three con-
cubines,* as I have never before seen — luxurious
dallying and profaneness.
Vlih. I dined at Lord Sunderland's, being in-
vited to hear that celebrated voice of Mr. Pordage,
newly come from Rome ; his singing was after the
Venetian recitative, as masterly as could be, and
with an excellent voice both treble and bass ; Dr.
Wallgrave accompanied it with his theorbo lute,*
on which he performed beyond imagination, and is
doubtless one of the greatest masters in Europe on
that charming instrument Pordage is a priest, as
Mr. Bernard Howard * told me in private.
There was in the room where we dined, and
in his bedchamber, those incomparable pieces of
Columbus, a Flagellation, the Grammar-school, the
Venus and Adonis of Titian ; and of Vandyck's
that picture of the late Earl of Digby (father of
the Countess of Sunderland), and Earl of Bedford,
Sir Kenelm Digby, and two ladies of incomparable
performance ; besides that of Moses and the burn-
ing bush of Bassano, and several other pieces of the
best masters. A marble head of M. Brutus, etc.
28^A. I was invited to my Lord Arundel
of Wardour * (now newly released of his six years'
confinement in the Tower on suspicion of the plot
called Oates's Plot), where after dinner the same
Mr. Pordage entertained us with his voice, that
excellent and stupendous artist, Signor John
1 [Heniy Dove, 1640-95, Chaplain to Charles II.1
^ t'^he Duchess of Portsmouth, the Duchess of Cleveland, and
the Duchess Mazarin.]
' [See ante, vol. ii p. S7S.1 * [See anUy vol. ii. p. 190.]
® [See flJite, vol. ii. p. 142. J
JOHN EVELYN la?
i>a»»tist, playing to it on the liarpsicliord. My
(if .^ 'iter Mary being with us, she also sung to
«<- ^reat satisfaction of botli the masters, aiul a
*ir^rj of people of quality present,
'''he did so also at mv Lord Rochester's the
' ifipfi following, where we had the French boy^
Ta-i'od for his singing, and indeetl he had a
i>xMte voice, and had been well taught. I also
cinl Mrs. Packer (daugliter to my old friend)^
..• !)efoie Ins Afajesty and the Duke, privately,
I'j.r stupendous l>ass, GostUng,^ accompany ing her,
Onl licrs was so loud as took away nuich oi tlie
swtyMiess. C'ertainlv never wojiian had a stron^iv^r
•r better ear [voice?], could she possibly have
: verned it She would do rardy in a lar;.^e
church among the nuns.
Uli Fchruarif. 1 w^ent to London, hearing his
.'•lajesty had been the Monday before (2nd
^ rhruar}') surprised in his bedchamber with an
foplectic fit, so that if, by God\ providence, Dr.
Aing (that excellent chirurgeon as well as phy-
• an) had not been accidentally present to let him
''>ioMd (having his lancet in his pocket), his Majesty
hail certainly died that moment; which miglit
have been of direful consequence, there behig n^*
!o<ly else present with the King save this l^oci»»r
and one more, as I am assured. It was a m i-k o^'
• he extraordinary dexterity, resolution, ai^d p»x.->-
■'Ce i*f nnnd in the Doctor, to let h'»rn b!'M»d in
!';•■ very paroxysm, without staying Tne conjinj;' of
^»r.' r physicians, which regular!) >liuiild have been
'\ and for want of which he niu->^ have a regular
1 1 >
• J ^ rjji<,*ois Dupcrrier. M«caulay, 'who docs ii-^t give his
iia.i . ^.is-^ he w;is the Duchess Mazann's p^ii^c]
- ."^le ante, vol. ii. j). iSl,\
- . John Gostliiif^, d. 17.5.S, of the Chapel lioyal, for hi mi.
Pure< il wrote tlie anthem, "They tiiat ^o Jomu t<» the s. /• \\\
I
aftf-f * 'fuuy yjNtie .
1685 JOHN EVELYN 187
Baptist, playing to it on the harpsichord. My
daughter Mary being with us, she also sung to
the great satisfaction of both the masters, and a
world of people of quality present
She did so also at my Lord Rochester's the
evening following, where we had the French boy ^
so famed for his singing, and indeed he had a
delicate voice, and had been well taught. I also
heard Mrs. Packer (daughter to my old friend)^
sing before his Majesty and the Duke, privately,
that stupendous bass, Gostling,' accompanying her,
but hers was so loud as took away much of the
sweetness. Certainly never woman had a stronger
or better ear [voice ?], could she possibly have
governed it She would do rarely in a large
church among the nuns.
ah February. I went to London, hearing his
Majesty had been the Monday before (2nd
February) surprised in his bedchamber with an
apoplectic fit, so that if, by God's providence. Dr.
King (that excellent chirurgeon as well as phy-
sician) had not been accidentally present to let him
blood (having his lancet in his pocket), his Majesty
had certainly died that moment; which might
have been of direful consequence, there being no-
body else present with the King save this Doctor
and one more, as I am assured. It was a mark of
the extraordinary dexterity, resolution, and pres-
ence of mind in the Doctor, to let him blood in
the very paroxysm, without staying the, coming of
other physicians, which regularly should have been
done, and for want of which he must have a regular
^ [FFan9ois Duperrier. Macaulay, who does not give his
name, says he was the Duchess Mazarin's page.]
^ fSee anie, voL ii. p. 6l.]
^ [John Gostling, d. 1733, of the Chapel Royal, for whom
Purcell wrote the anthem, ** They that go down to the sea in
ships."]
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pardon, as they tell me.^ This rescued his Majesty
for the instant, but it was only a short reprieve.
He still complained, and was relapsing, often faint-
ing, with sometimes epileptic symptoms, till Wed-
nesday, for which he was cupped, let blood in
both jugulars, had both vomit and purges, which
so relieved him, that on Thursday hopes of recovery
were signified in the public Gazette, but that day
about noon, the physicians thought him feverish.
This they seemed glad of as being more easily
allayed and methodically dealt with than his former
^ [To Evelyn's hearsay account may be appended that of an
eminently truthful eye-witness, Thomas Bruce fafterwards second
Earl of Ailesbuiy), a gentleman of the Bedcnamber. On this
particular morning the King had risen unwell, and gone to his
private closet for a fitvourite remedy. The day was bitterly cold.
Returning to his room, at the urgent solicitation of his scared
attendants, he seemed " not to mind what was said " or to ^^ have
the liberty of his tongue." Bruce goes on : — ^^ It being shaving
day^ his barber told him all was ready. He always sat with his
knees against the window, and the barber^ having fixed the linen
on one side^ went behind the chair to do the same on the other,
and I, standing close to the chair, he fell into my arms in the
most violent fit of apoplexy. Doctor King, that had been a
chirurgeon, happened to be in the room of his own accord, the
rest having retired before. I asked him if he had any lancets,
and he replying he had, I ordered him to bleed the king without
delay, which he did ; and, perceiving the blood, I went to fetch
the Duke of York, who came so on the instant that he had one
shoe and one slipper. At my return with the Duke the king
was in bed, and in a pretty good state, and going on the contrary
side where the Duke was, he perceiving me, took me fast by the
hand, sajdng, ^ I see you love me dying as well as living,' and
thanked me heartily for the orders I gave Doctor King (who was
knighted for that service) to bleed him, as also for sending Mr.
Chiffins [Chiffinch] to persuade him to come out of his closet **
(Memoirs of Thonuu, Earl of Ailesbuiy, written by Himself, ed.
W. E. Buckley, Roxburghe Club, 1890, pp. 88-89). Dr. Edmund
King, 1629*-! 709, above referred to, seems to have got nothing
but his knighthood.] Burnet tells us that the Privy Council
approved of what he had done, and ordered him £1000, but it
was never paid him (History of His Own Time, 1724, i. p. 606).
[There is a portrait of King by Sir Peter Lely, in the Royal
College of Physicians, bequeathed by himself.]
168S JOHN EVELYN 189
•
fits; so as they prescribed the famous Jesuits
powder; but it made him worse, and some very
able doctors who were present did not think it a
fever, but the effect of his frequent bleeding and
other sharp operations used by them about his
head, so that probably the powder might stop the
circulation, and renew his former fits, which now
made him very weak. Thus he passed Thursday
night with great difficulty, when complaining of a
pain in his side, they drew twelve ounces more of
blood from him ; this was by six in the morning on
Friday, and it gave him relief, but it did not con-
tinue, for being now in much pain, and struggling
for breath, he lay dozing, and, after some con-
flicts, the physicians despairing of him, he gave
up the ghost at half-an-nour after eleven in the
morning, being the sixth of February, 1685, in the
86th year of his reign, and 54th of his age.
Prayers were solemnly made in all the churches,
especiidly in both the Court Chapels, where the
chaplams relieved one another every half quarter
of an hour from the time he b^ran to be in
danger till he exph-ed, accordmg to the form pre-
scribed in the Church-offices. Those who assisted
his Majesty's devotions were, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Durham, and
Ely, but more especially Dr. Ken, the Bishop of
Bath and Wells. It is said they exceedingly
urged the receiving Holy Sacrament, but his
Majesty told them he would consider of it, which he
did so long till it was too late. Others whispered
that the Bishops and Lords, except the Earls of
Bath and Feversham, being ordered to withdraw
the night before, Huddlestone, the priest, had pre-
sumed to administer the Popish offices.^ He gave
1 [Here again a passage may be borrowed from Bruce, in
preference to other records. ''On Thursday, that gpreat and
pious prelate, Sandcroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the
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his breeches and keys to the Duke, who was almost
contmually kneeling by his bedside, and in tears.
He also recommended to him the care of his
natural children, all except the Duke of Mon-
mouth, now in Holland, and in his displeasure.
He entreated the Queen to pardon him (not with-
out cause) ; who a Uttle before had sent a bishop
to excuse her not more firequently visiting him, in
regard of her excessive grief, and withal that his
Majesty would forgive it if at any time she had
offended him. He spake to the Duke to be kind
to the Duchess of Cleveland, and especially Ports-
mouth, and that Nelly might not starve.
Thus died King Charles II., of a vigorous and
robust constitution, and in all appearance promis-
ing a long life. He was a prince of many virtues,
and many great imperfections ; debonair, easy of
access, not bloody nor cruel ; his countenance fierce,
his voice great, proper of person, every motion
Bishops in town came to offer him [the King] their spiritual
service. The Archbishop was of a timid temper and had a low
voice, and Bishop Ken the contrary^ and like to a nightingale
for the sweetness of it^ so he was desired by the rest to persuade
the king to hearken to them. The king thanked them very
much^ and told them that it was time enough or somewhat to
that purpose^ and modestly waived them, which was in my
hearing. On Friday the oth^ having been much fatigued, I
came not until about ten^ knowing that there was no hopes.
About eight that morning his Royal Highness by a back stair
brought in Father Huddlestone that had contributed to save the
King at Boscobel after the fatal battle of Worcester in 1657.
... As soon as the king saw the father come in, he cried out,
^You that saved my body is [sic] now come to save my soul.'
This is literally true on a Christian [as I am a Christian .^] . . .
The King made a general confession with a most true, hearty,
and sincere repentance, weeping and bewailing his sins, and he
received what is styled all the rites of the Church, and like a
true and hearty penitent, and just at high water and full moon
at noon he expired " (Memoirs of ThomaSy Earl of Ailesbwy, ut
supra, pp. 89-90). See also Cliurke's Life of James the S^imd,
18l6, i. pp. 746-49, from which it is plain that the priest was
sent for at the King's desire.]
1886 JOHN EVELYN 141
became him ; a lover of the sea, and skilful in ship-
ping; not affecting other studies, yet he had a
laboratory, and knew of many empirical medicines^
and the easier mechanical mathematics ; he loved
planting and building, and brought in a politer
way of living, which passed to luxury and intoler-
able expense. He had a particular talent in tell-
ing a story, and facetious passages, of which he
had innumerable; this made some buffoons and
vicious wretches too presumptuous and familiar, not
worthy the favour they abused. He took delight
in having a number of little spaniels follow him
and lie in his bedchamber, where he often suffered
the bitches to puppy and give suck, which rendered
it very offensive, and indeed made the whole court
nasty and stinking. He would doubtless have been
an excellent prince, had he been less addicted to
women, who made him uneasy, and always in
want to supply their unmeasurable profusion, to
the detriment of many indigent persons who had
signally served both him and his father. He fre-
quently and easily changed favourites to his great
prejudice.
As to other public transactions, and unhappy
miscarriages, 'tis not here I intend to number them ;
but certainly never had King more glorious oppor-
tunities to have made himself, his people, and all
Europe happy, and prevented innumerable mis-
chiefs, had not his too easy nature resigned him to
be managed by crafty men, and some abandoned
and profane wretches who corrupted his otherwise
sufficient parts, disciplined as he had been by many
afiiictions during his banishment, which gave him
much experience and knowledge of men and things ;
but those wicked creatures took him from off all
application becoming so great a King. The history
of his reign will certainly be the most wonderful
for the variety of matter and accidents, above any
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extant in former ages: the sad tragical death of
his father, his banishment and hardships, his
miraculous restoration, conspiracies against him,
parliaments, wars, plagues, fires, comets, revolutions
abroad happening in his time, with a thousand other
particulars. He was ever kind to me, and very
gracious upon all occasions, and therefore I cannot
without ingratitude but deplore his loss, which for
many respects, as well as duty, I do with all my soul.
His Majesty being dead, the Duke, now King
James II., went immediately to Council, and
before entering into any business, passionately
declaring his sorrow, told their Loraships, that
since the succession had fallen to him, he would
endeavour to follow the example of his predecessor
in his clemency and tenderness to his people ; that,
however he had been misrepresented as affecting
arbitrary power, they should find the contrary ; for
that the laws of England had made the King as
great a monarch as he could desire ; that he would
endeavour to maintain the Govemment both in
Church and State, as by law established, its
principles being so firm for monarchy, and the
members of it showing themselves so good and
loyal subjects ; ^ and that, as he would never
^ This is the substance and very nearly in the words given
by King James II. in his MS. printed in his Life ; but in that MS.
are some words which Mr. £vel3m has omitted, viz. after speak-
ing of the Members of the Church of England as good and loyal
subjects^ the King adds^ and therefore I shall cdways take care to
defend and support it. The King then goes on to say, that being
desired by some present to allow copies to be taken^ he said he
had not committed it to writing; on which Mr. Finch [then
Solicitor-General^ and afterwards Earl of Aylesfoid] replied^ that
what his Majesty had said had made so deep an impression on
him, that he believed he could repeat the very words, and if his
Majesty would permit him, he would write them down ; which
the King agreeing to, he went to a table and wrote them down,
and this being shown to the King, he approved of it, and It
was immediately published.
The King then goes on to say; No one can wonder that
16B6 JOHN EVELYN 148
depart from the just rights and prerogatives of
the Crown, so would he never invade any man's
property ; but as he had often adventured his
hfe in defence of the nation, so he would still
{>roceed, and preserve it in all its lawful rights and
iberties.
This being the substance of what he said, the
Lords desir^ it might be published, as contain-
ing matter of great satisfaction to a jealous people
upon this change, which his Majesty consented to.
Then were the Council sworn, and a Proclamation
ordered to be published that all officers should
continue in their stations, that there might be no
failure of public justice, till his further pleasure
should be known. Then the King rose, the Lords
accompanying him to his bedchamber, where, whilst
Mr. Finch should word the speech as strong as he could in
favour of the Established Religion^ nor that the King in such
a hurry should pass it over without reflection ; for though his
Majesty intended to promise both security to their religion and
protection to their persons, he was afterwards convinced it had
been better expressed by assuring them he never would en-
deavour to alter the Established Religion^ than that he would
endeavour to preserve it, and that he would rather support and
defend the professors of it, rather than the religion itself; they
could not expect he should make a conscience of supporting what
in his conscience he thought erroneous; his engaging not to
molest the professors of it, nor to deprive them or their successors
of any spiritual dignity, revenue, or employment, but to suffer
the ecclesiastical affairs to go on in the track they were in,
was all they could wish or desire from a Prince of a different
persuasion ; but having once approved that way of expressing it
which Mr. Finch had made choice of, he thought it necessary
not to vary from it in the declarations or speeches he made after-
wards, not doubting but the world would understand it in the
meaning he intended. 'Tis true afterwards ii was pretended
he kept not up to this engagement, but had they deviated no
further from the duty and allegiance which boui nature and
repeated oaths obliged them to, ihim he did from his tvord, they
had still remained as happy a people as they really were during
his short reign in England." — [Clarke's Life of James the Second,
1816], vol. ii. 435. The words in italics were afterwards inter-
lined by the son of King James the Second {Brmfs Note),
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he reposed himself, tired indeed as he was with
grief and watching, they returned again into the
Council-chamber to take order for the proclaiming
his Majesty, which (after some debate) they con-
sented should be in the very form his grandfather.
King James I., was, after the death of Queen
Elizabeth ; as likewise that the Lords, etc., should
proceed in their coaches through the city for the
more solemnity of it Upon this was I, and
several other gentlemen waiting in the Privy
gallery, admitted into the Council-chamber to be
witness of what was resolved on. Thence with
the Lords, the Lord Marshal and Heralds, and
other Crown-officers being ready, we first went
to Whitehall-gate, where the Lords stood on foot
bare-headed, whilst the Herald proclaimed his
Majesty's title to the Imperial Crown and suc-
cession according to the form, the trumpets and
kettle-drums having first sounded three times,
which ended with the people's acclamations. Then
a herald called the Lords' coaches according to
rank, myself accompanying the solenmity in my
Lord Comwallis's coach, first to Temple Bar, where
the Lord Mayor and his brethren met us on horse-
back, in all their formalities, and proclaimed the
King ; hence to the Exchange in Comhill, and so
we returned in the order we set forth. Being
come to Whitehall, we all went and kissed the
King and Queen's hands. He had been on the
bed, but was now risen and in his undress. The
Queen was in bed in her apartment, but put forth
her hand, seeming to be much afflicted, as I believe
she was, having deported herself so decently upon
all occasions since she came into England, which
made her universally beloved.
Thus concluded this sad and not joyful day.
I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and
profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as
1686 JOHN EVELYN 145
it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday
evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of,
the King sitting and toying with his concubines,
Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarin, etc., a French
boy singing love-songs,^ in that glorious gallery,
whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and
other dissolute persons were at basset round a large
table, a bank of at least £2000 in gold before them ;
upon which two gentlemen who were with me made
reflections with astonishment. Six days after, was
all in the dust.
It was enjoined that those who put on mourn-
ing should wear it as for a father, in the most
solemn manner.
iOth February. Being sent to by the Sheriff of
the County to appear and assist in proclaiming the
King, I went the next day to Bromley, where I
met the Sheriff and the Commander of the Kentish
Troop, with an appearance, I suppose, of above
500 horse, and innumerable people, two of his
Majesty's trumpets, and a Serjeant with other
officers, who having drawn up the horse in a large
field near the town, marched thence, with swords
drawn, to the market-place, where, making a ring,
after sound of trumpets and silence made, the
High Sheriff read the proclaiming titles to his
bailiff, who repeated them aloud, and then, after
many shouts of the people, his Majesty's health
being drunk in a flint glass of a yard long,^ by the
Sheriff, Commander, Officers, and chief Gentle-
men, they all dispersed, and I returned.
1 See ante, p. 137.
3 [A yard of ale glass, 38 in. high^ and capable of holding
two pints^ was figured in the Tatler for 8th January^ 1902. It
belonged to Dr. £mest Fineham. Another^ ^^ somewhat like a
post horn in shape/' was exhibited at Shrewsbuiy in May^ 189^.
These drinking vessels were once comparatively common ; and
were generally hung to inn walls by coloured ribbons (Notes and
Queries, 9th S. ix. (1902), pp. 84, 255>]
VOL. Ill L
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ISth February. I passed a fine on selling of
Honson Grange in Staffordshire, being about £20
per annum, which lying so great a distance, I thought
fit to part with it to one Burton, a farmer there.
It came to me as part of my daughter-in-law's
Sortion, this being but a fourth part of what was
ivided between the mother and three sisters.
l^th. The King was this night very obscurely
buried* in a vault under Henry the Seventh's
Chapel at Westminster, without any manner of
pomp, and soon forgotten after all this vanity,
and the face of the whole Court was exceedingly
changed into a more solemn and moral behaviour ;
the new King affecting neither profaneness nor
buffoonery. All the great officers broke their
staves over the grave, according to form.
ISth. Dr. Tenison* preached to the House-
hold. The second sermon should have been
before the King ; but he, to the great grief of his
subjects, did now, for the first time, go to mass
publicly in the little Oratory at the Duke's lodg-
ings, the doors being set wide open.
16th. I dined at Sir Robert Howard's, Auditor
* ^'One of the first things which required his Majesty's
attention was the funeral obsequies of the late King^ which
could not be perform'd ¥rith so great sollemnity as some persons
expected, because his late Majesty dying in, and his present
Majesty professing a different religion from that of his people^ it
had been a difficult matter to reconcile the greater cerimonys^
which must have been performed according to the rites of the
Church of England^ with the obligation of not communicateing
with it in spiritiuil things; to avoid therefore either disputes
on one hand or scandal on the other^ it was thought more
prudent to doe it in a more private manner, tho at the Same time
there was no circumstance of State and pomp omitted, which
possebly could be allow'd of: for (besides, that while the body
lay in state the illuminations and mourning was very solemn) aU
the privy Council, all the houshould, and all the Lords about
Town attended at the Funeral." — Clarke's Life of James the
Second, 1816, vol. ii. p. 6.
3 [See ante.
vol. u. p.
, p. 59.]
18S6 JOHN EVELYN 147
of the Exchequer, a gentleman pretendmg to all
manner of arts and sciences, for which he had
been the subject of comedy, under the name
of Sir Positive;^ not ill-natured, but insuffer-
ably boasting. He was son to the late Earl of
Berkshire.
nth February. This morning his Majesty
restored the staff and key to Lord Arlington,
Chamberlain ; to Mr. Saville, Vice-chamberlain ; '
to Lords Newport and Maynard, Treasurer and
Comptroller of the Household ; Lord Godolphin
made Chamberlain to the Queen ; Lord Peter-
borough ^ Groom of the Stole, in place of the Earl
of Bath ; the Treasurer s staff to the Earl of
Rochester ; and his brother, the Earl of Clarendon,
Lord Privy Seal, in the place of the Marquis of
Halifax,^ who was made President of the Council ;
the Secretaries of State remaining as before.
19th. The Lord Treasurer and the other new
Officers were sworn at the Chancery Bar and the
Exchequer.
The late King having the revenue of excise,
customs, and other late duties granted for his life
only, they were now farmed and let to several
{>ersons, upon an opinion that the late King might
et them for three years after his decease ; some of
the old Commissioners refused to act. The lease
was made but the day before the King died ; ^ the
^ See anUey vol. ii. p. 263. Evelyn here means Sir Positive
At-All, in ShadweU's comedy of The Sullen Lovers, which Pepys
also tells us was meant for Sir Robert Howard. [He was perhaps
also the Bilboa of Buckingham's Rehearsal,']
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 306.1 ^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 159.]
* [See ante, vol. ii. p. 393.J
^ James^ in his Life^ makes no mention of this lease, but only
says he continued to collect them, which conduct was not blamed :
but, on the contrary, he was thanked for it, in an address from
the Middle Temple, penned by Sir Bartholomew Shore, and pre-
sented by Sir Humphrey Mackworth, canying great authority
with it ; nor did the Parliament find fistult.
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major part of the Judges (but, as some think, not
the best lawyers) pronounced it legal, but four
dissented.
The Clerk of the Closet had shut up the late
King's private oratory next the Privy-chamber
above, but the King caused it to be opened again,
and that prayers should be said as formerly.
227id Fehruary. Several most useful Tracts
against Dissenters, Papists, and Fanatics, and Re-
solutions of Cases were now published by the
London Divines.
Uh March. Ash -Wednesday. After evening
prayers, I went to London.
Sth. To my grief, I saw the new pulpit set
up in the Popish Oratory at Whitehall for the
Lent preaching, mass being publicly said, and the
Romanists swarming at Court with greater con-
fidence than had ever been seen in England since
the Reformation, so as everybody grew jealous as
to what this would tend.
A Parliament was now summoned, and great
industry used to obtain elections which might pro-
mote the Court-interest, most of the Corporations
being now, by their new charters, empowered to
make what returns of members they pleased.
There came over divers envoys and great
persons to condole the death of the late King, who
were received by the Queen-Dowager on a bed of
mourning, the whole chamber, ceiling and floor,
hung with black, and tapers were lighted, so as
nothing could be more lugubrious and solemn.
The Queen-Consort sate under a state on a black
foot-cloth, to entertain the circle (as the Queen
used to do), and that very decently.
6th. Lent Preachers continued as formerly in
the Royal ChapeL
7th. My daughter, Mary, was taken with the
small-pox, and there soon was found no hope of
1885 JOHN EVELYN 149
her recovery. A great affliction to me : but God's
holy will be done 1
lOtk March. She received the blessed Sacra-
ment ; after which, disposing herself to suffer what
God should determine to inflict, she bore the
remainder of her sickness with extraordinary
patience and piety, and more than ordinary resig-
nation and blessed frame of mind. She died the
14th/ to our unspeakable sorrow and affliction, and
not to ours only, but that of all who knew her,
who were many of the best quality, greatest and
most virtuous persons. The justness of her stature,
person, comeliness of countenance, gracefulness of
motion, unaffected, though more than ordinary
beautiful, were the least of her ornaments compared
with those of her mmd. Of early piety, singularly
religious, spending a part of every day in private
devotion, reading, and other virtuous exercises ; she
had collected and written out many of the most
useful and judicious periods of the books she read
in a kind of common-place, as out of Dr. Hammond ^
on the New Testament, and most of the best
practical treatises. She had read and digested a
considerable deal of history, and of places. The
French tongue was as familiar to her as English ;
she understood Italian, and was able to render a
laudable account of what she read and observed, to
which assisted a most faithful memory and discern-
ment ; and she did make very prudent and discreet
reflections upon what she had observed of the
conversations among which she had at any time
been, which being continually of persons of the
best quality, she thereby improved. She had an
excellent voice, to which she played a thorough-
bass on the harpsichord, in both which she arrived
^ [I7th — says the tablet at Deptford.]
^ [Dr. Henry Hammond's Paraphrase and Annotations on the
New Testament y l6S5.]
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to that perfection, that of the schokirs of those two
famous masters, Signors Pietro and Bartholomeo,
she was esteemed the best; for the sweetness of
her voice and management of it added such an
agreeableness to her countenance, without any
constraint or concern, that when she sung, it was
as charming to the eye as to the ear ; this I rather
note, because it was a universal remark, and for
which so many noble and judicious persons in
music desired to hear her, the last being at Lord
Arundel's of Wardour.
What shall I say, or rather not say, of the
cheerfulness and agreeableness of her humour?
condescending to the meanest servant in the family,
or others, she still kept up respect, without the
least pride. She would often read to them,
examine, instruct, and pray with them if they were
sick, so as she was exceedingly beloved of every-
body. Piety was so prevalent an ingredient in her
constitution (as I may say), that even amongst
equals and superiors she no sooner became inti-
mately acquainted, but she would endeavour to
improve them, by insinuating something religious,
and that tended to bring them to a love of devotion ;
she had one or two confidants with whom she used
to pass whole days in fasting, reading, and prayers,
especially before the monthly communion, and
other solemn occasions. She abhorred flattery, and,
though she had abundance of wit, the raillery was
so innocent and ingenuous that it was most agree-
able; she sometimes would see a play, but since
the stage grew licentious, expressed herself weary
of them, and the time spent at the theatre was an
unaccountable vanity. She never played at cards
without extreme importunity and for the company ;
but this was so very seldom, that I cannot number
it among anything she could name a fault.
No one could read prose or verse better or with
itfa5 JOHN EVELYN 151
more judgment; and as she read, so she wrote,
not only most correct orthography, with that
maturity of judgment and exactness of the periods,
choice of expressions, and familiarity of style, that
some letters of hers have astonished me and others,
to whom she has occasionally written. She had a
talent of rehearsing any comical part or poem^ as
to them she might be decently free with ; was
more pleasing than heard on the theatre ; she
danced with the greatest grace I had ever seen,
and so would her master say, who was Monsieur
Isaac ; ^ but she seldom showed that perfection,
save in the gracefulness of her carriage, which was
with an air of sprightly modesty not easily to be
described* Nothing affected, but natural and easy
as well in her deportment as in her discourse,
which was always material, not trifling, and to
which the extraordinary sweetness of her tone,
even in familiar speaking, was very charming.
Nothing was so pretty as her descending to play
with little children, whom she would caress and
humour with great delight. But she most affected
to be with grave and sober men, of whom she
might learn something, and improve herself. I
have been assisted by her in reading and praying by
me ; comprehensive of uncommon notions, curious
of knowing everything to some excess, had I not
sometimes repressed it.
Nothing was so delightful to her as to go into
my study, where she would wiUingly have spent
whole days, for as I said she had read abundance
of history, and all the best poets, even Terence,
Plautus, Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid; all the
1 [See atUe, p. 79. The Preface to Mundus MuUebris (see next
page) speaks somewhat cavalierly of this esteemed preceptor : —
'' They danced the Canarys, Spanish Pavan, and Selenger's Round,
upon sippets [sops] with as much grace and loveliness as any
Isaac, Monsieur, or Italian of them all^ can teach with his fop-call
and apish postures " (Miscellaneous Writings, 1825^ p. 702).]
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best romances and modem poems ; she could com*
pose happily, and put m pretty symbols, as in the
Mundus Mu&ehris^ wherein is an enumeration of
the immense variety of the modes and ornaments
belonging to the sex. But all these are vain trifles
to the virtues which adorned her soul; she was
sincerely religious, most dutiful to her parents,
whom she loved with an affection tempered with
great esteem, so as we were easy and free, and
never were so well pleased as when she was with
us, nor needed we other conversation; she was
kind to her sisters, and was still improving them by
her constant course of piety. O, dear, sweet, and
desirable child, how shall I part with all this good-
ness and virtue without the bitterness of sorrow
and reluctancy of a tender parent ! Thy affection,
duty, and love to me was that of a friend as well
as a child. Nor less dear to thy mother, whose
example and tender care of thee was unparalleled,
nor was thy return to her less conspicuous ; Oh 1
how she mourns thy loss ! how desolate hast thou
left us 1 To the grave shall we both carry thy
memory 1 God alone (in whose bosom thou art at
rest and happy I) give us to resign thee and all our
contentments (for thou indeed wert all in this
world) to His blessed pleasure! Let Him be
glorified by our submission, and give us grace to
bless Him for the graces he implanted in thee, thy
virtuous life, pious and holy death, which is indeed
the only comfort of our souls, hastening through
the infinite love and mercy of the Lord Jesus to be
shortly with thee, dear child, and with thee and
those blessed saints like thee, glorify the Redeemer
of tlie world to all eternity 1 Amen.
^ \M.undu8 Muliebris : or, the iMdieg Dressing-room Unlocked and
her twiette spread. In Burlesque [Versel. Together with the Fop-
Dictionary, compiled for the use of the fair sex : London, I69O, 4*.
It is reprinted in the Miscellaneous Writings, 1825, pp. 697-713.]
1685 JOHN EVELYN 158
It was in the 19th year of her age that this sick-
ness happened to her. An accident contributed to
this disease; she had an apprehension of it in
particular, which struck her but two days before
she came home, by an imprudent gentlewoman
whom she went with Lady Falkland to visit, who,
after they had been a good while in the house, told
them she had a servant sick of the small-pox (who
indeed died the next day) ; this my poor child
acknowledged made an impression on her spirits.
There were four gentlemen of quality offering to
treat with me about marriage, and I freely gave
her her own choice, knowing her discretion. She
showed great indifference to marrying at all, for
truly, says she to her mother (the other day), were
I assured of your life and my dear father s, never
would I part from you ; I love you and this home,
where we serve God, above all things, nor ever shall
I be so happy ; I know and consider the vicissitudes
of the world, I have some experience of its vanities,
and but for decency more than inclination, and that
you judge it expedient for me, I would not change
my condition, but rather add the fortune you design
me to my sisters, and keep up the reputation of our
family. This was so discreetly and sincerely uttered
that it could not but proceed from an extraordinary
child, and one who loved her parents beyond
example.
At London, she took this fatal disease, and the
occasion of her being there was this ; my Lord
Viscount Falkland's Lady having been our neigh-
bour (as he was Treasurer of the Navy),^ she took
so great an affection to my daughter, that when
they went back in the autumn to the City, nothing
would satisfy their incessant importunity but let-
ting her accompany my Lady, and staying some-
time with her ; it was with the greatest reluctance
1 [See atUe, p. 97.]
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I complied. Whilst she was there, my Lord being
musical, when I saw my Lady would not part with
her till Christmas, I was not unwilling she should
improve the opportunity of learning of Signor
Pietro, who luui an admirable way both of com-
posure and teaching. It was the end of February
before I could prevail with my Lady to part with
her ; but my Lord going into Oxfordshire to stand
for Knight of the Shire there, she expressed her
wish to come home, being tired of the vain and
empty conversation of the town, the theatres, the
court, and trifling visits which consumed so much
precious time, and made her sometimes miss of
that regular course of piety that gave her the
greatest satisfaction. She was weary of this life,
and I think went not thrice to Court all this time,
except when her mother or I carried her. She did
not afiect showing herself, she knew the Court well,
and passed one summer in it at Windsor with
Lady Tuke,^ one of the Queen's women of the bed-
chamber (a most virtuous relation of hers); she
was not fond of that glittering scene, now become
abominably licentious, though there was a design of
Lady Rochester and Lady Clarendon to have made
her a maid of honour to the Queen as soon as there
was a vacancy. But this she did not set her heart
upon, nor indeed on anything so much as the
service of God, a quiet and r^ular life, and how
she might improve herself in the most necessary
accomplishments, and to which she was arrived at
so great a measure.
This is the little history and imperfect character
of my dear child, whose piety, virtue, and incom-
parable endowments deserve a monument more
durable than brass and marble. Precious is the
memorial of the just. Much I could enlarge on
every period of this hasty account, but that I ease
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 356.]
1686 JOHN EVELYN 155
and discharge my overcoming passion for the
present, so many things worthy an excellent
Christian and dutiful child crowding upon me.
Never can I say enough, oh dear, my dear child,
whose memory is so precious to me !
This dear child was bom at Wotton,^ in the
same house and chamber in which I first drew
my breath, my wife having retired to my brother
there in the ^reat sickness that year, upon the first
of that month, and the very hour that I was bom,
upon the last : viz. October.
16th March. She was interred in the south-east
end of the church at Deptford,^ near her grand-
mother and several of my younger children and
relations. My desire was she should have been
carried and laid among my own parents and
relations at Wotton, where I desire to be mterred
myself, when God shall call me out of this uncertain
transitory life, but some circumstances did not
permit it Our vicar. Dr. Holden," preached her
funeral sermon on Phil. i. 21 : " For to me to live
is Christ, and to die is gain," upon which he made
an apposite discourse, as those who heard it assured
me (for grief suffered me not to be present), con-
cluding with a modest recital of her many virtues
and signal piety, so as to draw both tears and
admiration from the hearers. I was not altogether
unwilling that something of this sort should be
spoken, for the edification and encouragement of
other young people.
Divers noble persons honoured her funeral, some
in person, others sending their coaches, of which
there were six or seven with six horses, viz. the
{See ante, vol. ii. p. 2.S6.]
St. Nicholas Church, Deptford, where, on the £. wall, south
of the altar, is a mural tablet to her memory, describing her as
^ a beautiful! joung woman, endowed with shining Qualities both
of body and mind, infinitlj pious, the delight of her Parents and
Friends."] ^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. S55.]
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Countess of Sunderland, Earl of Clarendon, Lord
Godolphin, Sir Stephen Fox, Sir William Godol-
phin. Viscount Falkland, and others. There
were distributed amongst her friends about sixty
rin^.
Thus lived, died, and was buried the joy of my
life, and ornament of her sex and of my poor
family I God Almighty of His infinite mercy
grant me the grace thankfully to resign myself and
all I have, or had, to His divine pleasure, and in
His good time, restoring health and comfort to my
family : 'Heach me so to number my days, that I
may apply my heart to wisdom," be prepared for
my dissolution, and that into the hands of my
blessed Saviour I may recommend my spirit I
Amen I
On looking into her closet, it is incredible what
a number of collections she had made from
historians, poets, travellers, etc, but, above all,
devotions, contemplations, and resolutions on these
contemplations, found under her hand in a book
most methodically disposed ; prayers, meditations,
and devotions on particular occasions, with many
pretty letters to her confidants; one to a divine
(not named) to whom she writes that he would be
her ghostly father, and would not despise her for
her many errors and the imperfections of her youth,
but beg of God to give her courage to acquaint
him with all her faults, imploring his assistance and
spiritual directions. I well remember she had
often desired me to recommend her to such a
person ; but I did not think fit to do it as yet,
seeing her apt to be scrupulous, and knowing the
great innocence and integrity of her life.
It is astonishing how one who had acquired
such substantial and practical knowledge in other
ornamental parts of education, especially music,
both vocal and instrumental, in dancing, paying
i««6 JOHN EVELYN 157
and receiving visits, and necessary conversation,
could accomplish half of what she has left ; but, as
she never afiected play or cards, which consume a
world of precious time, so she was in continual
exercise, which yet abated nothing of her most
agreeable conversation. But she was a little
miracle while she lived, and so she died !
26th March. I was invited to the funeral of
Captain Gunman,^ that excellent pilot and seaman,
who had behaved himself so valiantly in the Dutch
war. He died of a gangrene, occasioned by his
fall from the pier of Calais. This was the Captain
of the yacht carrying the Duke (now King) to
Scotland, and was accused for not giving timely
warning when she split on the sands, where so
many perished ; ' but I am most confident he was
no ways guilty, either of negligence, or design, as
he made appear not only at the examination of the
matter of fact, but in the vindication he showed
me, and which must needs give any man of reason
satisfaction. He was a sober, frugal, cheerful,
and temperate man ; we have few such seamen
left.
8th April Being now somewhat composed after
my great affliction, I went to London to hear Dr.
Tenison* (it being on a Wednesday in Lent) at
Whitehall. I observed that though the King was
not in his seat above in the chapel, the Doctor
made his three congees, which they were not used
to do when the late King was absent, making then
one bowing only. I asked the reason ; it was said
he had a specisd order so to do. The Princess of
Denmark^ was in the King's closet, but sate on
the left hand of the chair, the Clerk of the Closet
standing by his Majesty's chair, as if he had been
present.
't
M
See ante, vol. ii. p. 388.] ^ [See ante, p. 88.]
See ante, p. 59*] * [Afterwards Queen Anne.]
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I met the Queen-Dowager going now first from
Whitehall to dwell at Somerset-house.^
This day my brother of Wotton and Mr. Onslow
were candidates for Surrey against Sir Adam
Browne and my cousin Sir Edward Evelyn, and
were circumvented in their election by a trick of
the Sheriff's,* taking advantage of my brother's
party going out of the small viUage of Leatherhead
to seek shelter and lodging, the afternoon being
tempestuous, proceeding to the election when they
were gone ; they expecting the next morning ;
whereas before and then they exceeded the other
?arty by many hundreds, as I am assured. The
)uke of Norfolk led Sir Edward Evelyn's and Sur
Adam Browne's party. For this parliament, very
mean and slight persons (some of them gentlemen's
servants, clerks, and persons neither of reputation
nor interest) were set up ; but the country would
choose my brother whether he would or no, and he
missed it by the trick above-mentioned. Sir Adam
Browne was so deaf, that he could not hear one
word. Sir Edward Evelyn • was an honest gentle-
man, much in favour with his Majesty.
10th April I went early to Whitehall to hear
Dr. Tillotson, Dean of Canterbury, preaching on
Eccles. ix. 18. I returned in the evening, and
^ [InMa7^l685. Catherine resided here until she left England
in Maj^ l69^, never to return^ when Somerset House became a
series of lodgings (like Hampton Court). In 1775 it was pulled
down.]
3 Mr. Samuel Lewen. His name — says Bray — does not appear
in the History of Surrey among the land-owners^ but it is there
stated (vol. i. p. 470^ that in 1709 Sir William Lewen purchased
the Rectory of £well^ and that he was Lord Mayor of London
in 1717.
s [Sir Edward Evelyn, d, l692 ; made a Baronet in 1 683.] His
seat was at Long Ditton^ near Kingston, which town had sur-
rendered its charter to King Charles II. about a month before
his death. King James appointed Sir Edward Evelyn one of the
new corporation.
1685 JOHN EVELYN 159
visited Lady Tuke,^ and found with her Sir George
Wakeman, the physician, whom I had seen tried
and acquitted,^ amongst the plotters for poisoning
the late King, on the accusation of the famous
Oates ; and surely I believed him guiltless.
14ifA April According to my custom, I went to
London to pass the holy week.
17th. Good Friday. Dr. Tenison preached at
the new church at St. James's, on 1 Cor. xvL 22,
upon the infinite love of God to us, which he
illustrated in many instances. The Holy Sacra-
ment followed, at which I participated. The Lord
make me thankful ! In the afternoon. Dr. Sprat,*
Bishop of Rochester, preached in Whitehall chapel,
the auditory very full of Lords, the two Arch-
bishops, and many others, now drawn to town
upon occasion of the coronation and ensuing parlia-
ment. I supped with the Countess of Sunderland
and Lord Godolphin, and returned home.
29rcL Was the coronation of the King and
Queen. The solemnity was magnificent as is set
forth in print* The Bishop of Ely * preached ;
but, to the sorrow of the people, no Sacrament, as
ought to have been. However, the King begins
his reign with great expectations, and hopes of
much reformation as to the late vices and profane-
ness of both Court and country. Having been
present at the late King's coronation, I was not
ambitious of seeing this ceremony.
8rd May. A young man preached, going chaplain
with Sir J. Wiburn, Governor of Bombay, in the
East Indies.
7th. I was in Westminster Hall when Oates,
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 356.] ^ See ante, p. 32.
• [See ante, vol. ii. p. SOO.J
* Dj Francis Sandford^ Lancaster Herald^ l630-94^ illustrated
with engravings, folio.
^ [Dr. Francis Turner. See ante, p. 98. He had become
Bishop of Ely in 1684.]
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who had made such a stir in the kingdom, on his
revealing a plot of the Papists, and alarmed several
Sarliaments, and had occasioned the execution of
ivers priests, noblemen,^ etc., was tried for perjury
at the King's Bench; but, being very tedious, I
did not endeavour to see the issue, considering that
it would be published. Abundance of Roman
Catholics were in the Hall in expectation of the
most grateful conviction and ruin of a person who
had been so obnoxious to them, and, as I verily
believe, had done much mischief and great injury
to several by his violent and ill-grounded proceed-
ings, whilst he was at first so unreasonably blown
up and encouraged, that his insolence was no longer
sufierable.
Mr. Roger L'Estrange (a gentleman whom I
had long known, and a person of excellent parts,
abating some afiectations) appearing first against
the Dissenters in several Tracts, had now for some
years turned his style against those whom (by way
of hateful distinction) they called Whigs and
Trimmers, under the title of Observatory which
came out three or four days every week, in which
sheets, under pretence to serve the Church of
England, he gave suspicion of gratifying another
party, by several passages which rather kept up
animosities than appeased them, especially now
that nobody gave the least occasion.*
1 [See ante, p. 23. He was convicted May 9, fined, degraded,
pilloried^ whipped, pilloried again, and imprisoned. He was,
however, released at the Revolution, pensioned, and died in
1705. (See post, under 22nd May, 1685, p. l64.).]
^ See ante, vol. ii. p. 109. In the second Dutch war (1665-67),
while Evelyn was one of the Commissioners for sick and wounded^
L'Estrange in his Gazette mentioned the barbarous usage of the
Dutch prisoners of war : whereupon Evelyn wrote him a very
spirited letter^ desiring that the Dutch Ambassador (who was
then in England) and his friends would visit the prisoners, and
examine their provisions; and he desired L'Estrange would
publish that vindication in his next number.
1685 JOHN EVELYN 161
10th May. The Scots valuing themselves exceed-
ingly to have been the fiist parliament called by his
Majesty, gave the excise and customs to him and
his successors for ever ; the Duke of Queensberry
making eloquent speeches, and especially minding
them of a speedy suppression of those late desperate
Field-Con venticlers who had done such unheard-of
assassinations. In the meantime, elections for the
ensuing parliament in England were thought to be
very indirectly carried on in most places. God
grant a better issue of it than some expect !
16th. Oates was sentenced to be whipped and
pilloried with the utmost severity.^
21st. I dined at my Lord Privy Seal's with Sir
William Dugdale, Garter King-at-Arms, author of
the MojuLsticon and other learned works ; he told
me he was 82 years of age, and had his sight and
memory perfect* There was shown a draft of the
exact shape and dimensions of the crown the Queen
had been crowned withal, together with the jewels
and pearls, their weight and value, which amounted
to £100,658 sterling, attested at the foot of the
paper by the jeweller and goldsmith who set them.
22na. In the morning, I went with a French
gentleman, and my Lord Privy Seal, to the House
of Lords, where we were placed by his Lordship
next the Bar, just below the Bishops, very com-
modiously both for hearing and seeing. After a
short space, came in the Queen and Princess of
^ [See supra, p. 2S ; and pasl, p. l64. Under Jeffreys' sen-
tence, he was twice whipped publicly by the common hangman
(20th and 22nd May); on the first occasion from Aldgate to
Newgate, on the second, from Newgate to Tyburn. The punish-
ment was certainly severe. Edmund Calamy^ who saw that of
the 22nd, says that Oates's back, " miserably swelled with his
first whipping, looked as if it had been flayed." In all he
received not less than three thousand lashes (Seccombe's " Titus
Oates," in Tweke Bad Men, 1894, pp. 1S9, 142).]
2 [See asUe, vol. ii. p. 110.]
TOI^ III M
162 THE DIARY OF ie86
Denmark, and stood next above the Archbishops,
at the side of the House on the right hand of tne
throne. In the interim, divers of the Lords, who
had not finished before, took the test and usual
oaths, so that her Majesty, the Spanish and other
Ambassadors, who stood behind the throne, heard
the Pope and the worship of the Virgin Mary, etc.,
renounced very decently, as likewise the prayers
which followed, standing all the while. Then came
in the King, the crown on his head, and being
seated, the Commons were introduced, and the
House being full, he drew forth a paper containing
his speech, which he read distinctly enough, to this
effect: "That he resolved to call a Parliament
from the moment of his brother's decease, as the
best means to settle all the concerns of the nation,
so as to be most easy and happy to himself and his
subjects ; that he would confirm whatever he had
said in his declaration at the first Council ^ concern-
ing his opinion of the principles of the Church of
England, for their loyalty, and would defend and
support it, and preserve its government as by law
now established ; that, as he would invade no man's
property, so he would never depart from his own
prerogative; and, as he had ventured his life in
defence of the nation, so he would proceed to do
still ; that, having given this assurance of his care
of our religion (his word was ytmr religion) and
property (which he had not said by chance, but
solemnly), so he doubted not of suitable returns of
his subjects' duty and kindness, especially as to
settling his revenue for life, for the many weighty
necessities of government, which he would not
sufier to be precarious ; that some might possibly
suggest that it were better to feed and supply him
from time to time only, out of their inclination to
frequent parliaments; but that that would be a
^ [See mde, p. 142.]
W86 JOHN EVELYN 168
very improper method to take with him, since the
best way to engage him to meet oftener would be
always to use him weU, and therefore he expected
their compliance speedily, that this session being
but short, they might meet again to satisfaction."
At every period of this, the House gave loud
shouts. Then he acquainted them with that
morning's news of Argyll's being landed in the
West Highlands of Scotland from Holland,^ and
the treasonous Declaration he had published, which
he would communicate to them, and that he should
take the best care he could it should meet with the
reward it deserved, not questioning the parliament's
zeal and readiness to assist him as he desired ; at
which there followed another Five le Roiy and so
his Majesty retired.
So soon as the Commons were returned and
had put themselves into a grand committee, they
immediately put the question, and unanimously
voted the revenue to his Majesty for life. Mr.
Seymour made a bold speech against many elections,
and would have had those members who (he pre-
tended) were obnoxious, to withdraw, till they had
cleared the matter of their being legally returned ;
but no one seconded him. The truth is, there
were many of the new members whose elections
and returns were universally censured, many of
them being persons of no condition, or interest, in
the nation, or places for which they served, especially
in Devon, Cornwall, Norfolk, etc., said to have
been recommended by the Court, and from the
effect of the new charters changing the electors.
It was reported that Lord Bath carried down with
him [into Cornwall] no fewer than fifteen charters,
^ [Archibald Campbell^ ninth Earl of Argyll^ landed in the
Orkneys, 6th May^ and was opposed by the militia. His followers
dispersed and he attempted flight, but was captured 17th June^
and beheaded 80th June, 1685, upon a former sentence of l681.]
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so that some called him the Prince Elector : whence
Seymour told the House in his speech that if this
was digested, they might introduce what religion
and laws they pleased, and that though he never
gave heed to the fears and jealousies of the people
efore, he was now really apprehensive of Popery.
By the printed list of members of 505, there did
not appear to be above 185 who had been in
former Parliaments, especially that lately held at
Oxford.
In the Lords' House, Lord Newport ^ made an
exception against two or three young Peers, who
wanted some months, and some only four or five
days, of being of age.
The Popish Lords, who had been sometime
before released from their confinement about the
plot, were now discharged of their impeachment, of
which I gave Lord Arundel of Wardour joy.
Oates, who had but two days before been
pilloried at several places and whipped at the cart's
tail from Newgate to Aldgate, was this day ^ placed
on a sledge, being not able to go by reason of so
late scourging, and dragged from prison to Tyburn,
and whipped again all the way, which some thought
to be severe and extraordinary; but, if he was
guilty of the peijuries, and so of the death of many
innocents (as I fear he was), his punishment was
but what he deserved* I chanced to pass just as
execution was doing on him. A strange revolution 1
Note : there was no speech made by the Lord
Keeper [Bridgman] after his Majesty, as usual.
It was whispered he would not be long in that
situation, and many believe the bold Chief-Justice
Jefireys," who was made Baron of Wem, in Shrop-
shire, and who went thorough stitch^ in that
tribunal, stands fair for that office. I gave him
See ante, vol. ii. p. l62.] « [May 22, 1685.1
See ante, p. 11 S.J * [Fulgo, — ^the whole hog.]
1686 JOHN EVELYN 165
joy the morning before of his new honour, he
having always been very civil to me.
2^th May. We had hitherto not any rain for
many months, so as the caterpillars had already
devoured all the winter -fruit through the whole
land, and even killed several greater old trees.
Such two winters and summers I had never known.
Mh June. Came to visit and take leave of me
Sir Gabriel Sylvius,^ now going Envoy Extra-
ordinary into Denmark, with his Secretary and
Chaplain, a Frenchman, who related the miserable
persecution of the Protestants in France ; not
above ten churches left them, and those also
threatened to be demolished; they were com-
manded to christen their children within twenty-
four hours after birth, or else a Popish priest was
to be called, and then the infant brought up in
Popery. In some places, they were thirty leagues
from any minister, or opportunity of worship.
This persecution had displeased the most industrious
})art of the nation, and dispersed those into Switzer-
and. Burgundy, Holland, Germany, Denmark,
England, and the Plantations. There were with
Sir Gabriel, his lady,^ Sir William Godolphin * and
sisters, and my Lord Godolphin's little son,^ my
charge. I brought them to the water-side where Sir
Gabriel embarked, and the rest returned to London.
l^th. There was now certain intelligence of the
Duke of Monmouth landing at Lyme, in Dorset-
shire,^ and of his having set up his standard as
King of England. I pray God deliver us from the
confusion which these beginnings threaten !
Such a dearth for want of rain was never in my
memory.
1 [See anU, p. 11.] * [See ante, vol. ii. p. 388.]
» [See asde, p. 20. J
^ [See ante, p. 24 ; and poH, under 15th August^ l685.]
* [On 11th June.]
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nth June. The Duke landed with but 150 men ; ^
but the whole kingdom was alarmed, fearing that
the disaffected would join them, many of the trained
bands flocking to him. At his landing, he published
a Declaration, charging his Majesty with usurpation
and several horrid crimes, on pretence of his own
title, and offering to call a free Parliament. This
declaration was ordered to be burnt by the hangman,
the Duke proclaimed a traitor, and a reward of
£5000 to any who should kill him.
At this time, the words engraved on the Monu-
ment in London, intimating that the Papists fired
the City, were erased and cut out^
The exceeding drought still continues.
l%th. I received a warrant to send out a horse
with twelve days' provisions, etc
28iA, We had now plentiful rain after two years'
excessive drought and severe winters.
Argyll taken in Scotland, and executed, and his
party dispersed.'
2nd July. No considerable account of the troops
sent against the Duke, though great forces sent.
There was a smart skirmish ; but he would not be
provoked to come to an encounter, but still kept
in the fastnesses.
Dangerfield whipped,* like Oates, for perjury.
^ ['' On landing at Lyme he declared his opponents traitors,
ordered the taxes to be levied in his name, as ' King James II.,
and offered a reward for the apprehension of ' James^ Duke of
York,' against whom he made the monstrous charges of having
caused the fire of London, procured the murder of Sir Edmund
Bern^ Godfrey, and poisoned King Charles " {Annals of England,
1870, p. 486).]
^ [They were re-cut in the reign of William III., and eventu-
ally erased by an Act of Common Council, 26th January, 18S1.]
« [See ante, p. l6S.]
^ [Thomas Dangerfield, 1650-85. He had been a witness
against Lord Castlemaine in the Meal Tub Plot of l680^ of which
he had published a Particular Narrative, now declared to contain
matter defamatory concerning the King, etc. On his return
1686 JOHN EVELYN 167
8th July. Came news of Monmouth's utter defeat,^
and the next day of his being taken by Sir William
Portman* and Lord Lumley* with the militia of
their counties. It seems the Horse, commanded
by Lord Grey,* being newly raised and undisciplined,
were not to be brought in so short a time to endure
the fire, which exposed the Foot to the King's, so
as when Monmouth had led the Foot in great
silence and order, thinking to surprise Lieutenant-
General Lord Feversham*^ newly encamped, and
given him a smart charge, interchanging both great
and small shot, the Horse, breaking their own ranks,
Monmouth gave it over, and fled with Grey, leaving
their party to be cut in pieces to the number of
2000. The whole number reported to be above
8000 ; the King's but 2700. The slain were most
of them Mendzp - ininerSy who did great execution
with their tools, and sold their lives very dearly,
whilst their leaders flying were pursued and taken
the next morning, not far from one another.
Monmouth had gone sixteen miles on foot, chang-
ing his habit for a poor coat, and was found by
Lord Lumley in a dry ditch covered with fern-
brakes, but without sword, pistol, or any weapon,
and so might have passed for some countryman, his
beard being grown so long and so gray as hardly to
be known, had not his George discovered him,
which was found in his pocket It is said he
trembled exceedingly all over, not able to speak.
from the pillory^ he was assaulted by a Romanist lawyer, and
died in consequence. Robert Francis, the lawyer, was hanged
for murder.]
^ [At Sedgemoor near Bridgwater, 6th July.]
« Sir William Portman, 1641-90.]
' [Richard Lumley, d. 1721, created Baron Lumley of Lumley
CasUe in l681, afterwards first Earl of Scarborough.]
* [See ante, p. 101.]
* [See ante, vol. ii. p. 385. But the King's forces were really
under Churchill (afterwards Duke of Marlborough), who had
learned warfare from Turenne.]
/,
168 THE DIARY OF less
Grey was taken not far from him. Most of his
party were Anabaptists and poor cloth-workers of
the country, no gentlemen of account being come
in to him. The sich-bautefeu Ferguson,^ Matthews,
etc, were not yet found. The £5000 to be given
to whoever should bring Monmouth in, was to be
distributed among the militia by agreement between
Sir William Portman and Lord Lumley. The
battle ended, some words, first in jest, then in
passion, passed between Sherrington Talbot (a
worthy gentleman, son to Sir John Talbot, and
who had behaved himself very handsomely) and
one Captain Love, both commanders of the militia,
as to whose soldiers fought best, both drawing
their swords and passing at one another. Sherring-
ton was wounded to death on the spot, to the
great regret of those who knew him. He was Sir
John's only son.
9th July. Just as I was coming into the lodg-
ings at Whitehall, a little before dinner, my Lord
of Devonshire * standing very near His Majesty's
bedchamber -door in the lobby, came Colonel
Culpeper, and in a rude manner looking at my
Lord in the face, asked whether this was a time
and place for excluders to appear ; my Lord at
first took little notice of what he said, knowing
him to be a hot-headed fellow, but he reiterating
it, my Lord asked Culpeper whether he meant
him ; he said yes, he meant his Lordship. My
Lord told him he was no excluder (as indeed he
was not) ; the other afiirming it again, my Lord
told him he lied ; on which Culpeper struck him
a box on the ear, which my Lord returned, and
felled him. They were soon parted, Culpeper was
seized, and his Majesty, who was all the while in
his bedchamber, ordered him to be carried to the
^ [See an^^ p. 101. Botc^^/ett = incendiary.]
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 56.]
1686 JOHN EVELYN 169
Green-Cloth Officer, who sent him to the Marshal-
sea, as he deserved. My Lord Devon had nothing
said to him.
I supped this night at Lambeth at my old
friends Mr. Elias Ashmole's,* with my Lady
Clarendon, the Bishop of St. Asaph, and Dr.
Tenison, when we were treated at a great
feast.
10th July. The Count of Castel Mellor,* that
great favourite and prime minister of Alphonso, late
Eang of Portugal, after several years* banishment,
being now received to grace and called home by
Don Pedro, the present King, as having been
found a person of the greatest integrity after all
his sufferings, desired me to spend part of this day
Mrith him, and assist him in a collection of books
and other curiosities, which he would carry with
him into Portugal.
Mr. Hussey,' a young gentleman who made
love to my late dear child, but whom she could
not bring herself to answer in affection, died now
of the same cruel disease, for which I was extremely
sorry, because he never enjoyed himself after my
daughter's decease, nor was I averse to the match,
could she have overcome her disinclination.
15th. I went to see Dr. Tenison's library [in
St Martin's].*
Monmouth was this day brought to London
and examined before the King, to whom he made
great submission, acknowledged his seduction by
Ferguson, the Scot, whom he named the bloody
villain. He was sent to the Tower, had an
interview with his late Duchess,^ whom he re-
ceived coldly, having lived dishonestly with the
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 105.] ^ [See ante, p. IS.]
• Son of Mr. Peter Hussej, of Sutton in Shere, Surrey. See
ante, vol. ii. p. 315 and p. 71.
* [See a$Ue, p. 123.] ^ [See atUe, vol. ii. p. 355.]
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Lady Henrietta Wentworth * for two years. He
obstinately asserted his conversation with that
debauched woman to be no sin ; whereupon^ seeing
he could not be persuaded to his last breath, the
divines who were sent to assist him ^ thought not
fit to administer the Holy Communion to him.
For the rest of his faults he professed great sorrow,
and so died without any apparent fear. He would
not make use of a cap or other circumstance, but
lying down, bid the fellow ' to do his office better
than to the late Lord Russell, and ^ave him gold ;
but the wretch made five chops before he had his
head off; which so incensed the people, that had
he not been guarded and got away, they would
have torn him to pieces.
The Duke made no speech on the scaffold
(which was on Tower -Hill), but gave a paper
containing not above five or six unes, for the
King, in which he disclaims all title to the Crown,
acknowledges that the late King, his father, had
indeed told him he was but his base son, and so
desired his Majesty to be kind to his wife and
children. This relation I had from Dr. Tenison
(Rector of St Martin's), who, with the Bishops
of Ely and Bath and Wells, were sent to him by
his Majesty, and were at the execution.
Thus ended this quondam Duke, darling of his
father and the ladies, being extremely handsome
and adroit; an excellent soldier and dancer, a
favourite of the people, of an easy nature, de-
bauched by lust; seduced by crafty knaves, who
would have set him up only to make a property,
1 [Henrietta Maria Wentworth, 1657-86, Baroness Wentworth
(see ante, vol. ii. p. 373 n.). She had followed Monmouth to
Holland ; and supplied fiinds for his descent upon England.]
^ [See next paragraph.]
^ |The executioner was John or Jack Ketch, d. l686, who
had nogged Oates (see ante, p. l6l), and beheaded Lord Russell
(see ante, p. 107).]
1686 JOHN EVELYN 171
and taken the opportunity of the King being of
another religion, to gather a party of discontented
men. He railed, and perished.
He was a lovely person,^ had a virtuous and
excellent lady that brought him great riches, and
a second dukedom in Scotland. He was Master
of the Horse, General of the King his father's
army, Gentleman of the Bedchamber, Knight of
the Garter, Chancellor of Cambridge ; in a word,
had accumulations without end. See what ambi-
tion and want of principles brought him to 1 He
was beheaded on Tuesday, 14th July.^ His
mother, whose name was Barlow, daughter of
some very mean creatures, was a beautiful
strumpet, whom I had often seen at Paris;' she
died miserably without anything to bury her ; yet
this Ferkin had been made to believe that the
King had married her, a monstrous and ridiculous
forgery I And to satisfy the world of the iniquity
of the report, the King his father (if his father he
really was, for he most resembled one Sidney ^ who
was familiar with his mother) publicly and most
solemnly renounced it, to be so entered in the
Council Book some years since, with all the Privy
Councillors' attestation.^
Had it not pleased God to dissipate this
attempt in the beginning, there would in all
^ [Bruce says he was '^ the finest nobleman eyes ever saw as
to his exterior, and that was all, save that he was of the most
courteous and poUte behaviour that can be expressed " (Memoirs
of Thomas, Earl of AUesbury, Roxburghe Qub, 1890, p. 120.]
* ri5th July, in the Tower.]
* [See ante, vol. ii. p. 1 6.]
^ Colonel Robert Sidney, commonly caUed handsome Sidney,
brother of Algernon Sidney, and related to the Earl of Leicester
of that name.
* [Charles issued three Declarations denying the marriage,
Januaiy to June, l678. There is a full account of Monmouth's
mother in vol. i. of Garke's Life of James the Second, 18l6,
pp. 491-92.]
172 THE DIARY OF less
appearance have gathered an irresistible force
which would have desperately proceeded to the
ruin of the Church and Government ; so general
was the discontent and expectation of the oppor-
tunity. For my own part, I looked upon this
deliverance as most signal. Such an inundation of
fanatics and men of impious principles must needs
have caused universal disorder, cruelty, injustice,
rapine, sacrilege, and confusion, an Unavoidable
civil war, and misery without end. Blessed be
God, the knot was happily broken, and a fair
prospect of tranquillity for the future, if we reform,
be thankful, and make a right use of this mercy !
ISth July. I went to see the muster of the six
Scotch and English regiments whom the Prince
of Orange^ had lately sent to his Majesty out of
Holland upon this rebellion, but which were now
returning, there having been no occasion for their
use. They were all excellently clad and well
disciplined, and were encamped on Blackheath
with their tents: the King and Queen came to
see them exercise, and the manner of their en-
campment, which was very neat and magnificent.
By a gross mistake of the Secretary of his
Majesty's Forces, it had been ordered that they
should be quartered in private houses, contrary to
an Act of Parliament, but, on my informing his
Majesty timely of it, it was prevented.
The two horsemen which my son and myself
sent into the county-troops, were now come home,
after a month's being out to our great charge.
20th. The Trinity-Company met this day, which
should have been on the Monday after Trinity,
but was put off by reason of the Royal Charter
being so large, that it could not be ready before.*
1 [Afterwards WilUam III.]
^ [It had been mainly framed by the voluminous Pepys. The
first Charter had already been a very lengthy document.]
im JOHN EVELYN 178
Some immunities were superadded. Mr. Fepys^
Secretary to the Admiralty, was a second time
chosen Master. There were present the Duke
of Grafton, Lord Dartmouth, Master of the
Ordnance, the Commissioners of the Navy, and
Brethren of the Corporation. We went to church,
according to custom, and then took barge to the
Trinity-House, in London,^ where we had a great
dinner, above eighty at one table.
7th August. I went to see Mr. Watts, keeper
of the Apothecaries' garden of simples at Chelsea,
where there is a collection of innumerable rarities
of that sort particularly, besides many rare annuals,
the tree bearing Jesuit's bark, which had done such
wonders in quartan agues. What was very ingeni-
ous was the subterranean heat, conveyed by a
stove under the conservatory, all vaulted with brick,
so as he has the doors and windows open in the
hardest frosts, secluding only the snow.
15th. Came to visit us Mr. Boscawen, with my
Lord Godolphin's little son,^ with whose education
hitherto his father had entrusted me.
27th. My daughter Elizabeth ' died of the small-
pox, soon after having married a young man,
nephew of Sir John Tippett, Surveyor of the Navy,
and one of the Commissioners. The 80th, she was
buried in the church at Deptford. Thus, in less
than six months were we deprived of two children
for our unworthiness and causes best known to
God, whom I beseech from the bottom of my heart
that he will give us grace to make that right use of
all these chastisements, that we may become better,
and entirely submit in all things to his infinite wise
disposal Amen 1
* [Then in Water Lane, Great Tower Street. It had been
burned down in the Great Fire, and rebuilt, 1669-70 (Barrett's
Trim^ House, 1895, pp. 101, 104).]
2 |See ante, p. l65.J • [See ante, vol. ii. p. 280.]
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8rd September. Lord Clarendon (Lord Privy
Seal) wrote to let me know that the Kmg being
pleased to send him Lord-Lieutenant into Ireland,
was also pleased to nominate me one of the Com-
missioners to execute the office of Privy Seal
during his Lieutenancy there, it behoving me to
wait upon his Majesty to give him thanks for this
great honour.
5th. 1 accompanied his Lordship to Windsor
(dining by the way at Sir Henry CapeFs at
Kew),^ where his Majesty receiving me with extra-
ordinary kindness, I kissed his hand I told him
how sensible I was of his Majesty's gracious fiavour
to me, that I would endeavour to serve him with
all sincerity, diligence, and loyalty, not more
out of my duty than inclination. He said he
doubted not of it, and was glad he had the oppor-
tunity to show me the kindness he had for me.
After this, came abundance of great men to give
me joy.
6th. Sunday. I went to prayer in the chapel,
and heard Dr. Standish. The second sermon was
preached by Dr. Creighton,^ on 1 Thess. iv. 11,
persuading to unity and peace, and to be mindful
of our own business, according to the advice of the
apostle. Then I went to hear a Frenchman who
preached before the King and Queen in that
splendid chapel next St George's Hall. Their
Majesties going to mass, I withdrew to consider
the stupendous painting of the Hall, which, both
for the art and invention, deserve the inscription in
honour of the painter, Signor Verrio.* The history
is Edward the Third receiving the Black Prince,
coming towards him in a Roman triumph. The
whole roof is the history of St George. The
throne, the carvings, etc., are incomparable, and I
^ [See oTUe, p. 19,] * [See ante, vol. ii. p. 17.]
» [See ante, p. 97.]
i6«6 JOHN EVELYN 175
think equal to any, and in many circumstances
exceeding any, I have seen abroad.
I dined at Lord Sunderland's, with (amongst
others) Sir William Soames, designed Ambassador
to Constantinople.
About 6 o'clock, came Sir Dudley and his
brother Roger North, and brought the Great Seal
from my Lord Keeper,^ who died the day before at
his house in Oxfordshire. The King went imme-
diately to council; everybody guessing who was
most likely to succeed this great officer; most
believing it could be no other than my Lord Chief-
Justice JeflFreys,* who had so vigorously prosecuted
the late rebels, and was now gone the Western
Circuit, to punish the rest that were secured in the
several counties, and was now near upon his return.
I took my leave of his Majesty, who spake very
graciously to me, and supping that night at Sir
Stephen Fox's,* I promised to dine there the next
day.
15th September. 1 accompanied Mr. Pepys to
Portsmouth, whither his Majesty was going the
first time since his coming to the Crown, to see in
what state the fortifications were. We took coach
and six horses, late after dumer, yet got to Bagshot *
that night Whilst supper was making ready I
went and made a visit to Mrs. Graham,^ sometime
Maid of Honour to the Queen-Dowager, now wife
to James Graham, Esq., of the privy purse to the
King ; her house ^ being a walk in the forest, within
a little quarter of a mile firom Bagshot town. Very
importunate she was that I would sup, and abide
there that night ; but, being obliged by my com-
panion, I returned to our inn, after she had showed
^ [See ante, p. 89. He died 5th September, l685.]
^ See pott, under 31st October, l685.]
• See ante, vol. ii. p. 249.]
^ A distance of 26 miles. ^ See ante, vol. ii. p. 383.
^ Bagshot Park [now the residence of the Duke of Connaught].
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me her house, which was very commodious, and
well-furnished, as she was an excellent house-wife,
a prudent and virtuous lady. There is a park full
of red deer about it. Her eldest son was now sick
there of the smaU-pox, but in a likely way of
recovery, and other of her children run about, and
among the infected, which she said she let them do
on purpose that they might whilst young pass that
fatal disease she fancied they were to undergo one
time or other, and that this would be the best : the
severity of this cruel distemper so lately in my
poor family confirming much of what she affirmed.
16th September. The next morning, setting out
early, we arrived soon enough at Winchester to
wait on the King, who was lodged at the Dean's
(Dr. Meggot).^ 1 found very few with him besides
my Lords Feversham, Arran,* Newport, and the
Bishop of Bath and Wells. His Majesty was dis-
coursing with the Bishop concerning miracles, and
what strange things the Saludadors ^ would do in
Spain, as by creeping into heated ovens without
hurt, and that they had a black cross in the roof of
their mouths, but yet were commonly notorious and
* [See ante, vol. ii. p. 247]. * [See ante, p. 88.]
^ Evelyn subjoins this note with his initials : — ^^ As to that of
the Saludador (of which likewise I remember Sir Arthur Hopton,
formerly Ambassador at Madrid^ had told me many like wonders)^
Mr. Pepys passing through Spaine, and being extremely inquisi-
tive of the truth of these pretended miracles of the Saludadors^
found a very famous one at last^ to whom he offered a consider-
able reward if he would make a trial of the oven, or any other
thing of that kind, before him ; the fellow ingenuously told him,
that finding he was a more than ordinary curious person^ he
would not deceive him^ and so acknowledged that he could do
none of the feates really, but that what he pretended was all a
cheate^ w^^ he would easily discover^ though the poore supersti-
tious people were easily imposed upon ; yet have these impostors
an allowance of the Bishops to practice their juglings. This
Mr. Pepys affirmed to me ; but^ said he, I did not conceive it fit
to interrupt his Ma% who so solemnly told what they pretended
to do. J. £."
im JOHN EVELYN 177
profane wretches ; upon which his Majesty further
said, that he was so extremely difficult of miraclesy
for fear of being imposed upon, that if he should
chance to see one himself, without some other
witness, he should apprehend it a delusion of his
senses. Then they spake of the boy who was pre-
tended to have a wanting 1^ restored him, so con-
fidently asserted by Fr. de Santa Clara and others.
To all which the Bishop added a great miracle
happening in Winchester to his certain knowledge,
of a poor miserably sick and decrepit child (as I
remember long kept unbaptized), who, immediately
on his baptism, recovered ; as also of the salutary
effect of Kmg Charles his Majesty's fitther's blood,
in healing one that was blind.
There was something said of the second sight ^
happening to some persons, especially Scotch ;
upon which his Majesty, and I thmk Lord Arran,
told us that Monsieur a French nobleman,
lately here in England, seeing the late Duke of
Monmouth come into the playhouse at London,
suddenly cried out to somebody sitting in the same
box, F(nlct Monsieur comme il entre sans tHet
Afterwards his Majesty spoke of some relics that
had effected strange cures, particularly a piece of
our blessed Saviour's cross, that healed a gentle-
man's rotten nose by only touching. And speaking
of the golden cross and chain taken out of the
coffin of St Edward the Confessor at Westminster,*
by one of the singing-men, who, as the scaffolds
were taken down after his Majesty's coronation,
espying a hole in the tomb, and something glisten,
put his hand in, and brought it to the dean, and he
to the King ; his Majesty began to put the Bishop
in mind how earnestly the late Kii^ (his brother)
^ Several veiy curious letters on this subject are printed in
Pepjs' Correspondence between 24th October, l699« and S7th
May, 1701. [< See Appendix VII.]
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called upon him during his agony, to take out what
he had in his pocket/ I had thought, said the
King, it had been for some keys, which might lead
to some cabinet that his Majesty would faAve me
secure; but, says he, you well remember that I
found nothing in any of his pockets but a cross of
;old, and a few insignificant papers ; and thereupon
te showed us the cross, and was pleased to put it
into my hand. It was of gold, about three inches
long, having on one side a crucifix enamelled and
embossed, Uie rest was graved and garnished with
goldsmiths' work, and two pretty broad table
amethysts (as I conceived), and at the bottom a
pendent pearl ; within was enchased a little frag-
ment, as was thought, of the true cross, and a Latin
inscription in gom and Roman letters.* More
company coming in, this discourse ended. I may
not forget a resolution which his Majesty made,
and had a little before entered upon it at the
Council Board at Windsor or Whitehall, that the
negroes in the Plantations should all be baptized,
exceedingly declaiming against that impiety of
their masters prohibiting it, out of a mistaken
opinion that they would be ipso facto free ; but his
Majesty persists in his resolution to have them
christeneo, which piety the Bishop blessed him
for.
I went out to see the new palace the late King
had b^un, and brought almost to the covering.
It is placed on the side of the hill, where formerly
stood the old Castle. It is a stately fabric, of
three sides and a corridor, all built of brick, and
corniced, windows and columns at the break and
1 rSee aadt^ p. 140.]
3 jtliere is a pamphlet giving an account of this finding and
presenting to the King, under Uie name of '' Charles Taylour " ;
but the writer was Heniy Keepe, the author of MonumaAa West-
monatienensia.
lew JOHN EVELYN 179
entrance of free-stone.^ It was intended for a
hunting-house when his Majesty should come to
these parts, and has an. incomparable prospect I
believe there had already been £20,000 and more
expended ; but his now Maiesty did not seem to
encourage the finishing it at least for a while.
Hence to see the Cathedral, a reverend pile, and
in good repair. There are stiU the coffins of the
six Saxon Kings, whose bones had been scattered
by the sacrilejrious rebels of 1641, in expectation,
I suppose, of finding some valuable relics, and
afterwards gathered up again and put into new
chests, which stand above the stalls of the
choir.*
17 th September. Early next morning, we went
to Portsmouth, something before his Majesty
arrived. We found all the road full of people,
the women in their best dress, in expectation of
seeing the King pass by, which he did, riding on
horsdback a good part of the way. The Mayor
and Aldermen with their mace, and in their
formalities, were standing at the entrance of the
fort, a mile on this side of the town, where the
Mayor made a speech to the King, and then the
guns of the fort were fired, as were those of the
garrison, as soon as the King was come into
Portsmouth. AU the soldiers (near 8000) were
drawn up, and lining the streets and platform to
Grod's-house (the name of the Governor's residence),
^ See aUe, p. 112. Upon Charles's death, a stop was put to
the building by James 11. It was equally neglected by King
William ; but Queen Anne, after surveying it herself, intended
to complete it in jGnvour of her husband, George, Prince of
Denmark, upon whom it was settled, had he lived until she
could afford the sums necessary for this purpose.
* ["Elevated above the north screen of the choir" — ^says
Black's Gidde to HampsMrey 1904, p. 94. The troops of Crom-
well stabled their stec^ in the Cathedral, breaking tiie windows
and opening the coffins.]
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where, after he had viewed the new fortifications
and ship-yard, his Majesty was entertained at a
magnificent dinner by Sir Slingsby,^ the
Lieutenant-Governor, all the gentlemen in Ins train
sitting down at table with him, which I also had
done had I not been before engaged to Sir Robert
Holmes, Governor of the Isle of Wight,* to dine
with him at a private house; where likewise we had
a very sumptuous and plentiful repast of excellent
venison, fowl, fish, and fi-uit
After dinner, I went to wait on his Majesty
again, who was pulling on his boots in the Town-
hall adjoining the house where he dined, and then
having saluted some ladies, who came to kiss his
hand, he took horse for Winchester, whither he
returned that night. This hall is artificially hung
round with arms of all sorts, like the hall and keep
at Windsor. Hence, to see the ship-yard and
dock, the fortifications, and other things.
Portsmouth, when finished, will be very strong,
and a noble quay. There were now thirty-two
men-of-war in the harbour. I was invited by Sir
R. Beach, the Commissioner, where, after a great
supper, Mr. Secretary ' and myself lay that night,
and the next morning set out for GuUdford, where
we arrived in good hour, and so the day after to
London.
I had twice before been at Portsmouth, the Isle
of Wight, etc., many years since. I found this part
of Hampshire bravely wooded, especially about the
house and estate of Colonel Norton, who though
now in bemg, having formerly made his peace by
means of Colonel L^g» was formerly a very fierce
commander in the first Rebellion. His house is
lai^ and standing low, on the road firom Win-
chester to Portsmouth.
^ [Queiy, — Sir Arthur Slingsby (sec ante, vol. iL p. 15).]
2 [See ante, vol. ii. p. 296.] » [Pepys.]
im JOHN EVELYN 181
By what I observed in this journey, is that
infinite industry, sedulity, gravity, and great under*
standing and experience or affairs, in his Majesty,
that I cannot but predict much happiness to the
nation, as to its political government ; and, if he so
persist, there could be nothing more desired to
accomplish our prosperity, but that he was of the
national religion.
80th September. Liord Clarendon's commission
for Lieutenant of Ireland was sealed this day.
2nd October. Having a letter sent me by Mn
Pepys with this expression at the foot of it, ''I
have something to show you that I may not have
another time,*' and that I would not fail to dine
with him. I accordingly went After dinner, he
had me and Mr. Houblon ^ (a rich and considerable
merchant, whose father had fled out of Flanders
on the persecution of the Duke of Alva) into a
private room, and told us that being lately alone
with his Majesty, and upon some occasion of
speaking concerning my late Lord Arlington dying
a Roman Catholic,* who had all along seemed to
profess himself a Protestant, taken idl the tests,
etc., till the day (I think) of his death, his Majesty
said that as to his inclinations he had known them
long wavering, but from fear of losing his places,
he did not think it convenient to dedare himself.
There are, says the King, those who believe the
Church of Rome ^ves dispensations for going to
church, and many like things, but that is not so ;
for if that might have been had, he himself had
most reason to make use of it Indeed^ he said, as
to same matrimonial cases, there are now and then
dispensations^ but hardly in any cases else.
This familiar discourse encouraged Mr. Pepys
to beg of his Majesty, if he might ask it without
1 [See anie, p. 27.]
s [Lord Arlington dded 28th July, l685 (see ante, p. 7>]
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offence, and for that his Majesty could not but
observe how it was whispered amonff many whether
his late Majesty had been reconciled to the Church
of Rome ; he again humbly besought his Majesty
to pardon his presumption, if he had touched upon
a thin^ which did not befit him to look into. The
King mgenuously told him that he both was and
died a Roman Catholic, and that he had not long
since declared it was upon some politic and state
reasons, best known toliimself (meaning the King
his brother), but that he was of that persuasion : ^
he bid him follow him into his closet, where opening
a cabinet, he showed him two papers, containing
about a quarter of a sheet, on both sides written,
in the late King's own hand, several arguments
opposite to the doctrine of the Church of England,
charging her with heresy, novelty, and the fanaticism
of other Protestants, the chief whereof was, as I
remember, our refusing to acknowledge the primacy
and infallibility of the Church of Rome ; how im-
possible it was that so many ages should never
dispute it, till of late ; how unlikely our Saviour
would leave his Church without a visible Head
and guide to resort to, during his absence; with
the like usual topic; so weU penned as to the
discourse as did by no means seem to me to have
been put together by the late King, yet written all
with nis own hand, blotted and interlined, so as, if
indeed it was not given him by some priest, they
might be such arguments and reasons as had been
inculcated from time to time, and here recollected ;
and, in the conclusion, showing his looking on the
Protestant religion (and by name the Church of
England) to be without foundation, and conse-
quently false and unsafe. When his Majesty had
shown him. these originals, he was pleased to lend
him the copies of these two papers, attested at
1 [See ante, p. 139.]
1685 JOHN EVELYN 188
the bottom in four or five lines under his own
hand.
These were the papers I saw and read. This
nice and curious passage I thought fit to set down.
Though all the arguments and objections were
altogether weak, and have a thousand times been
answered by our divines; they are such as their
priests insinuate among their proselytes, as if
nothing were Catholic but the Church of Rome,
no salvation out of that, no reformation sufierable,
bottoming all their errors on St. Peter's successors'
unerrable dictatorship, but proving nothmg with
any reason, or taking notice of any objection which
could be made against it. Here all was taken for
granted, and upon it a resolution and preference
implied.
I was heartily sorry to see all this, though it
was no other than was to be suspected, by his late
Majesty's too great indifierence, neglect^ and course
of life, that he had been perverted, and for secular
respects only professed to be of another belief, and
thereby giving great advantage to our adversaries,
both the Court and generally the youth and great
persons of the nation becoming dissolute and highly
profane. God was incensed to make his reign very
troublesome and unprosperous, by wars, plagues,
fires, loss of reputation by an universal neglect of
the public for the love of a voluptuous and sensual
life, which a vicious Court had brought into credit.
I thmk of it with sorrow and pity, when I consider
how good and debonair a nature that unhappy
Prince was ; what opportunities he had to have made
himself the most renowned King that ever swayed
the British sceptre, had he been firm to that
Church for which his martyred and blessed father
suffered; and had he been grateful to Almighty
God, who so miraculously restored him, with so
excellent a religion; had he endeavoured to own
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and propagate it as he should have done^ not only
for tne good of his Kingdom, but of all the Re-
formed Churches in Christendom, now weakened
and near ruined through our remissness and
suffering them to be supplanted, persecuted, and
destroyed, as in France, which we took no notice
of. The consequence of this, time will show, and
I wish it may proceed no further. The emissaries
and mstruments of the Church of Rome will
never rest till they have crushed the Church
of England, as knowing that alone to be able
to cope with them, and that they can never
answer her fairly, but lie abundantly open to the
irresistible force of her arguments, antiquity and
purity of her doctrine, so that albeit it may move
God, for the punishment of a nation so unworthy,
to eclipse a^in the profession of her here, and
darkness and superstition prevail, I am most con-
fident the doctrine of the Church of England will
never be extinguished, but remain visible, if not
eminent, to the consummation of the world. I
have innumerable reasons that confirm me in this
opinion, which I forbear to mention here.
In the meantime, as to the discourse of his
Majesty with Mr. Pepys, and those papers, as I do
exceedingly prefer his Majesty's free and ingenuous
profession of what his own religion is, beyond con-
cealment upon any politic accounts, so I think him
of a most sincere and honest nature, one on whose
word one may rely, and that he makes a conscience
of what he promises, to poform it In this con-
fidence, I hope that the Church of England may
vet subsist, and when it shall please God to open
his eyes and turn his heart (for tnat is peculiarly in
the Lord's hands) to flourish also. In all events,
whatever do become of the Church of England, it
is certainly, of all the Christian professions on the
earth, the most primitive, apostolical, and excellent.
1685 JOHN EVELYN 185
8tk October. I had my picture drawn this week
by the fiunous Kneller.^
14dh. I wait to Lfondon about finishing my
lodgings at Whitehall
15m. Being the King's birthday, there was a
solemn ball at Court, and before it music of instru-
ments and voices. I happened by accident to
stand the very next to the Queen and the King,
who talked with me about the music
ISth. The King was now building all that range
from east to west by the court and garden to t£e
street, and making a new chapel for the Queen,
whose lodgings were to be in this new building, as
also a new Council-chamber and offices next the
south end of the Banqueting-house. I returned
home, next morning, to London.
22nd. I accompanied my Lady Clarendon to
her house at Swallowfield,^ in Berks, dining by
the way at Mr. Graham's lodge at Bagshot;^ the
house, new repaired and capacious enough for a
good fiunily, stands in a park.
Hence, we went to Swallowfield ; this house
is after the ancient building of honourable gentle-
men's houses, when they kept up ancient hospitality,
but the gardens and waters as elegant as it is
possible to make a flat by art and industry, and
no mean expense, my lady being so extraordinarily
^ A copy of Thomas Bragg*s engraving of this portrait, now
at Wotton House, forms the frontispiece to volume iii. of the
present edition.
' Sir William Backhouse died seised of the manor of Swallow-
field, in 1669. His widow. Flower, daughter and heiress of Mr.
William Backhouse, d. 1662, married Henry Hyde, Viscount
Combury, afterwardis second Earl of Clarendon (see ante, vol. n,
p. 214), who thus became possessed of this estate. [There is a
charming and exhaustive account of Swallowfield and iU Owners,
by Lady Russell, 1901, which contains an interesting letter from
Lady Clarendon to Eveljrn.]
* See ante, p. 175. Mr. Graham was Keeper and Ranger of
Bagshot.
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skilled in the flowery part, and my lord, in
diligence of planting ; so that I have hardly seen
a seat which shows more tokens of it than what
is to be found here, not only in the delicious and
rarest fruits of a garden, but in those innumerable
timber trees in the ground about the seat, to the
greatest ornament and benefit of the place. There
IS one orchard of 1000 golden, and other cider
pippins; walks and groves of elms, limes, oaks,
ana other trees. The garden is so beset with all
manner of sweet shrubs, that it perfumes the air«
The distribution also of the quarters, walks, and
parterres, is excellent. The nurseries, kitchen-
garden full of the most desirable plants ; two very
noble orangeries well furnished; but, above all,
the canal and fish ponds, the one fed with a white,
the other with a black running water, fed by a
quick and swift river, so well and plentifully stored
with fish, that for pike, carp, bream, and tench, I
never saw anything approaching it. We had at
every meal carp and pilce, of a size fit for the table
of a Prince, and what added to the delight was, to
see the hundreds taken by the drag, out of which,
the cook standing by, we pointed out what we had
most mind to, and had carp that would have been
worth at London twenty shillings a -piece. The
waters are flagged about with Ctuamus aromatkus^
with which my lady has hung a closet, that retains
the smell very perfectly. There is also a certain
sweet willow and other exotics ; also a very fine
bowling-green, meadow, pasture, and wood: in a
word, all that can render a country-seat delightful
There is besides a well-fiirnished library in the
house.
26M October. We returned to London, having
been treated with all sorts of cheer and noble
freedom by that most religious and virtuous lady.
She was now preparing to go for Ireland with
1686 JOHN EVELYN 187
her husband, made Lord-Deputy,^ and went to this
country-house and ancient seat of her fstther and
family, to set things in order during her absence ;
but never were good people and neighbours more
concerned than all the country (the poor especially)
for the departure of this charitable woman ; every
one was in tears, and she as unwilling to part from
them* There was amongst them a maiden of
primitive life, the daughter of a poor labouring
man, who had sustained her parents (some time
since dead) by her labour, and has for many years
refused marriage, or to receive any assistance from
the parish, besides the little hermitage my lady
gives her rent-free ; she lives on fourpence a-day,
which she gets by spuming ; says she abounds and
can give alms to others, living in great humility
and content, without any apparent a£Pectation, or
singularity ; she is continuaUy working, praying,
or reading, gives a good account of her know-
ledge in religion, visits the sick ; is not in the least
given to talk ; very modest, of a simple, not un-
seemly behaviour ; of a comely countenance, clad
very plain, but clean and tight. In sum, she appears
a saint of an extraordinary sort, in so religious a life,
as is seldom met with in villages nowadays.
2Sth October. At the Royal Society, an um
full of bones was presented, dug up in a high-
way, whilst repairing it, in a field in Camberwell,
in Surrey; it was found entire with its cover,
amongst many others, believed to be truly Roman
and ancient.
Sir Richard Bulkeley ^ described to us a model
of a chariot he had invented, which it was not
possible to overthrow in whatever uneven way it
was drawn, giving us a wonderful relation of what
it had performed in that kind, for ease, expedition,
^ [Lord Clarendon was Viceroy of Ireland, 1685-86.]
> [Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1644-1710.1
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and safety ; tiiere were some inconvenieDces yet to
be remedied — it would not contain more than one
person ; was ready to take fire every ten miles ; and
being placed and playing on no fewer than ten
rollers, it made a most prodigious nois^ almost
intolerable. A remedy was to be sought for these
inconveniences.
29th October. I was invited to dine at Sir
Stephen Fox's with my Lord-Lieutenant,^ where
was such a dinner for variety of all things as I had
seldom seen, and it was so for the trial of a master-
cook whom Sir Stephen had recommended to go
with his Lordship into Ireland ; there were all the
dainties not only of the season, but of what art
could add, venison, plain solid meat, fowl, baked
and boiled meats, banquet [dessert], in exceeding
plenty, and exquisitely dressed. There also dined
my Lord Ossory and Lady (the Duke of Beaufort's
daughter), my Lady Treasurer, Lord Combury,*
and other visitors.
81^. I dined at our great Lord Chancellor
Jeffreys', who used me with much respect. This
was the late Chief- Justice who had newly been
the Western Circuit to try the Monmouth con-
spirators, and had formerly done such severe
justice amongst the obnoxious in Westminster Hall,
for which his Majesty dignified him by creating him
first a Baron, and now Lord ChanceUor.* He had
some years past been conversant at Deptford; is
of an assured and undaunted spirit, and has served
the Court interest on all the hardiest occasions ; is
of nature cruel, and a slave of the Court.
8rd November. The French persecution of the
Protestants raging with the utmost barbarity,
^ [Lord ClarendonJ
^ [Edward^ Lord Combury, grandson of the Chancellor, and
afterwards third Earl of Clarendon, d. 1723.]
3 [See ante, p. 175.]
1685 JOHN EVELYN 189
exceeded even what the very heathens used: in-
numerable persons of the greatest birth and riches
leaving all their earthly substance, and hardly
escaping with their lives, dispersed through all the
countries of Europe. The French tyrant abrogated
the Edict of Nantes which had been made in
fiivour of them, and without any cause ;^ on a
sudden demolishing all their churches, banishing,
imprisoning, and sending to the galleys' all the
ministers ; plundering the common people, and ex*
posing them to all sorts of barbarous usage by
soldiers sent to ruin and prey on them; taking
away their children ; forcing people to the Mass,
and then executing them as relapsers ; they burnt
their libraries, pillaged their goods, eat up their
fields and substance, banished or sent the people to
the galleys, and seized on their estates. There
had now been numbered to pass through Geneva
only (and that by stealth, for all the usual passages
were strictly guarded by sea and land) 40,000
towards Switzerland. In Holland, Denmark, and
all about Germany, were dispersed some hundred
thousands ; besides those m England, where,
though multitudes of all degree sought for shelter
and welcome as distressed Christians and confessors,
they found least encouragement, by a fatality of
the times we were &llen into, and the uncharitable
indifference of such as should have embraced them ;
and I pray it be not laid to our charge.' The
1 [The ''perpetual and irrevocable" Edict of Nantes, 1598,
was revoked 12th October, l685.]
* [Cf. the exceedingly interesting Memoirt of Jean Marteilhe
of Bergerac, ''Condemned to the Galleys of France, for His
Religion/' 1757, translated in 1758 by Oliver Goldsmith ; also the
excellent FargaUpaur la Foi of M. Athanase Coquerel, Fils, 1866.]
* ["The bulk of the Protestant population disappeared for
ever out of France ; in the course of time 400,000 effected their
escape, settling in large numbers in England, Brandenburg, and
Holland " (Trevelyan's England under the StuarU, 1904, p. 4S9>]
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famous Claude ^ fled to Holland ; Allix ' and several
more came to London, and persons of great estates
came over, who had forsaken alL France was
almost dh^>eopled, the bankers so broken that
the tyrant's revenue was exceedingly dhninished,
manufactures ceased, and everybody there, save
the Jesuits, abhorred what was done, nor did the
Papists themselves approve it What the further
intention is, time will show ; but doubtless portend-
ing some revolution.
I was showed the harangue which the Bishop
of Valentia on Rhone made in the name of the
Cler^, celebrating the French King, as if he was
a 6^, for persecuting the poor Protestants,' with
this expression in it, "That as his victory over
heresy was greater than all the conquests of
Alexander and Caesar, it was but what was wished
in England ; and that God seemed to raise the
French King to this power and magnanimous
action, that he might be in capacity to assist in
^ John Claude^ l6l9-87^ a celebrated French Protestant
minister, and a distinguishcMl controversial writer ; who^ at the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes^ was ordered to quit France in
four-and-twenty hours. One of his books was burned, by the
direction of James II., by the hangman, in the Old Exchange, on
5th May, l686.
s Mr. Peter Allix, 1641-1717, a minister of the Reformed
Church at Charenton, came over with his whole fiimily, and met
with great encouragement here. He was the author of several
learned discourses in defence of Protestantism. His eldest son,
John Peter Allix, became a Doctor of Divinity, and, after passing
through different prefennents, was in 1730 made Dean of Ely,
died in 1758, and was buried in his church of Castle Camps in
Cambridgeshire.
• [Cf. Bossuet: — ^** Touched with so many marvels, let our
hearts go out to the piety of Louis. Let us raise praises to
Heaven and say . . . 'Heresy is no more. Grod alone could
have done so marvellous a tning. King of Heaven, preserve
the King of the earth, it is the prayer of the churches ; it is the
prayer of the Bishops'" (Orauotu fun^bresy 1874, p. 219 — as
translated in Trevelyan's England under the Stuarts, 1904, p.
439).]
1685 JOHN EVELYN 191
doing the same here.'' This paragraph is very
bold and remarkable; several reflecting on Arch-
bishop Ussher s prophecy as now begun in France,
and approaching the orthodox in all other reformed
churdies. One thing was much taken notice of,
that the Gazettes which were stiU constantly
printed twice a week, informing us what was done
all over Europe, never spake of this wonderful
proceeding in France ; nor was any relation of it
published by any, save what private letters and the
persecuted fugitives brought. Whence this silence,
I list not to conjecture ; but it appeared very
extraordinary in a Protestant country that we
should know nothing of what Protestants suffered,
whilst great collections were made for them in
foreign places, more hospitable and Christian to
appearance.
&th November. It being an extraordinary wet
morning, and myself indisposed by a very great
rheum, I did not go to church, to my very great
sorrow, it being the first Gunpowder Conspuracy
anniversaiy that had been kept now these eighty
years unaer a prince of the Roman religion.
Bonfires were forbidden on this day; what does
this portend 1
9tJt. Began the Parliament. The King in his
speech required continuance of a standing force
instead of a militia, and indemnity and dispensation
to Popish officers fi*om the Test; demands very
unexpected and unpleasing to the Commons. He
also required a supply of revenue, which they
granted ; but returned no thanks to the King for
is speech, till further consideration.
12th. The Conmions postponed finishing the bill
for the Supply, to consider the Test, and Popish
officers ; this was carried but by one voice.
lUh. I dined at Lambeth, my Lord Archbishop ^
1 [Dr. Sancroft.]
19S THE DIART OF km
earryiDg me with him in his boige ; there wa:e my
LiOrd-DqNity of Iiebuid, the Bislraps of Ely and
St. Asaph, Dr. Sherlodk,^ and other divines; Sir
William Haywaid, Sir Paul Rycaut,' eta
20th Nooember. The Parliament was adjourned
to February, sevenl both of Lords and Commons
excepting against some passage of his Majesty's
speech rdating to the Test, and continuance of
Popish officers in command. This was a great
surprise in a parliament which people believed
would have complied in all things.
Popish pamphlets and pictures sold publicly ; no
books nor answers to them appearing till long after.
21^. I resigned my trust for composing a differ-
ence between Mr. Thynne and his wife.
227idL Hitherto was a very wet warm season.
ith December. Lord Sunderland was declared
President of the Council, and yet to hold his
Secretary's place. The forces disposed into several
quarters through the kingdom are very insolent, on
which are great complaints.
Lord Brandon, tried for the late conspiracy, was
condemned and pardoned ; ' so was Lord Grey, his
accuser and witness.^
Persecution in France raging, the French in-
solently visit our vessels, and take away the fugitive
Protestants ; some escape in barrels.
lOtL To Greenwicn, being put into the new
Commission of Sewers.
lUh. Dr. Patrick,*^ Dean of Peterborough,
preached at Whitehall, before the Princess of
1 [Dr. WilliAm Sherlock, 1641-1707 ; Master of the Temple,
1685-1704.]
s [Sir Paul Rycaut, 1628-1700, author of the Fretad State of
the Ottoman Empire, l668, etc. He was an F.R.S., and in this
year Judge of Admiralty in Ireland.]
* [Charles Gerard, Lord Brandon, 1659-1701, afterwards
second Earl of Macclesfield.]
« [See mUe, p. 101.] & [See anUy vol. iL p. 292.]
1685 JOHN EVELYN 198
Denmark; who, since his Majesty came to the
Crown, always sat in the King's closet, and had
the same bowings and ceremonies applied to the
place where she was, as his Majesty had when
there in person.
Dining at Mn Pepys's, Dr. Slayer showed us
an experiment of a wonderful nature, pouring first
a very cold liquor into a glass, and super-fusing on
it another, to appearance cold and clear liquor
also ; it first produced a white cloud, then boiling,
divers coruscations and actual flames of fire mingled
with the liquor, which being a little shaken to-
gether, fixed divers suns and stars of real fire,
perfectly globular, on the sides of the glass, and
which there stuck like so many constellations,
burning most vehemently, and resembling stars
and heavenly bodies, and that for a long space.
It seemed to exhibit a theory of the eduction of
light out of the chaos, and the fixing or gathering
of the universal light into luminous bodies. This
matter, or phosphorus, was made out of human
blood and urine, elucidating the vital flame, or
heat, in animal bodies. A very noble experiment 1
16th December. I accompanied my Lord-Lieu-
tenant as far as St. Albans, there going out of
town with him near 200 coaches of all tiie great
officers and nobility. The next morning tfudng
leave, I returned to London.
ISth. I dined at the great entertainment his
Majesty gave the Venetian Ambassadors, Signors
Zenno and Justiniani, accompanied with ten more
noble Venetians of their most iUustrious families,
Comaro, Mocenigo, etc, who came to congratulate
their Majesties coming to the Crown. The dinner
was most magnificent and plentiful, at four tables,
with music, kettle-drums, and trumpets, which
sounded upon a whistle at every health. The
banquet [dessert] was twelve vast chargers piled up
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SO hi^h that those who sat one agauist another
could nardly see each other. Of these sweetmeats,
which doubtless were some days piling up in that
exquisite manner, the Ambassadors touched not,
but leaving them to the spectators who came out
of curiosity to see the dinner, were exceedingly
pleased to see in what a moment of time all that
curious work was demolished, the comfitures
voided, and the tables cleared. Thus his Majesty
entertained them three days, which (for the table
only) cost him £600, as the Clerk of the Green
Cloth (Sir William Boreman) assured me. Dinner
ended, I saw their procession, or cavalcade, to
Whitehall, innumerable coaches attending. The
two Ambassadors had four coaches of their own,
and fifty footmen (as I remember), besides other
equipage as splendid as the occasion would permit,
the Court being still in mourning. Thence, I
went to the audience which they had in the
Queen's presence-chamber, the Banqueting-house
being full of goods and furniture till the galleries
on the garden -side, council -chamber, and new
chapel, now in building, were finished. They went
to their audience in those plain black gowns and
caps which they constantly wear in the city of
Venice. I was invited to have accompanied the
two Ambassadors in their coach to supper that
night, returning now to then: own lodgings, as no
longer at the King's expense ; but, being weary, I
excused myself.
19th December. My Lord Treasurer made me
dine with him, where I became acquainted with
Monsieur Barrillon,^ the French Ambassador, a
learned and crafty advocate.
^ [Paul Bamllon d' Amoncourt, Marquis de Branges. He suc-
ceeds Honor^ Courtin as Ambassador. It was the despatches of
Barrillon which revealed the bribes received by Charles II. and
his ministers from France.]
1635 JOHN EVELYN 195
20th December. Dr. Turner/ brother to the Bishop
of Ely,^ and sometime tutor to my son, preached at
Whitehall on Mark viil 88, concerning the sub-
mission of Christians to their persecutors, in which
were some passages indiscreet enough, considering
the time, and the rage of the inhuman French
tyrant against the poor Protestants.
227id. Our patent for executing the office of
Privy Seal during the absence of uie Lord-Lieu-
tenant of Ireland, being this day sealed by the
Lord Chancellor, we went afterwards to St
James's, where the Court then was on occasion of
building at Whitehall; his Majesty delivered the
seal to my Lord Teviot* and myself, the other
Commissioner not being come, and then gave us
his hand to kiss. There were the two Venetian
Ambassadors and a world of company ; amongst
the rest the first Popish Nuncio ^ that had been in
England since the . Reformation ; so wonderfully
were things changed, to the universal jealousy.
24<A. We were all three Commissioners sworn
on our knees by the Clerk of the Crown, before
my Lord Chancellor, three several oaths; alli-
ance, supremacy, and the oath belonging to the
Lord Privy Seal, which last we took standing.
After this, the Lord Chancellor invited us all to
dinner, but it being Christmas-eve we desired to be
excused, intending at three in the afternoon to seal
divers things which lay ready at the office ; so
attended by three of the Clerks of the Signet,
we met and sealed. Amongst other things was
a pardon to West, who, being privy to the late
* [Dr. Thomas Turner, 1645-1714, afterwards President of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford; at this date Archdeacon of
Essex^ and Canon of St. Paul's.]
2 [Francis Turner (see ante, p. 98).]
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 208 ; and post, p. 810.]
* Count D'Adda^ made afterwards a Cardinal for his services
in this embassy. There is a good mezzotinto print of him.
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conspiracy, had revealed the accomplices to save his
own neck. There were also another pardon and
two indenizations ; ^ and so agreeing to a fortnight's
vacation, I returned home.
81^ December. Recollecting the passages of the
▼ear past, and having made up account^ humbly
besought Almighty God to pardon those my sins
which had provoked him to discompose my
sorrowful family; that he would accept of our
humiliation, and in his good time restore comfort
to it. I also blessed Uod for all his undeserved
mercies and preservations, b^ging the continuance
of his grace and preservation. — The winter had
hitherto been extraordinary wet and mild.
1685-86 : 1^ January. Imploring the continu-
ance of God*s providential care for the year now
entered, I went to the public devotions. The Dean
of the Chapel and Clerk of the Closet put out,
viz. Bishop of London ' and . • ., and Rochester '
and Durham ^ put in their places ; the former had
opposed the toleration intended, and shown a
worthy zeal for the reformed religion as established.
Qth. I dined with the Archbishop of York,
where was Peter Walsh,^ that Romish priest so
well known for his moderation, professing the
Church of England to be a true member of the
Catholic Churdi. He is used to go to our public
prayers without scruple, and did not acknowledge
the Pope's infallibility, only primacy of order.
19fA. Passed the Privy Seal, amongst others,
the creation of Mrs. Sedley * (concubine to )
1
2
8
Indenization 8 the process of making a denizen (O.E.D.).]
Dr. Compton (see anUy voL iL p. 299)-]
Dr. Sprat (see ante^ voL ii. p. 300).]
4 Dr. Nathaniel Crew, 1633-1722.]
^ 'Peter Walsh, or Valesius, 1618-88, an Irish Frandscan, and
controversialist.]
< See mde, p. l6. Catherine Sedlej, 1657-1717, daughter of
Sir Charles Sedley, Bart., one of the fiunous knot of wits and
wm^^^^^^^f'mm^^^^mf^r^^^'^^^^m^'^^mf;^
im JOHN EVELYN 197
Countess of Dorchester^ which the Queen took
very grievously, so as for two dinners, standii^;
near her, I observed she hardly eat one morsd, nor
spake one word to the King, or to any about her^
though at other times she used to be extremely
fdeasant, full of discourse and good humour. The
Roman Catholics were also very angry; because
they had so long valued the sancti^ of their
rdi^on and proselytes.
Dryden, the famous play-writer,^ and his two
sons, and Mrs. Nelly * (miss ' to the late ) were
said to go to mass ; such proselytes were no great
loss to tiie Church.
This night was burnt to the ground my Lord
Montagu's palace in Bloomsbury,^ than which for
painting and furniture there was nothing more
glorious in England. This happened by the
negligence of a servant airing, as they call it, some
of the goods by the fire in a moist season ; indeed,
courtiers of King Charles's time. He was also a poet^ and wrote
some dramatic pieces. The Coimtess had a daughter by King
James II., and was afterwards married to David, £^1 of Port-
more, by whom she had two sons. Lord Dorset's well-known
verses, " Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay," etc., are addressed to
this lady. Her father's sarcasm, when he voted for filling up
the vacant throne with the Prince and Princess of Orange, is
well known : '' King James made my daughter a Countess, and I
have been helping to make his daughter a Queen."
^ [In Birkbeck Hill's admirable edition of Johnson's PoeU,
1905, L 876-77, a note suggests that Eveljrn antedated Dryden's
conversion ; and cites the following anecdote : '' The Bishop of
Carlisle wrote on Jan. 27, 1686-87, that Mr. Finch, the new
Warden of All Souls, an ingenious young gentleman, lately
meeting with Mr. Dryden in a coffee-house in London, publickly
before all the company wished him much joy of his new religion.
' Sir,' said Dryden, ' you are very much mistaken ; my religion is
the old religion.' ' Nay,' replyed the other, ' whatever it be in
itself I am sure 'tis new to you, for within these 3 days you
had no reHgion at all '" (Le Fleming MSS., Hist. MSS. Gmm.
Report xii. App. 7, p. 202).]
< [See ante, p. 140.] * [See ante, vol. ii. p. 181.]
^ [See ante, p. 88.]
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so wet and mild a season had scarce been seen in
man's memory*
At this Seal there also passed the creation of
Sir Henry Waldegrave* to be a Peer. He had
married one of the Ejng's natural daughters by
Mrs. Churchill. These two Seals my brother
Commissioners passed in the morning before I
came to town^ at which I was not displeased. We
likewise passed Privy Seals for £276,000 upon
several accounts^ pensions, guards, wardrobes, privy
purse, etc, besides divers pardons, and one more
which I must not forget (and which by Providence
I was not present at), one Mr. Lytcott to be
Secretary to the Ambassador to Rome. We
being three Commissioners, any two were a
quorum.
21^^ January. I dined at my Lady Arlington's,
Groom of the Stole to the Queen Dowager, at
Somerset House, where dined the Countesses of
Devonshire, Dover, etc. ; in all eleven ladies of
quality, no man but myself being there.
24Ah Unheard-of cruelties to the persecuted
Protestants of France, such as hardly any age has
seen the like, even among the Pagans.
Qth February. Being the day on which his
Majesty b^an his reign, by order of Council it was
to be solemnised with a particular office and sermon,
which the Bishop of Ely * preached at Whitehall
on Numb. xL 12 ; a Court oration upon the Regal
Office. It was much wondered at, that this dav,
which was that of his late Majesty's death, should
be kept as a festival, and not [instead of] the day of
the present King's coronation. It is said to have
^ He was the fourth Baronet, and died at Paris in 1689. He
was created Baron Waldegrave, 80th January^ 1686, being at
that time Comptroller of the Kiiog's Household. [His wife was
Henrietta, James's natural daughter by Arabella ChurchilL]
' Dr. Francis Turner (see ante, p. 195).*
16M JOHN EVELYN 199
been formerly the custom, though not till now
since the reim of King James I.
The Duchess of Monmouth,^ being in the same
seat with me at church, appeared with a very sad
and afliicted countenance.
Sth February. I took the Test in Westminster
Hall, before the Lord Chief- Justice.' I now came to
lodge at Whitehall, in the Lord Privy SeaFs lodgings.
12th. My great Cause was heard by my Lord
Chancellor, who granted me a re-hearing. I had
six eminent lawyers, my antagonist three, whereof
one was the smooth-tongued Solicitor,' whom my
Lord Chancellor reproved in great passion for a
very small occasion. Blessed be Goa for his great
goodness to me this day 1
19th. Many bloody and notorious duels were
fought about this time. The Duke of Grafton^
killed Mr. Stanley, brother to the Earl of [Derby],
indeed upon an almost insuiferable provocation.
It is to be hoped that his Majesty will at last
severely remedy this unchristian custom.
Lord Sunderland was now Secretary of State,
President of the Council, and Premier-Minister.
Igt March. Came Sir Gilbert Grerrard to treat
with me about his son's marrying my daughter,
Susanna. The father being obnoxious, and in
some suspicion and displeasure of the King, I
would receive no proposal till his Majesty had
given me leave^ which he was pleased to do ; but
after several meetings we brake off, on his not
being willing to secure any thing competent for my
dau^ter's children ; besides that I found most of
his estate was in the coal-pits as far off as New-
castle, and on leases from the Bishop of Durham,
^ [See onto, voL ii. p. S55.1
« tSir Edward Herbert See poH, p. 207.]
> Heneage Finch, 1647-1719^ Solidtor-General, called Silver
ToMte, from his maimer of speaking. [He was afterwards first
Earl of Aylesfoid.] « [See ante, vol. U. p. S50.]
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who had power to make concurrent leases, with
other difficulties.
1th March. Dr. Frampton, Bishop of Gloucester,^
preached on Psalm xliv. 17, 18, 19, showing the
several afflictions of the Church of Christ from the
primitives to this day, applying exceedingly to the
present conjuncture, when many were wavering in
their minds, and great temptations appearing
through the fiftvour now found by the Papists, so
as the people were full of jealousies and discourage-
ment. The Bishop magnified the Church of
England, exhorting to constancy and perseverance.
10th. A Council of the Royal Society about
disposing of Dr. Ray's book of Fishes, which was
printed at the expense of the Society.^
12th. A docket was to be sealed, importing a
lease of twenty-one years to one Hall, who styled
himself his Majesty's printer (he lately turned
Papist) for the printing Missals, Offices, Lives of
Saints, Portals, Primers, etc, books expressly for-
bidden to be printed or sold, by divers Acts of
Parliament ; I refused to put my seal to it, making
my exceptions, so it was laid by.
lUh The Bishop of Bath and Wells ' preached
on John vi 17, a most excellent and pathetic dis-
course: after he had recommended the duty of
fasting and other penitential duties, he exhorted to
constancy in the Protestant religion, detestation of
the unheard-of cruelties of the French, and stirring
up to a liberal contribution. This sermon was the
more acceptable, as it was unexpected from a Bishop
who had undergone the censure of being inclined
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 339.1
2 John Raj^ 1627-1705^ the celebrated botanist and zoologist.
He was a liberal contributor to the TransacUons of the Royal
Society^ of which he was elected a fellow in l667. [The HiHaria
Piicnim, folio, l686^ was based upon the material left by his
fidend and pupil, Francis Willughby^ 163^-72.]
> [See ante, p. 140.]
im JOHN EVELYN 201
to Popery, the contrary whereof no man could show
more. This mdeed did all our Bishops, to the dis*
abusing and reproach of all their delators ; for none
were more zealous against Popery than they were.
16th March. I was at a review of the army
about London, in Hyde Park, about 6000 horse and
foot, in excellent order ; his Majesty and infinity of
people being present.
17th. I went to my house in the country,
refiising to be present at what was to pass at the
Privy Seal the next day. In the morning. Dr.
Tenison^ preached an incomparable discourse at
Whitehall, on Timothy iL 8, 4.
24^A. Dr. Cradock ^ (Provost of Eton) preached
at the same place on Psalm xlix. 18, showing the
vanity of earuily enjoyments.
2Sth. Dr. White,* Bishop of Peterborough,
preached in a very eloquent style, on Matthew
xxvi 29, submission to the will of God on all acci-
dents, and at all times.
29th. The Duke of Northumberland (a natural
son of the late King by the Duchess of Cleveland),
marrying very meanly, with the help of his brother
Grafton, attempted in vain to spirit away his wife.
A Brief was read in aU churches for relieving
the French Protestants, who came here for pro-
tection from the unheard-of cruelties of the King.
2nd April Sir Edward Hales, a Papist, made
Governor of Dover Castle.^
See ante, p. 59j ^ [See ante, p. 35.]
'Dr. Thomas White, 1628-98. He was one of the Bishops
who petitioned against the second Declaration of Indulgence.]
^ " Not taking the Test," Burnet tells us^ " his coachman was
set up to inform against him^ and to claim the 500/. that the
law gave to the informer. When this was to be brought to trial,
the Judges were secretly asked their opinions : And such as were
not clear to judge as the Court did direct were turned out"
(Hittortf of Hi* Own Time, 1724, i. p. 669). Half of them were
dismissed.
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15th April The Archbishop of York^ now
of the small-pox, aged 62, a corpulent man. He
was my special loving friend, and whilst Bishop
of Rochester (from whence he was translated) my
excellent neighbour. He was an inexpressible loss
to the whole church, and that Province especially,
being a learned, wise, stout, and most worthy pre-
late ; I look on this as a great stroke to the poor
Church of England, now in this defecting period.
18^/^. In the afternoon I went to Camberwell,
to visit Dr. Parr.^ After sermon, I accompanied
him to his house, where he showed me the Life and
LfCtters of the late learned Primate of Armagh
(Ussher), and among them that letter of Bishop
Bramhall*s to the Primate, giving notice of the
Popish practices to pervert this nation, by sending
a hundred priests into England, who were to con-
form themselves to all sectaries and conditions for
the more easily dispersing their doctrine amongst
us. This letter was the cause of the whole impres-
sion being seized, upon pretence that it was a
political or historical account of things not relating
to theology, though it had been licensed by the
Bishop ; which plainly showed what an interest the
Papists now had, — ^tfaiat a Protestant book, contain-
ing the life and letters of so eminent a man, was
not to be published. There were also many letters
to and from most of the learned persons his corre-
spondents in Europe. The book will, I doubt not,
struggle through this unjust impediment.
Several Judges were put out, and new comply-
ing ones put in.
25tL This day was read in our church the
Brief for a collection for relief of the Protestant
^ Dr. John Dolben [see ante, p. 107].
3 [See ante, vol. iL p. 338.]
' [Parr's Ldfe of James, Archbishop of Armagh, was published
in this year.]
1686 JOHN EVELYN 208
French so cruelly, barbarously, and inhumanly
oppressed without anything being laid to their
charge. It had been long expected, and at last
with difficulty procured to be published, the interest
of the French Ambassador obstructing it.
&th May. There being a Seal, it was feared we
should be required to pass a docket dispensing with
Dr. Obadiah Walker ^ and four more, whereof one
was an apostate curate of Putney,^ the others
officers of University Collie, Oxford, who hold
their masterships, fellowships, and cures, and keep
public schools, and enjoy all former emoluments,
notwithstanding they no more frequented or used
the public forms of prayers, or communion, with
the Church of England, or took the Test or oaths of
all^iance and supremacy, contrary to twenty Acts
of Parliament ; which dispensation being also con-
trary to his Majesty's own gracious declaration at
the b^inning of his reign, gave umbrage (as well
it might) to every good Protestant ; nor could we
safely have passed it under the Privy Seal, where-
fore it was done by immediate warrant, signed by
Mr. Solicitor.
This Walker was a learned person, of a monkish
life, to whose tuition I had more than thirty years
since recommended the sons of my worthy friend^
Mr. Hillyard, of Horsley in Surrey,* believing him
to be &r from what he proved — a hypocritical con-
cealed Papist — by which he perverted the eldest
son of Mr. Hillyard, Sir Edward Hales's eldest
son, and several more, to the great disturbance of
the whole nation, as well as of the University, as
by his now pubUc defection appeared. All engines
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 9-]
2 Edward Sclater, 1623-99; who first apostatised from
Protestantism^ on the King's accession, and then, in l688, read
his recantation from Popery, and again became a Protestant.
• [See ante, vol. ii. p. 47.]
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being now at work to bring in Popery, which God
in mercy prevent I
This day was burnt in the old Exchange, by
the common hangman, a translation of a book
written by the famous Monsieur Claude, relating
only matters of fact concerning the horrid mas-
sacres and barbarous proceedings of the French
King against his Protestant subjects,^ without any
refutation of any facts therein ; so mighty a power
and ascendant here had the French Ambassador,
who was doubtless in great indignation at the
pious and truly generous charity of all the nation,
for the relief of l^ose miserable sufferers who came
over for shelter.
About this time also, the Duke of Savoy, insti-
gated by the French King to extirpate the Pro-
testants of Piedmont, slew many thousands of
those innocent people, so that there seemed to
be an universal design to destroy all that would
not go to mass, throughout Europe. Quod Avertat
n. O. M. / No faith in Princes 1
12tk May. I refused to put the Privy Seal to
Doctor Walker s license for printing and publishing
divers Popish books, of which I complained both
to my Lord of Canterbury (with whom I went to
advise in the Council-Chamber), and to my Lord
Treasurer that evening at his lodgings. My Lord
of Canterbury's advice^ was, that I should follow
my own conscience therein ; Mr. Treasurer's, that
if in conscience I could dispense with it, for any
other hazard he believed there was none. Not-
withstanding this, I persisted in my refusal
29th. There was no sermon on this anniversary,
^ [See anie, p. 189. The book was that entitled Can^lamU
of the Cruel TreatmerU of the ProtestanU in France^ London, 1686,
8vo.]
^ Dr. Sancroft. Burnet describes him as a timid man
{History of Hi* Otvn Time, 1784, ii. pi 185> See also anU, p. 140.
16W JOHN EVELYN 205
as there usually had been ever since the reign of
the present King.
2nd June. Such storms, rain, and foul weather,
seldom known at this time of the yean The camp
at Hounslow Heath, from sickness and other in*
conveniences of weather, forced to retire to quarters ;
the storms being succeeded by excessive hot
weather, many grew sick. Great feasting there,
especially in Lord Dunbarton's quarters.^ There
were many jealousies and discourses of what was
the meaning of this encampment.'
A seal this day ; mostly pardons and discharges
of Knight-Baronets' fees, which having been passed
over for so many years, did greatly disoblige several
families who had served his Majesty. Lord
Tyrconnd* gone to Ireland, with great powers
and commissions, giving as much cause of talk as
the camp, especially nineteen new Privy-Councillors
and Juages being now made, amongst which but
three Protestants, and Tyrconnel made General
New Judges also here^ among which was
Milton,^ a Papist (brother to that Milton* who
wrote for the R^cides), who presumed to take his
place without passing the Test. Scotland refused
to grant liberty of mass to the Papists there.
1 [George Douglas, Earl of Dunbarton, 1638-9^. He had
suppressed Argyll's rising (see ante, p. l63).]
> [It consisted of 1 3^000 men. But the soldiers were ^bj no
means hostile to the populace, and the camp of Hounslow be-
came, in Macaulay's words, ^^ merely a gay suburb of the capital "
(ch. vi.).]
s [Richard Talbot, 1630-91, Earl, and afterwards Duke of
Tyrconnel. He succeeded Clarendon as Viceroy of Ireland in
1687.1
4 Sir C3iristopher Milton, 1 615-93, made a Baron of the
Exchequer. He did not hold his office long. [^' His constitu-
tion being too weak for business " — says Johnson — '^ he retired
before any disreputable compliances beoune necessary " (Lives of
the Poets, Birkbeck Hill's edition, 1905, L 85).]
^ ['' That MUton " is the author of Paradise Lost.]
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The French persecution more inhuman than
ever. The Protestants in Savoy successfully resist
the French dragoons sent to murder them.
The King's chief physician in Scotland apostatis-
ing from the Protestant religion, does of nis own
accord publish his recantation at Edinburffh.^
11th June. I went to see Myddeltons* recep-
tacle of water at the New River, and the new Spa
Wells near.'
20th. An extraordinary season of violent and
sudden rain. The camp still in tents.
2Mh. My Lord -Treasurer settled my ffreat
business with Mr. Pretyman,* to which I hope
God will at last give a prosperous issue.
25th. Now his Majesty, beginning with Dr.
Sharp ^ and Tully,^ proceeded to silence and
suspend divers excellent divines for preaching
against Popery.
^ Burnet informs us in his History of Hit Own Time, 17S4^ i.
p. 679^ that this Sir Robert Sibbald^ *^ the most learned antiquary
in Scotland^ who had lived in a course of philosophical vertue^
but in great doubt as to revealed religion^ was prevailed upon
by the Earl of Perth to turn Papist " ; but he soon became
ashamed of having done so^ on so little inquiry. Upon this he
proceeded to London for some months, retiring m>m all company^
and underwent a deep course of study, by which he came to see
into the errors of Popery. He then returned to Scotland,
and published, as Evelyn tells us, his recantation openly in a
church.
2 [Sir Hugh Myddelton, 1560-l631. His artificial New River,
for supplying the dty of London with water, was opened 29th
September, 1620.1
3 [Le. " Sadler's New Tunbridge Wells," Clerkenwell, after-
wards known as "Sadler's Wells," opened c, l684.]
* [See ante J vol. ii. p. S, and p. 101.]
^ Dr. John Sharp, 1645-1714, Dean of Norwich, fiunous for
having been one of the first victims to the intolerance of
James IL, who caused him to be suspended for preaching against
Popery. After the Revolution he was made Dean of Canterbury,
and subsequently Archbishop of York.
* [George TuUy, d. l697, another champion of Protestantism
whom James endeavoured to silence by persecution.]
im JOHN EVELYN 207
'27th June. I had this day been married thirty*
nine years — ^blessed be God for all his mercies !
The new very young Lord Chief-Justice
Herbert ^ declared on the bench, that the govern-
ment of England was entirely in the King ; that
the Crown was absolute; that penal laws were
powers lodged in the Crown to enable the King
to force the execution of the law, but were not
bars to bind the King's power; that he could
pardon all offences against the law, and forgive
the penalties, and why could he not dispense with
them, by which the Test was abolished ? Every
one was astonished. Great jealousies as to what
would be the end of these proceedings.
6th July. I supped with the Countess of
Rochester, where was also the Duchess of Buck-
ingham and Madame de Govern^, whose daughter
was married to the Marquis of Hali&x's son. She
made me a character of the French King and
Dauphin, and of the persecution ; that they kept
much of the cruelties n'om the Kings knowledge ;
that the Dauphin was so afraid of his father, that
he durst not let anything appear of his sentiments ;
that he hated letters and priests, spent all his time
in hunting, and seemed to take no notice of what
waspassing.
This lady was of a great family and fortune, and
had fled hither for refuge.
l^ [Sth. I waited on the Archbishop at Lambeth,
where I dined and met the famous preacher and
writer. Dr. Allix,^ doubtless a most excellent and
learned person. The Archbishop and he spoke
Latin together, and that very readily.
ll^A. Dr. Meggot, Dean of Winchester,' preached
before ^the Household in St George's Chapel at
1 [Sir Edward Herbert, 1648-98, Chief Justice of King's
Bench.]
2 See ante, p. 190. ' [See ante, p. 176.]
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Windsor^ the late King's glorious chapel now seized
on by the mass-priests. Dr. Cartwnght, Dean of
Ripon,^ preached before the great men of the
Court in the same place.
We had now the sad news of the Bishop of
Oxford's ^ death, an extraordinary loss to the poor
Church at this time. Many candidates for his
Bishopric and Deanery, Dr. Parker/ South, Aldrich,
etc. Dr. Walker^ (now apostatising) came to
Court, and was doubtless very busy.
18th July. Note, that standing by the Queen
at basset (cards), I observed that she was exceed-
ingly concerned for the loss of £80 ; her outward
affability much changed to stateliness, since she
has been exalted.
The season very rainy and inconvenient for the
camps. His Majesty very cheerful
IMh. Was sealed at our office the Constitution
of certain Commissioners to take upon them fiill
power of all Ecclesiastical affairs, in as unlimited
a manner, or rather greater, than the late High
Commission-Court, abrogated by Parliament; ror
it had not only faculty to inspect and visit all
Bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and
statutes they should think fit to alter among the
Colleges, though founded by private men; to
punish, suspend, fine, etc., give oaths and call
witnesses. The main drift was to suppress zealous
preachers. In sum, it was the whole power of a
Vicar-General — note the consequence 1 Of the
Clergy the Commissioners were the Archbishop of
Canterbury [Bancroft], Bishop of Durham [Crew],
and Rochester [Sprat] ; of the Temporals, the Loid
1 [Dr. Thomas Cartwright, l6S4k89j afterwards Bishop of
CSiester.]
* Dr. John Fell (see ante, vol. iL p. I69).
< [Dr. Samuel Parker^ l640-88^ obtained it (see post^ under
23id March, I68S.] ^ [See ante, p. 203.]
i<»6 JOHN EVELYN 200
Treasurer, the Lord Chancellor [Jeflfreys] (who
alone was ever to be of the quorum), the Chief-
Justice [Herbert], and Lord President [Earl of
Sunderland].
ISth July. I went to see Sir John Chardin, at
Greenwich.^
^th August. I dined at Signor Verrio's,^ the
famous Italian painter, now settled in his Majesty's
garden at St. James's, which he had made a very
delicious Paradise.
Sth. Our vicar * gone to dispose of his country
living in Rutlandshire, having St. Dunstan in the
East given him by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
I went to visit the Marquis Ruvigny, now my
neighbour at Greenwich, retired from the persecu-
tion in France. He was the Deputy of all the
Protestants of that kingdom in the Parliament of
Paris, and several times Ambassador in this and
othor Courts; a person of great learning and
experience.*
%th September. Dr. Compton, Bishop of London,^
was on Monday suspended, on pretence of not
silencing Dr. Sharp of St. Giles's, for something
of a sermon in which he zealously reproved the
doctrine of the Roman Catholics. The Bishop
having consulted the civilians, they told him he
could not by any law proceed against Dr. Sharp
without producing witnesses, and impleading ac-
cording to form ; but it was overruled by my Lord
Chancellor, and the Bishop sentenced without so
much as being heard to any purpose. This was
^ [See ante, p. 51.] * [See ante, p. 35.]
• rMr. Holden (see atdey vol. ii. p. 355)r|
^ His son, Henri de Massue de Ruvigny, second Maiquis de
Ruvigny, 1648-1720, was with King William in Ireland, and was
made finrt Earl of Galway, but was dismissed through the violence
of party, being a Frenchman, though his conduct had been in
every respect imexceptionable (see pott, p. 357).
& [See anU, vol. u. p. 299]
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thought a very extraordinary way of proceeding,
and was universally resented, and so much the
rather for that two Bishops, Durham^ and
Rochester,^ sitting in the Commission and giving
their suffrages, the Archbishop of Canterbury
refused to sit amongst them. He was only sus-
Snded ah officio^ and that was soon after taken off.
e was brother to the Earl of Northampton, had
once been a soldier, had travelled in Italy, but
became a sober, grave, and excellent Prelate.
\2th September. Buda now taken from the
Turks ; a form of Thanksgiving was ordered to be
used in the (as yet remaining) Protestant chapels
and church of Whitehall and Windsor.
The King of Denmark was besieging Ham-
burgh, no doubt by the French contrivance, to
embroil the Protestant Princes in a new war, that
Holland, etc., being engaged, matter for new
quarrel might arise : the unheard-of persecution of
the poor Protestants still raging more than ever.
22nd. The Danes retire from Hamburgh, the
Protestant Princes appearing for their succour,
and the Emperor sending his Minatories to the
Eang of Denmark, and also requiring the restora-
tion of the Duke of Saxe-Gotha. Thus it pleased
God to defeat the French designs, which were
evidently to kindle a new war.
IMh October. His Majesty's birthday ; I was at
his rising in his bedchamber, afterwards in the
park, where four companies of guards were drawn
up. The officers, etc., wonderfrilly rich and gallant;
they did not head their troops, but their next
officers, the colonels being on horseback by the
King whilst they marched. The ladies not less
splendid at Court, where there was a ball at night ;
but small appearance of quality. All the shops
both in the City and suburbs were shut up, and
1 Crew. * Sprat : he afterwards would not sit.
1686 JOHN EVELYN 211
kept as solemnly as any holiday. Bonfires at night
in W estminster, but forbidden in the City.
nth October. Dr. Patrick, Dean of Peter-
borough,^ preached at Covent Garden Church on
Ephes. V. 18, 19, showing the custom of the
primitive saints in serving God with hymns, and
their frequent use of them upon all occasions:
perstringing ^ the profane way of mirth and intem-
perance of this ungodly age. Afterwards, I visited
my Lord Chief- Justice of Ireland, with whom I
had long and private discourse concerning the
miserable condition that kingdom was like to be
in, if Tyrconnel's counsel should prevail at Court.
28ra. Went with the Countess of Sunderland
to Cranbome, a lodge and walk of my Lord
Godolphin's in Windsor Park.* There was one
room in the house spared in the pulling down the
old one, because the late Duchess of York was
bom in it ; the rest was built and added to it by
Sir George Carteret, Treasurer of the Navy ; and
since, the whole was purchased by my Lord
Godolphin, who spake to me to go see it, and
advise what trees were fit to be cut down to
improve the dwelling, being environed with old
rotten pollards, which corrupt the air. It stands
on a knoll, which though insensibly rising, gives
it a prospect over the Keep of Windsor, about
three miles N.E. of it The ground is clayey and
moist ; the water stark naught ; the park is pretty ;
the house tolerable, and gardens convenient After
dinner, we came back to London, having two
coaches both going and coming, of six horses apiece,
which we changed at Hounslow.
^ [See anUy vol. iL p. 292.] ^ [See cmU, vol. iL p. 36.]
^ TOne of the lodges built by Charles II. on the west side of
the Park. It was eventually occupied by Nash the architect^
and is now pulled dovni. In 1800 its tenant was the Duke of
Gloucester. (See anU, voL ii. p. 368.)]
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2Uh October. Dr. Warren preached before the
Princess at Whitehall, on 5th Matthew, of the
blessedness of the pure in heart, most elegantly
describing the bliss of the beatifical vision. In the
afternoon. Sir George Wheler, Knight and Baronet,
preached on the 4fth Matt upon the necessity of
repentance, at St. Margaret's, an honest and devout
discourse, and pretty tolerably performed. This
gentleman coming from his travels out of Greece,
fell in love with the daughter of Sir Thomas
Higgins, his Majesty's resident at Venice, niece
to the Earl of Bath, and married her. When
they returned into England, being honoured with
knighthood, he would needs turn preacher, and
took orders. He published a learned and in-
genious book of his travels, and is a very worthy
person, a little formal and particular, but exceed-
ingly devout^
2W1. There was a triumphant show of the
Lord Mayor both by land and water, with
much solemnity, when yet his power has been so
much diminished, by the loss of the City's former
charter.
5th November. I went to St Martin's in the
morning, where Dr. Birch preached very boldly
a^inst the Papists, from John xvi. 2. In the
afternoon, I heard Dr. Tillotson ^ in Lincoln's Inn
chapel, on the same text, but more cautiously.
IQth. I went with part of my family to pass the
melancholy winter in London at my son's house in
Arundel Buildings.
5th December. I dined at my Lady Arlington's,
Groom of the Stole to the Queen Dowager, at
Somerset House, where dined divers French noble-
men, driven out of their country by the persecution.
IQth. I carried the Countess of Sunderland to
see the rarities of one Mr. Charlton in the Middle
1 [See cmie, p. 119.] * [See ante, vol. ii. p. 291.]
16S6 JOHN EVELYN 218
Temple,^ who showed us such a collection as I had
never seen in all my travels abroad, either of private
gentlemen, or princes. It consisted of miniatures,
dravnngs, shells, insects, medals, natural things,
animals (of which divers, I think 100, were kept in
glasses of spirits of wine), minerals, precious stones,
vessels, curiosities in amber, crystal, agate, etc. ; all
being very perfect and rare of their kind, especially
his books of birds, fish, flowers, and shells, drawn
and miniatured to the life. He told us that one
book stood him in £S00 ; it was painted by that
excellent workman, whom the late Gaston, Duke
of Orleans, employed. This gentleman's whole
collection, gathered by himself, travelling over
most parts of Europe, is estimated at £8000. He
appeared to be a modest and obliging person.^
2'dth December. I went to hear the music of the
Italians in the new chapel, now first opened publicly
at Whitehall for the Popish Service.' Nothing
can be finer than the magnificent marble work and
architecture at the end, where are four statues,
representing St John, St. Peter, St Paul, and the
Church, in white marble, the work of Mr. Gibbons,
with all the carving and pillars of exquisite art and
great cost The altar-piece is the Salutation ; the
volto in frescoj the Assumption of the Blessed
Virgin, according to their tradition, with our
Blessed Saviour, and a world of figures painted by
Verrio. The throne where the King and Queen
^ [Thoresbj in 1695 also visited '' the ingenious Mr. Charlton's
museum, who showed us a noble collection of Roman coins ; he
has veiy choice of the Emperors^ but the vast number of the
Family or Consular, was most surprising to me " {Diary, 1880, L
298). He saw the collection again in October.]
s The Charlton collection was afterwards purchased by Sir
Hans Sloane^ and now forms part of the British Museum (see
ffogt, p. 284).
* [It was burned down in January^ l698 (see post, p. 884^
and note).]
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sit is very glorious, in a closet above, just opposite
to the altar. Here we saw the Bishop in his mitre
and rich copes, with six or seven Jesuits and others
in rich copes, sumptuously habited, often taking off
and putting on the Bishop's mitre, who sat in a
chair with arms pontificaUy, was adored and censed
by three Jesuits in their copes ; then he went to
the altar and made divers cringes, then censing the
images and glorious tabernacle placed on the altar,
and now and then changing place: the crosier,
which was of silver, was put into his hand with
a world of mysterious ceremony, the music playing,
with singing. I could not have believed I shouM
ever have seen such things in the King of England's
palace, after it had pleased God to enlighten this
nation; but our great sin has, for the present,
eclipsed the blessing, which I hope He will in
mercy and His good time restore to its purity.
Little appearance of any winter as yet.
1686-87 : 1^ January. Mr. Wake ^ preached at
St. Martin's on 1 Tim. iiL 16, concerning the
mystery of godliness. He wrote excellently, in
answer to the Bishop of Meaux.
%rd. A Seal to confirm a gift of £4000 per
annum for 99 years to the Lord Treasurer out of
the Post-office, and £1700 per annum for ever out
of Lord Gray's estate.
There was now another change of the great
officers. The Treasury was put into commission,
two professed Papists amongst them, viz. Lords
Belasyse and Dover, joined with the old ones. Lord
Godolphin, Sir Stephen Fox, and Sir John Emley.
17*A. Much expectation of several great men
^ William III. recognised the services of William Wake^ l657«
1737, in the cause of the Protestant Church of England, by
presenting him with valuable preferments. He was King's
Chaplain^ Rector of St. James's^ Westminster^ Dean of Exeter,
Bishop of Lincoln, and finally Archbishop of Canterbury.
1687 JOHN EVELYN 215
declaring themselves Papists. Lord Tyrconnel^
gone to succeed the Loid-Lieutenant [Clarendon]
in Ireland, to the astonishment of all sober men,
and to the evident ruin of the Protestants in that
kingdom, as well as of its great improvement
going on. Much discourse that all the White Staff
officers and others should be dismissed for adhering
to their religion. Popish Justices of the Peace
established in all counties, of the meanest of the
people ; Judges ignorant of the law, and perverting
it — so furiously do the Jesuits drive, and even
compel Princes to violent courses, and destruction of
an excellent government both in Church and State.
God of His infinite mercy open our eyes, and turn
our hearts, and establish His truth with peace I
The Lord Jesus defend His little flock, and pre-
serve this threatened church and nation I
24tk January. I saw the Queen's new apartment
at Whitehall, with her new bed, the embroidery of
which cost £8000. The carving about the chimney-
piece, by Gibbons, is incomparable.
SOtJu I heard the famous eunuch, Ci&ccio, sing
in the new Popish chapel this afternoon; it was
indeed very rare, and with great skill He came
over from Rome, esteemed one of the best voices
in Italy. Much crowding — little devotion.
21th February. Mr. Chetwin* preached at
Whitehall on Rom. L 18, a very quaint neat
discourse of moral righteousness.
2nd March. Came out a proclamation for
universal liberty of conscience in Scotland, and
dispensation from all tests and laws to the contrary,
as also capacitating Papists to be chosen into all
offices of trust The mystery operates.
^ [See ante, p. 205. Tyrcoimers appointment^ says Reresbj^
** made a great many people leave or sell their estates, and come
over for &igland " (Memoirs, 1875, p. 369).]
s [John Chetwynd, l628-92> prebendary of Bristol Cathedral.]
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8rd Marctu Dr. Meggot,^ Dean of Winchester,
preached before the Princess of Denmark, on Matt
xiv. 28. In the afternoon, I went out of town to
meet my Lord Clarendon, returning from Ireland.
lOth. His Majesty sent for the Commissioners
of the Privy Seal this morning into his bedchamber,
and told us that though he had thought fit to
dispose of the Seal into a single hand, yet he would
so provide for us, as it should appear how well he
accepted our faithful and loyal service, with many
gracious expressions to this efiect ; upon which we
delivered the Seal into his hands. It was by all
the world both hoped and expected that he would
have restored it to my Lord Clarendon ; but they
were astonished to see it given to Lord Arundel of
Wardour,^ a zealous Roman Catholic Indeed it
was very hard, and looked very unkindly, his
Majesty (as my Lord Clarendon protested to me,
on my going to visit him and long discoursing with
him about the afiairs of Ireland) finding not the
least failure of duty in him during his government
of that kingdom, so that his recaU plainly appeared
to be from the stronger influence of the Fapists,
who now got all the preferments.
Most of the great ofiicers, both in the court and
country. Lords and others, were dismissed, as they
would not promise his Majesty their consent to
the repeal of the test and penal statutes against
Popish recusants. To this end, most of the
Parliament-men were spoken to in his Majesty's
closet, and such as refused, if in any place of ofiice
or trust, civil or military, were put out of their
employments. This was a time or great trial ; but
hardly one of them assented, which put the Popish
interest much backward. The Lnglish clergy
everywhere preached boldly against their super-
stition and errors, and were wonderfully followed by
1 [See ante, p. 176.] « [See atiie, vol. ii. p. 142.]
1687 JOHN EVELYN 217
the people. Not one considerable proselyte was
made in all this time. The party were exceedingly
put to the worst by the preaching and writing of
the Protestants in many excellent treatises, evincing
the doctrine and discipline of the reformed religion,
to the manifest disadvantage of their adversaries.
To this did not a little contribute the sermon
{reached at Whitehall before the Princess of
)enmark and a great crowd of people, and at least
thirty of the greatest nobility, by Dr. Ken, Bishop
of Bath and Wells,^ on John viii. 46 (the gospel of
the day), describing through his whole discourse
the blasphemies, perfidy, wresting of Scripture,
preference of tradition before it, spirit of persecu-
tion, superstition, l^ends and fables of the Scribes
and Pharisees, so that all the auditory understood
his meaning of a parallel between them and the
Romish priests, and their new Trent religion. He
exhorted his audience to adhere to the written
Word, and to persevere in the Faith taught in the
Church of England, whose doctrine for Catholic
and soundness he preferred to all the communities
and churches of Christians in the world ; concluding
wilii a kind of prophecy, that whatever it suffered,
it should after a short trial emerge to the confusion
of her adversaries and the glory of God.
I went this evening to see the order of the boys
and children at Christ's Hospital. There were
near 800 boys and girls so decently clad, cleanly
^ See ante, p. 140. Thomas Ken, 1637-1711, was a prelate
remarkable for his benevolence and piety, and the only person
in England known to have interceded for the sufferers from the
cruelty of Colonel Kirke, on the suppression of Monmouth's
rebellion; urging the King with tears to put a stop to the
dreadful butchery. He was one of the seven bishops sent by
James II. to the Tower ; yet he refused to acknowledge James's
successor, on the ground that it would be a breach of his Con-
secration Oatli, and he suffered for his conscientious scruples the
penalty of deprivation.
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lodged, so wholesomely fed, so admirably taught,
some the mathematics, especially the forty of the
late King's foundation, that I was delighted to see
the progress some little youths of thirteen or
fourteen years of age had made. I saw them at
supper, visited their dormitories, and much admired
the order, economy, and excellent government of
this most charitable seminary* Some are taught
for the Universities, others designed for seamen,
all for trades and callings. The girls are instructed
in all such work as becomes their sex and may fit
them for good wives, mistresses, and to be a
blessing to their generation. They sung a psalm
before they sat down to supper in the great Hall,
to an organ which played all the time, with such
cheerful harmony, that it seemed to me a vision of
angels. I came from the place with infinite satis-
faction, having never seen a more noble, pious, and
admirable charity. All these consisted of orphans
only. The foundation was of that pious Prince
King Edward VI., whose picture (held to be an
original of Holbein) is in the court where the
Governors meet to consult on the affairs of the
Hospital, and his statue in white marble stands in
a niche of the wall below, as you go to the church,
which is a modem, noble, and ample fabric. This
foundation has had, and stUl has, many bene-
factors.
16th MarcJu I saw a trial of those devilish,
murdering, mischief- doing engines called bombs,
shot out of the mortar-piece on Blackheath. The
distance that they are cast, the destruction they
make where they fall, is prodigious.
20th. The Bishop of Bath and Wells (Dr. Ken)
preached at St. Martin's to a crowd of people not
to be expressed, nor the wonderful eloquence of
this admirable preacher ; the text was Matt. xxvL
86 to verse 40, describing the bitterness of our
1687 JOHN EVELYN 219
Blessed Saviour s agony, the ardour of his love, the
infinite obligations we have to imitate his patience
and resignation; the means by watching against
temptations, and over ourselves with fervent prayer
to attain it, and the exceeding reward in the end.
Upon all which he made most pathetical discourses.
The Conmiunion followed, at which I was partici-
pant. I afterwards dined at Dr. Tenison s with the
Bishop and that young, most learned, pious, and
excellent preacher, Mr. Wake.^ In the afternoon,
I went to hear Mr. Wake at the new-buUt church
of St Anne,' on Mark viii. 84, upon the subject of
taking up the cross, and strenuously behaving our-
selves in time of persecution, as this now threatened
to be.
His Majesty again prorogued the Parliament,
foreseeing it would not remit the laws against
Papists, by the extraordinary zeal and bravery of
its members, and the free renunciation of the great
officers both in court and state, who would not be
prevailed with for any temporal concern.
25tk March. Good Friday. Dr. Tenison preached
at St. Martin's on 1 Peter ii. 24. During the
service, a man came into near the middle of the
church, with his sword drawn, with several others in
that posture ; in this jealous time it put the congre-
gation into great confusion ; but it appeared to be
one who fled for sanctuary, being pursued by bailiffs*
Sth April I had a re-hearing of my great cause •
at the Chancery in Westminster Hall, having seven
of the most learned Counsel, my adversary five,
among which were the Attorney-General and late
Solicitor Finch, son to the Lord Chancellor Notting-
ham. The account was at last brought to one
^ [See ante, p. 214.1
^ [St. Aime-in-the-Willows, Aldersgate^ rebuilt after the fire
by Wren.]
s [See ante, p. 199; and post, p. 221.]
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article of the surcharge, and referred to a Master.
The cause lasted two hours and more.
10th April In the last week, there was issued a
Dispensation from all obligations and tests, by which
Dissenters and Papists especially had public liberty
of exercising their several ways of worship, without
incurring the penalty of the many Laws and Acts
of Parliament to the contrary,^ This was purely
obtained by the Papists, thinking thereby to ruin
the Church of England, being now the only Church
which so admirably and strenuously opposed their
superstition. There was a wonderful concourse of
people at the Dissenters' meeting-house in this
parish, and the parish-church [Deptford] left exceed-
mg thin. What this will end in, God Almighty
omy knows; but it looks like confusion, which
I pray God avert
11th. To London about my suit, some terms of
accommodation being proposed.
19th. I heard the ntmous singer, Cifaccio,
esteemed the best in Europe. Indeed, his holding
out and delicateness in extending and loosing a
note with incomparable softness and sweetness, was
admirable ; for the rest I found him a mere wanton,
effeminate child, very coy, and proudly conceited, to
my apprehension. He touched the harpsichord to his
voice rarely well This was before a select number
of particular persons whom Mr. Pepys invited to
his house; and this was obtained by particular
favour and much difficulty, the Signor much dis-
daining to show his talent to any but princes.
24/A. At Greenwich, at the conclusion of the
Church-service, there was a French sermon preached
after the use of the English Liturgy translated into
French, to a congregation of about 100 French
^ [April 4. " The moderate nonconfonnists suspected the
king's intentions, and sent no messages of thanks " (Annals of
England, 1876, p. 488>]
1687 JOHN EVELYN 221
refugees, of whom Monsieur Ruvigny was the
ehief, and had obtained the use of the church,
after the parish-service was ended. The preacher
pathetically exhorted to patience, constancy, and
reliance on God amidst all their sufferings, and the
mfinite rewards to come.
2nd May. I dined with Mynheer Diskvelts, the
Holland Ambassador, a prudent and worthy person.
There dined Lord Middleton, principal Secretary
of State, Lord Pembroke, Lord Lumley, Lord
Preston,* Colonel Fitzpatrick, and Sir John Chardin.
After dinner, the Ambassador discoursed of and
deplored the stupid folly of our politics, in suffering
the French to take Luxembourg,^ it being a place
of the most concern to have been defended, for the
interest not only of the Netherlands, but of England.
12th. To London. Lord Sunderland being
Lord President and Secretary of State, was made
Knight of the Garter and prime favourite. — ^This
day there was such a storm of wind as had seldom
happened, being a sort of hurricane. It kept the
flood out of the Thames, so that people went on
foot over several places above bridge. Also an
earthquake in several places in England about the
time of the storm.
26tk. To London, about my agreement with
Mr. Pretyman,' after my tedious suit.
2nd June. I went to London, it having pleased
his Majesty to grant me a Privy Seal for £6000,
for discharge of the debt I had been so many years
persecuted for, it being indeed for money drawn
over by my father-in-law. Sir R. Browne, during
his residence in the Court of France, and so with
a much greater sum due to Sir Richard from his
^ [Richard Graham, Viscount Preston, 1 648-9^ (see pott, under
dOth October, l688>]
' [Luxembourg was taken in 1684. It was restored to Spain
at the Peace of Rjswjk.] * [See ante, p. 206.J
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Majesty; and now this part of the arrear bemg
md^ there remams yet due to me, as executor of
)ir Richard, above £6500 more; but this deter-
mining an expensive Chancery suit has be«i so
great a mercy and providence to me (through the
kindness and friendship to me of Lord Godolphin,
one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury),
that I do acknowledge it with all imaginable
thanks to my gracious God.^
Qth June. I visited my Lady Pierrepont, daughter
to|Sir John Evelyn of Deane [in Wilts], now widow
of Mr. Pierrepont, and mother of the Earl of
Kingston. She was now engaged in the marriage
of my cousin, Evelyn Pierrepont, her second
son.*
There was about this time brought into the
Downs a vast treasure, which was sunk in a Spanish
galleon about forty-five years ago, somewhere near
Hispaniola, or the Bahama islands, and was now
weighed up by some gentlemen, who were at the
charge of divers, etc., to the enriching them beyond
all expectation. The Duke of Albemarle's share
[Governor of Jamaica] came to, I believe, £50,000.'
Some private gentlemen who adventured £100
gained from £8000 to £10,000. His Majesty's
tenth was £10,000.
The Camp was now again pitched at Hounslow,
the Commanders profusely vying in the expense
and magnificence of tents.^
1 [See anU, p. 219.]
^ This Evelyn Pierrepont was married in the same month to
Lady Mary Fielding. The issue of the marriage was the cele-
brated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
^ The Duke's share amounted to considerably more ; not less^
it was said^ than £90^000. A medal was struck on this occasion^
which is engraved in Evelyn's book on that subject^ No. txsxm.
p. 151.
^ [See oMtCy p. 205. The result was disappointing to King
James^ for the Londoners mixed freely with the soldiery and
made them as discontented as themselves.]
1687 JOHN EVELYN 228
12th June. Our Vicar preached on 2 Peter ii. 21,
upon the danger of relapsmg into sin. After this,
I went and heard M. Lamot, an eloquent French
preacher at Greenwich, on Prov. xxx. 8, 9, a con-
solatory discourse to the poor and religious refugees
who escaped out of France in the cruel persecution.
16th. I went to Hampton Court to give his
Majesty thanks for his late gracious favour, though
it was but granting what was due. WhUst I was
in the Council-Chamber, came in some persons, at
the head of whom was a formal man with a large
roll of parchment in his hand, being an Address (as
he said, for he introduced it with a speech) of the
people of Coventry, giving his Majesty their great
acknowledgments for his granting a liberty of
conscience ; he added that this was not the applica-
tion of one party only, but the unanimous address
of Church of England men, Presbyterians, In-
dependents, and Anabaptists, to show how extensive
his Majesty's grace was, as taking in all parties to
his indulgence and protection, which had removed
all dissensions and animosities, which would not
only unite them in bonds of Christian charity, but
exceedingly encourage their future industry, to the
improvement of trade, and spreading his Majesty's
glory throughout the world ; and that now he had
given to God his empire, God would establish his ;
with expressions of great loyalty and submission ;
and so he gave the roll to the King, which being
returned to him again, his Majesty caused him to
read. The address was short, but much to the
substance of the speech of their foreman, to whom
the King, pulling off his hat, said that what he had
done in giving liberty of conscience, was, what was
ever his judgment ought to be done ; and that, as
he would preserve them in their enjojrment of it
during his reign, so he would endeavour to settle
it by law, that it should never be altered by his
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successors. After this, he gave them his hand to
kiss. It was reported the subscribers were above
1000.
But this i^ not so remarkable as an Address of
the week before (as I was assured by one present),
of some of the Family qfLaoe} His Majesty asked
them what this worship consisted in, and how many
their party might consist of; they told him their
custom was to read the Scripture, and then to
preach ; but did not give any further account, only
said that for the rest they were a sort of refined
Quakers, but their number very small, not con-
sisting, as they said, of above threescore in all, and
those chiefly belonging to the Isle of Ely.*
\%th June. I dined at Mr. Blathwayt's* (two
miles from Hampton). This gentleman is Secretary
of War, Clerk of the Council, etc., having raised
himself by his industry from very moderate circum-
stances. He is a very proper, handsome person,
very dexterous in business, and, besides all this,
has married a great fortune. His income by the
Army, Council, and Secretary to the Committee of
Foreign Plantations, brings him in above £2000
per annum.
28rrf. The Privy Seal for £6000 * was passed to
me, so that this tedious affair was dispatched —
Hitherto, a very windy and tempestuous summer.
— ^The French sermons to the refugees were con-
tinued at Greenwich Church.
^ [The Family of Love, or FandUa CaritatU, were an offshoot
of the Dutch Anabaptists. Their founder was a Westphalian
named Henrick Niclaes (Jl, 1502-80). They interpreted Scrip-
ture mystically^ denying the Resurrection^ Christ's person, etc.,
and preaching the love of humanity. By the beginning of the
eighteenth century they had become extremely rare.]
3 [Cambridgeshire Fens, now drained.]
« [William Blathwayt, 1649-1717 ; Secretary at War, l683-
1704.1
4 l^ee ante, p. S21.]
rwr^t^m^am-j'
1687 JOHN EVELYN 225
\9th July. I went to Wotton, In the way, I
dined at Ashtead, with my Lady Mordaunt.^
5th Augast. I went to see Albury,* now pur-
chased by Mr. Finch (the King's Solicitor/ and
son to the late Lord Chancellor) ; I found the
garden which I first designed for the Duke of
Norfolk, nothing improved.
\5th. I went to visit Lord Clarendon at Swallow-
field, where was my Lord Combury*just arrived
firom Denmark, whither he had accompanied the
Prince of Denmark two months before, and now
come back. The miserable tyranny under which
that nation lives, he related to us ; the King keeps
them under an army of 40,000 men, all Germans,
he not daring to trust his own subjects. Notwith-
standing this, the Danes are exceeding proud, the
country very poor and miserable.
2flnd. Returned home to Saves Court firom
Wotton, having been five weeks absent with
my brother and friends, who entertamed us veiy
nobly. God be praised for His goodness, and this
refi-eshment after my many troubles, and let His
mercy and providence ever preserve me. Amen.
8rd September. The Lord Mayor sent me an
Officer with a staff*, to be one of the Governors of
St. Thomas's Hospital.
Persecution raging in France ; divers churches
there fired by lightning, priests struck, consecrated
hosts, etc, burnt and destroyed, both at St. Malo
and Paris, at the grand procession on Corpus
Christi day.
\9th. I went to Lambeth, and dined with the
Archbishop. After dinner, I retired into the
library, which I found exceedingly improved ;
there are also divers rare manuscripts in a room
apart.
1 [See owte, vol. ii. p. 388.] « [See ante, vol. ii. p. 281.]
» [See ante, p. 199. J * [See ante, p. 188.]
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%th October. I was godfather to Sir John
Chardin's^ son, christened at Greenwich Church,
named John. The Earl of Bath and Countess of
CarUsle, the other sponsors.
29tJu An Anabaptist, a very odd ignorant person,
a mechanic, I think, was Lord Mayor. ^ The King
and Queen, and D' Adda,* the Pope's Nuncio, in-
vited to a feast at Guildhall. A strange turn of
affairs, that those who scandalised the Church of
England as favourers of Popery, should publicly
invite an emissary from Rome, one who repre-
sented the very person of their Antichrist 1
IQth December. My son was returned out of
Devon, where he had been on a commission from
the Lords of the Treasury about a concealment
of land.
20th. I went ' with my Lord Chief - Justice
Herbert, to see his house at Walton-on-Thames : *
it is a barren place. To a very ordinary house he
had built a very handsome library, designing more
building to it than the place deserves, in my opinion.
He desired my advice about lapng out his gardens,
etc. The next day, we went to Weybi^dge, to
see some pictures of the Duchess of Norfolk's,*
particularly the statue, or child in gremio, said to
be of Michael Angelo ; but there are reasons to
think it rather a copy, from some proportion in
the figures ill taken. It was now exposed to sal&
1 [See asUe, p. 52.] « Sir John Peake.
* Count D' Adda. See ante, p. 195.
^ This is a mistake ; the house was Oatlands in Weybridge,
rebuilt after fire in 179*. Sir Edward Herbert (see uTite, p. 207)
followed the fortunes of King James^ who gave him his Great
Seal. He was attainted ; and Oatlands given to his brother.
Admiral Herbert (see pott, p. 265). Sir Edward published an
apology for the judgment he had given in favour of the King's
dispensing powers, which was answered by Mr. Williiuoa Atwood
and Sir Robert Atkins. (Manning and Bray's Surrey, ii. 786.)
5 [See ante, p. l6.]
im JOHN EVELYN 227
1687-8 : 12th Jarmary. Mr. Slingsby, Master of
the Mint» being under very deplorable circumstances
on account of his creditors, and especially the King,
I did my endeavour with the Lords of the Treasury
to be favourable to him.
My Lord Arran,^ eldest son to the Duke of
Hamilton, being now married to Lady Ann
Spencer, eldest daughter of the Earl of Sunderland,
Lord President of the Council, I and my family
had most glorious favours sent us, the wedding
being celebrated with extraordinary splendour.
15th. There was a solemn and particular office
used at our, and all the churches of London and
ten miles round, for a thanksgiving to God, for her
Majesty being with child.
227id. This afternoon I went not to church,
being employed on a religious treatise I had under-
taken.*
Post annum 1588—1660—1688, Annus Mirabilis
Tertius.*
80M. Being the Martyrdom-day of King Charles
the First, our curate made a florid oration against
the murder of that excellent Prince, with an ex-
hortation to obedience from the example of David,
1 Samuel xxvL 6.
12th Febrtbary. My daughter Evelyn * going in
the coach to visit in the City, a jolt (the door being
not fast shut) flung her quite out in such manner,
as the hind wheels passed over her a little above
her knees. Yet it pleased God, besides the bruises
^ [See ante, p. 88.]
^ What this was does not appear; but there are several of
£yel3m's compositions remaining in MS. [It maj have been the
posthumous HUUmf of RelMon: A Raiumal Account of the True
Helicon, 2 vols., edited with notes^ by the Rev. R. M. Evanson^
in 1850.]
^ This seems to have been added after the page was written.
^ [Martha Evelyn, wife of Evelyn's son, John (see ante,
p.43>]
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of the wheels, she had no other harm. In two
days, she was able to walk, and soon after perfectly
well ; through God Almighty's great mercy to an
excellent mfe and a most dutiful and discreet
daughter-in-law.
17th February. I received the sad news of my
niece Montagu's death at Woodcote ^ on the 15th.
15th March. I gave in my account about the
Sick and Wounded, in order to have my quietus.
28rd. Dr. Parker, Bishop of Oxford,* who so
lately published his extravagant treatise about tran-
substantiation, and for abrogating the Test and
Penal Laws, died. He was esteemed a violent,
passionate, haughty man, but yet being pressed to
declare for the Church of Rome, he utterly refused
it. A remarkable end !
The French Tyrant now finding he could make
no prosel3rtes amongst those Protestants of quality,
and others, whom he had caused to be shut up in
dungeons, and confined in nunneries and monasteries,
gave them, aft;er so long trial, a general releasement,
and leave to go out of the kingdom, but utterly
taking their estates and their children ; so that great
numbers came daily into England and other places,
where they were received and relieved with very
considerate Christian charity. This Providence
and goodness of God to those who thus constantly
held out, did so work upon those miserable poor
souls who to avoid the persecution signed their
renunciation, and to save their estates went to
mass, that reflecting on what they had done, they
grew so affected in their conscience, that not being
able to support it, they in great numbers through
all the French provinces, acquainted the magistrates
1 [Mary Eveljm of Woodcote (see ante, vol. ii. p. 308).]
^ [See ante, p. 208. Dr. Parker died of a convulsive fit caused
by the King's Mandate to admit further Catholic fellows to
Magdalen College^ of which he was President^ 1687-88.]
1688 JOHN EVELYN 229
and lieutenants that being sorry for their apostasy,
they were resolved to return to their old religion ;
that they would go no more to mass, but peaceably
assemble when they could, to b^ pardon and
worship God, but so without weapons as not to
give the least umbrage of rebellion or sedition,
imploring their pity and commiseration; and,
accordingly, meeting so from time to time, the
dragoon-missioners. Popish officers and priests, fell
upon them, murdered and put them to death, who-
ever they could lay hold on ; they without the
least resistance embraced death, torture, or hanging,
with singing psalms and praying for their per-
secutors to the last breath, yet still continuing the
former assembling of themselves in desolate places,
suffering with incredible constancy, that through
God's mercy they might obtain pardon for this
lapse. Such examples of Christian behaviour have
not been seen since the primitive persecutions;
and doubtless God will do some signal work in the
end, if we can with patience and resignation hold
out, and depend on His Providence.
2Mh March. I went with Sir Charles Littleton
to Sheen,^ a house and estate given him by Lord
Brouncker ; one who was ever noted for a hard,
covetous, vicious man ; but for his worldly craft
and skill in gaming few exceeded him. Coming to
die, he bequeathed all his land, house, furniture,
etc, to Sir Charles, to whom he had no manner of
relation, but an ancient friendship contracted at
the famous siege of Colchester, forty years before.
It is a pretty place, with fine gardens, and well-
planted, and given to one worthy of them. Sir
Charles being an honest gentleman and soldier.
He is brother to Sir Henry Littleton of Worcester-
shire, whose great estate he is likely to inherit,
his brother being without children. They are
^ [See ante, p. 18.]
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descendants of the irreat lawyer of that name, and
give the same arms and motto. He is married to
one Mrs. Temple,^ formerly Maid of Honour to the
late Queen, a beautiful lady, and he has many fine
children, so that none envy his good fortune.
After dinner, we went to see Sir William
Temple's near to it ; * the most remarkable things
are his orangery and gardens, where the wall-fruit
trees are most exquisitely nailed and trained, far
better than I ever noted.
There are many good pictures, especially of
Vandyck's, in both these houses, and some few
statues and small busts in the latter.
From thence to Kew, to visit Sir Henry Capel's,*
whose orangery and myrtetum are most beautiful
and perfectly well kept He was contriving very
high palisadoes of reeds to shade his oranges during
the summer, and painting those reeds in oil.
1st April In the morning, the first sermon was
by Dr. Stillingfleet,* Dean of St Paul's (at White-
hall), on Luke x. 41, 42. The Holy Communion
followed, but was so interrupted by the rude break-
ing in of multitudes zealous to hear the second
sermon, to be preached by the Bishop of Bath and
Wells,* that the latter part of that holy office could
hardly be heard, or the sacred elements be dis-
tributed without great trouble. The Princess being
come, he preached on Micah vii. 8, 9, 10, describing
the calamity of the reformed church of Judah
under the Babylonian persecution, for her sins, and
God's delivery of her on her repentance ; that as
Judah emerged, so should the now Reformed
Church, whenever insulted or persecuted. He
preached with his accustomed action, zeal, and
This is the Miss Temple of Grammont's Memoirs.]
See ante, p. 18.1 * [See ante, p. 19.]
Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, 1635-99 ; Dean of St Paul's, l678.]
* [See ante, p. 217.]
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energy, so that people flocked from all quarters to
hear him.
15th April A dry, cold, backward spring ;
easterly winds.
The persecution still raging in France, multi-
tudes of Protestants, and many very considerable
and great persons flying hither, produced a second
general contribution, the Papists, by God's Provi-
dence, as yet making small progress amongst us.
29th. The weather was, till now, so cold and
sharp, by an almost perpetual east wind, which had
continued many months, that there was little
appearance of any spring, and yet the winter was
very favourable as to frost and snow.
2nd May. To London, about my petition for
allowances upon the account of Commissioner
for Sick and Wounded in the former war with
Holland.^
Sth. His Majesty, alarmed by the great fleet of
the Dutch (whilst we had a very inconsiderable
one), went down to Chatham ; their fleet was well
prepared, and out, before we were in readiness, or
had any considerable number to have encountered
them, had there been occasion, to the great reproach
of the nation ; whilst, being in profound peace, there
was a mighty land-army, which there was no need
of, and no force at sea, where only was the appre-
hension ; but the army was doubtless kept and
increased, in order to bring in and countenance
Popery, the King beginning to discover his inten-
tion, by many instances pursued by the Jesuits,
against his first resolution to alter nothing in the
Church-Establishment, so that it appeared there
can be no reliance on Popish promises.
ISth. The Kmg enjoining the ministers to
read his Declaration for giving liberty of conscience
(as it was styled) in all the churches of England,
^ [See ante, vol, ii. p. 218.]
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this evening, six Bishops, Bath and Wells,^ Peter-
borough,* Ely,* Chichester,* St Asaph,* and Bristol,*
in the name of all the rest of the Bishops, came to
his Majesty to petition him, that he would not
impose the reading of it to the several congregations
within their dioceses ; not that they were averse to
the publishing it for want of due tenderness towards
Dissenters, in relation to whom they should be
willing to come to such a temper as should be
thought fit, when that matter might be considered
and settled in Parliament and Convocation ; but
that, the declaration being founded on such a
dispensing power as might at pleasure set aside all
laws ecclesiastical and civil, it appeared to them
illegal, as it had done to the Parliament in 1661
and 1672, and that it was a point of such con-
sequence, that they could not so far make them-
selves parties to it, as the reading of it in church
in time of Divine Service amounted to.
The King was so far incensed at this address,
that he with threatening expressions commanded
them to obey him in reading it at their perils, and
so dismissed them.
20th May. I went to Whitehall Chapel, where,
after the morning Lessons, the Declaration was read
by one of the Choir who used to read the Chapters.
I hear it was in the Abbey Church, Westminster,
but almost universally forborne throughout all
London : the consequences of which a little time
will show.
25th. All the discourse now was about the
Bishops refusing to read the injunction for the
abolition of the Test, etc. It seems the injunction
came so crudely from the Secretary's office, that it
was neither sealed nor signed in form, nor had any
^ Thomas Ken. ^ Thomas White. • Francis Turner.
* John Lake. » William Lloyd,
^ Sir Jonathan Trelawny^ Bart.
1688 JOHN EVELYN 288
lawyer been consulted, so as the Bishops, who took
all imaginable advice, put the Court to great
difficulties how to proceed against them. Great
were the consults, and a proclamation was expected
all this day; but nothing was done. The action
of the Bishops was universally applauded, and
reconciled many adverse parties, Papists only ex-
cepted, who were now exceedingly perplexed, and
violent courses were every moment expected.
Report was, that the Protestant secular Lords and
Nobility would abet the Clergy.
The Queen- Dowager, hitherto bent on her return
into Portugal, now on the sudden, on allegation of
a great debt owing her by his Majesty disabling
her, declares her resolution to stay.
News arrived of the most prodigious earthquake
that was almost ever heard of, subverting the city
of Lima and country in Peru, with a dreadful
inundation following it.
%th June. This day, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, with the Bishops of Ely, Chichester, St.
Asaph, Bristol, Peterborough, and Bath and Wells,
were sent from the Privy Council prisoners to the
Tower, for refusing to give bail for their appear-
ance, on their not reading the Declaration for
liberty of conscience ; they refused to give bail,
as it would have prejudiced their peerage. The
concern of the people for them was wonderful,
infinite crowds on their knees begging their blessing,
and praying for them, as they passed out of the
barge along the Tower-wharf.
10th. A young Prince bom,^ which will cause
disputes.
About two o'clock, we heard the Tower-ordnance
discharged, and the bells ring for the birth of a
Prince of Wales. This was very surprising, it
1 [James Francis Edward Stuart^ 1688-1766^ afterwards known
as the Chevalier de St. George, or the " Old Pretender."]
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having been universally given out that her Majesty
did not look till the next month.
18th June. I went to the Tower to see the
Bishops, visited the Archbishop and Bishops of
Ely, St Asaph, and Bath and Wells.
14M. Dined with my Lord Chancellor.
15th. Being the first day of Term, the Bishops
were brought to Westminster on Habeas Corpus,
when the indictment was read, and they were
called on to plead ; their Counsel objected tiiat the
warrant was illegal ; but, after long debate, it was
overruled, and they pleaded. The Court then
offered to take bail for their appearance ; but this
they refused, and at last were dismissed on their
own recognisances to appear that day fortnight ;
the Archbishop in £200, the Bishops £100 each.
17th. Was a day of thanksgiving in London
and ten miles about for the young Prince's birth ;
a form of prayer made for the purpose by the
Bishop of Rochester.
29th. They appeared ; the trial lasted from nine
in the morning to past six in the evening, when
the Jury retired to consider of their verdict, and
the Court adjourned to nine the next morning.
The Jury were locked up till that time, eleven of
them being for an acquittal ; but one (Arnold, a
brewer) would not consent At length he agreed
with the others. The Chief- Justice, Wright, be-
haved with great moderation and civility to the
Bishops. Allibone,^ a Papist, was strongly against
them ; but Holloway * and Powell • being of
opinion in their favour, they were acquitted.
When this was heard, there was great rejoicing;
and there was a lane of people from the King's
Bench to the waterside, on their knees, as the
1 [Sir Richard Aiabone, or Allibond, 1 636-88.]
2 Sir Richard Holloway, d. l695].
8 [Sir John Powell, 16SS-96.]
1688 JOHN EVELYN 285
Bishops passed and repassed, to beg their blessing.
Bonfires were made that night, and bells rung,
which was taken very ill at Court, and an appear-
ance of nearly sixty Earls and Lords, etc., on the
bench, did not a little comfort them ; but indeed
they were all along full of comfort and cheerful.
Note, they denied to pay the Lieutenant of the
Tower (Hales, who used them very surlily) any
fees, ailing that none were due.
The night was solemnised with bonfires, and
other fireworks, etc.
2nd July. The two judges, Holloway and
Powell, were displaced.
8rd. T w^ent with Dr. Godolphin and his brother
Sir William to St Albans, to see a library he
would have bought of the widow of Dr. Cartwright,
late Archdeacon of St. Albans, a very good col-
lection of books, especially in divinity ; he was to
give £800 for them. Having seen the great Churchy
now newly repaired by a public contribution, we
returned home.
Sth. One of the King's chaplains preached before
the Princess on Exodus xiv. 18, ^^ Stand still, and
behold the salvation of the Lord," which he applied
so boldly to the present conjuncture of the Church
of England, that more could scarce be said to
encourage desponders. The Popish priests were
not able to carry their cause against their learned
adversaries, who confounded them both by their
disputes and writings.
12th. The camp now began at Hounslow ; but
the nation was in high discontent
Colonel Titus, Sir Henry Vane (son of him who
was executed for his treason),^ and some other of
the Presbyterians and Independent party, were
sworn of the Privy Council, from hopes of thereby
diverting that party from going over to the Bishops
1 [Le. Sir Harry Vane, 16IS-62. See ante, vol. ii. p. 11 6.]
0
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and Church of England, which now they began to
do» foreseeing the design of the Papists to descend
and take in their most hateful of heretics (as they
at other times expressed them to be) to eflFect their
own ends, now evident ; the utter extirpation of
the Church of England first, and then the rest
would follow.
Ytth July. This night the fireworks were played
off, that had been prepared for the Queen's up-
sitting. We saw them to great advantage; they
were very fine, and cost some thousands of pounds,
in the pyramids, statues, etc; but were spent too
soon for so long a preparation.
26M. I went to Lambeth to visit the Arch-
bishop,^ whom I found very cheerful.
\Qth August. Dr. Tenison now told me there
would suddenly be some great thing discovered.
This was the Prince of Orange intending to come
over.
\Sth. I went to Althorp,* in Northamptonshire,
seventy miles. A coach and four horses took up
me and my son at Whitehall, and carried us to
Dunstable, where we arrived and dined at noon, and
from thence another coach and six horses carried
us to Althorp, four miles beyond Northampton,
where we arrived by seven o'clock that evening.
Both these coaches were hired for me by that noble
Countess of Sunderland, who invited me to her
house at Althorp, where she entertained me and
my son with very extraordinary kindness ; I staid
till the Thursday.
\%th. Dr. Jeffryes, the minister of Althorp,
who was my Lord's Chaplain when ambassador
in France, preached the shortest discourse I ever
heard ; but what was defective in the amplitude of
his sermon, he had supplied in the largeness and
1 [Sancroft.]
^ See a fonner visit to this place, vol. ii. p. 382.
.fe* i
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convenience of the parsonage- house, which the
Doctor (who had at least £600 a year in spiritual
advancement) had new built, and made fit for a
person of quality to live in, with gardens and all
accommodation according therewith.
My lady carried us to see Lord Northampton's *
seat, a very strong large house, built with stone,
not altogether modern. They were enlarging the
garden, in which was nothing extraordinary, except
the iron gate opening into the park, which indeed
was very good work, wrought in flowers painted
with blue and gilded. There is a noble walk of
elms towards the front of the house by the bowling-
green. I was not in any room of the house besides
a lobby looking into the garden, where my Lord
and his new Countess (Sir Stephen Fox*s daughter,
whom I had known from a child) entertained the
Countess and her daughter the Countess of Arran,
(newly married to the son of the Duke of
Hamilton),' with so little good grace, and so dully,
that our visit was very short, and so we returned to
Althorp, twelve miles distant
The house, or rather palace, at Althorp, is a
noble uniform pile in form of a half H, built of
brick and freestone, balustered and a la modeme ;
the hall is well, the staircase excellent ; the rooms
of state, galleries, offices and furniture, such as may
become a great prince. It is situate in the midst
of a garden, exquisitely planted and kept, and all
this in a park walled in with hewn stone, planted
with rows and walks of trees, canals and fish-ponds,
and stored with game. And, what is above all
this, governed by a lady, who without any show
of solicitude, keeps ever3i:hing in such admirable
order, both within and without, from the garret to
the cellar, that I do not believe there is any in this
nation, or in any other, that exceeds her in such
1 [George, fourth Earl, d, 1727.] « [See ante, p. 227.]
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exact order, without ostentation, but substantiaUy
great and noble. The meanest servant is lodged so
neat and cleanly ; the service at the several tables,
the good order and decency — in a word, the entire
economy is perfectly becoming a wise and noble
person. She is one who for her distinguished
esteem of me from a long and worthy friendship, I
must ever honour and celebrate. I wish from my
soul the Lord her husband (whose parts and abilities
are otherwise conspicuous) was as worthy of her, as
by a fatal apostasy^ and court-ambition he has made
himself unworthy ! This is what she deplores, and
it renders her as much ajfiiction as a lady of great soul
and much prudence is capable of. The Countess
of Bristol, her mother, a grave and honourable lady,
has the comfort of seeing her daughter and grand-
children under the same economy, especially Mr.
Charles Spencer,* a youth of extraordinary hopes,
very learned for his age, and ingenious, and under a
governor of great worth. Happy were it, could as
much be said of the elder brother, the Lord
Spencer,' who, rambling about the world, dishonours
both his name and his family, adding sorrow to
sorrow to a mother, who has taken all imaginable
care of his education. There is a daughter very
young married to the Earl of Clancarty, who has a
great and fair estate in Ireland, but who yet gives
no great presage of worth, — so universally con-
taminated is the youth of this corrupt and
abandoned age ! But this is again recompensed
by my Lord Arran, a sober and worthy gentle-
man, who has espoused the Lady Ann Spencer,
1 j^e renounced Protestantism in 1688.]
^ The eldest son (see ante, p. 68) dying without issue, this
Charles succeeded to the title and estate as third Earl of
Sunderland^ and manying in 1700 as his second wife Anne
Churchill^ second daughter and at length co-heiress to John
Duke of Marlborough^ his son by her succeeded to that title.
< [See ante, p. 68.]
i«88 JOHN EVELYN 289
a young lady of admirable accomplishments and
virtue.
28rd August. I left this noble place and
conversation, my lady having provided carriages to
convey us back in the same manner as we ivent,
and a dinner being prepared at Dunstable against
our arrivaL Northampton, having been lately
burnt and re-edified, is now become a town that for
the beauty of the buildings, especially the church
and townhouse, may compare with the neatest in
Italy itself.
Dr. Sprat, Bishop of Rochester, wrote a very
honest and handsome letter to the Commissioners
Ecclesiastical, excusing himself from sitting any
longer among them, he by no means approving of
their prosecuting the Clergy who refused to read
the Declaration for liberty of conscience, in pre-
judice of the Church of England.
The Dutch make extraordinary preparations
both at sea and land, which with the no small
progress Popery makes among us, puts us to many
difficulties. The Popish Irish soldiers commit
many murders and insults ; the whole nation
disaffected, and in apprehensions.
After long trials of the doctors to bring up the
little Prince of Wales by hand (so many of her
Majesty's children having died infants) not suc-
ceeding, a country-nurse, the wife of a tile-maker, is
taken to give it suck.
\9ith September. I went to London, where I
found the Court in the utmost consternation on
report of the Prince of Orange's landing ; which
put Whitehall into so panic a fear, that I could
hardly believe it possible to find such a change.
Writs were issued in order to a Parliament, and
a declaration to back the good order of elections,
with great professions of maintaining the Church
of England, but without giving any sort of satisfac-
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tion to the people, who showed their high discontent
at several things in the Gk)yemment
Earthquakes had utterly demolished the ancient
Smyrna, and several other places in Greece, Italy,
and even in the Spanish Indies, forerunners of
greater calamities. God Almighty preserve His
Church and all who put themselves under the
shadow of His wings, till these things be overpast !
80th September. The Court in so extraordinary
a consternation, on assurance of the Prince of
Orange's intention to land, that the writs sent
forth for a Parliament were recalled.
7th October. Dr. Tenison preached at St.
Martin's on 2 Tim. iii. 16, showing the Scriptures
to be our only rule of faith, and its perfection
above all traditions. After which, near 1000
devout persons partook of the Communion. The
sermon was chiefly occasioned by a Jesuit, who in
the Masshouse on the Sunday before had disparaged
the Scripture and railed at our translation, which
some present contradicting, they pulled him out of
the pulpit, and treated him very coarsely, insomuch
that it was like to create a great disturbance in the
City.
Hourly expectation of the Prince of Orange's
invasion heightened to that degree, that his Majesty
thought fit to abrogate the Commission for the
dispensing Power (but retaining his own right still
to dispense with all laws) and restore the ejected
Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford. In the
meantime, he called over 5000 Irish, and 4000
Scots, and continued to remove Protestants and
put in Papists at Portsmouth and other places
of trust, and retained the Jesuits about him,
increasing the universal discontent It brought
people to so desperate a pass, that they seemed
passionately to long for and desire the landing
of that Prince, whom they looked on to be their
1688 JOHN EVELYN 241
deliverer from Popish tyranny, praying inces-
santly for an east wind, which was said to be the
only hindrance of his expedition with a numerous
army ready to make a descent To such a strange
temper, and unheard of in former times, was this
poor nation reduced, and of which I was an eye-
witness* The apprehension was (and with reason)
that his Majesty s forces would neither at land nor
sea oppose them with that vigour requisite to repel
invaders.
The late imprisoned Bishops were now called to
reconcile matters, and the Jesuits hard at work to
foment confusion among the Protestants by their
usual tricks. A letter was sent to the Archbishop
of Canterbury,^ informing him, from good hands, of
^ By Evelyn himself. The letter was as follows : —
"My Lord^ The honor and repatation which 7' Grace's piety,
prudence^ and signal courage^ have justly merited and obtained, not
onely from the Sons of the Church of England, but even uuiversaly
from those Protestants amongst us who are Dissenters from her dis-
cipline ; God Almighty's providence and blessing upon v' Grace's
yigilancy and extraordinary endeavours will not su&r to be aiminished
in this conjuncture. The conversation I now and then have with some
in place, who have the opportunity of knowing what is doing in the
most seacret recesses and cabals of our Churches adversaries, obliges
me to acquaint you, that the calling of y' Grace and the rest of the
Lfl* Bishops to Court, and what has there of late ben required of
you, is onely to create a jealousie and suspicion amongst well-meaning
people of such compliances as it is certaine they have no cause to appre-
hend. The plan of this and of all that ¥r^ is to follow of seeming
fiivour thence^ is wholly drawn by the Jesuites^ who are at this time
more than ever buisy to make divisions amongst us, all other arts and
mechanisms having hitherto failed them. They have, with other
things, contriv'd that y' Lordships the Bishops should give his Ma^
advice separately, without oilling any of the rest of the reeres, which,
tho' maliciously suggested, spreads generally about the towne. I do
not at all question but y** Grace will speedily prevent the operation
of this venome, and that you will thinke it highly necessary so to
do, that your Grace is also injoyn'd to compose a form of prayer,
wherein the Pr. of O. is expressly to be named the Invader : of this I
presume not to say any thing ; but for as much as in all the Declara*
tions, etc, which have hitherto been published in pretended fiivour of
the Church of England, there is not once the least mention of the
Unarmed or Prategtant Religion, but onely of the Church qf England as by
Law established, which Church the Papists tell us is the Church qf Borne,
which is (say they) the Catholic Cnurch of England that onely is
VOL. Ill R
242 THE DIARY OF im
what was contriving by them. A paper of what
the Bishops advised his Majesty was published.
The Bishops were enjoined to prepare a form of
prayer against the feared invasion. A pardon
published. Soldiers and mariners daily pressed.
14M October. The King's birthday. No guns
from the Tower as usual The sun eclipsed at its
rising. This day signal for the victory of WiUiam
the Conqueror against Harold, near Battle, in
Sussex. The wind, which had been hitherto west,
was east all this day. Wonderful expectation of
the Dutch fleet. Public prayers ordered to be read
in the churches against invasion.
2Sth. A tumult in London on the rabble de-
molishing a Popish chapel that had been set up in
the City.
29th. Lady Sunderland acquainted me with his
Majesty's taking away the Seals from Lord Sunder-
land,^ and of her being with the Queen to intercede
for him.' It is conceived that he had of late grown
remiss in pursuing the interest of the Jesuitical
counsels ; some reported one thing, some another ;
establish'd by Law ; the Church of England in the Reformed sense so
established, is but by an usurp'd authority. The antiauity of that
would by tiiese words be explained, and utterly defeate this false and
subdolous construction, and take off all exceptions whatsoever ; if in
all extraordinary offices, upon these occasions, the words Rrformed and
Protestant, were added to that of the Church of England by Law ettab-
lished. And whosoever threatens to invade or come against us, to y^
prejudice of that Churchy in God's name, be they Dutch or Irish, let
us heartily pray and fight against them. My Lord, this is, I confesse,
a bold, but honest period : and, tho I am well assured that y'
Grace is perfectly acquainted with all this before, and therefore may
blame my impertinence, as that does dXXor/Moeri0'irorc<r ; yet I am con-
fident you wul not reprove the zeale of one who most humblv beggs
your Grace's pardon, with y^ blessing. Lend. , 10 Oct. 1688. " (From a
copy in Evelyn's handwriting.) SeejOM^, under 15th January, 1689.
1 [See aniey p. 192.1
He obtained his pardon from the King on the 28th. ^' I
hope you wilbe more faithfull to your next master than you have
been to me" — said James in granting it and dismissing him
(Bramston's Autobiographf, 1845, p. 327).]
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but there was doubtless some secret betrayed,
which time may discover.
There was a Council called, to which were
summoned the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Judges, the Lord Mayor, etc. The Queen-
Dowager, and all the ladies and lords who were
present at the Queen-Consort's labour, were to give
their testimony upon oath of the Prince of Wales's
birth, recorded both at the Council-Board and at
the Chancery a day or two after. This procedure
was censured by some as below his Majesty to
condescend to, on the talk of the people.^ It was
remarkable that on this occasion the Archbishop,
Marquis of Halifax, the Earls of Clarendon and
Nottingham, refused to sit at the Council-table
amongst Papists, and their bold telling his Majesty
that whatever was done whilst such sat amongst
them was unlawful and incurred prcemunire ; — at
least, if what I heard be true.
With October. I dined with Lord Preston,^ made
Secretary of State, in the place of the Earl of
Sunderland.'
Visited Mr. Boyle,* when came in the Duke of
Hamilton^ and Earl of Burlington. The Duke
told us many particulars of Mary Queen of Scots,
and her amours with the Italian favourite, etc.
81^/. My birthday, being the 68th year of my
age. O blessed Lord, grant that as I grow in
years, so may I improve in grace I Be Thou my
^ [Bumet gives a long account of this council (Huiaiy of Hit
Own Time, 1724, i. pp. 785-86).]
^ ['' October 29. Gune a report as if the Dutch fleet had been
much shattered by the storm; that my Lord Sunderland was
certainly out^ and my Lord Preston Secretary of State. The
King all this time was making great preparations and levies for
his army^ and had brought it by computation to 6000 horse and
dragoons, and 38,000 foot" (Reresby's Memoirt, 1875, p. 409).]
8 [See ante, p. 242.] * [See ante, vol. ii. p. 11 O.J
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 150.]
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Protector this following year, and preserve me and
mine from those dangers and great confusions that
threaten a sad revolution to this sinful nation !
Defend Thy Church, our holy religion, and just
laws, disposing his Majesty to listen to sober and
healing counsels, that if it be Thy blessed will,
we may still enjoy that happy tranquillity which
hitherto Thou hast continued to us ! Amen,
Amen !
1^^ November. Dined with Lord Preston, with
other company, at Sir Stephen Fox's. Continual
alarms of the Prince of Orange, but no certainty.
Reports of his great losses of horse in the storm,
but without any assurance. A man was taken
with divers papers and printed manifestoes, and
carried to Newgate, after examination at the
Cabinet-Council. There was likewise a Declara-
tion of the States for satisfaction of all Public
Ministers at the Hague, except to the English and
the French. There was in that of the Prince's
an expression, as if the Lords both Spiritual and
Temporal had invited him over, with a deduction
of the causes of his enterprise. This made his
Majesty convene my Lord of Canterbury and the
other Bishops now in town, to give an account
of what was in the manifesto, and to enjoin them
to clear themselves by some public writing of this
disloyal charge.
27w/. It was now certainly reported by some
who saw the fleet, and the Prince embark, that
they sailed from the Brill on Wednesday morning,^
and that the Princess of Orange was there to
take leave of her husband.
4ih. Fresh reports of the Prince being landed
somewhere about Portsmouth, or the Isle of
^ [^'On the first of November O.S. we sailed out with the
eyening tide/' says Burnet (Hisiory of His Own Time, 17S4, i.
p. 787).]
J^^
1688 JOHN EVELYN 245
Wight, whereas it was thought it would have been
northward. The Court in great hurry.
5th November. I went to London; heard the
news of the Prince having landed at Torbay,*
coming with a fleet of near 700 sail, passing through
the Channel with so favourable a wind, that our
navy could not intercept, or molest them. This put
the King and Court into great consternation, they
were now employed in forming an army to stop
their further progress, for they were got into Exeter,
and the season and ways very improper for his
Majesty's forces to march so great a distance.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and some few of
the other Bishops and Lords in London, were sent
for to Whitehall, and required to set forth their
abhorrence of this invasion. They assured his
Majesty they had never invited any of the Prince's
party, or were in the least privy to it, and would
be ready to show all testimony of their loyalty;
but, as to a public declaration, being so few, they
desired that his Majesty would call the rest of
their brethren and Peers, that they might consult
what was fit to be done on this occasion, not think-
ing it right to publish anything without them, and
till they had themselves seen the Prince's Mani-
festo, in which it was pretended he was invited in
by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal. This did
not please the King ; so they departed.
A Declaration was published, prohibiting all
persons to see or read the Prince's Manifesto, in
which was set forth at large the cause of his
expedition, as there had been one before from the
States.
These are the beginnings of sorrow, unless God
in His mercy prevent it by some happy reconcilia-
tion of all dissensions among us. This, in all
likelihood, nothing can effect except a free Parlia-
^ [On the 5th November.]
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ment ; but this we cannot hope to see, whilst there
are any forces on either side. I pray God to
protect and direct the King for the best and truest
interest of his people 1 — I saw his Majesty touch for
the evil, Piten the Jesuit, and Warner officiating.
14M November. The Prince increases every
day in force. Several I^ords go in to him. Lord
Combury ^ carries some r^ments, and marches to
Honiton, the Prince's headquarters. The City of
London in disorder; the rabble pulled down the
nunnery newly bought by the Papists of Lord
Berkeley, at St John's. The Queen prepares to
go to Portsmouth for safety, to attend tlie issue
of this commotion, which has a dreadful aspect
18^. It was now a very hard frost The King
goes to Salisbury to rendezvous the army, and
return to London. Lord Delamere appears for
the Prince in Cheshire. The nobility meet in
Yorkshire. The Archbishop of Canterbury and
some Bishops, and such Peers as were in London,
address his Majesty to call a Parliament The
King invites all foreign nations to come over.
The French take all the Palatinate, and alarm the
Germans more than ever.
29th. I went to the Royal Society. We
adjourned tlie election of a President to 28rd April,
by reason of the public commotions, yet dined
together as of custom this day.
2nd December. Dr. Tenison preached at
St Martin s on Psalm xxxvi. 5, 6, 7, concerning
Providence. I received the blessed Sacrament
Afterwards, visited my Lord Godolphin, then
going with the Marquis of Halifax and Earl of
Nottingham as Commissioners to the Prince of
Orange; he told me they had little power.
Plymouth declared for the Prince. Bath, York,
Hull, Bristol, and all the eminent nobility and
1 [See ante, p. 188.]
1688 JOHN EVELYN 247
persons of quality through England, declare for the
Protestant religion and laws, and go to meet the
Prince, who every day sets forth new Declarations
against the Papists. The great favourites at Court,
Priests and Jesuits, fly or abscond. Everjrthing,
till now concealed, flies abroad in public print, and
is cried about the streets. Expectation of the
Prince coming to Oxford. The Prince of Wales
and great treasure sent privily to Portsmouth,^ the
Earl of Dover being Governor. Address from the
Fleet not grateful to his Majesty. The Papists
in oflices lay down their commissions, and fly.
Universal consternation amongst them; it looks
like a revolution.
1th December. My son went towards Oxford.
I returned home.
9th. Lord Sunderland meditates flight' The
rabble demolished all Popish chapels, and several
Papist lords and gentlemen's houses, especially that
of the Spanish Ambassador, which they pillaged,
and burnt his library.*
ISth. The King flies to sea, puts in at Fever-
sham for ballast ; is rudely treated by the people ;
comes back to Whitehall*
^ [He was brought back^ December 8 ; '' and on Sunday
nighty being the 9th^ the Queen with the Prince went about
twelve o'clock to a barge down the river secretly prepared,
and, the wind being fair, wafted over to Dunkirk '* (Reresby's
Memoirs^ 1875, p. 421).]
' [He had apparently already gone. '' He fled to Rotterdam,
disguised in a woman's dress^" in November, says the Did. Nat,
Biog.]
' [See ante, p. 67. According to Reresby, goods and plate
were taken from him to the value of one hundred thousand
pounds, much of which had been sent to him for security
{Memoirs, 1875, p. 422).]
* [Evelyn's rapid summary requires expansion. On the
morning of the 11th December, between two and three o'clock,
the King left Whitehall privately in a hackney coach provided
by Sir Edward Hales, Lieutenant of the Tower, whose servant
he pretended to be. This carried them to Milbank, where they
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The Prince of Orange is advanced to Windsor,
is invited by the King to St James's, the messenger
sent was the Elarl of Faversham, the General of
the Forces, who going without tnunpet, or pass-
port, is detained prisoner by the Prince, who accepts
the invitation, but requires his Majesty to retire to
some distant place, that his own guards may be
quartered about the Palace and City. This is
taken heinously, and the King goes privately to
Rochester ; is persuaded to come back ; comes on
the Sunday ; goes to mass, and dines in public, a
Jesuit saying grace (I was present).
nth December. That night was a Council ; his
Majesty refuses to assent to all the proposals ; goes
away again to Rochester.^
18^A. I saw the King take barge to Gravesend at
twelve o'clock — ^a sad sight I The Prince comes to
St James's, and fills Whitehall with Dutch guards.
A Council of Peers meet about an expedient to
call a Parliament ; adjourn to the House of Lords.
took boat for Vauxhall, throwing the Great Seal into the river.
They then went on in a carriage to Sheemess^ where a custom-
house-hoy was to convey them to France. A gale was blowing,
and they had to take in ballast at Sheppey. Putting out again,
they were boarded by a number of Faversham fishermen. ^' They
used the King . . . veiy incivilly," says Reresby, — ''took from His
Majesty 300 guineas, iHX he was worth at that time, and his sword.
When they knew it was the King, they offered to restore both ; the
King received the hitter, but not the first'* {Memoirs^ 1875, p. 424\
He was detained at Faversham for two days in the Mayors
house, and then allowed to go to Rochester ; but on the evening
of Sunday the l6th (see tf^rci) he was again at Whitehall.]
^ [Having been at Whitehall on the l6th, he was sent back
to Rochester on the 17th (Monday). On the night of Saturday,
the 22nd, he left Rochester, passed to the Medway, and, on the
morning of the 23rd boarded a smack which took him out of the
Thames. At 3 a.m. on Christmas Day, l688, he landed at the
little village of Ambleteuse in Brittany. His abdication is
usually dated from 1 1th December, when he first quitted White-
hall. " With this," says Burnet, " his reign ended " {History of
His Onm Time, 1724, i. p. 796)]
^A.Jna Jam
JOHN E\ ELYN 2*9
♦':t<ir. Einl of Peterborough, and divers*
1 lie Karl of Sunderland flies ; Sir
' ' • *s. Wjilker, and others, Uiken and
•. Ill jx<> to see tlu! PVi!u*e at St, Jarnes\,
• -'. iv a great Court. There I saw hinu
• f my acquaintance wlio came over
; ii:: is very stately, serious, and reserved.
I soldiers sent out of tovvn to disband
\vcll pleased.
r /fiber. The King passes into France,
• (^ueen and child w(*re gone a f«*w days
lN*ers and Siich C'onnnoners as were
t the Parlian^ent ut Oxford, being
• ( fiarles II. meeting, dtsire the Prince
•» take on hhn the disposar of the
'K till a convention of Lords and
. ..\\ niivt in full body* appiunted by
• ;!(TS to the sjues and boroi:ghs,
I \\iv\ novv (|uartercd upon nie a
■.1 *ir.A t'^lit horses.
■ . . Oi.-iy-jrs for the Prince of Wales
I' .u our church.
JtUitiftrii. A long frost «nd deep
»% ncs almost frozen over.
Lcd the Archbishop o^* Canterbury.
i the Hishops of St. Asj'])h,^ K.ly/
.!*•..* Pctcn'oroui»-Ii,^ iUid ChH-hcstcr,"
'. . If *,biiry and (^Jarenrlon. .^nr tic )rirc
' '-^ Advocate <)f Scotlan»i, and ihen
-: »^ Archbishon, etc. A^'tr ; -zixtrs
" .--v vM'ious matters were J* .^\^v4.svd,
\ .!«- \I\', gave thr {'••.' !.'s iv\'\ '•■ -i*
.• /•• K- .'\- .V ••»'':it of thfir "c • j»N"Ii iii #1 I'-t ' .
• *\f' *t lit" »J *;.:„''itt*r early if: i'*"*!^ J
* 1 uriK^r. ^ Ken. * VN lute. * I-i^'
■' ». p. I't'S.
»•/ ;•"
ie89 JOHN EVELYN 249
The Chancellor, Earl of Peterborough, and divers
others taken. The Earl of Sunderland flies ; Sir
Edward Hales, Walker, and others, taken and
secured.
All the world go to see the Prince at St. James's,
where there is a great Court There I saw him,
and several of my acquaintance who came over
with him. He is very stately, serious, and reserved.
The English soldiers sent out of town to disband
them ; not well pleased.
2^th December. The King passes into France,
whither the Queen and child were gone a few days
before.^
26th. The Peers and such Commoners as were
members of the Parliament at Oxford, being
the last of Charles II. meeting, desire the Prince
of Orange to take on him the disposal of the
public revenue till a convention of Lords and
Commons should meet in full body, appointed by
his circular letters to the shires and boroughs,
22nd January. I had now quartered upon me a
Lieutenant-Colonel and eight horses.
80tL This day prayers for the Prince of Wales
were first left off in our church.
1688-9: 7th January. A long frost and deep
snow ; the Thames almost frozen over. .
ISth. I visited the Archbishop of Canterbury,
where I found the Bishops of St Asaph,* Ely,
Bath and Wells,* Peterborough,* and Chichester,*
the Earls of Aylesbury and Clarendon, Sir George
Mackenzie ^ Lord- Advocate of Scotland, and then
came in a Scotch Archbishop, etc. After prayers
and dinner, divers serious matters were discoursed,
^ [See ante, p. 247. Louis XIV. gave the fugitives asylum at
St. Germain. There is an account of their reception in a letter
of Mme. de S^vign6 to her daughter early in l689.]
« Lloyd. » Turner. * Ken. * White. • Lake.
^ See ante, vol. ii. p. 268.
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concerning the present state of the Public, and
sorry I was to fmd there was as yet no accord in
the judgments of those of the Lords and Commons
who were to convene; some would have the
Princess made Queen without any more dispute,
others were for a Regency ; there was a Tory
party (then so called), who were for inviting his
Majesty again upon conditions; and there were
RepubUcarians who would make the Prince of
Orange like a Stadtholder. The Romanists were
busy among these several parties to bring them into
confusion : most for ambition or other interest, few
for conscience and moderate resolutions. I found
nothing of all this in this assembly of Bishops, who
were pleased to admit me into their discourses;
they were all for a Regency, thereby to salve their
oaths, and so all public matters to proceed in his
Majesty's name, by that to facilitate the calling
of a Parliament, according to the laws in being.
Such was the result of this meeting.
My Lord of Canterbury gave me great thanks
for the advertisement I sent him in October,^ and
assured me they took my counsel in that particular,
and that it came very seasonably.
I found by the Lord- Advocate * that the Bishops
of Scotland (who were indeed little worthy of that
character, and had done much mischief in that
Church) were now coming about to the true interest,
in this conjuncture which threatened to abolish the
whole hierarchy in that kingdom ; and therefore the
Scottish Archbishop and Lord- Advocate requested
the Archbishop of Canterbury to use his best
endeavours with the Prince to maintain the Church
there in the same state, as by law at present settled.
It now growing late, after some pnvate discourse
with his Grace, I took my leave, most of the Lords
being gone.
^ See ante, p. 241. ^ [Sir George Mackenzie.]
1689 JOHN EVELYN 251
The trial of the bishops was now printed.
The great convention being assembled the day
before, falling upon the question about the Govern-
ment, resolved that King James having by the
advice of the Jesuits and other wicked persons
endeavoured to subvert the laws of Church and
State, and deserted the kingdom, carrying away
the seals,^ etc., without any care for the manage-
ment of the government, had by demise abdicated
himself and whoUy vacated his right; they did
therefore desire the Lords' concurrence to their
vote, to place the crown on the next heir, the
Prince of Orange, for his life, then to the Princess,
his wife, and if she died without issue, to the
Princess of Denmark, and she failing, to the heirs
of the Prince, excluding for ever all possibility of
admitting a Roman Catholic.
27th Jarmary. I dined at the Admiralty, where
was brought in a child not twelve years old, the
son of one Dr. Clench, of the most prodigious
maturity of knowledge, for I cannot call it alto-
gether memory, but something more extraordinary.'
Mr. Pepys and myself examined him, not in any
method, but with promiscuous questions, which
required judgment and discernment to answer so
readily and pertinently. There was not anything in
chronology, history, geography, the several systems
of astronomy, courses of the stars, longitude, lati-
tude, doctrine of the spheres, courses and sources
of rivers, creeks, harbours, eminent cities, bound-
aries and bearings of countries, not only in Europe,
but in any other part of the earth, which he did
^ [The Great Seal was thrown into the Thames upon the
King s first attempt to escape (see ante, p. 248 n.).]
^ See a similar account of the afterwards celebrated William
Wotton, ante, p. 31. Dr. Andrew Clench was murdered in a
hackney-coach in 1692, and a man named Henry Harrison was
convicted and hanged for the murder although he denied his
guilt (see poHy p. 291).
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not readily resolve and demonstrate his knowledge
of, readily drawing out with a pen anything he
would describe. He was able not only to repeat
the most famous things which are left us in any
of the Greek or Roman histories, monarchies, re-
publics, wars, colonies, exploits by sea and land, but
all the sacred stories of the Old and New Testa-
ment; the succession of all the monarchies, Baby-
lonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, with all the lower
Emperors, Popes, Heresiarchs, and Councils, what
they were called about, what they determined, or
in the controversy about Easter, the tenets of
the Gnostics, Sabellians, Arians, Nestorians; the
difference between St Cyprian and Stephen about
re-baptization ; the schisms. We leaped from that
to other things totally different, to Olympic years,
and synchronisms ; we asked him questions which
could not be resolved without considerable medita-
tion and judgment, nay of some particulars of the
Civil Laws, of the Digest and Code. He gave a
stupendous account of both natural and moral
philosophy, and even in metaphysics.
Having thus exhausted ourselves rather than this
wonderful child, or angel rather, for he was as
beautiful and lovely in countenance as in knowledge,
we concluded with asking him if, in all he had read
or heard of, he had ever met with an5rthing which
was like this expedition of the Prince of Orange,
with so small a force to obtain three great kingdoms
without any contest After a little thought, he
told us that he knew of nothing which did more
resemble it than the coming of Constantine the
Great out of Britain, through France and Italy, so
tedious a march, to meet Maxentius, whom he
overthrew at Pons Milvius with very little conflict,
and at the very gates of Rome, which he entered
and was received with triumph, and obtained the
empire, not of three kingdoms only, but of all the
ie89 JOHN EVELYN 258
then known world. He was perfect in the Latin
authors^ spake French naturally, and gave us a
description of France, Italy, Savoy, Spain, ancient
and modernly divided ; as also of ancient Greece,
Scythia, and northern countries and tracts : we
left questioning further. He did this without any
set or formal Fepetitions, as one who had learned
things without book, but as if he minded other
things, going about the room, and toying with a
parrot there, and as he was at dinner {tanmiam alivd
agenSj as it were) seeming to be full of play, of a
lively, sprightly temper, always smiling, and ex-
ceeding pleasant, without the least levity, rudeness,
or childishness.
His father assured us he never imposed anything
to charge his memory by causing him to get things
by heart, not even the rules of grammar ; but his
tutor (who was a Frenchman) read to him, first in
French, then in Latin ; that he usually played
amongst other boys four or five hours every day,
and that he was as earnest at his play as at his
study. He was perfect in arithmetic, and now
newly entered into Greek. In sum {fiorresco
referens)^ I had read of divers forward and pre-
cocious youths, and some I have known, but I
never did either hear or read of anything like to this
sweet child, if it be right to call him child who has
more knowledge than most men in the world. I
counselled his father not to set his heart too much
on this jewel,
Immodicis brevis est aetas^ et rara senectus^^
as I myself learned by sad experience in my most
dear child Richard,* many years since, who, dying
before he was six years old, was both in shape and
countenance and pregnancy of learning, next to a
prodigy.
1 [Martial, Epp, Bk. VI. xxix. 11. 7, 8.]
^ See ante, vol. ii. p. 1 27.
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29th January. The votes of the House of
Commons being carried up by Mr. Hampden,^ their
chairman, to the Lords, I got a station by the
Prince's lodgings at the door of the lobby to the
House, and heard much of the debate, which lasted
very long. Lord Derby * was in the chair (for the
House was resolved into a grand committee of the
whole House) ; after all had spoken, it came to the
question, which was carried by three voices against
a Regency, which 51 were for, 54 against; the
minority alleging the danger of dethroning Kings,
and scrupling many passages and expressions in
the vote of the Commons, too long to set down
particularly. Some were for sending to his Majesty
with conditions : others that the King could do no
wrong, and that the mal-administration was charge-
able on his ministers. There were not more than
eight or nine bishops, and but two against the
Regency; the Archbishop was absent, and the
clergy now began to change their note, both in
pulpit and discourse, on their old passive obedience,
so as people began to talk of the bishops being cast
out of the House. In short, things tended to
dissatisfaction on both sides; add to this, the
morose temper of the Prince of Orange, who
showed little countenance to the noblemen and
others, who expected a more gracious and cheerful
reception when they made their court. The
English army also was not so in order, and firm
to his interest, nor so weakened but that it might
give interruption. Ireland was in an ill posture as
well as Scotland. Nothing was yet done towards
a settlement God of His infinite mercy compose
these things, that we may be at last a Nation and a
Church under some fixed and sober establishment 1
1 [See anUy p. 61.]
^ [William George Richard Stanley^ ninth Earl of Derbj,
1656-1702.]
1689 JOHN EVELYN 255
80th January. The anniversary of King Charles
the First's martyrdom ; but in all the public offices
and pulpit prayers, the collects, and litany for the
King and Queen were curtailed and mutilated.
Dr. Sharp ^ preached before the Commons, but was
disliked, and not thanked for his sermon.
81^. At our church (the next day being ap-
pointed a Thanksgiving for deliverance by the Prince
of Orange, with prayers purposely composed), our
lecturer preached in the afternoon a very honest
sermon, showing our duty to God for the many
signal deliverances of our Church, without touching
on politics.
Qth February. The King's coronation-day was
ordered not to be observed, as hitherto it had been.
The Convention of the Lords and Commons
now declare the Prince and Princess of Orange
King and Queen of England, France, and Ireland
(Scotland being an independent kingdom), the
Prince and Princess being to enjoy it jointly
during their lives ; but the executive authority to
be vested in the Prince during life, though all
proceedings to run in both names, and that it
should descend to their issue, and for want of such,
to the Princess Anne of Denmark and her issue,
and in want of such, to the heirs of the body of
the Prince, if he survive, and that failing, to
devolve to the Parliament, as they should think fit
These produced a conference with the Lords, when
also there were presented heads of such new laws
as were to be enacted. It is thought on these
conditions they will be proclaimed.
There was much contest about the King's abdica-
tion, and whether he had vacated the government.
The Earl of Nottingham ^ and about twenty Lords,
and many Bishops, entered their protests, but the
concurrence was great against them.
1 [See ante, p. 206.] 2 ["See arUe, p. 243.]
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The Princess hourly expected. Forces sending
to Ireland^ that kingdom being in great danger by
the Earl of TyrconneFs army, and expectations
from France coming to assist them, but that Kuig
was busy in invading Flanders, and encountering
the German Princes. It is likely that this will be
the most remarkable summer for action, which has
happened in many years.
2lst February. Dr. Burnet preached at St.
James's on the obligation to walk worthy of God^s
particular and signal deUverance of the Nation and
Church.
I saw the new Queen and King proclaimed the
very next day after her coming to Whitehall,
Wednesday, 18th February, with great accla-
mation and general good reception. Bonfires,
bells, guns, etc. It was believed that both,
especially the Princess, would have showed some
(seeming) reluctance at least, of assuming her
father's Crown, and made some apology, testifying
by her regret that he should by his mismanagement
necessitate the Nation to so extraordinary a pro-
ceeding, which would have showed very hand-
somely to the world, and according to the character
given of her piety ; consonant also to her husband's
first declaration, that there was no intention of
deposing the King, but of succouring the Nation ;
but nothing of all this appeared; she came into
Whitehall laughing and joUy, as to a wedding, so
as to seem quite transported. She rose early the
next morning, and in her undress, as it was re-
ported, before her women were up, went about
from room to room to see the convenience of
Whitehall; lay in the same bed and apartment
where the late Queen lay, and within a night or
two sat down to play at basset, as the Queen her
predecessor used to do. She smiled upon and
talked to everybody, so that no change seemed
1689 JOHN EVELYN 257
to have taken place at Court since her last going
away, save that iniSnite crowds of people thronged
to see her, and that she went to our prayers. This
carriage was censured by many. She seems to be
of a good nature, and that she takes nothing to
heart : whilst the Prince her husband has a thought-
ful countenance, is wonderful serious and silent
and seems to treat all persons alike gravely, and to
be very intent on affairs : Holland, Ireland, and
France calling for his care.
Divers Bishops and Noblemen are not at all
satisfied with this so sudden assumption of the
Crown, without any previous sending, and offering
some conditions to the absent King; or, on his
not returning, or not assenting to those conditions,
to have proclaimed him Regent; but the major
part of both Houses prevailed to make them King
and Queen immediately, and a crown was tempting.
This was opposed and spoken against with such
vehemence by Lord Clarendon (her own uncle),^
that it put him by all preferment, which must
doubtless have been as great as could have been
given him. My Lord of Rochester his brother,*
overshot himself, by the same carriage and stifl[hess,
which their friends thought they might have well
spared when they saw how it was like to be over-
ruled, and that it had been sufficient to have
declared their dissent with less passion, acquiescing
in due time.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and some of the
rest, on scruple of conscience and to salve the oaths
they had taken, entered their protests and hung
off*, especially the Archbishop, wno had not all this
while so much as appeared out of Lambeth. This
occasioned the wonder of many who observed with
what zeal they contributed to the Prince's expe-
dition, and all the while also rejecting any proposals
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 214.] ' [See ante, p. 41.]
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of sending again to the absent King; that they
should now raise scruples, and such as created much
division among the people, greatly rejoicing the
old courtiers, and especially the Papists.
Another objection was, the invalidity of what
was done by a Convention only, and liie as yet
unabrogated laws ; this drew them to make them-
selves on the 22nd [February] ^ a Parliament, the
new King passing the Act with the crown on
his head. The lawyers disputed, but necessity
prevailed, the Government requiring a speedy
settlement
Innumerable were the crowds, who solicited
for, and expected offices; most of the old ones
were turned out Two or three white staves were
disposed of some days before, as Lord Steward, to
the Earl of Devonshire ; * Treasurer of the House-
hold, to Lord Newport;' Lord Chamberlain to
the King, to my Lord of Dorset ; * but there were
as yet none in offices of the Civil Government save
the Marquis of Halifax as Privy Seal. A council
of thirty was chosen. Lord Derby president, but
neither Chancellor nor Judges were yet declared,
the new Great Seal not yet finished.
Sth March. Dr. Tillotson, Dean of Canterbury,
made an excellent discourse on Matt. v. 44, ex-
horting to charity and forgiveness of enemies; I
suppose purposely, the new Parliament being
furious about impeaching those who were ob-
noxious, and as their custom has ever been, going
on violently, without reserve, or moderation, whilst
wise men were of opinion the most notorious
offenders being named and excepted, an Act of
Amnesty would be more seasonable, to pacify the
minds of men in so general a discontent of the
nation, especially of those who did not expect to
• IS
1 Gul. and Mar. c. Ij ^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 56J]
See ante, vol. ii. p. lo2.] * See ante, vol. ii. p. S60.]
1689 JOHN EVELYN 259
see the government assumed without any regard
to the absent King, or proving a spontaneous
abdication, or that the birth of the Prince of Wales
was an imposture; five of the Bishops also still
refusing to take the new oath.^
In the meantime, to gratify the people, the
Hearth-Tax was remitted for ever ; ^ but what was
intended to supply it, besides present great taxes
on land, is not named.
The King abroad was now furnished by the
French King with money and officers for an expe-
dition to Ireland. The great neglect in not more
timely preventing that from hence, and the dis-
turbances in Scotland, give apprehensions of great
difficulties, before any settlement can be perfected
here, whilst the Parliament dispose of tne great
offices amongst themselves. The Great Seal,
Treasury and Admiralty put into commission of
many unexpected persons, to gratify the more ; so
that by the present appearance of things (unless
God Almighty graciously interpose and give success
in Ireland and settle Scotland) more trouble seems
to threaten the nation than could be expected. In
the interim, the new King refers all to the Parlia-
ment in the most popular manner, but is very slow,
in providing against all these menaces, besides
finding difficulties in raising men to send abroad ;
the former army, which had never seen any service
hitherto, receiving their pay and passing their
summer in an idle scene of a camp at Hounslow,
unwilling to engage, and many disaffected, and
scarce to be trusted.
29th March. The new King much blamed for
neglecting Ireland, now like to be ruined by the
^ [Seven bishops refused^ i,e. Bath and Wells^ Chichester^ EIj,
Gloucester^ Norwich^ Peterborough, and Worcester, in addition
to the Archbishop of Canterbury. J
2 [1 Gul. and Mar. c. 10.]
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Lord Tyrconnd and his Popish party, too strong
for the Protestants. Wonderful uncertainty where
King James was, whether in France or Ireland.
The Scots seem as yet to favour King William,
rejecting King James's letter to them, yet declaring
nothing positively. Soldiers in England discon-
tented. Parliament preparing the coronation-oath.
J^resbyterians and Dissenters displeased at the
vote for preserving the Protestant religion as estab-
lished by law, without mentioning what they were
to have as to indulgence.
The Archbishop of Canterbury ^ and four ' other
Bishops refusing to come to Parliament, it was
deliberated whether they should incur Prcemunire ;
but it was thought fit to let this fall, and be con-
nived at, for fear of the people, to whom these
Prelates were very dear, for the opposition they
had given to Popery.
Court- offices distributed amongst Parliament-
men. No considerable fleet as yet sent forth.
Things far from settled as was expected, by reason
of the slothful, sickly temper of the new King,
and the ParUament's unmindfulness of Ireland,
which is likely to prove a sad omission.
The Confederates beat the French out of the
Palatinate, which they had most barbarously ruined.
nth April. I saw the procession to and from
the Abbey-Church of Westminster, with the great
feast in Westminster-Hall, at the coronation of
King William and Queen Mary. What was
1 [Sancrofl.]
^ Burnet names onlj three besides the Archbishop, namely,
Thomas of Worcester, Lake of Chichester, Ken of Bath and
Wells. He says (HUtory of His Onm Time, 17S4, ii. pp. 6, 7)
that at the first landing of the Prince, Ken ^^ declared heartily
for him," and advised all to go to him ; but went with great
heat into the notion of a Regent. After this, he changed his
mind, came to town with intent to take the oaths, but again
changed, and never did take them.
1689 JOHN EVELYN 261
different from former coronations, was some alter-
ation in the coronation-oath. Dr. Burnet, now
made Bishop of Sarum, preached with great
applause. Ihe Parliament -men had scaffolds
and places which took up one whole side of the
Hall. When the King and Queen had dined, the
ceremony of the Champion, and other services by
tenure were performed. The Parliament-men were
feasted in the Exchequer-chamber, and had each of
them a gold medal given them, worth five-and-
forty shillings. On one side were the effigies of
the King and Queen inclining one to the other;
on the reverse was Jupiter throwing a bolt at
Phaeton, the words, " Ne tottis absumatur *' : which
was but dull, seeing they might have had out of
the poet something as apposite. The sculpture
was verv mean.
Much of the splendour of the proceeding was
abated by the absence of divers who should have
contributed to it, there being but five Bishops, four
Judges (no more being yet sworn), and several
noblemen and great ladies wanting; the feast,
however, was mafin^ificent. The next day the
House of Commas went and kissed their new
Majesties' hands in the Banqueting-house.
12th April I went with the Bishop of St
Asaph to visit my Lord of Canterbury at Lambeth,
who had excused himself from officiating at the
coronation, which was performed by the Bishop of
London,* assisted by the Archbishop of York.'^
We had much private and free discourse with his
Grace concerning several things relating to the
Church, there being now a bill of comprehension
to be brought from the Lords to the Commons. I
urged that when they went about to reform some
particulars in the Liturgy, Church discipline.
Canons, etc., the baptizing in private houses with-
1 [Dr. Compton.] « [Dr. Lloyd.]
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out necessity might be reformed, as likewise so
frequent burials in churches ; ^ the one proceeding
much from the pride of women, bringing that into
custom which was only indulged in case of immi-
nent danger, and out of necessity during the
rebellion, and persecution of the clergy in our late
civil wars ; the other from the avarice of ministers,
who, in some opulent parishes, made almost as
much of permission to bury in the chancel and the
church, as of their livings, and were paid with
considerable advantage and gifts for baptizing in
chambers. To this they heartily assented, and
promised their endeavour to get it reformed, utterly
disliking both practices as novel and indecent
We discoursed likewise of the great disturbance
and prejudice it might cause, should the new oath,
now on the anvil, be imposed on any, save such as
were in new office, without any retrospect to such
as either had no office, or had been long in office,
who it was likely would have some scruples about
taking a new oath, having already sworn fidelity to
the government as established by law. This we all
knew to be the case of my Lord Archbishop of
Canterbury, and some other persons who were not
so fully satisfied with the Convention making it an
abdication of King James, to whom they had sworn
allegiance.
King James was now certainly in Ireland ' with
the Marshal d'Estrades, whom he made a Privy
Councillor; and who caused the King to remove
the Protestant Councillors, some whereof, it
seems, had continued to sit, telling him that the
King of France his master would never assist him
if he did not immediately do it ; by which it is
1 [See ante, p. 92 «.]
' [He had landed at Kinsale on the 12th March^ entered
Dublin March 24, and by the 20th April was besieging London-
derry (see infra^ p. 264).]
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apparent how the poor Prince is managed by the
French.
Scotland declares for King William and Queen
Mary,^ with the reasons of their setting aside King
James, not as abdicating, but forfeiting his right
by mal-administration ; they proceeded with much
more caution and prudence than we did, who
precipitated all things to the great reproach of the
nation, all which had been managed by some crafty,
ill-principled men. The new Privy Council have a
Republican spirit, manifestly undermining all future
succession of the crown and prosperity of the Church
of England, which yet I hope they will not be able
to accompUsh so soon as they expect, though they
get into all places of trust and profit
21st April. This was one of the most seasonable
springs, free from the usual sharp east winds that I
have observed since the year 1660 (the year of the
Restoration), which was much such an one.
26th. I heard the lawyers plead before the
Lords the writ of error in the judgment of Oates,
as to the charge against him of perjury, which after
debate they referred to the answer of Holloway,
etc., who were his Judges.* I then went with the
Bishop of St. Asaph to the Archbishop at Lambeth,
where they entered into discourse concerning the
final destruction of Antichrist, both concluding
that the third trumpet and vial were now pouring
out My Lord St. Asaph considered the killing of
the two witnesses, to be the utter destruction of
the Cevennes Protestants by the French and
Duke of Savoy, and the other the Waldenses and
Pyrenean Christians, who by all appearance from
1 [They were proclaimed on the 11th April.]
' [See ante, p. l6l. His judges, with Jeffreys^ had been Sir
Richard Holloway and Sir Francis Wythens^ who attended at the
bar of the House of Lords to defend their sentence. Jefireys
had just died in prison, aged forty, 18th Aprils l689.]
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good history had kept the primitive faith from the
very Apostles' time till now. The doubt his Grace
suggested was, whether it could be made evident
that the present persecution had made so great a
havoc of those faithful people as of the other, and
whether there were not yet some among them in
being who met together, it being stated from the
text, Apoc XL, that they should both be slain
together. They both much approved of Mr.
Mede's^ way of interpretation, and that he only
failed in resolving too hastily on the King of
Sweden's (Gustavus Adolphus) success in Germany.
They agreed that it would be good to employ some
inteUigent French minister to travel as far as the
Pyrenees to understand the present state of the
Church there, it being a country where hardly any
one travels.
There now came certain news that King James
had not only landed in Ireland, but that he had
surprised Londonderry, and was become master of
that kingdom, to the great shame of our Govern-
ment, who had been so often solicited to provide
against it by timely succour, and which they might
so easily have done. This is a terrible banning
of more troubles, especially should an army come
thence into Scotland, people being generally dis-
affected here and every else, so that the sea and
land men would scarce serve without compulsion.
A new oath was now fabricating for all the
clergy to take, of obedience to the present Govern-
ment, in abrogation of the former oaths of allegiance,
which it is foreseen many of the Bishops and others
of the clergy will not take. The penalty is to be
the loss of their dignity and spiritual preferment
This is thought to have been driven on by the
Presbyterians, our new governors. God in mercy
^ [Joseph Mead, or Mede, 1586-1638, author of the Govts
Apocalypiica,']
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send us help, and direct the counsels to His glory
and good of His Church I
Public matters went very ill in Ireland: con-
fusion and dissension amongst ourselves, stupidity,
inconstancy, emulation, the governors employing
unskilful men in greatest offices, no person of
public spirit and ability appearing, — threaten us
with a very sad prospect of what may be the
conclusion, without God's infinite mercy.
A fight by Admiral Herbert with the French,*
he imprudently setting on them in a creek as they
were landing men in Ireland, by which we came
off with great slaughter and little honour — so
strangely negligent and remiss were we in prepar-
ing a timely and sufficient fleet. The Scots Com-
missioners oflfer the crown to the new King and
Queen on conditions. — Act of Poll-money came
forth, sparing none. — Now appeared the Act of
Indulgence for the Dissenters, but not exempting
them paying dues to the Church of England
Clergy, or serving in office according to law, with
several other clauses.' — A most splendid embassy
from Holland to congratulate the King and Queen
on their accession to the crown.
Mh June. A solemn fast for success of the
fle^t, etc.
6th. I dined with the Bishop of St. Asaph ;
Monsieur Capellus, the learned son of the most
learned Ludovicus, presented to him his father's
works, not published till now.
7<A. I visited the Archbishop of Canterbury,
^ [May 1, in Bantry Bay. '^ As they [the French] came out of
Bantry Bay, Herbert engaged them. The wind was against him :
So that it was not possible for the greatest part of the Fleet to
come up, and enter into action : And so those who engaged
were forced to retire with some disadvantage '' (Burnet's History
of His Onm Time, 1734, ii. 20).]
2 [The Toleration Act (1 Gul. and Mar. c. 18), 24th May,
1689. J
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and staid with him till about seven o'clock. He
read to me the Pope's excommunication of the
French King.
9th June. Visited Dr. Burnet, now Bishop
of Sarum ; got him to let Mr. Kiieller draw his
picture.^
\&th. King James's declaration was now dis-
persed, offering pardon to all, if on his landing, or
within twenty days after, they should return to
their obedience.
Our fleet not yet at sea, through some prodigious
sloth, and men minding only their present interest ;
the French riding masters at sea, taking many
great prizes to our wonderful reproach. No certain
news from Ireland ; various reports of Scotland ;
discontents at home. The King of Denmark at
last joins with the Confederates, and the two
Northern Powers are reconciled. The East India
Company likely to be dissolved by Parliament for
many arbitrary actions. Oates acquitted of peij ury,
to all honest men's admiration.^
20th. News of a Plot discovered, on which
divers were sent to the Tower and secured.'
29rd. An extraordinary drought, to the threaten-
ing of great wants as to the fruits of the earth.
Sth July. I sat for my picture to Mr. Knelfer,
for Mr. Pepys, late Secretary to the Admiralty,
holding my Sylva in my right hand.* It was on
his long and earnest request, and is pkced in his
^ [Kneller's picture of Burnet is dated l693.] /
^ ['^Admiration" must here mean '^ astonishment." He was
released from prison on the prorogation of Parliament (20th
August), ''and obtained from the King [William III.], at the
earnest request of his faithful Commons, a pension of five
pounds a week" (Seecombe's "Titus Oates," in Tfvelve Bad
Men, 1894, 147).]
' [Lords Peterborough, Salisbury, Castlemaine, Sir Edward
Hales, and Obadiah Walker.]
^ [See antey p. 185. This must have been a second picture.]
1689 JOHN EVELYN 267
library, Kneller never painted in a more masterly
manner.
11/A July. I dined at Lord Clarendon's^ it
being his lady's wedding-day, when about three in
the afternoon there was an unusual and violent
storm of thunder, rain, and wind ; many boats on
the Thames were overwhelmed, and such was the
impetuosity of the wmd as to carry up the waves
in pillars and spouts most dreadful to behold,
rooting up trees and ruining some houses. The
Countess of Simderland afterwards told me that it
extended as far as Althorp at the very time, which
is seventy miles from London. It did no harm at
Deptford, but at Greenwich it did much mischief.
IQth. I went to Hampton Court about business,
the Council being there. A great apartment
and spacious garden with fountains was beginning
in the park at the head of the canal.^
19th. The Marshal de Schomberg* went how
as General towards Ireland, to the relief of
Londonderry. Our fleet lie before Brest. The
Confederates passing the Rhine, besiege Bonn and
Mayence, to obtain a passage into France. A
great victory got by the Muscovites, taking and
burning Perecop. A new rebel against the Turks
threatens the destruction of that tyranny. All
Europe in arms against France, and hardly to be
found in history so universal a face of war.
The Convention (or Parliament as some called
it) sitting, exempt the Duke of Hanover from
the succession to the crown, which they seem to
confine to the present new King, his wife, and
Princess Anne of Denmark, who is so monstrously
swollen, that it's doubted whether her being
thought with child may prove a tympany only, so
^ [What is called Fountain Court and the eastern frontage^
was now added by Sir Christopher Wren.]
* [Arniand Frederick, Duke of Schomberg, l6l9-90.]
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that the unhappy fiunily of the Stuarts seems to be
extinguishing ; and then what government is likely
to be next set up is unknown, whether r^al and
by election, or otherwise, the Republicans and
Dissenters from the Church of England evidently
looking that way.
The Scots have now again voted down Episcopacy
there. — Great discontents through this nation at
the slow proceedings of the King, and the incom-
petent instruments and officers he advances to the
greatest and most necessary charges.
23rd August. Came to visit me Mr. Firmin.^
25<A. Hitherto it has been a most seasonable
summer. — Londonderry relieved after a brave and
wonderful holding out.^
21^ September. I went to visit the Archbishop
of Canterbury since his suspension, and was
received with great kindness. — A dreadful fire
happened in Southwark.
2ud October. Came to visit us the Marquis de
Ruvigny,* and one Monsieur le Coque, a French
refugee, who left great riches for his religion ; a
very learned, civil person ; he married the sister of
the Duchess de la Force. — Ottoboni, a Venetian
Cardinal, eighty years old, made Pope.*
31^ October. My birthday, being now sixty-nine
years old. Blessed Father, who has prolonged my
^ Thomas Firmin^ 1632-97. He was a man of the most
amiable character^ and mibounded charity: a great firiend of
Sir Robert Clayton^ who, after his death, erected a monmnent
for him in a walk which he had formed at Sir Robert's seat
at Marden, in Surrey. He was very fond of gardens, and so far
of a congenial spirit with Mr. Evelyn ; and though Unitarian in
creed, he lived in intimacy with many of the most eminent clergy.
His life was printed in a small volume. There is more of him
in Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. ii. pp. 804, 805.
2 [By Major-General Kirke on July 30 (see anUy p. 202).]
« rSee ante, p. 209.]
^ reter Ottoboni succeeded Innocent XI. as Pope, October 6,
1689, by the title of Alexander VIII.
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years to this great age, and given me to see so great
and wonderful revolutions, and preserved me amidst
them to this moment, accept, I beseech thee, the
continuance of my prayers and thankful acknow-
ledgments, and grant me grace to be working out
my salvation and redeeming the time, that Thou
mayst be glorified by me here, and my immortal
soul saved whenever Thou shalt call for it, to
perpetuate Thy praises to all eternity, in that
heavenly kingdom where there are no more
changes or vicissitudes, but rest, and peace, and
joy, and consummate felicity, for ever. Grant this,
O heavenly Father, for the sake of Jesus thine
only Son and our Saviour. Amen !
5th Ncwember. The Bishop of St. Asaph,^ Lord-
Almoner, preached before the King and Queen,
the whole discourse being an historical narrative
of the Church of England's several deliverances,
especially that of this anniversary, signalised by
being also the birthday of the Prince of Orange, his
marriage (which was on the 4th), and his landing
at Torbay this day. There was a splendid ball and
other rejoicings.
lOth After a very wet season, the winter came
on severely.
nth. Much wet, without frost, yet the wind
north and easterly. — A Convocation of the Clergy
meet about a reformation of our Liturgy, Canons,
etc., obstructed by others of the clergy.
2Hth. I went to London with my family, to
winter at Soho, in the great square.
1689-90: Wth January. This night there was
a most extraordinary storm of wind, accompanied
with snow and sharp weather; it did great harm
in many places, blowing down houses, trees, etc.,
killing many people. It began about two in the
morning, and lasted till five, being a kind of
1 [Dr. Lloyd.]
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hurricane, which mariners observe have b^un of
late years to come northward. This winter
has been hitherto extremely wet, warm, and
windy.
12th January. There was read at St Ann's
Church an exhortatory letter to the clergy of
London from the Bishop, together with a Brief for
reUeving the distressed Protestants, the Vaudois,
who fled from the persecution of the French and
Duke of Savoy, to the Protestant Cantons of
Switzerland,
The Parliament was unexpectedly prorogued to
2nd April, to the discontent and surprise of many
members who, being exceeding averse to the
settling of anything, proceeding with animosities,
multiplying exceptions against those whom they
pronounced obnoxious, and producing as universal
a discontent against King William and themselves,
as there was before against King James. — The new
King resolved on an expedition into Ireland in
person. About 150 of the members who were of
the more royal party, meeting at a feast at the
Apollo Tavern near St Dunstan's,^ sent some of
their company to the King, to assure him of their
service; he returned his thanks, advising them to
repair to their several counties and preserve the
peace during his absence, and assuring them that
he would be steady to his resolution of defending
the Laws and Religion established. — The great
Lord suspected to have counselled this prorogation,
universally denied it However, it was believed
the chief adviser was the Marquis of Carmarthen,-
who now seemed to be most in favour.
1 [The Apollo, or Devil Tavern, which once stood between
Temple Bar and the Middle Temple Gate. The Royal Society
sometimes adjourned to it after meeting at Arundel House (cf.
Pepys' Diary, 22nd October, 1668).]
^ [See arUe, vol. ii. p. 31. Danbj had been made Marquis of
Carmarthen in l689*]
1690 JOHN EVELYN 271
2nd February. The Parliament was dissolved
by proclamation, and another called to meet the
20th of March. This was a second surprise to
the former members ; and now the Court-party, or,
as they call themselves. Church of England, are
making their interests in the country. The
Marquis of Halifax ^ lays down his office of Privy
Seal, and pretends to retire.
16tk. The Duchess of Monmouth's chaplain
preached at St. Martin's an excellent discourse,
exhorting to peace and sanctity, it being now the
time of very great division and dissension in the
nation ; first, amongst the Churchmen, of whom
the moderate and sober part were for a speedy
reformation of divers things, which it was thought
might be made in our Liturgy, for the inviting of
Dissenters ; others more stiff and rigid, were for no
condescension at all. Books and pamphlets were
published every day pro and con. ; the Convocation
were forced for the present to suspend any further
progress. — There was fierce and great carousing
about being elected in the new Parliament. — The
King persists in his intention of going in person for
Ireland, whither the French are sending suppUes
to King James, and we, the Danish horse to
Schomberg.
19^^ I dined with the Marquis of Carmarthen
(late Lord Danby), where was Lieutenant-General
Douglas, a very considerate and sober commander,
going for Ireland. He related to us the exceeding
neglect of the English soldiers, suffering severely
for want of clothes and necessaries this winter,
exceedingly magnifying their courage and bravery
during all their hardships. There dined also Lord
Lucas, Lieutenant of the Tower, and the Bishop
of St. Asaph. — The Privy Seal was again put in
^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 194- The Marquis of Halifax was Lord
Privy Seal, 1689-90.]
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commission, Mr. Cheyne^ (who married my kins-
woman, Mrs. Fierrepont), Sir Thomas Knatchbull^
and Sir P. W. Pulteney. — The imprudence of
both sexes was now become so great and universal,
persons of all ranks keeping their courtesans
publicly, that the King had lately directed a letter
to the Bishops to order their clergy to preach
against that sin, swearing, etc, and to put the
ecclesiastical laws in execution without any in-
dulgence.
25tk February. I went to Kensington,' which
King William had bought of Lord Nottingham,
and altered, but was yet a patched building, but
with the garden, however, it is a very sweet villa,
having to it the park and a straight new way
through this park.
7tk March. I dined with Mr. Pepys, late
Secretary to the Admiralty, where was that
excellent shipwright and seaman (for so he had
been, and also a Commissioner of the Navy), Sir
Anthony Deane.* Amongst other discourse, and
deploring the sad condition of our navy, as now
governed by inexperienced men since this Revolu-
tion, he mentioned what exceeding advantage we
of this nation had by being the first who built
frigates, the first of which ever built was that
vessel which was afterwards called the Constant
Warwick^ and was the work of Pett * of Chatham,
^ [Son of Charles Lord Viscount Cheyne, d, l698 (see poti,
under 13th May, I692).]
' [King William fixed upon Kensington because, being
obliged to select a residence near London, he could at any time
ride readily to his country house at Hampton. He bought it of
the second E^l of Nottingham for 18,000 guineas, and had it
altered by Wren, who add^ the higher story.]
• [See anie, p. 80.]
* [Peter Pett (see arde, vol. i. p. 26). ^'The ConstaiU Warwick,
says Pepys, was the first frigate built in England. She was
built in 1649 by Mr. Peter Pett for a privateer for the Earl of
Warwick, and was sold by him to the States. Mr. Pett took his
1690 JOHN EVELYN 278
for a trial of making a vessel that would sail swiftly ;
it was built with low decks, the guns lying near
the water, and was so light and swift of sailing,
that in a short time he told us she had, ere the
Dutch war was ended, taken as much money from
privateers as would have laden her ; and that more
such being built, did in a year or two scour the
Channel from those of Dunkirk and others which
had exceedingly infested it. He added that it
would be the best and only infallible expedient
to be masters of the sea, and able to destroy the
greatest navy of any enemy if, instead of building
huge great ships and second and third rates, they
would leave off building such high decks, which
were for nothing but to gratify gentlemen-
commanders, who must have all their effeminate
accommodations, and for pomp ; that it would be
the ruin of our fleets, if such persons were con-
tinued in command, they neither having experience
nor being capable of learning, because they would
not submit to the fatigue and inconvenience which
those who were bred seamen would undergo, in
those so otherwise useful swift frigates. These
being to encounter the greatest ships would be
able to protect, set on, and bring off, those who
should manage the fire-ships ; and the Prince who
should first store himself with numbers of such
fire-ships would, through the help and countenance
of such frigates, be able to ruin the greatest force
of such vast ships as could be sent to sea, by the
dexterity of working those light, swift ships to
guard the fire-ships. He concluded there would
shortly be no other method of sea-fight ; and that
great ships and men-of-war, however stored with
guns and men, must submit to those who should
model of a frigate from a French frigate^ which he had seen in
the Thames, as his son Sir Phinehas Pett acknowledged to me "
(Dews' Deptford, 1884, pp. 220-21.]
VOL. Ill T
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encounter them with far less number. He repre-
sented to us the dreadful effect of these fire-ships ;
that he continually observed in our late maritime
war with the Dutch that, when an enemy's fire-
ship approached, the most valiant commander and
common sailors were in such consternation, that
though then, of all times, there was most need of
the guns, bombs, etc., to keep the mischief off,
they grew pale and astonished, as if of a quite
other mean soul, that they slunk about, forsook
their guns and work as if in despair, every one
looking about to see which way they might get out
of their ship, though sure to be drowned if they did
so. This he said was likely to prove hereafter the
method of sea-fight, likely to be the misfortune
of England if they continued to put gentlemen-
commanders over experienced seamen, on account
of their ignorance, eneminacy, and insolence.
9th March. Preached at Whitehall Dr. Burnet,
late Bishop of Sarum,^ on Heb. iv. 18, anatomically
describing the texture of the eye ; and that, as it
received such innumerable sorts of spies through so
very small a passage to the brain, and that without
the least confusion or trouble, and accordingly
judged and reflected on them ; so God who made
this sensory, did with the greatest ease and at once
see all that was done through the vast universe,
even to the very thought as well as action. This
similitude he continued with much perspicuity and
aptness; and applied it accordingly, for the ad-
monishing us how uprightly we ought to live and
behave ourselves before such an all-seeing Deity ;
and how we were to conceive of other His
attributes, which we could have no idea of than by
comparing them by what we were able to conceive
of the nature and power of things, which were the
^ [He was Bishop of Salisbury until his death ; Evelyn must
mean that he had lately been made Bishop (1689)*]
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objects of our senses ; and therefore it was that in
Scripture we attribute those actions and affections
of God by the same of man, not as adequately or
in any proportion like them, but as the only
expedient to make some resemblance of His divine
perfections ; as when the Scripture says, " God will
remember the sins of the penitent no more ": not as
if God could forget anything, but as intimating he
would pass by such penitents and receive them to
mercy,
I dined at the Bishop of St Asaph's, Almoner
to the new Queen, with the famous lawyer Sir
George Mackenzie (late Lord -Advocate of Scot-
land), against whom both the Bishop and myself
had written and published books, but now mpst
friendly reconciled.^ He related to us many
particulars of Scotland, the present sad condition
of it, the inveterate hatred which the Presbyterians
show to the family of the Stuarts, and the exceed-
ing tyranny of those bigots who acknowledge no
superior on earth, in civil or divine matters,
maintaining that the people only have the right of
government ; their implacable hatred to the Epis-
copal Order and Church of England. He observed
that the first Presbyter-dissents from our discipline
were introduced by the Jesuits' order, about the 20
of Queen Eliz., a famous Jesuit amongst them
feigning himself a Protestant, and who was the
first who began to pray extempore, and brought in
that which they since called, and are still so fond of,
pra)ring by the Spirit This Jesuit remained many
years before he was discovered, afterwards died in
Scotland, where he was buried at . . . having yet
on his monument, "Rosa inter spiims'^
11th March. I went again to see Mr. Charlton's
1 Sir George, as we have seen, had written in praise of a
Private Life, which Mr. Evelyn answered by a book in praise of
Public Employment, and an Active Life (see anie, vol. ii. p. 268).
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curiosities,^ both of art and nature, and his full and
rare coUection of medals, which taken altogether,
in all kinds, is doubtless one of the most perfect
assemblages of rarities that can be anywhere seen.
I much admired the contortions of the Thea root,
which was so perplexed, krge, and intricate, and
withal hard as box, that it was wonderful to
consider. — The French have landed in Ireland.^
16tk March. A public fast
24/A May. City charter restored.' Divers ex-
empted from pardon.
4fth Ju7ie. King William set forth on his Irish
expedition, leaving the Queen regent.
10/A. Mr. Pepys read to me his Remonstrance,
showing vrith what malice and injustice he was
suspected with Sir Anthony Deane about the
timber, of which the thirty ships were built by a
late Act of Parliament,* vrith the exceeding danger
which the fleet would shortly be in, by reason of
the tyranny and incompetency of those who now
managed the Admiralty and affairs of the Navy, of
which he gave an accurate state, and showed his
great ability.
ISth. Fast day. Visited the Bishop of St.
Asaph; his conversation was on the Vaudois in
Savoy, who had been thought so near destruction
and final extirpation by the French, being totally
given up to slaughter, so that there were no hopes
for them ; but now it pleased God that the Duke
of Savoy, who had hitherto joined with the French
in their persecution, being now pressed by them to
deliver up Saluzzo and Turin as cautionary tovms,
on suspicion that he might at last come into the
Confederacy of the Gterman Princes, did secretly
^ See tmtCy p. 212. ^ [Under the Duke de Lauzon.]
» [See ante, p. 98.]
^ [There is much about these thirty ships in Pepys' Mefnoire*
Relating to the StaU of the Roffol Nany of England, I69O.]
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concert measures with» and afterwards declared for»
thera. He then invited these poor people from
their dispersion amongst the mountains whither
they had fled, and restored them to their country,
their dwellings, and the exercise of their reli^on,
and begged pardon for the ill-usage they had
received, charging it on the cruelty of the French
who forced him to it. These being the remainder
of those persecuted Christians which the Bishop of
St Asaph had so long affirmed to be the two
witnesses spoken of in the Revelation, who should
be killed and brought to life again, it was looked
on as an extraordinary thing that this prophesying
Bishop should persuade two fugitive ministers of
the Vaudois ^ to return to their country, and furnish
them with £20 towards their journey, at that very
time when nothing but universal destruction was
to be expected, assuring them and showing them
from the Apocalypse, that their countr3rmen should
be returned safely to their country before they
arrived. This hap'pening contrary L all expecta-
tion and appearance, did exceedingly credit the
Bishop's confidence how that prophecy of the
witnesses should come to pass, just at the time, and
the very month, he had spoken of some years
before.
I afterwards went with him to Mr. Boyle and
Lady Ranelagh his sister, to whom he explained
the necessity of it so fully, and so learnedly made
out, with what events were immediately to follow,
viz. the French King's ruin, the calling of the Jews
to be near at hand, but that the Kingdom of
Antichrist would not yet be utterly destroyed till
80 years, when Christ should begin the Millennium,
not as personally and visibly reigning on earth, but
that the true religion and universal peace should
obtain through all the world. He showed how Mr.
^ See ante, p. 264.
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Brightman,^ Mr. Mede,' and other interpreters of
these events failed, by mistaking and reckoning the
year as the Latins and others did, to consist of
the present calculation, so many days to the year,
whereas the Apocalypse reckons after the Persian
account, as Daniel did, whose visions St. John all
along explains as meaning only the Christian ChurclL
2^th Jv/tie. Dined with Mr. Pepys, who the
next day was sent to the Gate-house,' and several
great persons to the Tower, on suspicion of being
affected to King James; amongst them was the
Earl of Clarendon, the Queen's uncle. King
William having vanquished King James in Ire-
land,* there was much public rejoicing. It seems
the Irish in King James's army would not stand,
but the English-Irish and French made great resist-
ance. Schomberg was slain, and Dr. Walker, who
so bravely defended Londonderr)^* King William
received a slight wound by the grazing of a cannon
bullet on his shoulder, which he endured with very
little interruption of his pursuit Hamilton, who
broke his word about Tyrconnel, was taken.* It is
1 [Thomas Brightman, 1 562-1 607. He wrote a treatise on
the Apocalypse^ which was published after his death.]
2 rSee arUe, p. 264.]
^ repjs had already undergone an imprisonment, with
perhaps just as much reason as the present, on the absurd
accusation of having sent information to the French Court of the
state of the English Navy (see ante^ p. 29). [On this occasion,
he found bail, and was soon permitted to return home on account
of ill-health (see infray 80th July).]
" ~ i, Jul
* [At the Battle of the Boyne, July 1.]
* George Walker, 1618-90, an Irish clergyman, who, after
successfully defending Protestant Londonderry against the Popish
army under James II., accompanied William III. during his decisive
campaign. He published a narrative of the Siege of Deny.
^ [General Richard Hamilton. He had been despatched by
William III. with offers to the Irish Catholics, and deserted to
Tyrconnel (Burnet, Hidory of His Own Time, 1723, i. p. 808>
He was captured at the Battle of the Boyne, sent to the Tower,
and afterwards rejoined James in France.]
1690 JOHN EVELYN 279
reported that King James is gone back to France.^
Drogheda and Dublin surrendered, and if King
William be returning, we may say of him as Caesar
said, " Veni^ vidi^ vici.'' But to alloy much of this,
the French fleet rides in our channel, ours not daring
to interpose, and the enemy threatening to land.
21th June. I went to visit some friends in the
Tower, when asking for Lord Clarendon,^ they by
mistake directed me to the Earl of Torrington,'
who about three days before had been sent for
from the fleet, and put into the Tower for
cowardice and not fighting the French fleet, which
having beaten a squadron of the HoUanders, whilst
Torrington did nothing, did now ride masters of
the sea, threatening a descent.
20th July. This afternoon a camp of about
4000 men was begun to be formed on Blackheath.
SOth. I dined with Mr. Pepys, now suffered to
return to his house,^ on account of indisposition.
1^ August. The Duke of Grafton* came to
visit me, going to his ship at the mouth of the
river, in his way to Ireland (where he was slain).
Srd. The French landed some soldiers at Teign-
mouth,^ in Devon, and burned some poor houses. —
He embarked at Waterford for that country.]
[See ante, p. 278.1
' Admiral Arthur Herbert, 1 647-1716, grandson of the cele-
brated Lord Herbert of Cherbury. In l689, William raised him
to the Peerage for his eminent naval services, with the titles of
Baron Torbay and Earl of Torrington ; but not succeeding against
the French fleet near Beachy Head, he was sent to the Tower,
tried by a Court-martial, and, though acquitted, never again
employed (see ante, pp. 226 and 265).
* [In York Buildings — ** to the care (says Professor Gregory
Smith) of Mrs. Fane, his estimable but bitter-tongued house-
keeper" (Globe Pepys, 1905, xxii.).]
^ Henry Fitzroy, second natural son of Charles II. by the
Duchess of Cleveland (see ante, vol. ii. p. 350). The Duke, who
was a volunteer, was mortally wounded in the assault at the
siege of Cork by Marlborough in September (see post, p. 281).
• [July 28.]
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The French fleet still hovering about the western
coast, and we having 800 sail of rich merchant-
ships in the bay of Pljrmouth, our fleet begin to
move towards them, under three admirals. The
country in the west all on their guard. — ^A very
extraordinary fine season ; but on the 12th was a
very great storm of thunder and lightning, and on
the 15th the season much changed to wet and cold.
— The militia and trained bands, horse and foot,
which were up through England, were dismissed. —
The French Kmg having news that King William
was slain, and his army defeated in Ireland, caused
such a triumph at Paris, and all over France, as
was never heard of; when, in the midst of it, the
unhappy King James being vanquished, by a
speedy flight and escape, himself brought the news
of his own defeat.
15th August. I was desired to be one of the
bail of the Earl of Clarendon,^ for his release from
the Tower, with divers noblemen. The Bishop of
St. Asaph expounds his prophecies to me and Mr.
Pepys, etc. The troops from Blackheath march
to Portsmouth. — That sweet and hopeful youth.
Sir Charles Tuke,^ died of the wounds he received
in the fight of the Boyne, to the great sorrow of all
his friends, being (I think) the last male of that
family, to which my wife is related. A more
virtuous young gentleman I never knew ; he was
learned for his age, having had the advantage of the
choicest breeding abroad, both as to arts and arms ;
he had travelled much, but was so unhappy as to
fall in the side of the unfortunate King.
The unseasonable and most tempestuous weather
happening, the naval expedition is hindered, and the
extremity of wet causes the siege of Limerick to
be raised,' King William returned to England. —
1 [See anUy p. 278. He was released August 15.]
« [See arde, vol. ii. p. 828.] » [On August SO.]
1690 JOHN EVELYN 281
Lord Sidney ^ left Governor of what is conquered
in Ireland, which is near in three parts [in four].
17 th August A public fast — An extraordinary
sharp, cold, east wind.
\2tk October. The French General, with
T)rrconnel and their forces, gone back to France,
beaten out by King William. — Cork delivered on
discretion.* The Duke of Grafton was there
mortally wounded and dies.* — Very great storms of
wind. The 8th of this month Lord Spencer wrote
me word from Althorp, that there happened an
earthquake the day before in the -morning, which,
though short, sensibly, shook the house. The
Gazette acquainted us that the like happened at the
same time, half-past seven, at Barnstaple, Holyhead,
and Dublin. We were not sensible of it here.
26M. Kinsale at last surrendered,^ meantime
King James's party bum all the houses they have
in their power, and amongst them that stately
palace of Lord Ossory's, which lately cost, as
reported, £40,000. By a disastrous accident, a
third-rate ship, the BredOf blew up and destroyed
all on board; in it were twenty-five prisoners of
war. She was to have sailed for England the
next day.
8rd November. Went to the Countess of Clan-
carty,* to condole with her concerning her de-
bauched and dissolute son, who had done so much
mischief in Ireland, now taken and brought prisoner
to the Tower.
1 Heniy Sidney^ 1641-1704, youngest brother of Robert,
second Earl of Leicester ; created in 1089 Viscount Sidney, and
in 1694 Earl of Romney.
* [September 28.]
» See ante, p. 279. He died October 9.]
* On October 5.]
^ Elizabeth Fitzgerald, daughter of the Earl of Kildare.
Her son, the third Earl, for the services he had rendered James
n., forfeited in the reign of his successor the whole of his vast
estates (see ante, p. 238).
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16th November. Exceeding great storms, yet a
warm season.
28rd. Carried Mr. Pepys's memorials to Lord
Godolphin, now resuming the commission of the
Treasmy to the wonder of all his friends.
1^/ December. Having been chosen President of
the Royal Society, I desired to decline it, and with
great difficulty devolved the election on Sir Robert
Southwell, Secretary of State to King William in
Ireland.^
20th. Dr. Hough,* President of Magdalen
College, Oxford, who was displaced with several of
the Fellows for not taking the oath imposed by King
James, now made a Bishop. — Most of this month
cold and frost — One Johnson, a Knight, was
executed at Tyburn for being an accomplice with
Campbell, brother to Lord Argyll, in stealing a
young heiress.
1690-1 : 4ith January. This week a plot was
discovered for a general rising against the new
Government, for which (Henry) Lord Clarendon
and others were sent to the Tower. The next
day, I went to see Lord Clarendon.* The Bishop
of Ely * searched for. — Trial of Lord Preston, as
not being an English Peer, hastened at the Old
Bailey.
18th. Lord Preston condemned about a design
to bring in King James by the French.*^ Ashton
1 [See ante, vol. ii. p. 378.]
2 Dr. John Hough, 1651-1743. In 1699, he was translated
to Lichfield and Coventry; in 1717, he became Bishop of
Worcester, which he held until his death.
8 rSee ante, p. 280.]
^ Dr. Turner, who, though one of the six Bishops sent to
the Tower for the petition to the King, had declined taking the
oaths to William and Mary.
^ [See ante, p. 221. He had been formerly Secretary of State
in succession to Sunderland, ante, p. 243. He was supposed to
have saved himself by important disclosures.]
1691 JOHN EVELYN 288
executed.^ The Bishop of Ely, Mr. Graham,^ etc.,
absconded.
18tk March. I went to visit Monsieur Justel *
and the Library at St James's, in which that
learned man had put the MSS. (which were in
good number) into excellent order, they having
lain neglected for many years. Divers medals had
been stolen and embezzled.
21^. Dined at Sir William Fermor's,* who
showed me many good pictures. After dinner, a
French servant played rarely on the lute. Sir
William had now bought all the remaining statues
collected with so much expense by the famous
Thomas, Earl of Arundel, and sent them to his seat
at Easton, near Towcester.*
25tk. Lord Sidney, principal Secretary of State,
gave me a letter to Lord Lucas, Lieutenant of the
Tower, to permit me to visit Lord Clarendon ;
which this day I did, and dined with him.^
10th April. This night a sudden and terrible fire
burnt down all the buildings over the stone-gallery
at Whitehall to the water-side, beginning at the
apartment of the late Duchess of Portsmouth (which
had been pulled down and rebuilt no less than three
times to please her), and consuming other lodgings
of such lewd creatures, who debauched both King
Charles II. and others, and were his destruction.^
^ [John Ashton, Clerk of the Closet to Mary of Modena, was
hanged at Tyburn, January 2S, for conspiring to restore James II.]
* [See past, under 6th April, 1696.]
» rSee aide, p. 122.] * [See a9Ue, p. 30.]
^ lliey are now at Oxford, having been presented to the
University in 1755 by Henrietta, Countess-Dowager of Pomfret,
widow of Thomas, the first Earl. ^ [See ante, p. 282.]
^ [In Sir John Bramston's Autobiography (Camden Society),
1845, p. 865, this is confirmed. ^'On the 9th of Aprill [I69IJ a
fier hapned in White Hall which burnt downe the fine loiigeings
built for the Dutches of Portsmouth at the end of the longe
gallery, and severall lodgeings, and that gallerie " (see ante, vol. ii.
p. 885).]
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The King returned out of Holland just as this
accident happened. — Proclamation against Papists,
etc.
16/A April I went to see Dr. Sloane's curiosities,^
being a universal collection of the natural produc-
tions of Jamaica, consisting of plants, fruits, corals,
minerals, stones, earth, shells, animals, and insects,
collected with great judgment; several folios of
dried plants, and one which had about 80 several
sorts of ferns, and another of grasses ; the Jamaica
pepper, in branch, leaves, flower, fruit, etc. This
collection, with his Journal and other philosophical
and natural discourses and observations, indeed
very copious and extraordinary, sufficient to furnish
a history of that island, to which I encouraged him.
19th. The Archbishop of Canterbury, and
Bishops of Ely, Bath and Wells, Peterborough,
Gloucester, and the rest who would not take the
oaths to King William, were now displaced ; and,
in their rooms, Dr. Tillotson, Dean of St. Paul's,
was made Archbishop;* Patrick removed from
Chichester to Ely;* Cumberland* to Gloucester.
22nd. I dined with Lord Clarendon in the Tower.
24M. I visited the Earl and Countess of Sunder-
land, now come to kiss the King's hand, after his
return from Holland. This is a mystery. The
King preparing to return to the army.
^ Dr. Sloane, 1 660- 1753^ better known as Sir Hans Sloane^
having been created a Baronet by George I.^ was an eminent
physician and naturalist^ Physician -general to the Army,
Physician in Ordinary to the King, and in 1727-41 President of
the Royal Society. [He wrote a Natural History of Jamaica, 1 707-
1735.1 His moniunent may be seen in the churchyard of St.
Luke s, Chelsea, near the river. His extensive museum and
library were purchased for J&20,000, and transferred to the
British Museum.
« [31st May.] » [2nd JulyJ
* A mistake. Dr. Edward Fowler, prebendary of Gloucester,
was made Bishop of Gloucester in the place of Dr. Robert
Frampton, deprived in I691 for not taking the oaths.
1691 JOHN EVELYN 285
1th May. I went to visit the Archbishop of
Canterbury [Sancroft] yet at Lambeth. I found
him alone, and discoursing of the times, especially
of the new designed Bishops ; he told me that
by no canon or divine law they could justify
the removing the present incumbents; that Dr.
Beveridge, designed Bishop of Bath and Wells,
came to ask his advice ; that the Archbishop told
him, though he should give it, he believed he would
not take it ; the Doctor said he would ; why then,
says the Archbishop, when they come to ask, say
Nolo^ and say it from the heart ; there is nothing
easier than to resolve yourself what is to be done
in the case : the Doctor seemed to deliberate.
What he will do I know not, but Bishop Ken,
who is to be put out, is exceedingly beloved in his
diocese ; and, if he and the rest should insist on it,
and plead their interests as freeholders, it is believed
there would be difficulty in their case, and it may
endanger a schism and much disturbance, so as
wise men think it had been better to have let
them alone, than to have proceeded with this rigour
to turn them out for refusing to swear against their
consciences. I asked at parting, when his Grace
removed ; he said that he had not yet received any
summons, but I found the house altogether dis-
fumished, and his books packing up.
\st Jv/ae. I went with my son, and brother-
in-law, Glanville,^ and his son to Wotton, to
solemnise the funeral of my nephew,^ which was
performed the next day very decently and orderly
by the herald, in the afternoon, a very great
appearance of the country being there. I was the
chief mourner ; the pall was held by Sir Francis
Vincent, Sir Richard Onslow, Mr. Thomas Howard
^ [William Glanville, husband of Evelyn's sister Jane (see
anUy vol. ii. p. 4 ; and poti^ under ISth April, 170S).]
* [John Evelyn, the son of George Evelyn of W otton.]
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(son to Sir Robert, and Captain of the King's
Guard), Mr. Hillyard, Mr. James, Mr. Herbert,
nephew to Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and cousin-
german to my deceased nephew. He was laid in
the vault at Wotton church, in the burying-place
of the family. A great concourse of coaches and
people accompanied the solemnity.
10th June. I went to visit Lord Clarendon, still
prisoner in the Tower, though Lord Preston being
pardoned was released.^
Vlth. A fast
11th July. I dined with Mr. Pepys, where was
Dr. Cumberland, the new Bishop of Norwich,* Dr.
Lloyd having been put out for not acknowledging
the Government Cumberland is a very learned,
excellent man. — Possession was now given to Dr.
Tillotson, at Lambeth, by the Sheriff; Archbishop
Sancroft was gone, but had left his nephew to keep
possession ; and he refusing to deliver it up on the
Queen's message, was dispossessed by the Sheriff,
and imprisoned. This stout demeanour of the few
Bishops who refused to take the oaths to King
William, animated a great party to forsake the
churches, so as to threaten a schism ; though those
who looked further into the ancient practice, found
that when (as formerly) there were Bishops dis-
placed on secular accounts, the people never refused
to acknowledge the new Bishops provided they
were not heretics. The truth is, the whole clergy
had till now stretched the duty of passive
obedience, so that the proceedings against these
Bishops gave no little occasion of exceptions ; but
this not amounting to heresy, there was a necessity
1 [See ante, p. 283.]
^ A mistake. Dr. Richard Cumberland, rector of All Saints,
Stamford, was made Bishop of Peterborough, 5th July, and
Dr. John Moore, prebendaiy of Norwich, succeeded Dr. Lloyd
in the see of Norwich.
1691 JOHN EVELYN 287
of receiving the new Bishops, to prevent a failure
of that order in the Church. — I went to visit Lord
Clarendon in the Tower, but he was gone into the
country for air by the. Queen's permission, under
the care of his warden,
ISth July. To London to hear Mr. Stringfellow
preach his first sermon in the new-erected church
of Trinity, in Conduit Street; to which I did
recommend him to Dr. Tenison for the constant
preacher and lecturer. This church, formerly built
of timber on Hounslow Heath by King James
for the mass-priests, being begged by Dr. Tenison,
rector of St Martin's, was set up by that public-
minded, charitable, and pious man near my son's
dwelling in Dover Street, chiefly at the charge of
the Doctor. I know him to be an excellent preacher
and a fit person. This church, though erected in
St. Martin's, which is the Doctor's parish, he was
not only content, but was the sole industrious
mover, that it should be made a separate parish, in
regard of the neighbourhood having become so
populous. Wherefore to countenance and intro-
duce the new minister, and take possession of a
gallery designed for my son's family, I went to
London, where,
19M, in the morning Dr. Tenison preached the
first sermon, taking his text from Psalm xxvi. 8 :
" Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house,
and the place where thine honour dwelleth." In
concluding, he gave that this should be made a
parish-church so soon as the Parliament sate, and
was to be dedicated to the Holy Trinity,^ in honour
^ This was never made a parish church, but still remains a
chapel, and is private property. But, under the Act for building
fifty new churches^ one was built in the street between Conduit
Street and Hanover Square, the first stone being laid 20th June,
1712; it was dedicated to St. George, and part of St. Martin's
was made a separate parish, now called St. George's, Hanover
Square.
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of the three undivided Persons in the Deity ; and
he minded them to attend to that faith of the
Church, now especially that Arianism, Socinianism,
and Atheism began to spread amongst us. — In the
afternoon, Mr. Stringfellow preached on Luke vii.
5, "The centurion who had built a synagogue.*'
He proceeded to the due praise of persons of such
public spirit, and thence to such a character of
pious benefactors in the person of the generous
centurion, as was comprehensive of all the virtues
of an accomplished Christian, in a style so full,
eloquent, and moving, that I never heard a sermon
more apposite to the occasion. He modestly
insinuated the obligation they had to that person
who should be the author and promoter of such
public works for the benefit of mankind, especially
to the advantage of religion, such as building and
endowing churches, hospitals, libraries, schools,
procuring the best editions of useful books, by
which he handsomely intimated who it was that
had been so exemplary for his benefaction to that
place. Indeed, that excellent person. Dr. Tenison,
had also erected and furnished a public library^
[in St Martin's]; and set up two or three free-
schools at his own charges. Besides this, he was
of an exemplary holy life, took great pains in con-
stantly preaching, and incessantly employing him-
self to promote the service of God both in public
and private. I never knew a man of a more
universal and generous spirit, with so much modesty,
prudence, and piety.
The great victory of King William's army in
Ireland was looked on as decisive of that war.^
The French General, St Ruth, who had been so
cruel to the poor Protestants in France, was slain,
1 See ante, p. 123.
« (The Battle of Aghrim, July 12, in which Godart van Ginkell
defeated St. Ruth.]
iwi JOHN EVELYN 289
with divers of the best commanders; nor was it
cheap to us, having 1000 killed, but of the enemy
4 or 5000.
26th July. An extraordinary hot season, yet
refreshed by some thunder-showers.
2Sth. I went to Wotton.
2nd August. No sermon in the church in the
afternoon, and the curacy ill-served.
16/^ A sermon by the curate; an honest
discourse, but read without any spirit, or seeming
concern ; a great fault in the education of young
?reachers. — Great thunder and lightning on
'hursday, but the rain and wind very violent —
Our fleet come in to lay up the great ships;
nothing done at sea, pretending that we cannot
meet the French.
\%th September. A great storm at sea ; we lost
the Coronation and Harwich, above 600 men
perishing.
14ith October. A most pleasing autumn. — Our
navy come in without having performed anything,
yet there has been great loss of ships by negligence,
and unskilful men governing the fleet and Navy-
board.
7th November. I visited the Earl of Dover,^
who, having made his peace with the King, was
now come home. The relation he gave of the
stren^h of the French King, and the difficulty of
our rorcing him to fight, and any way making im-
pression into France, was very wide from what we
fancied.
Sth — 80th. An extraordinary dry and warm
season, without frost, and like a new spring ; such
as had not been known for many years. Fart of
the Kin^s house at Kensington was burnt
6th ikcember. Discourse of another plot, in
which several great persons were named, but
^ [See mUe, p. 247.]
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believed to be a sham. — ^A proposal in the House
of Commons that every officer in the whole nation
who received a salary above £500 or otherwise by
virtue of his office, should contribute it wholly to
the support of the war with France, and this upon
their oaths.^
25th December. My daughter-in-law was brought
to bed of a daughter.'
2Qth. An exceeding dry and calm winter, no
rain for many past months.
2%th. Dinea at Lambeth with the new Arch-
bishop.' Saw the effect of my green-house furnace,
set up by the Archbishop's son-in-law.
80^^ I again saw Mr. Charlton's collection ^ of
spiders, birds, scorpions, and other serpents, etc
1691-2 : 1^ January. This last week died that
pious admirable Christian, excellent philosopher,
and my worthy friend, Mr. Boyle, aged about 65 * —
a great loss to all that knew him, and to the public.
Qth. At the funeral of Mr. Boyle, at St.
Martin's. Dr. Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury,
preached on Eccles. ii. 26. He concluded witii
an eulogy due to the deceased, who made God and
religion the scope of all his excellent talents in the
knowledge of nature, and who had arrived to so
high a degree in it, accompanied with such zeal
and extraordinary piety, which he showed in the
whole course of his life, particularly in his exem-
plary charity on all occasions — ^that he gave £1000
yearly to the distressed refugees of France and
Ireland; was at the charge of translating the
Scriptures into the Irish and Indian tongues, and
was now promoting a Turkish translation, as he
^ [A poll-tax was levied in the following year; but in l694
began the plan of borrowing for extraordinary expenses^ and
the National Debt.]
» [See poH, p. 291.] * [Dr. Tillotson.]
^ See ante, p. 212. ^ [See ante, vol. ii. p. 110.]
1692 JOHN EVELYN 291
had formerly done of Grotius "on the Truth of
the Christian Religion" into Arabic, which he
caused to be dispersed in the Eastern countries;
that he had settled a fund for preachers who
should preach expressly against Atheists, Libertines,
Socinians, and Jews ; that he had in his will given
£8000 to charitable uses; but that his private
charities were extraordinary. He dilated on his
learning in Hebrew and Greek, his reading of the
Fathers, and solid knowledge in theology, once
deliberating about taking Holy Orders, and that at
the time of restoration of King Charles II., when
he might have made a great figure in the nation as
to secular honour and titles ; his fear of not being
able to discharge so weighty a duty as the first,
made him decline that, and his humility the other.
He i^ake of his civility to strangers, the great good
which he did by his experience in medicine and
chemistry, and to what noble ends he applied
himself to his darling studies ; the works both pious
and useful which he pubhshed; the exact life he
led, and the happy end he made. Something was
touched of his sister, the Lady Ranelagh,^ who
died but a few days before him. And truly all
this was but his due, without any grain of flattery.
This week, a most execrable murder was com-
mitted on Dr. Clench, father of that extraordinary
learned child whom I have before noticed.' Under
pretence of carrying him in a coach to see a patient,
they strangled him in it; and, sending away the
coachman under some pretence, they left his dead
body in the coach, and escaped in the dusk of the
evening.
12tn Jarmary. My grand-daughter was chris-
tened by Dr. Tenison, now Bishop of Lincoln, in
Trinity Church, being the first that was christened
there. She was named Jane.
1 [See anU, p. 277.] . « [See ante, p. 251.]
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2Uk January. A frosty and dry season continued ;
many persons die of apoplexies, more than usual —
Lord Marlborough, Lieutenant-General of the King's
army in England, Gentleman of the Bedchamber,
etc., dismissed from all his charges, military and
other, for his excessive taking of bribes, covetous-
ness, and extortion on all occasions from his inferior
officers.^ — Note, this was the Lord who was entirely
advanced by King James, and was the first who
betrayed and forsook his master. He was son of
Sir Winston Churchill of the Green-cloth.
"lih February. An extraordinary snow fell in
most parts.
18^^. Mr. Boyle having made me one of the
trustees for his charitable bequests, I went to
a meeting of the Bishop of Lincoln, Sir Rob.
wood, and Serjeant Rotheram,^ to settle that
clause in the will which related to charitable uses,
and especially the appointing and electing a minister
to preach one sermon the first Sunday in the month,
during the four summer months, expressly agahist
Atheists, Deists, Libertines, Jews, etc, without
descending to any other controversy whatever, for
which £50 per annum is to be paid quarterly to the
^ [lOih January (see wfra^ under 28th February).]
' [The Trustees were Dr. Tenison TLord Bishop of liuoohi,
and afterwards Primate\ Sir Henry Asnhurst^ Kt and Baronet^
Sir John Rotheram^ Serjeant-at-Law, and John Evelyn (of. fody
2nd May, I696). The terms of Boyle's bequest^ as recited in
Bentl^'s letter to the Trustees of March 17> differ somewhat
from Evelyn's account in the Dtafy. An annual salary was to
be settled for ^^some divine or preaching minister/' who should
'^ preach eight sermons in the year^ for proving the Christian
religion against notorious infidels^ viz. Atheists, Deists, Pagans,
Jews and Mahometans, not descending to any controversies that
are among Christians themselves : the lectures to be on the first
Monday of the respective months of January, February, March,
April, May, September, October, November ; in such church as
the Trustees shall from time to time appoint " (Bentley's Works,
by Dyce, 1888, iii., xv.).]
693 JOHN EVELYN 298
preacher ; and, at the end of three years, to proceed
to a new election of some other able divine, or tc
continue the same, as the trustees should judge
convenient. We made choice of one Mr. Bentley,^
chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester (Dr. Stilling-
fleet). The first sermon was appointed for tlie first
Sunday in March, at St. Martin's; the second
Sunday in April, at Bow-church, and so alternately.
2Stn Febriiary. Lord Marlborough ^ having used
words against the King, and been discharged from all
his great places, his wife was forbid the Court, and
the Princess of Denmark was desired by the Queen
to dismiss her from her service ; but she refusing to do
so, goes away from Court to Syon-house." — Divers
new Lords made ; Sir Heniy Capel,* Sir WiUiam
Fermor,* etc — Change of Commissioners in the
Treasury. — The Paruament adjourned, not well
satisfied with aflTairs. The business of the East India
Company, which they would have reformed, let fall.
— The Duke of Norfolk does not succeed in his
endeavour to be divorced.*
^ Richard Bentley^ 1662-1742, the celebrated scholar and
critic, afterwards Librarian to the King, and Master of Trinity
College, Cambridge. [He delivered l^e first course of eight
Boyle Lectures in this year, beginning on March 7> and ending
December 5. They were first published separately, and then
collected in 1693 under the general title of The Folfy and
UnreasonableneM ofAtheum demonstrated, etc,']
2 John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, 1650-1722. The
real cause of his dismissal from his employments by William IIL
was not the one mentioned by Evelyn ; [but the fact that he had
been intriguing with the Jacobites to bring back James to the
throne. They distrusted him, and betrayed him to the King, who,
of course, could no longer retain him at the head of the army].
' [At Syon House (see ante, vol. ii. p. 232). Here, or at
Berkeley House, Piccadilly, Anne lived during the remainder of
her sister's life.]
* Lord Capei, of Tewkesbuiy (see ante, vol. ii. p. 272\
^ Baron Leominster; afterwards Earl of Pomfret.(6ee ante,
p. 80).
^ [Henry Howard, seventh Duke of Norfolk, 1655-1701
(see post, under April, 1700).]
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20th March. My son was made one of the Com-
missioners of the Revenue and Treasury of Ireland,
to which employment he had a mind, far from my
wishes. — I visited the Earl of Peterborough,* who
showed me the picture of the Prince of Wales,
newly brought out of France, seeming in my
opinion very much to resemble the Queen his
mother, and of a most vivacious countenance.
April No spring yet appearing. The Queen-
dowager went out of England towards Portugal, as
pretended, against the advice of all her friends.'
Uh. Mr. Bentley preached Mr. Boyle's lecture
at St Mary-le-Bow.^ So excellent a discourse
against the Epicurean system is not to be re-
capitulated in a few words. He came to me to
ask whether I thought it should be printed, or that
there was anything in it which I desired to be
altered. I took this as a civility, and earnestly
desired it should be printed, as one of the most
learned and convincing discourses I had ever heard.
&th. A fast — King James sends a letter written
and directed by his own hand to several of the
Privy Council, and one to his daughter the Queen
Regent, informing them of the Queen being ready
to be brought to bed, and summoning them to be
at the birth by the middle of May, promising as
from the French King, permission to come and
return in safety.
24M. Much apprehension of a French invasion,^
and of an imiversal rising. Our fleet begins to join
with the Dutch. Unkindness between the Queen
and her sister.* Very cold and unseasonable
weather, scarce a leaf on the trees.
1 [See ante, p. 147.]
* [Catherine of Braganza reached Lisbon in January, 1693,
after travelling through France and Spain.]
3 [See ante, p. 292. This was the second Lecture.]
See infra, under 15th May.]
'See ante, p. 293 ; and pogt, under 13th January, 1695.]
4
6
1692 JOHN EVELYN 295
5th May. Reports of an invasion were very hot,
and alarmed the City, Court, and people ; nothing
but securing suspected persons, sending forces
to the sea-side, ana hastening out the fleet. Con-
tinued discourse of the French invasion, and of
ours in France. The eastern wind so constantly
blowing, gave our fleet time to unite, which
had been so tardy in preparation, that, had not
God thus wonderfiiUy avoured, the enemy would
in all probability have fallen upon us. Many
daily secured, and proclamations out for more
conspirators.
%tk. My kinsman, Sir Edward Eveljm, of Long
Ditton,^ died suddenly.
12th. A fast
18/A. I dined at my cousin Cheyne's, son to
my Lord Che3me, who married my cousin Pierre-
pont*
\5th. My niece, M. Evel3m, was now married to
Sir Cyril Wyche, Secretary of State for Ireland.*
— ^After all our apprehensions of being invaded,
and doubts of our success by sea, it pleased God to
give us a great naval victory,* to the utter ruin of
the French fleet, their admiral and all their best
men-of-war, transport-ships, etc.
2Qth. Though this day was set apart expressly
for celebrating the memorable birth, return, and
restoration of the late King Charles II., there was
no notice taken of it, nor any part of the ofiice
annexed to the Common Prayer-Book made use of,
which I think was ill done, in regard his restoration
^ [He had been created a Baronet in 1683.]
« "See ante, p. 272.]
« [See poH, under 4th October, 1699. Sir Cyril Wyche,
1632-1707, was one of the Lords Justices of Ireland, 1693-95.]
* [The famous victory of La Hogue, May 19- On the 24th,
sixteen large vessels of war^ and many transports, were destroyed
by five ships on the beach at Cape La Hogue in sight of James
and his army.]
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not only redeemed us from anarchy and confusion,
but restored the Church of England as it were
miraculously.
9th Jtme. I went to Windsor to carry my
grandson to Eton School, where I met my Lady
Stonehouse^ and other of my daughter-in-laws
relations, who came on purpose to see her before her
journey into Ireland We went to see the Castle,
which we found furnished and very neatly kept, as
formerly, only that the arms in the guard-chamber
and keep were removed and carried away. — ^An
exceedmg great storm of wind and rain, in some
places stripping the trees of their fruit and leaves
ais if it had been winter ; and an extraordinary wet
season, with great floods.
16th July. I went to visit the Bishop of Lincoln,
when, amongst other things, he told me that one
Dr. Chaplin, of University CoU^e in Oxford, was
the person who wrote the WhoU Duty of Man ; '
that ne used to read it to his pupil, and communi-
cated it to Dr. Sterne,' afterwanls Archbishop of
York, but would never sufier any of his pupils to
have a copy of it.
28r{/. 1 went with my wife, son, and daughter,
to Eton, to see my grandson, and thence to my
Lord Grodolphin's, at Cranbome,^ where we lay,
and were most honourablv entertained. The next
day to St George's Chapel, and returned to London
late in the evening.
^ [See ante, p. 42.]
s [The Whole Dtdv of Man is now ascribed to Richaid
Allestree (see ante, vol. ii. p. 157).]
' Bichard Sterne, 1596-1683^ great-grandfather of the author
of Trutram Shandy. He attended Archbishop Laud to the
scaffold as his chaplain. On the Restoration he was created
Bishop of Carlisle, and subsequently Archbishop of York^ 1664k
1683. He assisted in the Polyglot and in the revisal of the Book
of Common Prayer.
« [See anU, vol ii. p. 868.]
ie»2 JOHN EVELYN 2»7
25th July. To Mr. Hewer's at Clapham,^ where
he has an excellent, useful, and capacious house on
the Common, built by Sir Den. Gauden, and by
him sold to Mr. Hewer, who got a very consider-
able estate in the Navy, in which, from being Mr.
Pepys's clerk, he came to be one of the principal
officers, but was put out of all employment on the
Revolution, as were all the best officers, on suspicion
of being no friends to the change ; such were put
in their places, as were most shamefully ignorant
and unfit. Mr. Hewer lives very handsomely and
friendlv to everybody. — Our fleet was now sailing
on then* long pretence of a descent on the French
coast ; but, after having sailed one hundred leagues,
returned, the admiral and officers disagreeing as to
the place where they were to land, and the time of
year being so far spent, — to the great dishonour of
those at the helm, who concerted their matters so
indiscreetly, or, as some thought, designedly.^
This whole summer was exceeding wet and
rainy ; the like had not been known since the year
1648; whilst in Ireland they had not known so
great a drought.
10th Atiffust. A fast — Came the sad news of
the hurricane and earthquake, which has destroyed
almost the whole Island of Jamaica, many
thousands having perished.
11th. My son, his wife, and little daughter, went
for Ireland, there to reside as one of the Com-
missioners of the Revenue.'
^ [William Hewer^ d, 1715. He had been Commissioner of
the Navj^ and Treasurer for Tangier.] Much will be found
concerning him in Pepys' Diary, [The house at ^^ Paradisian
Clapham" (Evelyn to Pepys^ 20th Januaiy, 1703)^ where Pepys
lived with Hewer from 1700 to his death in 1708, was pulled
down about 1760. SeepoH, under 2drd September, 1700. J
2 [The intention had been to reduce St. Malo, but it was
found unassailable (see/xw^, under January, 1693).]
^ [He was a Commissioner of Revenue in Ireland, 1692*96.]
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14^h August. Still an exceeding wet season.
15^A September. There happened an earthquake,
which, though not so great as to do any harm in
England, was universal in all these parts of Europe.
It shook the house at Wotton, but was not per-
ceived by any save a servant or two, who were
making my bed, and another in a gairet I and
the rest being at dinner below in the parlour, were
not sensible of it The dreadful one in Jamaica
this summer was profanely and ludicrously repre-
sented in a puppet-play, or some such lewd pas-
time, in the fair of Southwark,^ which caused the
Queen to put down that idle and vicious mock show.
1^ October. This season was so exceedingly
cold, by reason of a long and tempestuous north-
east wind, that this usually pleasant month was
very uncomfortable. No fruit ripened kindly. —
Harbord dies at Belgrade;^ Lord Paget' sent
Ambassador in his room.
Qth November. There was a vestry called
about repairing or new building of the church
[at Depuord],^ which I thought unseasonable in
regard of heavy taxes, and other improper circum-
stances, which I there declared.
10th. A solemn Thanksgiving for our victory
at sea, safe return of the King, etc.
20th. Dr. Lancaster, the new Vicar of St.
Martin's, preached.
A signal robbery in Hertfordshire of the tax-
money bringing out of the north towards London.
They were set upon by several desperate persons,
who dismounted and stopped all travellers on the
^ [See atUe, vol. ii. p. 151.]
s [William Harboid, l6d5-92> Ambassador to Turkey to
mediate between the Sultan and tiie Emperor Leopold.]
s [William Paget, 1637-1713, sixth Baron; Ambassador to
Turkey, 1693-1702.]
^ [It was subsequently rebuilt in l697 by Toluntaiy subscrip-
tion and an assessment.]
1698 JOHN EVELYN 299
road, and guarding them in a field, when the
exploit was done, and the treasure taken, they
killed all the horses of those whom they stayed,
to hinder pursuit, being sixteen horses. They then
dismissed those that they had dismounted.
l^th December. With much reluctance we
gratified Sir J. Rotheram, one of Mr. Boyle's
trustees, by admitting the Bishop of Bath and
Wells ^ to be lecturer for the next year, instead of
Mr. Bentley, who had so worthily acquitted himself.
We intended to take him in again the next year.
1692-8 : January. Contest in Parliament about
a self-denying Act, that no Parliament-man should
have any office : it wanted only two or three voices
to have been carried. — The Duke of Norfolk's
Bill for a divorce thrown out, he having managed
it very indiscreetly.* — The quarrel between Admiral
Russell and Lord Nottingham yet undetermined.'
4M February. After five days' trial and extra-
ordinary contest, the Lord Mohun * was acquitted
by the Lords of the murder of Mountford, the
player, notwithstanding the Judges, from the
pregnant witnesses of the fact, had declared him
guilty ; but whether in commiseration of his youth,
being not eighteen years old, though exceeding
dissolute, or upon whatever other reason, the King
himself present some part of the trial, and satisfied,
as they report, that he was culpable, 69 acquitted
him, only 14 condemned him.
^ [Dr. Richaid Kidder, 16SS-170S ; Bishop of Bath and Wells,
1691-1703 (see ante, p. 29^).]
' [See ante, p. 2, and post, under April, 1700.]
' [In connection with the fruitless expedition to St. Malo
referred to at p. 297. Daniel Finch, the Earl of Nottingham, was
Secretary of State, and virtually at the head of the Admiralty
(see i$ifra),]
^ [Charles Mohun, fifth Baron Mohun, 1675-1712, was tried
and acquitted of the murder of William Mountford the actor.
He figures in Thackeray's Esmond,]
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Unheard-of stories of the universal increase of
witches in New England; men, women, and
children, devoting themselves to the devil, so as to
threaten the subversion of the government.^ — At
the same time there was a conspiracy amongst the
negroes in Barbadoes to murder all their masters,
discovered by overhearing a discourse of two of
the slaves, and so preventing the execution of the
design. — Hitherto an exceeding mild winter. —
France in the utmost misery and poverty for want
of com and subsistence, whilst the ambitious King
is intent to pursue his conquests on the rest of his
neighbours both by sea and land. Our Admiral,
Russell, laid aside for not pursuing the advantage
he had obtained over the French in the past
summer;^ three others chosen in his place. Dr.
Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury's book burnt by the
hangman for an expression of the Ejng's titie by
conquest, on a complaint of Joseph How, a
Member of Parliament, little better than a madman.
19th February. The Bishop of Lincoln' preached
in the afternoon at the Taoemacle near Golden
Square, set up by him. — Proposals of a marriage
between Mr. Draper and my daughter Susanna.^ —
Hitherto an exceeding warm winter, such as has
^ An account of these poor people is given in Manning
and Bray's Surrey, 1809, ii- 714, from the papers of the Rev.
Mr. Jolm Miller, Vicar of Effingham in that coun^, who was
Chaplain to the King's forces in the Colony from 1092 to l695.
Some of the accused were convicted and executed; but Sir
William Phipps, the Governor, had the good sense to reprieve,
and afterwards pardon, several; and the Queen approved his
conduct.
^ [Edward Russell, 1653-1727. He had been in secret
correspondence with King James. He was again employed in
1694, and made Earl of Oxfoid in 1697.1
> [Dr. Tenison. His chapel, which Stiype in his Stow, 1720,
speaks of as ''the Chapel of Ease, by some called the Taber-
nacle," is on the west side of King Street, Golden Square.]
^ [Susanna Evelyn was the third daughter (see post, p. 301).]
1698 JOHN EVELYN 801
seldom been known, and portending an unprosperous
spring as to the fruits of the earth; our climate
requires more cold and winterly weather. The
dreadful and astonishing earthquake swallowing
up Catania and other famous and ancient cities,
with more than 100,000 persons in Sicily, on 11th
January last, came now to be reported amongst us.
26th February. An extraordinary deep snow,
after almost no winter, and a sudden gentle thaw.
— A deplorable earthquake at Malta, since that of
Sicily, nearly as great
19^ March. A new Secretanr of State, Sir
John Trenchard;^ the Attorney-General, Somers,
made Lord -Keeper, a young lawyer of extra-
ordinary merit* — King William goes towards
Flanders ; but returns, the wind being contrary.
81^^. I met the King going to Gravesend to
embark in his yacht for HoUana
2drd ApriL An extraordinary wet spring.
27th. My daughter Susanna was married to
Wilham Draper, Esq., in the chapel of Ely House,
by Dr. Tenison, Bishop of Lincoln (since Arch-
bishop). I gave her in portion £4000, her jointure
is £500 per annum. I pray Almighty God to give
His blessing to this marriage 1 She is a good child,
religious, discreet, ingenious, and qualified with all
the ornaments of her sex. She has a peculiar
talent in design, as painting in oil and miniature,
^ Sir John Trenchard of Bloxworth^ in Dorsetshire, 1640-95.
He had heen implicated in the Papist Plot (see ante, p. 23),
and engaged with the Duke of Monmouth, but escaped out of
England, and lived some time abroad, where he acquired a large
and correct knowledge of foreign affairs. He was the coi^-
dential friend of King William, by whom he had been commis-
sioned to concert measures with nis friends on this side of the
water, and ensure his favourable reception. Previously to his
appointment of Secretary of State, the King had made him
Seijeant-at-Law, and Chief Justice of Chester.
^ [Sir John Somers, afterwards Baron Somers, l651-17l6.
He had been knighted, and made Solicitor-General in 1689*]
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and m extnotdinaiy mans for whatever hands
ean do with a needlcL She has liie French toiigiie;»
has read most of liie Greek and Roman authors
and poets, using her talents with great modesty:
exqumfcdj shiqied, and of an agreeaUe counte-
nance: This character is due to her, though
coming from her fidher. Mudi of this week spent
in ceremonies, receiving visits and entertaining
rdations, and a great p«t of the next in retuniiiig
Visits*
nth May. We accompanied my daughter to
her husband^s house,^ where with many of his
and our reUtions we were magnificently treated.
There we left her in an martment very richly
adorned and furnished, and I hope in as hi^py a
condition as could be wished, and with the great
satisfaction of all our friends; for which God be
praised I
14dh. Nothing yet of action from abroad.
Muttering of a design to bring forces under colour
of an expected descent, to be a standing army for
other purposes. Talk of a declaration of the
French Kmg, offering mighty advantages to the
Confederates, exclusive of King William; and
another of King James, with an universal pardon,
and referring the composing of all differences to a
Parliament. These were yet but discourses; but
something is certainly under it. A Declaration
or Manifesto from King James, so written, that
many thought it reasonable, and much more to the
purpose than any of his former.
uu/ne. Whit -Sunday. I went to my Lord
Griffith's chapel; the common church-office was
used for the King without naming the person, with
some other, apposite to the necessity and circum-
stances of the time.
nth. I dined at Sir William Godolphin's ; and,
^ At Addiscombe^ near Croydon.
1698 JOHN EVELYN 808
after evening prayer, visited the Duchess of
Grafton.^
21st June. I saw a great auction of pictures in
the Banqueting-house, Whitehall They had been
my Lord Melfort's,' now Ambassador from King
James at Rome, and engaged to his creditors here.
Lord Mulgrave ' and Sir Edward Seymour ^ came
to my house, and desired me to go with them to
the side. Divers more of the great lords, etc,
were there, and bought pictures dear enough.
There were some very excellent of Vandyck,
Rubens, and Bassano. Lord Godolphin bought
the picture of the Boys, by MuriUo the Spaniard,
for 80 guineas, dear enough ; my nephew Glan-
ville, the old Earl of Arundel's head by Rubens, for
£20. Growing late, I did not stay till all were sold
2^th. A very wet hay -harvest, and little
summer as yet.
9th July. Mr. Tippin, successor of Dr. Parr at
Camberwell, preached an excellent sermon.
18th. I saw the Queen's rare cabinets and
collection of china; which was wonderfully rich
and plentiful, but especially a large cabinet, look-
ing-glass frame and stands, all of amber, much
of it white, with historical bas-reliefs and statues,
with medals carved in them, esteemed worth £4000,
sent by the Duke of Brandenbiurg, whose country,
Prussia, abounds with amber, cast up by the sea ;
divers other China and Indian cabinets, screens,
and hangings. In her library were many books in
English, French, and Dutch, of all sorts ; a cup-
board of gold plate; a cabinet of silver filagree,
which I think was our Queen Mary's,* and which,
^ [See ante, p. 281. She was now a widow.]
^ [John Drummond^ first £arl^ and titular Duke of Melfort,
1649-1714. He was Jacobite Envoy to Rome.]
» [See ante, vol. ii. p. S52.] * [See pott, p. S5S.]
^ [King James's Queen^ now at St Germain.]
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in my opinion, should have been generously sent
to her.
18M July. I dined with Lord Mulgrave, with the
Earl of Devonshire,^ Mr. Hampden ^ (a scholar and
fine gentleman), Dr. Davenant,' Sir Henry Vane,
and others, and saw and admired the Venus of
Corr^gio, which Lord Mulgrave had newly bought
of Mr. Daun, for £250 ; one of the best paintings
I ever saw.
1^ AugiLSt Lord Capel, Sir Cyril Wyche, and
Mr. Duncomb, made Lord- Justices in Ireland; Lord
Sidney recalled, and made Master of the Ordnance.
%tJi Very lovely harvest-weather, and a whole-
some season, but no garden-fruit.
81^ October. A very wet and uncomfortable
season.
12th November. Lord Nottingham resigned as
Secretary of State ;^ the Commissioners of the
Admiralty outed, and Russell^ restored to his
office. — The season continued very wet, as it had
nearly all the summer, if one might call it summer,
in which there was no fruit, but com was very
plentiful
lUh. In the lottery set up after the Venetian
manner by Mr. Neale, Sir R. Haddock, one of the
Commissioners of the Navy, had the greatest lot,
£8000 ; my coachman £40.
nth. Was the funeral of Captain Young, who
died of the stone and great age. I tiiink he was
the first who in the first war with Cromwell against
Spain,* took the Governor of Havannah^ and
^ [See atUe, vol. iL p. 56."] ^ [See anU, p. 101.]
> Charles Davenant, 1656-1714^ eldest son of Sir William
Davenant^ joint inspector of plays^ Commissioner of Excise, and
Inspector-General of Exports and Imports, 1705-14. His chief
work was called Essays on Trade, in five volmnes.
^ See ante, p. 248. He was succeeded hj Charles Earl of
Shrewsbury.
ft [See anU, p. 800.] • See vol. i. p. 119.
16M JOHN EVELYN 805
another rich prize, and struck the first stroke
against the Dutch fleet in the first war with
Holland in the time of the Rebellion; a sober
man and an excellent seaman.
80th November. Much importuned to take the
ofiice of President of the Royal Society, but I
again declined it Sir Robert Southwell was
continued.^ We all dined at Pontac's,* as usual
9rd December. Mr. Bentley preached at the
Tabernacle, near Grolden Square.' I gave my
voice for him to proceed on his former subject the
following year in Mr. Boyle's lecture, in which he
had been interrupted by the importunity of Sir J.
Rotheram that the Bishop of Chichester ^ might be
chosen the year before, to the great dissatisfaction
of the Bishop of Lincoln and myself. We chose
Mr. Bentley again.^ — The Duchess of Grafton's
Appeal to the House of Lords for the Protho-
notary s place given to the late Duke and to her
son by King Charles II., now chaUenged by the
Lord Chief-Justice. The Judges were severely
reproved on something they said.
lO^A. A very great storm of thunder and
lightning.
1698-4 : 1^ January. Prince Lewis of Baden
came to London, and was much feasted Danish
ships arrested carrymg com and naval stores to
France.
Wth. Supped at Mr. Edward Sheldon's, where
1 [See anUy p. 282.1 > [See amUy p. 104.]
« [See anity p. 292.J
^ A mistake for Bath and Wells. Bishop Kidder is referred
to (see anUy p. 299).
^ [See anUy pp. 292 and 299. ''In 1694 Bentley again
delivered a course of Bojle Lectures — ^'A Defence of Christianity'
— but they were never printed. Manuscript copies of them are
mentioned by Kippis^ the editor of the BiograpMa Britannica:
but Dean Vincent^ who died in 1815^ is reported by Kidd as
believing that they were lost" (Jebb's BaUley, 1882, p. 52).]
VOL. Ill X
806 THE DIARY OF mm
was Mr. Dryden, the poet, who now intended to
write no moi^ plays, being intent on his translation
of VirgiL He read to us his prologue and epilogue
to his valedictory play now shortly to be acted.*
21st January. Lord Macclesfield, Lord Warring-
ton, and Lord Westmoreland, all died within about
one week. Several persons shot, hanged, and made
away with themselves.
nth February. Now was the great trial of the
appeal of Lord Bath and Lord Montagu before
the Lords, for the estate of the late Duke of
Albemarle.^
IQth March. Mr. Stringfellow ' preached at
Trinity parish, being restored to that place, after
the contest between the Queen and the Bishop of
London who had displaced him.
22nd. Came the dismal news of the disaster
befallen our Turkey fleet by tempest, to the almost
utter ruin of that trade, the convoy of three or
four men-of-war, and divers merchant-ships, with
all their men and lading, having perished.
2Sth. Dr. Goode, minister of St. Martin's,
preached; he was likewise put in by the Queen,
on the issue of her process with the Bishop of
London.
80M. I went to the Duke of Norfolk, to desire
him to make cousin Evelyn of Nutfield one of the
Deputy-Lieutenants of Surrey, and entreat him to
dismiss my brother, now unable to serve by reason
of age and infirmity. The Duke granted the one,
but would not suffer my brother to resign his com-
mission, desiring he should keep the honour of it
^ \Love Triumphant^ l694.]
« [John Grenville, Earl of Bath, 1628-1701, claimed the
Albemarle estate, under the will of Christopher Monck, second
Duke of Albemarle, who died in 1688. Actions were brought
against him by the Earl of Montagu and the Duchess of Albe-
marle (see past, pp. 328 and 858).]
• [See ante, p. 288.]
im JOHN EVELYN 807
during his life, though he could not act He pro-
fessed great kindness to our family.
1^ April Dr. Sharp, Archbishop of York,^
^reached in the afternoon at the Tabernacle, by
]oho.
IStk. Mr. Bentley, our Boyle Lecturer,*
Chaplain to the Bishop of Worcester, came to
see me.
15th. One Mr. Stanhope' preached a most
excellent sermon.
22fuL A fiery exhalation rising out of the sea,
spread itself in Montgomeryshire a furlong broad,
and many miles in length, burning aU straw, hay,
thatch, and grass, but doing no harm to trees,
timber, or any solid things, only firing bams, or
thatched houses. It left such a taint on the grass
as to kill all the cattle that eat of it I saw the
attestations in the hands of the sufferers. It lasted
many months. — The Berkeley Castle sunk by
the French coming from the East Indies, worth
£200,000. The French took our castle of Gamboo
in Guinea, so that the Africa Actions fell to £80,
and the India to £80. — Some regiments of High-
land Dragoons were on their march through
England ; they were of large stature, well appointed
and disciplined. One of them having reproached
a Dutchman for cowardice in our late fight, was
attacked by two Dutchmen, when with his sword
he struck off the head of one, and cleft the skull of
the other down to his chin.
A very young gentleman named Wilson, the
younger son of one who had not above £200 a-year
estate, lived in the garb and equipage of the richest
^ [See ante, p. 206.] ^ [-gee mUe, p. 805.]
3 Dr. George Stanhope, 1 660 -1728^ afterwards Dean of
Ginterbury, a divine wlio made no scruple to publish what he
found truly pious in the works of a Roman Githolic Priest
{seepogtfp, 821).
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nobleman, for house, furniture, coaches, saddle-
horses, and kept a table, and all things accordingly,
redeemed his father's estate, and gave portions to
his sisters, being; challenTOd by one Laws, a Scotch-
man, was kiUeS in a du^not fairly. The quarrel
arose from his taking away his own sister from
lodging in a house where this Laws had a mistress,
which the mistress of the house thinking a dis-
paragement to it, and losing by it, instigated Laws
to this duel He was taken and condemned for
murder. The mystery is how this so younff a
gentleman, very sober and of good fame, could Uve
in such an expensive manner; it could not be
discovered by all possible industry, or entreaty
of his friends to make him reveal it. It did not
appear that he was kept by women, play, coining,
padding,^ or deaUng in chemistry; but he would
sometimes say that if he should live ever so lonir,
he had whereVith to maintain himself in the same
manner. He was very civil and well-natured, but
of no great force of understanding. This was a
subject of much discourse.
2Uh April I went to visit Mr. Waller, an
extraordinary young gentleman of great accom-
plishments, skilled in mathematics, anatomy, music,
painting both in oil and miniature to great per-
fection, an excellent botanist, a rare engraver on
brass, writer in Latin, and a poet ; and with all
this exceeding modest. His house is an academy
of itself. I carried him to see Brompton Park [by
Knightsbridge],^ where he was in admiration at the
store of rare plants, and the method he found in
^ [Highway robbery.]
' [Between Knightsbridge and Kensington, but now built
over. It belonged to Henry Wise^ 1 658-78^ afterwards gardener
to Queen Anne and George I., and one of the firm of London
and Wise, the nurseiy gardeners^ mentioned in No. 5 of the
Spectator. Evelyn refers to them in his '' Advertisement " to La
Quintinye's Compleat Gardener, 1693.]
law JOHN EVELYN 809
that noble nursery, and how well it was cultivated.
— A public Bank of £140,000, set up by Act of
Parliament among other Acts, and Lotteries for
money to carry on the war. — ^The whole month of
April without rain.— A great rising of people in
Buckinghamshire, on the declaration of a famous
preacher,^ till now reputed a sober and religious
man, that our Lord Christ appearing to him on the
16th of this month, told him he was now come
down, and would appear publicly at Pentecost, and
gather all the saints, Jews and Gentiles, and lead
them to Jerusalem, and begin the Millennium, and
destroying and judging the wicked, deliver the
government of the world to the saints. Great
multitudes followed this preacher, divers of the
most zealous brought their goods and considerable
sums of money, and began to live in imitation of
the primitive saints, minding no private concerns,
continually dancing and singing Hallelujah night
and day. This brings to mind what I lately
happened to find in Alstedius, that the thousand
years should begin this very year 1694 : it is in
his Encychpcedia BibliccL My copy of the book
printed near sixty years ago.
Uh May. I went this day with my wife and
four servants from Sayes Court, removing much
furniture of all sorts, books, pictures, hangings,
bedding, etc., to furnish the apartment my brother
assigned me, and now, after more than forty years,
to spend the rest of my days with him at Wotton,
^ John Mason, l646-94», who was presented to the Rectory
of Water Stratford^ in l674. Ghreat numbers of his deluded
followers left their homes^ and filled all the houses and bams in
the neighbourhood of Water Stratford ; and, when prevented from
assembling in their chosen field (the ''Holy Chround"), they
congregated in the town. Three pamphlets on the subject
were published in 1694, after Mason's death, one of which
was privately reprinted by the Rev. Edward Cooke, Rector of
Haversham, in the same county (Bucks).
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where I was bom ; leaving my house at D^tford
full furnished, and three servants, to my son-in-
law Draper,^ to pass the summer in, and such
longer time as he should think fit to make use
of it
%th May. This being the first Sunday in the month,
the blessed Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ought
to have been celebrated at Wotton Church, but in
this parish it is exceedingly neglected, so that, unless
at the four great Feasts, there is no communion
hereabouts ; which is a great fault both in ministers
and people. I have spoken to my brother, who is
the patron, to discourse the Minister about it —
Scarcely one shower has fallen since the beginning
of AprU.
QQth. This week we had news of my Lord
Teviot having cut his own throat, through what
discontent not yet said. He had been, not many
years past, my colleague in the commission of the
Privy Seal, an old acquaintance, very soberly and
religiously inclined.* Lord, what are we without
Thy continual grace !
Lord Falkland,' grandson to the learned Lord
Falkland, Secretary of State to King Charles I.,
and slain in his service, died now of the small-pox.
He was a pretty, brisk, understanding, industrious
young genUeman ; had formerly been faulty, but
now much reclaimed; had also the good luck to
marry a very great fortune, besides being entitled
to a vast sum, his share of the Spanish wreck, taken
up at the expense of divers adventurers. From a
Scotch Viscount he was made an English Baron,
designed Ambassador for Holland; had been
Treasurer of the Navy, and advancing extremely
in the New Court AH now gone in a moment,
and I think the title is extinct I know not
I [See ante, p. SOO.l « [See tadey p. 195.]
» [See ante, p. 97.]
i«94 JOHN EVELYN 811
whether the estate devolves to my cousin Carew.
It was at my Lord Falkland's, whose lady unpor-
tuned us to let our daughter be with her some tmie,
so that that dear child took the same infection,
which cost her valuable life.^
Brd June. Mr. Edwards, minister of Denton,
in Sussex, a living in my brother's gift, came to
see him. He had suffered much by a nre. — Season-
able showers.
•
lUh. The public Fast Mr. Wotton,* that extra-
ordinary learned young man, preached excellently.
1^ July. Mr. Duncomb, minister of Albury,
S reached at Wotton, a very religious and exact
iscourse.
The first great Bank ' for a fund of money being
now established by Act of Parliament, was filled
and completed to the sum of £120,000, and put
under the government of the most able and wealthy
citizens of London. All who adventured any sum
had four per cent, so long as it lay in the Bank,
and had power either to take it out at pleasure,
or transfer it— Glorious steady weather ; com and
all fruits in extraordinary plenty generally.
IQth. Lord Berkeley burnt Dieppe and Havre-
de-Grace with bombs, in revenge for the defeat at
Brest* This manner of destructive war* was
begun by the French, is exceedingly ruinous,
especially falling on the poorer people, and does
not seem to tend to make a more speedy end of
the war; but rather to exasperate and incite to
revenge. — Many executed at London for clipping
money, now done to that intolerable extent, that
1 See anU, p. 158. > [See anU, p. dl.]
' nrh^ Bank of England^ which received a Royal Charter^ July
27, 1694.]
* [July 12, l6, 18. Vauban had strengthened the Brest
fortifications in anticipation of attack, and a landing was found
impracticable when attempted in June.]
^ [Bombarding (see pott, under 25th September, 1695).]
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there was hardly any money that was worth above
half the nominal value.^
^h August. I went to visit my cousin, Gieorge
Evelyn of Nutfield, where I found a family of ten
children, five sons and five daughters — all beautifid
women grown, and extremely well-£ashioned. All
painted in one piece, very well, by Mr. Lutterel,*
m crayon on copper, and seeming to be as finely
painted as the best miniature. They are the
children of two extraordinary beautiful wives.
The boys were at school
5th. Stormy and unseasonable wet weather this
week.
5th October. I went to St. Paul's to see the
choir, now finished as to the stone work, and the
scafibld struck both without and within, in that
part Some exceptions might perhaps be taken as
to the placing columns on pilasters at the East
tribunal. As to the rest it is a piece of architec-
ture without reproach. The pulling out the forms,
like drawers, fi*om under the stalls, is ingenious.
I went also to see the building beginning near
St Giles's, where seven streets make a star from
a Doric pillar placed in the middle of a circular
area ; * said to be built by Mr. Neale, introducer
of the late lotteries, in imitation of those at Venice,
now set up here, for himself twice, and now one for
the State.
2&th. Mr. StringfeDow preached at Trinity
church.*
22nd November. Visited the Bishop of Lincoln
[Tenison] * newly come on the death of the Arch-
^ \Beeposty under 12th Januaiy^ I696.]
' [Henry Lutterel^ 1650-1 7 10. He had discovered a means
of drawing crayon portraits on copper^ and he executed a few
mezzotints.]
s [Seven Dials, St. Giles's. The ''Doric pOIar" has long
been removed elsewhere.]
* [See anUe, p. SO6.] * [See mUe, p.* Sg*"]
1694 JOHN EVELYN 818
bishop of Canterbury, who a few days before had
a paralytic stroke — the same day and month that
Archbishop Sancroft was put out — A very sickly
time, especially the small-pox, of which divers con-
siderable persons died. The State Lottery^ drawing,
Mr. Cocl^ a French refugee, and a President in the
Parliament of Paris for the Reformed, drew a lot
of £1000 per annum.
29th November. I visited the Marquis of
Normanby, and had much discourse concerning
King Charles II. being poisoned.— Also concerning
the Quinquina which the physicians would not give
to the King, at a time when, in a dangerous ague,
it was the only thing that could cure him (out of
envy because it had been brought into vogue by
Mr. Tudor, an apothecary), till Dr. Short, to whom
the King sent to know his opinion of it privately,
he being reputed a Papist (but who was in truth a
very honest good Christian), sent word to the King
that it was the only thing which could save his life,
and then the King enjoined his physicians to give
it to him, which they did, and he recovered. Being
asked by this Lord why they would not prescribe
it. Dr. Lower said it would spoil their practice,
or some such expression, and at last confessed it
was a remedy fit only for kings. — Exception was
taken that the late Archbishop did not cause
any of his Chaplains to use any office for the sick
during his illness.
9m December. I had news that my dear and
worthy friend. Dr. Tenison, Bishop of Lincoln,
was made Archbishop of Canterbury,* for which 1
thank God and rejoice, he being most worthy of it,
for his learning, piety, and prudence.
18th. I went to London to congratulate him.
He being my proxy, gave my vote for Dr.
^ State Lotteries finally closed October 18, 1826.
« [See ante, p. SI 2.]
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Williams,^ to succeed Mn Bentley in Mr. Boyle's
lectures.
29th December. The small-pox increased exceed-
ingly, and was very mortal The Queen died of
it on the 28th.'
1694-5 : ISth January. The Thames was frozen
over. The deaths by small-pox increased to five
hundred more than in the preceding week. — The
King and Princess Anne reconciled, and she was
invited to keep her Court at Whitehall, having
hitherto lived privately at Berkeley -house;* she
was desired to take into her family divers servants
of the late Queen ; to maintain them the King has
assigned her £5000 a-quarter.
20th. The frost and continual snow have now
lasted five weeks.
February. Lord Spencer married the Duke
of Newcastle's daughter, and our neighbour, Mr.
Hussey,* married a daughter of my cousin George
Evelyn, of Nutfield.
8rd. The long frost intermitted, but not gone.
17th. Called to London by Lord Godolphin,
one of the Lords of the Treasury, offering me the
treasurership of the hospital designed to be built at
Greenwich for worn-out seamen.
2Mh. I saw the Queen lie in state.
27th. The Marquis of Normanby told me King
Charles had a design to buy all King Street,^ and
build it nobly, it being the street leading to
Westminster. This might have been done for
1 [Dr. John Williams, 1636-1709, Bishop of Chichester.]
' She was buried at Westminster, March 5, l695.]
3 [See anie, p. 29S. She had quitted the Cockpit at Whitehall
in consequence of a quarrel with the Queen.]
^ [Probably a son of Peter Hussey of Sutton (see ante, vol. ii.
p. SI 5). J
* [King Street — as will be seen from Fisher's Plan — extended
from Riclunond Terrace to Bridge Street. It is now absorbed
in Parliament Street, which carries out the King's scheme.]
im JOHN EVELYN 815
the expense of the Queen's funeral, which was
£50,000, against her desire.^
Sth March. I went to see the ceremony. Never
was so universal a mourning; all the Parliament-
men had cloaks given them, and four hundred poor
women ; all the streets hung, and the middle of
the street boarded and covered with black cloth.
There were all the Nobility, Mayor, Aldermen,
Judges, etc
Sth. I supped at the Bishop of Lichfield and
Coventry's, who related to me the pious behaviour
of the Queen in all her sickness, which was admir-
able. She never inquired of what opinion persons
were, who were objects of charity ; that, on opening
a cabinet, a paper was found wherein she had
desired that her body might not be opened, or any
extraordinary expense at her funeral, whenever she
should die. This paper was not found in time to
be observed. There were other excellent things
under her own hand, to the very least of her debts,
which were very small, and everything in that exact
method, as seldom is found in any private person.
In sum, she was such an admh-able woman, abating
for taking the Crown without a more due apology,'
as does, if possible, outdo the renowned Queen
Elizabeth.
10th. I dined at the Earl of Sunderland's with
Lord Spencer. My Lord showed me his library,
now again improved by many books bought at
the sale of Sir Charles Scarburgh, an eminent
physician,* which was the very best collection,
especially of mathematical books, that was I believe
in Europe, once designed for the King's Library at
St. James's ; but the Queen's d}ring, who was the
great patroness of that design, it was let fall, and
the books were miserably dissipated.
^ [See infra, Sth March.] ^ [See ante, p. 256.]
• See vol. ii. p. 63.
816 THE DIARY OF im
The new edition of Camden's Britannia was now
published (by Bishop Gibson), with great additions ;
those to Surrey were mine» so that I had one pre-
sented to me.^ Dr. Gale * showed a MS. of some
Earts of the New Testament in vulgar Latin, that
ad belonged to a monastery in the North of
Scotland, which he esteemed to be about eight
hundred years old; there were some considerable
various readings observable, as in John i., and
genealogy of St. Luke.
24dh March. Easter-day. Mr. Duncomb, parson
of this parish, preached, which he hardly comes to
above once a year though but seven or eight miles
off ; ^ a florid discourse, read out of his notes. The
Holy Sacrament followed, which he administered
with very little reverence, leaving out many prayers
and exhortations ; nor was there any oblation.
This ought to be reformed, but my good brother
did not well consider when he gave away this living
and the next [Abinger].
March. The latter end of the month sharp and
severe cold, with much snow and hard frost; no
appearance of spring.
81^^. Mr. Lucas preached in the afternoon at
Wotton.
7th ApriL Lord Halifax^ died suddenly at
London, the day his daughter was married to the
Earl of Nottingham's son at Burleigh. Lord H.
was a very rich man, very witty, and in his younger
days somewhat positive.
^ [Camden's Britannia was translated from the original Latin
in this year by Edmund Gibson^ 1669-1748^ afterwards Arch-
deacon of Surrey and Bishop of London. It was reprinted in
1753 and 1772. Evelyn's contributions to it are not noticed
in the list of his works.]
2 [See ante, p. 89-]
* This was William Duncomb^ Rector of Ashtead^ in Surrey^
not Mr. Duncomb^ of Albury^ mentioned in pp. 311 and 319*
* [See ante, vol. ii. p. 19*.]
1696 JOHN EVELYN 817
l^th April. After a most severe, cold, and snowy
winter, without almost any shower for many
months, the wind continuing N. and E. and not a
leaf appearing ; the weather and wind now changed,
some showers feU, and there was a remission of cold.
21^. The spring begins to appear, yet the trees
hardly leafed. — Sir T. Cooke discovers what pro-
digious bribes have been given by some of the East
India Company out of the stock, which makes
a great clamour. — Never were so many private
bills passed for unsettling estates, showing the
wonderful prodigality and decay of families.
5th May. I came to Deptford from Wotton, in
order to the first meeting of the Commissioners for
endowing an Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich ;
it was at the Guildhall, London. Present, the
Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord -Keeper, Lord
Privy Seal, Lord Godolphin, Duke of Shrewsbury,
Duke of Leeds, Earls of Dorset and Monmouth,
Commissioners of the Admiralty and Navy, Sir
Robert Clayton, Sir Christopher Wren, and several
more. The Commission was read by Mr. Lowndes,
Secretary to the Lords of the Treasury, Surveyor-
General.^
17th. Second meeting of the Commissioners, and
a Committee appointed to go to Greenwich to
survey the place, I being one of them.
21*^. We went to survey Greenwich, Sir Robert
Clayton,* Sir Christopher Wren, Mr. Travers, the
King s Surveyor, Captain Sanders, and myself.
24ith. We made report of the state of Greenwich
House, and how the standing part might be made
serviceable at present for £6000, and what ground
would be requisite for the whole design. My
Lord-Keeper ordered me to prepare a book for
subscriptions, and a preamble to it.
^ [See post, under 4th July, I696, ».]
* [See ante, p. 9.]
818 THE DIARY OF i«m
81^ May. Met again. Mr. Vanbrugh ^ was made
Secretary to the Commission, by my nomination of
him to the Lords, which was all done that day.
^th June. The Commissioners met at Guildhall,
when there were scruples and contests of the Lord
Mayor,' who would not meet, not being named as
one of the quorum, so that a new Commission was
required, though the Lord -Keeper and the rest
thought it too nice a punctilio.
lUh. Met at Guildhall, but could do nothing
for want of a quorum.
5tk July. At Guildhall; account of subscrip-
tions, about 7 or £8000.
Qth. I dined at Lambeth, making my first visit
to the Archbishop,' where there was much company,
and great cheer. After prayers in the evening, my
Lord made me stay to show me his house, furniture,
and garden, which were all very fine, and far
beyond the usual Archbishops, not as affected by
this, but being bought ready furnished by his pre-
decessor. We discoursed of several public matters,
particularly of the Princess of Denmark, who made
so little figure.
nth. Met at Guildhall : not a full Committee,
so nothing done.
lUh. No sermon at Church ; but, after prayers,
the names of all the parishioners were read, in
order to gathering the tax of 4s. for marriages,
burials, etc A very imprudent tax, especially this
reading the names, so that most went out of the
church.
19th. I dined at Sir Purbeck Temple's, near
Croydon ; * his lady is aunt to my son-in-law,
^ John Vanbrugh, l664-17S6, the dramatist, architect of
Blenheim and Castle Howard ; also Clarencieux King at Arms,
Comptroller of the Board of Works, and Surveyor of Ghreenwich
Hospital. [He became Sir John in 1714.]
, « Sir William Ashurst, Knt » [Dr. Tenison.]
* [See potty p. 320.]
1695 JOHN EVELYN 819
Draper; the house exactly furnished. Went
thence with my son and daughter to Wotton. —
At Wotton, Mr. Duncomb, parson of Albury,
preached excellently.
2Sth July. A very wet season.
11th August The weather now so cold, that
greater frosts were not always seen in the midst of
winter ; this succeeded much wet, and set harvest
extremely back.
25th September. Mr. Offiey^ preached at
Abinger ; too much of controversy on a point of
no consequence, for the country people here.
This was the first time I had heard him preach.
Bombarding of Cadiz ; a cruel and brutish way of
making war, first begun by the French. — ^The
season wet, great storms, unseasonable harvest
weather. — My good and worthy friend. Captain
Gifibrd, who that he might get some competence
to live decently, adventured all he had in a voyage
of two years to the East Indies, was, with another
great ship, taken by some French men-of-war,
almost within sight of England, to the loss of near
£70,000, to my great sorrow, and pity of his wife,
he being also a valiant and industrious man. The
losses of this sort to the nation have been immense,
and all through negligence, and little care to secure
the same near our own coasts ; of infinitely more
concern to the public than spending their time in
bombarding and ruining two or three paltry towns,
without any benefit, or weakening our enemies, who,
though they began, ought not to be imitated in an
action totally averse to humanity, or Christianity.
^ Rector of Abinger. This gentleman — says Bray — gave good
farms in Sussex for the better endowment of Oakwood Chapel,
a chapel of ease for the lower parts of Abinger and Wotton,
both of which livings are in the gift of the owner of Wotton ;
many of the inhabitants thereabouts being distant five miles
from their parish churches, and the roads also in winter being
extremely bad.
820 THE DIARY OF im
29th September. Very cold weather. — Sir Pur-
beck Temple» iinde to my son Draper, died
suddenly.^ A great funeral at Addiscombe. His
lady being own aunt to my son Draper, he hopes
for a good fortune, there being no heir. There
had been a new meeting of the Commissioners
about Greenwich Hospital, on the new Commis-
sion, where the Lord Mayor, etc., appeared, but I
was prevented by indisposition from attending.
The weather very sharp, winter approaching apace.
— The King went a progress into the north, to
show himself to the people against the elections,
and was everywhere complimented, except at
Oxford, where it was not as he expected, so that
he hardly stopped an hour there, and, having seen
the Theatre, did not receive the banquet proposed.
— I dined with Dr. Gale at St Paul's school,* who
showed me many curious passages out of some
ancient Platonists' MSS. concerning the Trinity,
which this great and learned person would publish,
with many other rare things, if he was encouraged,
and eased of the burden of teaching.
25th October. The Archbishop and myself went
to Hammersmith, to visit Sir Samuel Morland,'
who was entirely blind; a very mortifying sight.
He showed us his invention of writing, which was
very ingenious; also his wooden kalendar, which
instructed him all by feeling ; and other pretty and
useful inventions of mills, pumps, etc, and the
pump he had erected that serves water to his
garden, and to passengers, with an inscription,
and brings from a filthy part of the Thames near
it a most perfect and pure water. He had newly
buried £200 worth of music-books six feet under
ground, being, as he said, love-songs and vanity.
He plays himself psalms and religious hymns on
^ [See atUe, p. SI 8.] ^ See ante, p. SI 6.
• [See ante, vol. ii. p. 276.]
1695 JOHN EVELYN 821
the theorbo. Very mild weather the whole of
October,
10th November. Mn Stanhope,^ Vicar of Lewis-
ham, preached at Whitehall He is one of the
most accomplished preachers I ever heard, for
matter, eloquence, action, voice, and I am told, of
excellent conversation.
IQth. Famous fireworks and very chargeable, the
King being returned from his progress. He stayed
seven or eight days at Lord Sunderland's at
Althorp, where he was mightily entertained. These
fireworks were showed before Lord Ronmey^
master of the ordnance,^ in St. James's great square,
where the King stood.
17th. I spoke to the Archbishop of Canterbury
to interest himself for restoring a room belonging
to St. James's library, where the books want
place.
21^. I went to see Mr. Churchill's collection
of rarities.
2Srd. To Lambeth, to get Mr. Williams'
continued in Boyle's lectures another year.
Amongst others who dined there was Dr. Covel,*
the great Oriental traveller.
1^ December. I dined at Lord Sunderland's,
now the great favourite and underhand politician,
but not adventuring on any character, being
obnoxious to the people for having twice changed
his religion.
28ra. The Parliament wondrous intent on ways
^ See ante, p. S07.
* THeniy Sidney, Earl of Romney, 1641-1704, was Master of
the Ordnance in 1693.1
* [See ante, p. 314.]
^ Dr. John Covel, 1638-1722, Master of Christ's College,
Cambridge, and Chancellor of York. He wrote an account of
the Greek Church, which he published just before his death in
1722, in his 85th year. [His manuscript travels are preserved in
the British Museum.]
VOL. Ill Y
822 THE DIARY OF im
to reform the coin; setting out a Proclamation
prohibiting the currency of half-crowns, etc. ;
which made much confusion mnong the people.
2Sth December. Hitherto mild, dark, misty
weather. Now snow and frost
1695-6: 12th January. Great confusion and
distraction by reason of the clipped money, and
the difficulty found in reforming it^
2nd Fewtiary. An extraordinary wet season,
though temperate as to cold. — The Royal
Sovereign^ man-of-war burnt at Chatham. It
was budt in 1687, and having given occasion to
the levy of Ship-money was perhaps the cause of
all the after-troubles to this day. — An earthquake
in Dorsetshire by Portland, or rather a sinking of
the ground suddenly for a large space, near the
quarries of stone, hindering the conveyance of that
material for the finishing St. Paul's.
2^rd. They now began to coin new money.
2Qth. There was now a conspiracy' of about
thu1:y knights, gentlemen, captams, many of them
Irish and English Papists, and Nonjurors or
Jacobites (so called), to murder King William on
the first opportunity of his going either from
Kensington, or to hunting, or to the chapel ; and,
upon signal of fire to be given from Dover Cliff to
Calais, an invasion was designed. In order to it
there was a great army in readiness, men-of-war
and transports, to join a general insurrection here,
the Duke of Berwick having secretly come to
London to head them. King James attending at
^ [See anie, p. SI 1. An Act for improving the coinage (7 and
8 Gul. III. c. 1) was now passed. To defray the expense of
withdrawing the clipped coin^ a sum of £l^SOO,000 was raised
by a houseniuty.]
< [See aate^ vol. i. p. 26. She had been laid up to be rebuilt
a second time when she was accidentally burnt, January 27>
1696.1
' (That known as the '' Assassination Plot"]
1690 JOHN EVELYN 828
Calais with the French army.^ It was discovered
by some of their own party. £1000 reward was
offered to whoever could apprehend any of the
thirty named. Most of those who were engaged
in it, were taken and secured. The Parliament,
City, and all the nation, congratulate the dis-
covery; and votes and resolutions were passed
that, if King William should ever be assassinated,
it should be revenged on the Papists and party
through the nation; an Act of Association^
drawing up to empower the Parliament to sit on
any such accident, till the Crown should be dis*
posed of according to the late settlement at the
Revolution. All Papists, in the meantime, to be
banished ten miles from London. This put the
nation into an incredible disturbance and general
animosity against the French King and King
James. The militia of the nation was raised,
several r^ments were sent for out of Flanders,
and all things put in a posture to encounter a
descent. This was so timed by the enemy, that
whilst we were already much discontented bv the
greatness of the taxes, and corruption of the
money, etc., we had like to have had veiy few
men-of-war near our coasts ; but so it pleasea God
that Admiral Rooke wanting a wind to pursue his
voyage to the Straits, that squadron, with others
at Portsmouth and other places, were still in the
Channel, and were soon brought up to join with
the rest of the ships which could be got together,
so that there is hope this plot may be broken. I
look on it as a very great deliverance and pre-
vention by the providence of God. Though many
did formerly pity King James's condition, this
design of assassination and bringing over a French
^ [The fleet under Russell threatened France, and prevented
the embarkation of the French troops.]
a [7 and 8 Gul. III. c. 27.]
824 THE DIARY OF ie9e
Brmy, alienated many of his Mends, and was likely
to produce a more perfect establishment of King
William.
IH March. The wind continuing N* and K all
this week, brought so many of our m«i-of-war
together that, though most of the French finding
their design detected and prevented, made a shift
to get into Calais and Dunkirk roads, we wanting
fire-ships and bombs to disturb them ; yet they
were so engaged among the sands and dats, that
'tis said they cut their masts and flung their great
guns overboard to lighten their vessels. We are
yet upon them. This deliverance is due solely
to God. French were to have invaded at once
England, Scotland, and Ireland.
St/u Divers of the conspirators tried and con-
demned.
Vesuvius breaking out, terrified Naples. — ^Three
of the unhappy wretches, whereof one was a priest,
were executed^ for intending to assassinate the
King; they acknowledged their intention, but ac-
quitted King James of inciting them to it, and died
very penitent. Divers more in danger, and some
very considerable persons.
Great frost and cold.
6th ^ppi* I visited Mr. Graham in the Fleet*
lOth. The quarters of Sir William Perkins and
Sir John Friend, lately executed on the plot, with
Perkins's head, were set up at Temple Bar, a dismal
sight, which many pitied. I think there never was
such at Temple Bar till now, except once in the
time of King Charles II., namely, of Sir Thomas
Armstrong.'
\2th. A very fine spring season.
\9th. Great ofience taken at the three
1 Robert Chamock^ Edward King, aad Thomas Keys.
3 [See ante, p. 283.1
8 [See anU, p. 128 J
1696 JOHN EVELYN 825
ministers ^ who absolved Sir William Perkins and
Friend at Tybum« One of them (Snatt) was a
son of my old schoolmaster.' This produced
much altercation as to the canonicalness of the
action.
21^ April We had a meeting at Guildhall of
the Grand Committee about settling the draught
of Greenwich Hospital.
28rcL I went to Eton, and dined with Dr.
Grodolphin, the provost The schoolmaster assured
me there had not been for twenty years a more
pregnant youth in that place than my grandson. —
I went to see the King's House at Kensington.'
It is very noble, though not great The gallery
furnished with the best pictures [from] all the
houses, of Titian, Raphael, Correggio, Holbein,
Julio Romano, Bassano, Vandyck, Tintoretto, and
others ; a great collection of porcelain ; and a
Sretty private library. The gardens about it very
elicious.
26th. Dr. Sharp ^ preached at the Temple. His
prayer before the sermon was one of the most
excellent compositions I ever heard
2Stk. The Venetian Ambassador made a stately
entry with fifty footmen, many on horseback, four
rich coaches, and a numerous train of gallants. —
More executions this week of the assassins. — Oates
dedicated a most villainous reviling book against
King James,^ which he presumed to present to
King William, who could not but abhor it,
spei^ng so infamously and untruly of his late
beloved Queen's own father.
^ Jeremy Collier^ William Snatt, and Mr. Cook^ all nonjuring
clergymen. [Collier concealed himself and was outlawed ; Snatt
and Cook were for a time imprisoned.]
« rSee ante, vol. i. p. 8.] » [See ante, p. 272.]
* 'See anU, p. 807 A
^ [Probably one of the pamphlets entitled Piduret of King
James . . . drawn to Life.'\
826 THE DIARY OF i696
2nd May. I dined at Lambeth, being summoned
to meet my co-trustees, the Archbishop, Sir Henry
Ashurst, and Mr. Serjeant Rotheram,^ to consult
about settling Mr. Boyle's lecture for a perpetuity ;
which we concluded upon, by buying a rent-
charge of £50 per annum, with the stock in our
han£.
6th. I went to Lambeth, to meet at dinner the
Countess of Sunderland and divers ladies. We
dined in the Archbishop's wife's apartment with
his Grace, and stayed late; yet I returned to
Deptford at night
18th. I went to London to meet my son, newly
come from Ireland, indisposed.' — Money still con-
tinuing exceeding scarce, so that none was paid
or received, but all was on trust, the Mint not
supplying for common necessities. The Associa-
tion with an oath required of all lawyers and
officers, on pain of prcemuniret whereby men were
obliged to renounce King James as no rightful
king, and to revenge Kmg William's death, if
hapnening by assassination.' This to be taken by
all the Counsel by a day limited, so that the Courts
of Chancery and King's Bench hardly heard any
cause in Easter Term, so many crowded to take
the oath. This was censured as a very entangling
contrivance of the Parliament, in expectation that
many in high office would lay down, and others
surrender. Many gentlemen taken up on suspicion
of the late plot, were now discharged out of
prison.
29th. We settled divers officers, and other
matters relating to workmen, for the banning of
Greenwich Hospital
lift June. I went to Deptford to dispose of our
goods, in order to letting the house for three years
1 [See anie, p. 292.1 ^ [See ante, p. 294.]
• [See atUe, p. 328.]
1696 JOHN EVELYN 827
to Vice- Admiral Benbow,^ with condition to keep
up the garden. This was done soon after.
Uh Jufie. A Committee met at Whitehall about
Greenwich Hospital, at Sir Christopher Wren's,
his Majesty's Surveyor-GeneraL We made the
first agreement with divers workmen and for
materials ; and gave the first order for proceeding
on the foundation, and for weekly payments to the
workmen, and a general account to be monthly.
11th. Dined at Lord Pembroke's, Lord Privy
Seal, a very worthy gentleman.^ He showed me
divers rare pictures of very many of the old and
best masters, especially one of M. Angelo of a man
gathering fruit to give to a woman, and a large
book of the best drawing of the old masters. — Sir
John Fenwick, one of the conspirators, was taken.'
Great subscriptions in Scotland to their East India
Company. — ^Want of current money to carry on
the smallest concerns, even for daily provisions in
the markets. Guineas lowered to twenty-two
shiUings, and great sums daily transported to
Holland^ where it yields more, with other treasure
sent to pay the armies, and nothing considerable
coined of the new and now only current stamp,
cause such a scarcity that tumults are every day
feared, nobody paying or receiving money; so
imprudent was the late Parliament to condemn
the old though clipped and corrupted, till they had
provided supplies. To this add the fraud of the
1 [Captain John Benbow, 1653-1702 (afterwards (1701 Wice-
Admiral 1. He had been wounded at the bombardment ot Calais
in March of this year. During his intervals of sea service^ he
resided at Deptfoxd, having a house of his own in Hughes' Fields
(Dews' Depiford, 1884, p. 189). He was not a '' polite tenant "
of Saves Court ; but scarcely as bad as Peter the Great.]
* [See ante, voL i. p. 78.J
' He was taken at a house by the side of the road from Great
Bookham to Stoke d'Abemon, in Surrey, near Slyfield-mill. So
Bray was told by Evelyn's great-grandson.
828 THE DIARY OF i6m
bankers and goldsmiths, who having gotten immense
riches by extortion, keep up their treasm:e in ex-
pectation of enhancing its value. Duncombe, not
long since a mean goldsmith, having made a
purchase of the late Duke of Buckingham's estate ^
at near £90,000, and reputed to have near as much
in cash. Banks and Lotteries every day set up.
IS^A June. The famous trial between my Lord
Bath and Lord Montagu for an estate of £11,000
a year, left by the Duke of Albemarle, wherein on
several trials had been spent £20,000 between
them. The Earl of Bath was cast on evident
forgery.*
20M. I made my Lord Cheyne' a visit at Chelsea,
and saw those ingenious water-works invented by
Mr. Winstanley,* wherein were some things very
surprising and extraordinary.
21^. An exceeding rainy, cold, unseasonable
summer, yet the city was very healthy.
25^A. A trial in the Common Pleas between the
Lady Purbeck Temple ^ and Mr. Temple, a nephew
of Sir Purbeck, concerning a deed set up to take
place of several wills. This deed was proved to
be forged. The cause went on my lady's side.
This concerning my son-in-law. Draper, I staid
almost all day at Court A great supper was given
to the jury, being persons of the best condition in
Buckinghamshire.
^ At Helmslej, in Yorkshire.
And Hemsley, once proud Boddnfffaam's delight.
Slides to a Scrivener or a dty-Kni^t.
Pope, ImUaHofu o/Horace^ Sat II. Bk. ii. L 177.
[Sir Charles Duncombe changed the name to Duncombe Park.]
2 [See ante, p. 306 ; and pasl, under 2nd September^ 1701.1
< [See anie, p. 272.]
* Heniy Winstanley, 1644-1708, the architect who built the
Eddystone lighthouse^ and perished in it when it was blown
down hj the great storm in 1703.
• [See ante, p. 820.]
1696 JOHN EVELYN 820
80th June. I went with a select Committee of the
Commissioners for Greenwich Hospital' and with
Sh- Christopher Wren, where with him I laid the
first stone of the intended fomidation, precisely at
five o'clock in the evening, after we had dined
together. Mr. Flamsteed,^ the King's Astro-
nomical Professor, observing the punctual time
by instruments.
4/A Jtily. Note that my Lord Godolphin was
the first of the subscribers who paid any money to
this noble fabric'
^ The Committee were Sir William Ashurst^ Sir Christopher
Wren^ Sir Thomas Lane^ Sir Stephen Evance, John Evelyn^
William Draper, Dr. Cade, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Thomas, Captain
Gatteridge, Mr. Finnin, Mr. Lake, and Captain Heath.
* [See ante, voL ii. p. S94f,]
' Subscriptions to Greenwich Hospital; from Mr. Evelyn's
Papers
The King £2000 0 0
Archhishop of Canterbury .... 500 0 0
Lord-Keeper Somers 500 0 0
Duke of Leeds, President of the Council . 500 0 0
Earl of Pembroke, Loid Privy Seal . 500 0 0
Duke of Devonshire 500 0 0
Duke of Shrewsbury, Secretaiy of State . 500 0 0
Earl of Romney 200 0 0
Earl of Dorset 500 0 0
Lord Montagu 300 0 0
Lord Godolphin, First Commissioner of the Treasury 200 0 0
Mr. Montagu, Chancellor of the Exchequer 100 0 0
Mr. Smith, Commissioner of the Treasuiy 100 0 0
Lord Chief-Justice Holt 100 0 0
Sir Ste. Fox, Commissioner of the Treasury 200 0 0
Earl of Ranelagh 100 0 0
Sir John Lowther 100 0 0
Mr. Priestman 100 0 0
Sir Geo. Rooke 100 0 0
Sir John Houblon 100 0 0
Lord Chief-Justice Treby . 100 0 0
Sir Wm. Trumball, Principal Secretary of Stote 100 0 0
Sir Robt Rich 100 0 0
Carryforward £7500 0 0
880
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1898
Ith Jvly. A northern wind altering the weather
with a continual and impetuous rain of three days
and nights, changed it into perfect winter.
\Wu Very unseasonable and uncertain weather.
26M. So little money in the nation that Ex-
chequer Tallies, of which I had for £2000 on the
best fund in England, the Post-Office, nobody
would take at 80 per cent discount.
9rd August. The Bank lending the £200,000 to
pay the army in Flanders, that had done nothing
Brought forward £7500
0 0
Sir Hen. Goodrick
50
0 0
CoL Aosten ....
100
0 0
Sir Tho. Lane ....
100
0 0
Sir Patience Ward .
100
0 0
Sir William Ashurst .
100
0 0
Sir John Trevor^ Master of the
Rolls
100
0 0
Mr. Justice Rokeby .
50
0 0
Mr. Justice Powell .
50
0 0
Mr. Justice Eyre
50
0 0
Lord Chief Baron Ward .
m
13 4
Mr. Justice Gregory
50
0 0
Mr. Baron Powell
50
0 0
Earl of Portland
500
0 0
Mr. Baron Powis
40
0 0
Sir Richard Onslow .
100
0 0
Mr. Baron Lechmore
•
40
0 0
£9046
13 4
''By the Committee for the fabric of Greenwich Hospital,
Nov. 4, 1696. — Expense of the work already done, £5000 and
upwards, towards which the Treasurer had not received above
£800, so that they must be obliged to stop the work unless there
can be a supply of money both from the tallies that have been
assigned for payment of his Majesty's £2000, and the money
subscribed by several noblemen and gentlemen; the Secretary
was ordered to attend Mr. Lowndes, Secretary to the Lords of
the Treasury, to move for an order that the tallies may be fixed
on such fund as may be ready money, or that the Treasurer of
the Hospital may be directed to dispose of them on the best
terms he can ; and that the Solicitor, with the Treasurer's clerk,
do attend the noblemen and gentlemen that have subscribed, to
acquaint them herewith."
iM JOHN EVELYN 881
against the enemy, had so exhausted the treasure
of the nation, that one could not have borrowed
money under 14 or 15 per cent on bills, or on
Exchequer Tallies under 80 per cent. — Reasonable
good harvest-weather. — I went to Lambeth and
dined with the Archbishop, who had been at Court
on the complaint against Dr. Thomas Watson,
Bishop of St. David's, who was suspended for
simony.^ The Archbishop told me how unsatisfied
he was with the Canon -law, and how exceed-
ingly unreasonable all their pleadings appeared
to him.
September. Fine seasonable weather, and a great
harvest after a cold wet summer. Scarcity in
Scotland.
6th. I went to congratulate the marri^e
of a daughter of Mr. Boscawen to the son of Sir
Philip Meadows; she is niece to my Lord
Godolphin, married at Lambeth by the Arch-
bishop 80th August. — After above six months' stay
in London about Greenwich Hospital, I returned
to Wotton.
2^th October. Unseasonable stormy weather, and
an ill seed-time.
November. Lord Godolphin retired from the
Treasury, who was the first Commissioner and
most skilful manager of all.
Sth. The first frost began fiercely, but lasted
not long. — More plots talked of. Search for
Jacobites so called.
15th — 2Srd. Very stormy weather, rain, and
inundations.
18th December, Continuance of extreme frost
and snow.
1696-7 : Vlth January. The severe frost and
weather relented, but again froze with snow. —
1 [Dr. Thomas Watson, 1637-1717. He was found guilty
and aeprived of his see (see pof^, under August, 1699)-]
882 THE DIARY OF i697
Conspiracies continue against King WOliam. Sir
John Fenwick was beheaded.^
1th February. Severe frost continued with
snow. Soldiers in the armies and garrison-towns
frozen to death on their posts.
(Here a leaf of the MS. is lost)
Vlih Avffust. I came to Wotton after three
months' absence.
September. Very bright weather, but with
sharp east wind My son came from London in
his melancholy indisposition.
12th. Mr. Duncomb,^ the rector, came and
preached after an absence of two years, though
only living seven or eight miles off [at Ashtead]. —
Welcome tidings of the Peace.'
8rrf October. So great were the storms all this
week, that near a thousand people were lost going
into the TexeL
IQth November. The King's entry very pomp-
ous; but is nothing approaching that of King
Charles II.
2nd December. Thanksgiving-day for the Peace.
The King and a great Court at Whitehall The
Bishop of Salisbury^ preached, or rather made a
florid panegyric, on 2 Chron. ix. 7, 8. — The
evening concluded with fireworks and illuminations
of great expense.
5th. Was the first Sunday that St Paul's had
had service performed in it since it was burnt in
1666.
r >" 6<A. I went to Kensington with the Sheriff,
Knights, and chief gentlemen of Surrey, to present
their address to the King. The Duke of Norfolk
1 [See a$iU, p. 827.] . < [See anU, p. dl6.]
3 [The Peace of Rysvyk] ^ Dr. Burnet
1698 JOHN EVELYN 888
promised to introduce it,^ but came so late, that it
was presented before he came. This insignificant
ceremony was brought in in Cromwell's time, and
has ever since continued with offers of life and
fortune to whoever happened to have the power.
I dined at Sir Richard Onslow's,^ who treated
almost all the gentlemen of Surrey. When we
had half dined, the Duke of Norfolk came in to
make his excuse.
12th December. At the Temple Church ; it was
very long before the service began, sta3ring for the
Comptroller of the Inner Temple, where was to be
kept a riotous and revelling Christmas, according to
custom.*
ISth. At Lambeth, to Dr. Bentley, about the
Library at St James's.*
28ra. I returned to Wotton.
1697-8. A great Christmas kept at Wotton,
open house, much company. I presented my
book of Medals, etc., to divers Noblemen, before I
exposed it to sale.^
2nd January. Dr. Fulham, who lately married
my niece,® preached against Atheism, a very
eloquent discourse, somewhat improper for most
of the audience at [Wotton], but fitted for some
other place, and very apposite to the profane
temper of the age.
1 [He was Lord-Lieutenant of Norfolk, Berkshire, and Surrey.
Cf. vol. ii. p. 147.]
2 [See ante, p. 285.]
See ante^ vol. IL p. 180.1
Of which Bentley was keeper.]
'Numumata. A DUcoune of medals^ AniierU and Modem.
Togmer wUh tome Account of Heads and Effigiee of ilhuiriotu, and
famous Persons, m Sculps, and TaiHe-douce, of whom we have no
Medals extant; and of the Use to be derived fiom them. To which
is added a Digression concerning Physiognomy. By J. Evelyn, Esq.,
S.R.S. London, l697, folio. Nwnismata does not seem to have
been reprinted (see ** Introduction/' and post, p. 376).]
^ [George Evelyn's daughter, Elizabeth.]
8
4
6
884 THE DIARY OF less
5th January. Whitehall burnt, nothing but walls
and ruins left.^
dOth. The imprisonment of the great banker,
Duncombe: censured by Parliament; acquitted
by the Lords; sent agdn to the Tower by the
Commons.^
The Czar of Muscovy being come to England,
and having a mind to see the building of ships,
hired my house at Sayes Court,' and made it his
^ [In the Fourteenth Report of the Historical Manuscripts
Commission^ Appendix, Part iiL, 1894, pp. 129-130 and 141,
are several references to this fire. Sir James Ogilvie writes to
the Earl of Marchmont, 5th January^ l698 : '^ All the palace of
Whytehall^ at least what was built by King Charles the Second
and King James, is burned downe." And Andrew Kineir also
writes on the same day : ^' All the royall apartments with the
King's chappell and gward hall, the Duke of Shrewsbury's
office, the Treasury Office, Council Chamber, the late King's
new chappell, the long gallerys with Devonshire's, Elssex's, and
Villar's, and severall other lodgings are all consumed. . . . The
best account we yet have of the occasion of it was the neglect
of a lawndress in Colonel Stanley's lodgings near the river.
There are five or six at least destroyed by it, but no persons oi
any note." From another account it would seem that the
Buiqueting Hall and Lord Portland's lodgings were almost all
that was saved.]
2 25th Jan. 1697-98. Charles Duncombe, Esq., M.P., after-
wards Sir Charles {d, 1711), was charged with making false
endorsements on Exchequer- bills, and was committed close
prisoner to the Tower. 29th. Being ill, his apothecary and his
brother Anthony Duncombe were permitted to see him. He
confessed his guilt, and was expelled the House. A Bill was
brought in for seizure of his estate, which was passed 26th Feb.
after gpreat opposition, 138 against 103. It was entitled ^'An
Act for punishing C. Duncombe, Esq., for contriving and advising
the making false endorsements of several Bills made forth at
Receipt of the Exchequer commonly called Exchequer-Bills."
This being sent to the Lords, they desired a conference with
the Commons, and not being satisfied, though he had acknow-
ledged the fact, they discharged him from the Tower. 31st
March, the Commons re -committed him. We do not find,
however, in the Journals of the House of Commons, that
anything further was done.
^ [That is, Benbow sublet it] While the Czar Peter was in
1698 JOHN EVELYN 885
court and palace, new furnished for him by the
King.
2lJ/ April The Czar went from my house to
return home.^ An exceeding sharp and cold
season.
8th May. An extraordinary great snow and
frost, nipping the com and other fruits. Com at
nine shillings a bushel [£18 a load].
80th. I dined at Mr. Pepys', where I heard the
rare voice of Mr. Pule, who was lately come from
Italy, reputed the most excellent singer we had
ever had. He sung several compositions of the
late Dr. Purcell.*
Sth June. Dr. White, late Bishop of Norwich,
who had been ejected for not complying with
Government, was buried in St. Gregory's church-
yard, or vault, at St. Paul's. His hearse was
accompanied by two non -juror Bishops, Dr.
Turner of Ely, and Dr. Lloyd, with forty other
non -juror clergymen, who would not stay the
Office of the burial, because the Dean of St Paul's
had appointed a conforming minister to read the
Office; at which all much wondered, there being
his house, Evelyn's servant writes to him : ^^ There is a house full
of people^ and right nasty. The Czar lies next your library^ and
dines in the parlour next your study. He dines at ten o'clock
and six at night, is very seldom at home a whole day, very often
in the King's Yard, or by water, dressed in several dresses. The
King is expected here this day ; the best parlour is pretty clean
for him to be entertained in. The King pays for all he lias."
^ [According to Dews' Depiford, 2nd ed., 1884, p. 188, there
is (or was) ^'in one of the old shipbuilding sheds in the Dock-
yard, now used for housing foreign cattle," ^'a plain wooden
tablet, on which is painted the following inscription : — ^ Here
worked as a ship carpenter, Peter, Czar of all the Russias, after-
wards Peter the Great, 1698/ " '' A small thoroughfare " (adds
Dews) ^^near the old Dockyard gates is called Czar Sh^et."
While at Deptford Peter occasionally attended the Quakers'
meeting in Gracechurch Street (White Hart Court), and he was
visited by Penn, Whitehead, and other Friends.]
« [D. 1695.]
886 THE DIARY OF km
nothing in that Office which mentioned the present
King.
Sth June. I went to conmitulate the marriage
of Mr. Godolphin ^ with the Earl of Marlborough's
daughter.
9th. To Deptford, to see how miserably the
Czar had left my house, after three months making
it his Court I got Sir Christopher Wren, the
King's Surveyor, and Mr. Liondon' his gardener,
to go and estimate the repairs, for wluch they
allowed £150 in their report to the Lords of the
Treasury. I then went to see the foundation of
the HfiJl and Chapel at Greenwich HospitaL'
6th AugiLst. I dined with Mr. Pepys, where
was Captain Dampier,^ who had been a famous
buccaneer, had brought hither the painted Prince
Job,^ and printed a relation of his very strange
adventure, and his observations. He was now
going abroad again by the King's encouragement,
who furnished a ship of 290 tons.^ He seemed a
^ [Francis Godolphin, whose education Eveljni had superin-
tended (see ante, p. 22).]
^ [Geoi^ London (see anU, p. 308 w.). Benbow had neglected
the house and grounds; but he was nothing to his ^'Zarish
Majesty," who amused himself uUer alia by driving furiously on
a wheel-barrow through Evelyn's magnificent holly hedge, four
hundred feet long^ nine feet high, and five in diameter (Syloaf
bk. ii. chap. vi.). In Wren's survey Evelyn's losses were esti-
mated at £l62 : 7s. ; Benbow's, at J&158 : 2 : 6. But much of
the damage done was probably irreparable. Full particulars
are given in Dews' DaOford, 1884, pp. 33-38.]
8 [See arde, p. 826.J
« William Dampier, 1652-1715. His Vouage round the World
(1697) has gone through many editions, and the substance of it
has been transferred to many collections of voyages.
^ Giolo, of whom there is a very curious portrait, engraved by
Savage, to which is subjoined a singular narrative of his wonder-
ful adventures; there is also a smaller one, copied from the
above, prefixed to a fictitious account of his life, printed in a 4to
pamphlet. Evelyn mentions him in his Numumaia.
^ Noticed in rarliament
1699 JOHN EVELYN 887
more modest man than one would imagine by the
relation of the crew he had assorted with. He
brought a map of his observations of the course of
the winds in the South Sea, and assured us that
the maps hitherto extant were all false as to the
Pacific Sea, which he makes on the south of the
line, that on the north end running by the coast of
Peru being extremely tempestuous.
25th September. t)r. Foy came to me to use
my interest with Lord Sunderland for his being
made Professor of Physic at Oxford, in the King's
gift. I went also to the Archbishop in his behalf.
7th December. Being one of the Council of the
Royal Society, I was named to be of the Com-
mittee to wait on our new president, the Lord
Chancellor,^ our Secretary, Dr. Sloane, and Sir R.
Southwell, last Vice-president, carrying our books
of statutes ; the Office of the President being read,
his Lordship subscribed his name, and took the
oaths according to our statutes as a Corporation
for the improvement of natural knowledge. Then
his Lordship made a short compliment concerning
the honour the Society had done him, and how
ready he wou]d be to promote so noble a design,
and come himself among us, as often as the
attendance on the public would permit ; and so we
took our leave.
18^. Very warm, but exceeding stormy.
1698-9 : January. My cousin Pierrepont died.*
She was daughter to Sir John Evelyn, of Wilts,
my father's nephew; she was widow to William
Pierrepont, brother to the Marquis of Dorchester,
and mother to Evelyn Pierrepont, Earl of
Kingston ; a most excellent and prudent lady.
The House of Commons persist in refusing
more than 7000 men to be a standing army, and
no strangers to be in the number. This displeased
^ [Lord Somers.] ' [See ante, p. 222.]
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the Court party. Our county member. Sir R.
Onslow,' op^sid it also ; which might recondle
him to the people, who began to suspect him.
17th February. My grandson ' went to Oxford
with Dn Mander, the Master of Balliol College,'
where he was entered a fellow-commoner.
19tk. A most furious wind, such as has not
happened for many years, doing great damage to
houses and trees, by the fall of which several
persons were killed.
5th March. The old East India Company lost
their business against the new Company, by ten
votes in Parliament, so many of their friends being
absent, gomg to see a tiger baited by dogs.
The persecuted Vaudois, who were banished out
of Savoy, were received by the German Protestant
Princes.
246th. My only remaining son died after a
tedious languishing sickness, contracted in Ireland,
and increased here, to my exceeding grief and
affliction ; leaving me one grandson, now at
Oxford, whom I pray God to prosper and be the
support of the Wotton family. He was aged
forty -four years and about three months. He
had been six years one of the Commissioners of
1 [See ante, p. 285.1
^ [John Evelyn had returned in 1696 from Ireland (see ante,
p. 326). Besides translating Rapinus (ante, vol. ii. p. 35^), he
wrote a poem in Greek hexameters, which is prefixed to the
second edition of his father's Siflva, 1670. He also translated
Plutarch's life of Alexander the Great, and (out of the French of
F. de Chassepol) the lives of the Grand Viziers Mahomet and
Achmet Coprogu. He was a contributor of verse to Dryden's
Miscellanies and Nichols's Collection, His marriage is recorded
at p. 48 of this volume ; his burial^ infra, 30th March. John
Evelyn, referred to above (17th February) as being at Oxford,
was his second son. He succeeded his grandfather at Wotton,
was made a baronet in 1713, and died in 1763.]
' Dr. Roger Mander was elected Master of his College, in
the place of Dr. John Venn, 1647-87.
im JOHN EVELYN 889
the Revenue in Ireland, with great ability and
reputation.^
26th March. After an extraordinary storm,
there came up the Thames a whale which was
fifty-six feet long. Such, and a larger of the spout
kind, was killed there forty years ago (June, 1658).*
That year died Cromwell.
80th. My deceased son was buried in the vault
at Wotton, according to his desire.
The Duke of Devon lost £1900 at a horse-race
at Newmarket.
The King preferring his young favourite Earl of
Albemarle' to be first Commander of his Guard,
the Duke of Ormonde laid down his commission.
This of the Dutch Lord passing over his head, was
exceedingly resented by everybody.
April Lord Spencer purchased an incomparable
library* of wherein, among other rare
books, were several that were printed at the first
invention of that wonderful art, as particularly
Tally's Offices, etc. There was a Homer and a
Suidas in a very good Greek character and good
paper, almost as ancient. This gentleman is a very
fine scholar, whom from a child I have known.
His tutor was one Florival of Geneva.
29th. I dined with the Archbishop; but my
business was to get him to persuade the King to
purchase the late Bishop of Worcester's library,
and build a place for his own library at St. James's,
in the Park, the present one being too smaU.
8rd May. At a meeting of the Royal Society I
was nominated to be of the Committee to wait on
the Lord Chancellor to move the King to purchase
the Bishop of Worcester's library (Dr. Edward
Stillingfleet).
^ [See ante, p. 297.j > See ante, voL ii. p. 131.
8 Arnold Joost Van Keppel^ 1669-1718, first Earl of Albemarle.
^ The foundation of the noble library now at Blenheim.
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Uh May. The Court party have little influence
in this Session.
Ith. The Duke of Ormonde restored to his com-
mission.— All Lotteries, till now cheating the people,
to be no longer permitted than to Christmas,
except that for the benefit of Greenwich HospitaL
Mr. Bridgman, chairman of the committee for that
charitable work, died ; a great loss to it He was
Clerk of the Council, a very industrious useful
man. I saw the library of Dr. John Moore,^
Bishop of Norwich, one of the best and most
ample collections of all sorts of good books in
England, and he, one of the most learned men.
11th June. After a long drought, we had a
refreshing shower. The day before, there was a
dreadful fire at Rotherhithe, near the Thames side,
which burnt divers ships, and consumed near three
hundred houses. — Now died the famous Duchess
Mazarin ; ^ she had been the richest lady in Europe.
1 Dr. John Moore^ 1646-1714^ afterwards Bishop of Ely.
King George the First purchased this library after the Bishop's
deaths for X6OOO9 and presented it to the University of Cambridge,
where it now is. [The gift occasioned the following epigrams : —
The King, observing with judicious eyes.
The state of both his universities.
To Oxford sent a troop of horse ; and why ?
That learned body wanted loyally ;
To Cambridge books he sent, as well discerning
How much tnat loyal body wanted learning.
To this^ attributed to Dr. Joseph Trapp, afterwards first Pro-
fessor of Poetry at Oxford, Sir William Browne wrote the follow-
ing extempore and excellent reply : —
The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse.
For Tories own no argument but force ;
With eqjual skill to Cambridge books he sent.
For Whigs admit no force but argument]
3 [2nd July, l699> &t Chelsea, in a small house which she
rentecl of Lord Cheyne. James II. had continued her pension,
as she was related to his wife ; and William III. gave her £2000.
But her prodigality was unbounded. According to Lysons, it
was at last usual for the nobility and others, who dined at her
house, to leave money under their plates to pay for their
entertainment. (See ante, vol. ii. p. 394.).]
1699 JOHN EVELYN 841
She was niece of Cardinal Mazarin, and was married
to the richest subject in Europe, as is said* She
was bom at Rome, educated in France, and was an
extraordinary beauty and wit, but dissolute and
impatient of matrimonial restraint, so as to be
abandoned by her husband, and banished, when
she came into England for shelter, lived on a
pension given her here, and is reported to have
nastened her death by intemperate drinking strong
spirits. She has written her own story and
adventures, and so has her other extravagant sister,
wife to the noble family of Colonna.^
ISth June. This week died Conyers Seymour,
son of Sir Edward Seymour, killed in a duel
caused by a slight afiront in St James's Park,
given him by one who was envious of his gallantries ;
for he was a vain foppish young man, who made
a great ^clat about town by his splendid equipage
and boundless expense. He was about twenty-
three years old; his brother, now at Oxford,
inherited an estate of £7000 a year, which had
fallen to him not two years before.
19tk My cousin, George Evelyn of Nutfield,^
died suddenly.
25th. The heat has been so great, almost all this
month, that I do not remember to have felt much
greater in Italy, and this after a winter the wettest,
though not the coldest, that 1 remember for fifty
years last past.
28th. Finding my occasions called me so oft:en
to London, I took the remainder of the lease
my son had in a house in Dover Street,' to
^ [Marie Mancini, 1640-1715. She had married in I66I the
Prince of G>lonna, Grand G>n8table of Naples^ and had separated
from him.]
» [B. 1641,— the fourth son of Sir John Evelyn of Godstone^
d, 1643, and heir to his brother^ also Sir John Evelyn, d. l67l.]
» [See ante, p. 287.1
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which I now removed, not taking my goods A*om
Wotton.
29rd July. Seasonable showers, after a continu-
ance of excessive drought and heat.
Augiist. I drank the Shooters' Hill waters.^
At Deptford, they had been building a pretty new
church. — The Bishop of St David's [Watson]
deprived for simony.^ — The city of Moscow burnt
by the throwing of squibs.
Qrd September. There was in this week an echpse
of the sun, at which many were frightened by the
predictions of the astrologers. I remember fifty
years ago that many were so terrified by Lilly,
that they durst not go out of their houses. — A
strange earthquake at New Batavia, in the East
Indies.
Uh October. My worthy brother* died at
Wotton, in the 88rd year of his age, of perfect
memory and understanding. He was reUgious,
sober, and temperate, and of so hospitable a nature,
that no family in the county maintained that
ancient custom of keeping, as it were, open house
the whole year in the same manner, or gave more
noble or free entertainment to the county on all
occasions, so that his house was never free. There
were sometimes twenty persons more than his
family, and some that stayed there all the summer,
to his no small expense; by this he gained the
universal love of the county. He was bom at
Wotton, went from the free-school at Guildford to
Trinity CoUege, Oxford, thence to the Middle
Temple, as gentlemen of the best quality did, but
without intention to study the law as a profession.
He married the daughter of Caldwell,* of a worthy
^ [Once famous. William Grodbid wrote an account of them
in 1673.] > See ante, p. 331.
< [George Eyelyn of Wotton, d, 5th October, l699» aged 82.]
* [See ante, vol. i. p. 19.]
WuTTON Church, Surrey (iNTEnioR), 1818
16W JOHN EVELYN 848
and ancient fstmily in Leicestershire, by whom
he had one son; she dying in 1648, left George
her son an infant, who being educated liberally,
after travelling abroad,^ returned and married one
Mrs, Gore, by whom he had several children, but
only three daughters survived. He was a young
man of good understanding, but, over-indulging his
ease and pleasure, grew so very con>ulent, contrary
to the constitution of the rest of his nither's relations,
that he died* My brother afterwards married a
noble and honourable lady, relict of Sir John
Cotton, she being an Offley, a worthy and ancient
Staffordshire family, by whom he had several
children of both sexes. This lady died, leaving
only two daughters and a son. The younger
daughter died before marriage; the other after-
wards married Sir Cyril Wyche," a noble and
learned gentleman, son of Sir Wyche * (who
had been Ambassador at Constantinople), and was
afterwards made one of the Lords Justices of
Ireland. Before this marriage, her only brother
married the daughter of Eversfield, of Sussex,^
of an honourable family, but left a widow without
any child living ; he died about 1691, and his wife
not many years aft;er, and my brother resettled the
whole estate on me. His sister, Wyche, had a
^ In a letter to his nephew, George Evelyn, then on his
travels in Italy^ dated dOth March, 1664, Evelyn tells him that
his father complained of his expenses, as much exceeding those
of his own, which were known to the young gentleman's father,
as all the money passed through his hands. He says that when
he travelled he kept a servant, sometimes two, entertained
several masters, and made no inconsiderable collection of
curiosities, all within £300 per mm. — In the same letter, he
desires seeds of the ilex, phyllirea, myrtle, jessamine, which he
says are rare in England.
« rin 1676.] « [See ante, p. 895.]
^ [Sir Peter Wyche, d. 1643. He was English Ambassador
at Constantinople, 1627-41.]
^ [See oftt^, p. 44.]
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portion of £6000, to which was added about £800
more; the three other daughters, with what I
added, had about £5000 each. My brother died
on the 5th October, in a good old age and great
reputation, making his beloved daughter. Lady
Wyche, sole executrix, leaving me only his library
and some pictures of my father, mother, etc She
buried him with extraoidinary solemnity, rather as
a nobleman than as a private gentleman. There
were, as I computed, above 2000 persons at the
funeral, all the gentlemen of the county doing him
the last honours. I returned to London, till my
lady should dispose of herself and family.
21st October. After an unusual warm and
pleasant season, we were surprised with a very
sharp frost I presented my AcetaricL^ dedicated
to my Lord Chancellor,* who returned me thanks
in an extraordinary civil letter.
15th November. There happened this week so
thick a mist and fog, that people lost their way
in the streets, it being so intense that no light of
candles, or torches, yielded any (or but very little)
direction. I was in it, and in danger. Robberies
were committed between the very lights which
were fixed between London and Kensington on
both sides, and whilst coaches and travellers were
passing. It began about four in the afternoon, and
was quite gone by eight, without any wind to dis-
perse it At the Thames, they beat drums to
direct the watermen to make the shore.
19/A. At our chapel in the evening there was a
sermon preached by young Mr. Homeck," chaplain
to Lord Guildforc^ whose lady's funeral had been
celebrated magnificently the Thursday before. A
^ [Acetaria : a Discourse of Scdleis, By J. £., S.R.S. It is
reprinted in the Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 721-811.]
^ [Lord John Somers of Evesham!]
* Of the character of this gentleman's father^ see ante, p. 93.
im JOHN EVELYN 845
panegyric was now pronounced, describing the
extraordinary piety and excellently employed life
of this amiable young lady. She died in childbed
a few days before, to the excessive sorrow of her
husband, who ordered the preacher to declare that
it was on her exemplary life, exhortations and
Eersuasion, that he totally changed the course of
is life, which was before in great danger of being
perverted; following the mode of this dissolute
age. Her devotion, early piety, charity, fastings,
economy, disposition of her time in reading, pray-
ing, recollections in her own hand-writing of what
she heard and read, and her conversation were most
exemplary.
24ith Naoemher. I signed Dr. Blackwall's election
to be the next year's Boyle Lecturer.
Such horrible robberies and murders were com-
mitted, as had not been known in this nation ;
atheism, profaneness, blasphemy, amongst all sorts,
portended some judgment if not amended; on
which a society was set on foot, who obliged them-
selves to endeavour the reforming of it, in London
and other places, and began to punish offenders
and put the laws in more strict execution : which
God Almighty prosper 1^ — ^A gentle, calm, dry,
temperate weather all this season of the year,
but now came sharp, hard frost, and mist, but
calm.
^rd December. Calm, bright, and warm as in the
middle of April. So continued on 21st Jan. — A
great earthquake in Portugal
The Parliament reverses the prodigious donations
of the Irish forfeitures, which were mtended to be
set apart for discharging the vast national debt.
^ [See poH^ under 24th March, 1700. There is a histoiy of
these attempts in Josiah Woodwind's Account of the Societietfor
Reformation of Manners^ in London and WeHndnster and other
ParU, etc., 1699, 6th ed., 1744.]
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They called some great persons in the highest offices
in question for setting the Great Seal to the pardon
of an arch-pirate,^ who had turned pirate again,
and brought prizes into the West Indies, suspected
to be connived at on sharing the prey; but the
prevailing part in the House called Courtiers, out-
voted the complaints, not by being more in number,
but by the country-party being negligent in
attendance.
1699-1700 : lUh January. Dr. Lancaster, Vicar
of St Martin's, dismissed Mr. Stringfellow,* who
had been made the first preacher at our chapel by
the Bishop of Lincoln [Dr. Tenison, now Arch-
bishop], whilst he held St. Martin's by dispensation,
and put in one Mr. Sandys, much against the
inclination of those who frequented the chapeL —
The Scotch book about Darien was burnt by the
hangman by vote of Parliament*
21^. Died the Duke of Beaufort,^ a person of
great honour, prudence, and estate.
2Sth. I went to Wotton, the first time after my
brother s funeral, to furnish the house with neces-
saries. Lady Wyche and my nephew Glanville, the
executors, having sold and disposed of what goods
were there of my brother s. — The weather was now
altering into sharp and hard frost
^ The notorious Captain William Kidd. He was hanged in
1701 with some of his accomplices. This was one of the charges
brought by the Commons against Lord Somers.
» TSee anU, p. 287.1
^ The volume alluded to was An Enquiry into the cmuet of the
Mucarriage of the Scots Colony at Darien : Or an Answer to a Libel,
eniituled, A befence of the Scots abdicatins Darien. See Votes of
the House of Commons^ 15th Januaiy^ 1699-1700.
* Henry Somerset, 1629-1700, the first Duke, who exerted
himself against the Monmouth Rebellion in 1 685, and in 1688
endeavoured to secure Bristol against the adherents of the
Prince of Orange; upon whose elevation to the throne, the
Duke, refusing to take the oaths, lived in retirement till his
death.
1700 JOHN EVELYN 847
One Stephens,^ who preached before the House of
Commons on King Charles s Martyrdom, told them
that the observation of that day was not intended
out of any detestation of his murder, but to be a
lesson to other Kings and Rulers, how they ought
to behave themselves towards their subjects, lest
they should come to the same end. This was so
resented that, though it was usual to desire these
anniversary-sermons to be printed, they refused
thanks to him, and ordered that in future no one
should preach before them, who was not either a
Dean or a Doctor of Divinity.
Uh February. The Parliament voted against
the Scots settling in Darien as being prejudicial
to our trade with Spain. They also voted that
the exorbitant number of attorneys be lessened
(now indeed swarming, and evidently causing law-
suits and disturbance, eating out the estates of
people, provoking them to go to law).
l%th. Mild and calm season, with gentle frost,
and little mizzling rain. The Vicar of St
Martin's frequently preached at Trinity chapel
in the afternoon.
%th March. The season was like April for warmth
and mildness. — llth. On Wednesday, was a sermon
at our chapel, to be continued during Lent
19th. I was at the funeral of my Lady Temple,*
who was buried at Islington, brought from Addis-
combe, near Croydon. She left my son-in-law
Draper (her nephew)' the mansion-house of
Addiscombe, very nobly and completely furnished,
with the estate about it, with plate and jewels, to
^ William Stephens, 1647-1718, Rector of Satton, in Surrey.
After the censure of his sermon by the House of G>mmons, he
published it as in defiance. [He had written in 1696 an Account
of the Growth ofDeUm in EngUmd.]
* [Widow of Sir Purbeck Temple (see anU, p. 328).]
' [See ante, p. 320.]
848 THE DIARY OF i7oo
the value in all of about £20,000. She was a very
prudent lady» gave many great l^acies, with £500
to the poor of Islington, where her husband. Sir
Purbeck Temple, was buried, both dying without
issue.
24/A March. The season warm, gentle, and ex-
ceeding pleasant. — Divers persons of quality entered
into the Society for Reformation of Manners ; ^ and
some lectiu-es were set up, particularly in the City
of London. The most eminent of the Clergy
preached at Bow Church, after reading a declaration
set forth by the King to suppress the growing
wickedness ; this began already to take some effect
as to common swearing, and oaths lin the mouths
of people of all ranks.
25tn. Dr. Burnet preached to-day before the
Lord Mayor and a very great congregation, on
Proverbs xxvii. 5, 6 : " Open rebuke is better than
secret love ; the wounds of a friend are better than
the kisses of an enemy." He made a very pathetic
discourse concerning the necessity and advantage
of friendly correction.
April. The Duke of Norfolk now succeeded in
obtaining a divorce from his wife^ by the Parlia-
ment for adultery with Sir John Germaine, a Dutch
gamester, of mean extraction, who had got much
by gaming ; the Duke had leave to marry again,
so that if he should have children, the Dukedom
will go from the late Lord Thomas's children,
^ rSee antey p. 345. ''By this Society some thousands of
ofienaers were brought to justice, and subjected to various
penalties^ such as whippings imprisonment^ and the payment of
fines. Considerable sums of money, obtained from these de-
linquents, were from time to time given to the poor. After
being for several years a terror to evil-doers, this Society was
paralysed, and at length broken up, by an adverse decision in
one of the civil courts" (Wesley's Journal, 1901, i. p. xiv..
Introductory Essay).]
2 [See anU, p. 2.]
1700 JOHN EVELYN 849
Papists indeed, but very liopeful and virtuous
gentlemen, as was their father. The now Duke
their uncle is a Protestant.
The Parliament nomhiated fourteen persons to
go into Ireland as Commissioners to dispose of the
forfeited estates there, towards payment of the
debts incurred by the late war, but which the
King had in great measure given to some of his
favourites of both sexes, Dutch and others of little
merit, and very unseasonably. That this might
be done without suspicion of interest in the Parlia-
ment, it was ordered that no member of either
House should be in the Commission. — The great
contest between the Lords and Commons concern-
ing the Lords' power of amendments and rejecting
bills tacked to the money-bill, carried for the
Commons. However, this tacking of bills is a
novel practice, suffered by King Charles II., who,
being continually in want of money, let any-
thing pass rather than not have wherewith to feed
his extravagance. This was carried but by one
voice in the Lords, all the Bishops following the
Court, save one: so that near sixty bills passed,
to the great triumph of the Commons and Country-
party, but high regret of the Court, and those to
whom the King had given large estates in Ireland.
Pity it is, that things should be brought to this
extremity, the government of this nation being so
equally poised between King and subject ; but we
are satisfied with nothing : and, whilst there is no
perfection on this side Heaven, methinks both
might be contented without straining things too £Eur.
Amongst the rest, there passed a law as to Papists'
estates, that if one turned not Protestant before
eighteen years of age, it should pass to his next
Protestant heir. This indeed seemed a hard law,
but not only the usage of the French King to his
Protestant subjects, but the indiscreet insolence of
850 THE DIARY OF noo
the Papists here» going in triumphant and public
processions with their Bishops, with banners and
trumpets in divers places (as is said) in the northern
counties, has brought it on their piu-ty.
24th April This week there was a great change
of State- officers. — The Duke of Shrewsbury
resigned his Lord Chamberlainship to the Earl of
Jersey, the Duke's indisposition requiring his
retreat Mr. Vernon, Secretary of State, was put
out — The Seal was taken from the Lord Chancellor
Somers,^ though he had been acquitted by a great
majority of votes for what was charged against him
in the House of Conmions.* This being in term-
time, put some stop to business, many eminent
lawyers refusing to accept the office, considering the
uncertainty of things in this fluctuating conjecture.
It is certain that this Chancellor was a most excel-
lent lawyer, very learned in all polite literature, a
superior pen, master of a handsome style, and of easy
conversation ; but he is said to make too much
haste to be rich, as his predecessor, and most in
place in this age did, to a more prodigious excess
than was ever known. But the Commons had now
so mortified the Court-party, and property and
liberty were so much invaded in all the neighbour-
ing kingdoms, that their jealousy made them
cautious, and every day strengthened the law which
protected the people from tyranny.
A most glorious spring, with hope of abundance
of fruit of all kinds, and a propitious year.
10th May. The great trial between Sir Walter
Clarges and Mr. Sherwin concerning the legitimacy
of the late Duke of Albemarle, on which depended
^ [" His opponents retaliated on him his partisan conduct to
the magistrates who did not sign the Association (see ante,
p. 323), and struck his name out of the commission of the peace,
even for his native county (Worcester)^ where he had large
estates " {Annals of England, 1876, p. 521).]
» Post, p. 357.
1700 JOHN EVELYN 851
an estate of £1500 a year ; the verdict was given
for Sir Walter.^ — 19th. Serjeant Wright* at last
accepted the Great Seal.
2^th May. I went from Dover Street to
Wotton, for the rest of the summer, and removed
thither the rest of my goods from Sayes Court
2nd June. A sweet season, with a mixture of
refreshing showers.
9/A — \Qth. In the afternoon, our clergyman had
a Catechism, which was continued for some time.
July. I was visited with iUness, but it pleased
Gk)d tJfiat I recovered, for which praise be ascribed
to Him by me, and that He has again so graciously
advertised me of my duty to prepare for my latter
end, which at my great age cannot be far off.
The Duke of Gloucester, son of the Princess
Anne of Denmark, died of the small-pox.^
18^^ I went to Marden, which was originally
a barren warren bought by Sir Robert Clayton,*
who built there a pretty house, and made such
alteration by planting not only an infinite store
of the best fruit; but so changed the natural
situation of the hill, valleys, and solitary mountains
about it, that it rather represented some foreign
country, which would produce spontaneously pines,
^ [Monck's ^' laundress-Duchess," Ann Clarges, had previously
been married to one Thomas Ratford, '^ of whose death no notice
was given at the time of the marriage [to Monck], so that the
legitimacy of Christopher, afterwards second Duke of Albemarle,
was seriously questioned " ( Wheatley's Samuel Pepifs and the World
he lived in, 1880, p. 184).]
^ Sir Nathan Wright, 1654-1721, appointed Lord- Keeper,
who purchased the manor of, and resided at, Gothurst, near
Newport Pagnell, Bucks. He hes buried in that church, in
which are whole-length figures in white marble of the Lord-
Keeper in his robes, and his son, George Wright, Esquire, Clerk
of the Crown, in his official dress.
' [He died July 30. As he was the heir-presumptive, new
measures became necessary to secure the Protestant succession.]
^ See ante, p. 9*
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firs, cypress, yew, holly, and juniper; they were
come to then: perfect growth, with walks, mazes,
etc., amongst them, and were preserved with the
utmost care, so that I who had seen it some years
before in its naked and barren condition, was in
admiration of it The land was bought of Sir John
Evelyn, of Godstone, and was thus improved for
pleasure and retirement by the vast charge and
mdustry of this opident citizen. — He and his lady
received us with great civility. — The tombs in
the church at Croydon of Archbishops Grindal,
Whitgift, and other Archbishops, are fine and
venerable ; but none comparable to that of the late
Archbishop Sheldon, which, being all of white
marble, and of a stately ordinance and carvings,
far surpassed the rest, and I judge could not cost
less than £700 or £800.'
20th September. I went to Beddington,' the
ancient seat of the Carews, in my remembrance a
noble old structure, capacious, and in form of the
buildings of the age of Henry VI I L and Queen
Elizabeth, and proper for the old English hospi-
tality, but now decaying with the house itself,
heretofore adorned with ample gardens, and the
first orange trees that had been seen in England,
planted in the open ground, and secured in winter
only by a tabernacle of boards and stoves removable
in summer, that, standing 120 years, large and
foodly trees, and laden with fruit, were now in
lecay, as well as the grotto, fountains, cabinets,
and other curiosities in the house and abroad, it
being now fallen to a child under age, and only
^ There is a print of this very beautiful monument in Lysons'
Enmrons of London, article Croydon, 2nd ed., 1811, vol. i. p. 131.
In the same volume^ p. 34^ etc., will be found also an ample
account of the family of Carew^ named in the succeeding entry,
and of the house as it then was, together with a portrait of
Sir Nicholas Carew, views of the church, monuments, etc
* [See ante, vol. i. p. 9.]
1700 JOHN EVELYN 858
kept by a servant or two from utter dilapidation.
The estate and park about it also in decay.
28rd September. I went to visit Mr. Pepys at
Clapham, where he has a very noble and wonder-
fully weU-fumished house,^ especially with Indian
and Chinese curiosities. The offices and gardens
well accommodated for pleasure and retirement
81^^ October. My birthday, now completed the
80th year of my age. I with my soul render
thanks to God, who, of His infinite mercy, not
only brought me out of many troubles, but this
year restored me to health, after an ague and other
infirmities of so great an a^e, my sight, hearing,
and other senses and faculties tolerable, which I
implore Him to continue, with the pardon of my
sins past, and grace to acknowledge by my improve-
ment of His goodness the ensuing year, if it be His
pleasure to protract my Ufe, that I may be the better
prepared for my last day, through the infinite merits
of my blessed Saviour, the Lord Jesus, Amen !
5th Nmember. Came the news of my dear
grandson (the only male of my family now remain-
ing) being fallen ill of the small-pox at Oxford,'
which after the dire effects of it in my family
exceedingly afilicted me; but so it pleased my
most merciful God that being let blood at his
first complaint, and by the extraordinary care of
Dr. Mander (Head of the college and now Vice-
Chancellor),' who caused him to be brought and
lodged in his own bed and bedchamber, with the
advice of his physician and care of his tutor, there
were all fair hopes of his recovery, to our infinite
comfort We had a letter every day either from
the Vice-Chancellor himself, or his tutor.
ntk Assurance of his recovery by a letter from
himself.
1 [See ante, p. 297.] ^ [See anU, p. 388.]
3 [See anU, p. 338.J
VOL. Ill 2 A
854 THE DIARY OF 1701
There was a change of great officers at Court
Lord Godolphin returned to his former station of
first Commissioner of the Treasury; Sir Charles
Hedges Secretary of State.
With November. At the Royal Society, Lord
Somers, the late Chancellor, was continued
President
%th December. Great alterations of officers at
Court, and elsewhere — Lord Chief Justice Treby
died ; ^ he was a learned man in his profession, of
which we have now few, never fewer ; the Chancery
requiring so little skill in deep law-learning, if the
practiser can talk eloquently in that Court; so
that probably few care to study the law to any
purpose. — Lord Marlborough Master of the
Ordnance, in place of Lord Romney made Groom
of the Stole. The Earl of Rochester goes Lord-
Lieutenant to Ireland.
1700-1 : January. I finished the sale of North
Stoke in Sussex to Robert Michell, Esq.,
appointed by my brother to be sold for payment
of portions to my nieces, and other incumbrances
on the estate.
Uk. An exceeding deep snow, and melted away
as suddenly.
19th. Severe frost, and such a tempest as threw
down many chimneys, and did great spoil at sea,
and blew down above twenty trees of mine at
Wotton.
Qth Febimary. The old Speaker laid aside,' and
Mr. Harley,® an able gentleman, chosen. Our
1 [Sir George Treby, 1644-1700.]
2 Sir Thomas Lyttelton, Bart.
* Robert Harley, 1661-1724^ Speaker in three Parliaments
in the reign of Queen Anne, Secretary of State, Lord High
Treasurer ; attempted to be stabbed by Guiscard, a Frenchman,
under examination before the Lords of the Privy Council.
Afterwards created Earl of Oxford and Mortimer; impeached
upon the succession of the House of Hanover.
1701 JOHN EVELYN 855
countryman. Sir Richard Onslow, had a party
for him.
27M February. By an order of the House of
Commons, I laid before the Speaker the state of
what had been received and paid towards the
building of Greenwich HospitaL^
Mr. Wye, Rector of Wotton, died, a very
worthy good man. I gave it to Dr. Bohun,* a
learned person and excellent preacher, who had
been my son's tutor, and lived long in my family.
ISth March. 1 let Sayes Court to Lord Car-
marthen,® son to the Duke of Leeds. — 2&th. I went
to the funeral of my sister Draper,* who was buried
^ John Evrltn, Esq., Dr. to Greenwich Hospital.
Received in the year —
1696 £3,416 0 0
1697 6,836 16 3
1698 14,967 8 4
1699 14,024 13 4
1700 19,241 1 3
1701, June 16 10,834 2 3
£69,320 1 5
Per Contra, Creditor.
By the Accompt in
1696 £5,915 18 7
1697 8,971 10 4
1698 11,585 15 1
1699 19,614 9 8
1700 18,013 8 5
1701 3,000 0 0
Remain in Cash 219 1 4
£69,320 3 5
69,320 3 5
Remain in Lottery Tickets! n|i ^o^
to be paid in ten years /*'^^>*«^
More in Malt Tickets 1,000
£69,320
12,434
In aU £81,754
Besides His Majesty £6,000, and Subscriptions.
« [See mde, vol. iL p. 233.] » [See ai/e, p. 270.]
^ Mother of Evelyn's son-in-law (see anUy p. 301).
856 THE DIARY OF 1701
at Edmonton in great state. Dr. Davenant dis-
pleased the clergy now met in Convocation by a
passage in his book, p. 40.^
April A Dutch boy of about eight or nine
years old was carried about by his parents to show,
who had about the iris of one eye, the letters of
Deus meus^ and of the other Mlohttn^ in the Hebrew
character. How this was done by artifice none
could imagine; his parents affirming that he was
so bom. It did not prejudice his sight, and he
seemed to be a lively playing boy. Everybody
went to see him ; physicians and philosophers
examined it with great accuracy, some considered
it as artificial, others as almost supernatural.
^h. The Duke of Norfolk' died of an apo-
plexy, and Mr. Thomas Howard^ of complicated
disease since his being cut for the stone ; he was
one of the Tellers of the Exchequer. Mr. How
made a Baron.
May. Some Kentish men delivering a petition
to the House of Commons, were imprisoned.^
1 Charles Davenant, LL.D., 1656-1714 (son of Sir William).
The book was. Essays upon the Balance of Power, and the
objectionable passage was that in which he says that many
of those lately in power have used their utmost endeavours to
discountenance all revealed religion. ''Are not many of us
able to point to several persons, whom nothing has recommended
to places of the highest trust, and often to rich benefices and
dignities, but the open enmity which they have, almost from
their cradles, professed to the Divinity of Christ } " The Con-
vocation on reading the book, ordered papers to be fixed on
several doors in Westminster Abbey, inviting the author, who-
ever he be, or any one of the many, to point out such persons,
that they may be proceeded against.
^ [See ante, p. 348.]
* rSon of Sir Robert Howard (see ante, p. 285).]
^ Justinian Champneys, Thomas Culpepper, William Cul-
pepper, William Hamilton, and David Polhill, gentlemen of con-
siderable property and family in the county. There is a very good
print of them in five ovals on one plate, engraved by R. White,
in 1701. The petitioners desired the Parliament to mind the
1701 JOHN EVELYN 857
A great dearth, no considerable rain having
fallen for some months.
nth May. Very plentiful showers, the wind
coming west and south. — The Bishops and Con-
vocation at difference concerning the right of
calling the assembly and dissolving. Atterbury^
and Dr. Wake * writing one against the other.
20th June. The Commons demanded a confer-
ence with the Lords on the trial of Lord Somers,
which the Lords refused, and proceeding on the
trial, the Commons would not attend, and he was
acquitted/
22nd. I went to congratulate the arrival of that
worthy and excellent person my Lord Galway,
newly come out of Ireland, where he had behaved
himself so honestly, and to the exceeding satis-
faction of the people ; but he was removed thence
for being a Frenchman,^ though they had not a
more worthy, valiant, discreet, and trusty person
in the two kingdoms, on whom they could have
relied for his conduct and fitness. He was one
who had deeply suffered, as well as the Marquis
his father, for being Protestants.*
July. My Lord Treasurer made my grandson ^
one of the Commissioners of the prizes, salary £500
per annum.
Sth. My grandson went to Sir Simon Harcourt,
the Solicitor-General, to Windsor, to wait on my
Lord Treasurer. There had been for some time a
proposal of marrying my grandson to a daughter
public more, and their private heats less. The presenters were
confined till the prorogation^ and were much visited. Burnet
gives an account of them {Huiory of His Onm Time, 1734^
iL 275>
^ Afterwards Bishop of Rochester.
^ Afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.
» Aide, p. 350.
^ [See ante, p. 209. He was killed at the battle of Almanza.]
* Afde, p. S5S. • [John Evelyn,]
858 THE DIARY OF 1701
of Mrs. Boscawen,^ sister of my Lord Treasurer,
which was now far advanced.
14/A July. I subscribed towards re-buildmg Oak-
wood Chapel,^ now, after 200 years, almost fallen
down*
August. The weather changed from heat not
much less than in Italy or Spain for some few days,
to wet, dripping, and cold, with intermissions of
fair.
^nd September. I went to Kensington, and saw
the house, plantations, and gardens, the work of
Mr. Wise,' who was there to receive me.
The death of King James happening on the
15th of this month, N.S.,* after two or three days'
indisposition, put an end to that unhappy Prince's
troubles, after a short and unprosperous reign,
indiscreetly attempting to bring in Popery, and
make himself absolute, in imitation of the French,
hurried on by the impatience of the Jesuits ; which
the nation would not endure.
Died the Earl of Bath,^ whose contest with
Lord Montagu about the Duke of Albemarle's
estate, claiming under a will supposed to have been
forged, is said to have been worth £10,000 to the
lawyers. His eldest son shot himself a few days
after his father's death ; for what cause is not clear.
He was a most hopeful young man, and had be-
haved so bravely against the Turks at the siege of
Vienna, that the Emperor made him a Count of
the Empire. — It was falsely reported that Sir
Edward Seymour ® was dead, a great man ; he had
often been Speaker, Treasurer of the Navy, and in
^ [John Evelyn married, 18th September, 1705^ Anne^
daughter of Edward Boscawen^ d, 1751.]
> rSee aanity p. 319.] ^ [See amie, p. 308.]
'6th September^ O.S.]
John Granville, Earl of Bath, 1628-1701.]
4
5
^ [See aanit, p. 303.]
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1702 JOHN EVELYN 859
many other lucrative offices. He was of a hasty
spirit, not at all sincere, but head of the party at
any time prevailing in Parliament.
29th September. I kept my first courts in Surrey,
which tooK up the whole week. My steward was
Mr. Hervey,^ a Councillor, Justice of Peace, and
Member of Parliament, and my neighbour. I
gave him six guineas, which was a guinea a-day,
and to Mr. Martin, his clerk, three guineas.
81^ October. I was this day 81 complete, in
tolerable health, considering my great age.
December. Great contentions about elections.
I gave my vote and interest to Sir R. Onslow and
Mr. Weston.^
21th. My grandson • quitted Oxford.*
1701-2 : 21st January. At the Royal Society
there was read and approved the delineation and
description of my Tables of Veins and Arteries,* by
Mr. Cowper, the chirurgeon, in order to their being
engraved.
%th March. The King had a fall from his horse,
1 Of Betchworth.
' Of Ockham; but Mr. Wessell of Bansted (a merchant)
carried it against Mr. Weston.
» [See amUy p. 338.]
^ [Under this year Thoresby has an interesting reference to
"the famous Mr. Evelyn": — "1701. The famous Mr. Evelyn,
who has published a number of very rare books, was above
measure civil and courteous, in showing me many drawings and
paintings of his own and his lady's doing; one especially of
enamel was surprisingly fine, and this ingenious lady told me the
manner how she wrought it, but I was uneasy at his too great
civility in leaving an untold heap of gold medals before me, etc.
He afterwaids carried me in his coach to his son Draper's at
the Temple, and showed me many curious pieces of his ingenious
daughter's performance, both very small in miniature, and as
large as the life in oil colours, equal it is thought to the greatest
masters of the age. He gave me a specimen of some prospects
he took in Italy, and etched upon the copper by his own hand "
(Thoresby's Dwry, 1830, i. 340-41 >]
^ See omtty vol. i. p. 315 ; and vol. ii. pp. 64 and 284.
860 THE DIARY OF 1702
and broke his collar-bone, and having been much
indisposed before, and agueish, with a long cough
and other weakness, died this Sunday morning,
about four o'clock.
1 carried my accounts of Greenwich Hospital to
the Committee,
12th April My brother-in-law, Glanville,^ de-
parted this life this morning after a long languishing
illness, leaving a son by my sister, and two grand-
daughters.' Our relation and friendship had been
long and great He was a man of excellent parts.
He died in the 84th year of his age, and willed his
body to be wrapped in lead and carried down to
Greenwich, put on board a ship, and buried in
the sea, between Dover and Calais, about the
Goodwin sands ; which was done on the Tuesday,
or Wednesday after. This occasioned much dis-
course, he having no relation at all to the sea. He
was a gentleman of an ancient family in Devonshire,
and married my sister Jane. By his prudent parsi-
mony he much improved his fortune. He had a
place in the Alienation-Office, and might have
been an extraordinary man, had he cultivated his
parts.
My steward at Wotton gave a very honest
account of what he had laid out on repairs,
amounting to £1900.
^ [William Glanville (see ante, vol. ii. p. 4).]
^ One of these daughters became heiress of the family, and
married William Evelyn of St. Clere, in Kent, son of George
Evelyn of Nutfield. He assumed the name of Glanville ; but
there being only daughters by this marriage^ he had two sons by
a second wife^ and they resumed the name of Evelyn. The first
of those sons left a son who died unmarried before he came of
age, and a daughter who married Colonel Hume, who had taken
the name of Evelyn, but had no child; the second son of
Mr. Glanville Evelyn married Lady Jane Leslie,^ who became
Countess of Rothes in her own right, and left a son, George
William, who became Earl of Rothes m right of his mother, and
died in 1817, leaving no issue male.
1702 JOHN EVELYN 861
9rd May. The Report of the Committee sent
to examine the state of Greenwich Hospital was
delivered to the House of Commons, much to
their satisfaction. — Lord Godolphin made Lord
High Treasurer.
Being elected a member of the Society lately
incorporated for the Propagation of the Gospel
in Foreign Parts/ I subscribed £10 per annum
towards the carrying it on. We agreed that every
missioner, besides the £20 to set him forth, should
have £50 per annum out of the stock of the Corpo-
ration, till his settlement was worth to him £100
per annum. We sent a young divine to New
York.
22nd June. I dined at the Archbishop's with
the new-made Bishop of Carlisle, Dr. Nicolson, my
worthy and learned correspondent*
27th. 1 went to Wotton with my family for the
rest of the summer, and my son-in-law. Draper,
with his family,^ came to stay with us, his house
at Addiscombe being new-building, so that my
family was above thirty. — Most of the new
Parliament were chosen of Church of England
principles, against the peevish party. The Queen
was magnificently entertained at Oxford and all
the towns she passed through on her way to Bath.
81^ October. Arrived now to the 82nd year of
my age, having read over all that passed since this
day twelvemonth in these notes, 1 render solemn
thanks to the Lord, imploring the pardon of my
past sins, and the assistance of His grace ; making
new resolutions, and imploring that He will con-
tinue His assistance, and prepare me for my blessed
Saviour's coming, that I may obtain a comfortable
departure, after so long a term as has been hitherto
1
8
It received its charter June l6, 1701.1
"Dr. William Nicolson, 1655-1727 ; Bishop of Carlisle, 1702-
1718.J » [See ante, p. 301.]
862 THE DIARY OF ma
indulged me. I find by many infirmities this year
(especially nephritic pains) tiiat I must decUne;
and yet of His infinite mercy retain my intellects
and senses in great measure above most of my age.
I have this year repaired much of the mansion-
house and several tenants' houses, and paid some
of my debts and engagements. My wife, children,
and family in health : for all which I most sincerely
beseech Almighty God to accept of these my
acknowledgments, and that if it be His holy will to
continue me yet longer, it may be to the praise of
His infinite grace, and salvation of my soul. Amen !
8th Navefnber. My kinsman, John Evelyn, of
Nutfield, a young and very hopeful gentleman,
and Member of Parliament,^ after having come to
Wotton to see me, about fifteen days past, went
to London and there died of the small-pox. He
left a brother, a commander in the army in Holland,
to inherit a fair estate.
Our affairs in so prosperous a condition both by
sea and land, that there has not been so great an
union m Parliament, Court, and people, in memory
of man, which God in mercy maice us thankful for,
and continue! The Bishop of Exeter' preached
before the Queen and both Houses of Parliament
at St Paul's; they were wonderfully huzzaed in
their passage, and splendidly entertained in the
city.
December. The expectation now is, what treasure
will be found on breaking bulk of the galleon
brought from Vigo by Sir George Rooke,® which
being made up in an extraordinary manner in the
hold, was not begun to be opened till the 5th of
1 For Bletchingley, near Reigate^ in Surrey.
^ [Sir Jonathan Trelavnnj^ 1650-1721 ; Bishop of Exeter,
1689-1707.]
^ [A fleet of Spanish galleons was captured or destroyed by
Rooke in the harbour of Vigo^ October 12^ 1702.]
1703 JOHN EVELYN 868
this month, before two of the Privy Council, two
of the chief magistrates of the city, and the Lord
Treasurer.
After the excess of honour conferred by the
Queen on the Earl of Marlborough, by making
him a Knight of the Garter and a Duke, for the
success of but one campaign, that he should desire
£5000 a-year to be settled on him by Parliament
out of the Post-office, was thought a bold and
unadvised request, as he had, besides his own con-
siderable estate, above £80,000 a-year in places and
employments, with £50,000 at interest He had
married one daughter to the son of my Lord
Treasurer Godolphin, another to the Earl of
Sunderland, and a third to the Earl of Bridgewater.
He is a very handsome person, well-spoken and
affable, and supports his want of acquired know-
ledge by keeping good company.
1702-8. News of Vice- Admiral Benbow*s conflict
with the French fleet in the West Indies, in which
he gallantly behaved himself, and was wounded,
and would have had extraordinary success, had not
four of his men-of-war stood spectators without
coming to his assistance ; ^ for this, two of their
commanders were tried by a Council of War, and
executed;^ a third was condemned to perpetual
imprisonment, loss of pay, and incapacity to serve
in future. The fourth died.
Sir Richard Onslow' and Mr. Oglethorpe (son
of the late Sir Theo. O.) * fought on occasion of
^ r August 24. Benbow died of his wounds^ November 4^
1702.J^
^ The Captains^ Richard Kirbj and Cooper Wade^ having been
tried and condemned to die by a Court-Martial held on them in
the West Indies, were sent home in the Bristol; and, on its
arrival at Portsmouth^ were both shot on board, not being
suffered to land on English around.
^ [Sir Richard Onslow^ 1054-1 71 7> afterwards Speaker.]
* [Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe, 1650-1702.]
864 THE DIARY OF 1703
some words which passed at a Committee of the
House. Mr. Oglethorpe was disarmed. — The Bill
against occasional Conformity was lost by one
vote. — Com and provisions so cheap that the
farmers are unable to pay their rents.
February. A famous cause at the King's Bench
between Mr. Fenwick and his wife,^ which went
for him with a great estate. The Duke of Marl-
borough lost his only son at Cambridge by the
small-pox. — A great earthquake at Rome, etc —
A famous young woman, an Italian, was hired by
our comedians to sing on the stage, during so many
plays, for which they gave her £500 ; which part
by her voice alone at the end of three scenes she
performed with such modesty and grace, and above
all with such skill, that there was never any who
did anything comparable with their voices. She
was to go home to the Court of the King of
Prussia, and I beUeve carried with her out of this
vain nation above £1000, everybody coveting to
hear her at their private houses.
26th May. This day died Mr. Samuel Pepys, a
very worthy, industrious and curious person, none
in England exceeding him in knowl^e of the
navy, in which he had passed through all the
most considerable offices. Clerk of the Acts and
Secretary of the Admiralty, all which he performed
with great integrity. When King James II. went
out of England, he laid down his office, and would
serve no more ; but withdrawing himself from all
Sublic affairs, he Uved at Clapham with his partner,
Ir. Hewer, formerly his clerk, in a very noble
^ She was daughter and heir of Sir Adam Browne, of Betch-
worth Castle, in Dorking [see ante^ vol. ii. p. 98], and married
Mr. Fenwick. This suit probably related to a settlement which
she had consented to make, by which the estate was limited to
them and their issue, and the heir of the survivor. They had
one son, who died without issue, and she survived her husband,
thereby becoming entitled to dispose of it.
1708 JOHN EVELYN 865
house and sweet place, where he enjoyed the fruit
of his labours in great prosperity. He was univers-
ally beloved, hospitable, generous, learned in many
things, skilled in music, a very great cherisher of
learned men of whom he had the conversation.
His library * and collection of other curiosities were
of the most considerable, the models of ships
especially. Besides what he published of an
account of the navy,* as he found and left it, he
had for divers years under his hand the History of
the Navy, or JVava&a, as he called it ; but how far
advanced, and what will follow of his, is left, I
suppose, to his sister's son, Mr. Jackson, a young
gentleman, whom Mr. Pepys had educated in aU
sorts of useful learning, sending him to travel
abroad, from whence he returned with extra-
ordinary accomplishments, and worthy to be heir.
Mr. Pepys had been for near forty years so much
my particular friend, that Mr. Jackson sent me
complete mourning, desiring me to be one to
hold up the pall at his magnificent obsequies ; but
my inoisposition hindered me from doing him this
last office.*
18th June. Rains have been great and continual,
and now, near midsummer, cold and wet.
11th July. I went to Addiscombe, sixteen miles
from Wotton, to see my son-in-law's new house,
the outside, to the coving,^ being such excellent
brickwork, based with Portland stone, with the
pilasters, windows, and within, that I pronounced
it in all the points of good and solid architecture to
1 His valuable library, together with his fine collection of
prints, he gave to Magdalen College, Cambridge, where they
now remain in a handsome room. [The '^ Pepysian Treasures "
are described in the Gentleman's Magazine, February, 1906, ei seqJ]
^ [Memoires relating to the State cjthe Royal Navy, I69O.I
' [He was buried in St Olave's Church, Crutched Friars,
June 5, 1704, in a vault close to his wife's monument]
^ [An arch, or arched projecture.]
866 THE DIARY OF iros
be one of the very best gentlemen's houses m
Surrey, when finished I returned to Wotton m
the evening, though weary.
25th Jviy. The last week in this month an
uncommon long- continued rain, and the Sunday
following, thunder and lightning.
12th AtLgtist. The new Commission for Green-
wich Hospital was sealed and opened, at which
my son-in-law. Draper,^ was present, to whom I
resigned my office of Treasurer. From August
1696, there had been expended in buildmg
£89,864:14:8.
81^^ October. This day, being eighty-three years
of age, upon examining what concerned me, more
particularly the past year, with the great mercies
of God preserving me, and in the same measure
making my infirmities tolerable, I gave God most
hearty and humble thanks, beseeching Him to
confirm to me the pardon of my sins past, and to
prepare me for a better life by the vutue of His
grace and mercy, for the sake of my blessed
Saviour.
21^ November. The wet and uncomfortable
weather staying us fi"om church this morning, our
Doctor officiated in my family; at which were
present above twenty domestics. He made an
excellent discourse on 1 Cor. xv., v. 55, 56, of the
vanity of this world and uncertainty of life, and
the inexpressible happiness and satisfaction of a
holy life, with pertinent inferences to prepare us
for death and a future state. I gave him thanks,
and told him I took it kindly as my funeral sermon.
26-27M. The effects of the hurricane and tempest
of wind, rain, and lightning, through all the nation,
especially London, were very dismal.^ Many
1 [See cmtCy p. 301.]
2 [This was the *' Great Stonn" of November 26 to
December 1. Two of the persons mentioned by Evelyn were
1704 JOHN EVELYN 867
houses demolished, and people killed. As to my
own losses, the subversion of woods and timber,
both ornamental and valuable, through my whole
estate, and about my house the woods crowning
the garden-mount, and growing along the park-
meadow, the damage to my own dwelling, farms,
and outhouses, is almost tragical, not to be paralleled
with anything happening in our age. I am not
able to describe it ; but submit to the pleasure of
Almighty God.
7ta December. 1 removed to Dover Street,
where I found all well ; but houses, trees, garden,
etc., at Sayes Court, suffered very much.
81^^. I made up my accounts, paid wages, gave
rewards and new-year s gifts, according to custom.
1708-4 : January. The King of Spain ^ landing
at Portsmouth, came to Windsor, where he was
magnificently entertained by the Queen, and
behaved himself so nobly, that everybody was
taken with his graceful deportment After two
days, having presented the great ladies, and others,
with very valuable jewels, he went back to Ports-
mouth, and immediately embarked for Spain.
\Qth. The Lord Treasurer gave my grandson *
the office of Treasurer of the Stamp Duties, with
a salary of £800 a-year.
QOth. The fast on the martyrdom of King
Charles I. was observed with more than usual
solemnity.
May. Dr. Bathurst, President of Trinity
College, Oxford, now died,* I think the oldest
acquaintance now left me in the world. He was
killed by it,— Bishop Kidder {ante, p. 9Q9), and Penelope
Nicholas, wife of Sir John Nicholas, of West Horsley {ante,
vol. ii. p. 234). It also blew down the Eddjstone Lighthouse
(see cade, p. 828).]
^ Charles the Third, afterwards Emperor of Germany, by the
title of Charles the Sixth.
2 [John Evelyn.] » [See anU, vol. ii. p. 242.]
868 THE DIARY OF i704
eighty -six years of age, stark blind, deaf, and
memory lost, after having been a person of
admirable parts and learning. This is a serious
alarm to me. God grant that I may profit by it !
He built a very handsome chapel to the college,
and his own tomb. He gave a legacy of money,
and the third part of his library, to his nephew.
Dr. Bohun,^ who went hence to his funeral
1th September. This day was celebrated the
thanksgiving for the late great victory,* with the
utmost pomp and splendour by the Queen, Court,
great Officers, Lord Mayor, Sherifis, Conipanies,
etc. The streets were scafTolded from Temple
Bar, where the Lord Mayor presented her Majesty
with the sword, which she returned. Every
Company was ranged under its banners, the City
Militia without the rails, which were all hung with
cloth suitable to the colour of the banner. The
Lord Mayor, Sherif]^, and Aldermen, were in their
scarlet robes, with caparisoned horses ; the Knight
Marshal on horseback; the Foot- Guards; the
Queen in a rich coach with eight horses, none with
her but the Duchess of Marlborough in a very
plain garment, the Queen full of jewels. Music
and trumpets at every City Company. The great
officers of the Crown, Nobility, and Bishops, all
in coaches with six horses, besides innumerable
servants, went to St Paul's, where the Dean
preached. After this, the Queen went back in
the same order to St. James's. The City Com-
panies feasted all the Nobility and Bishops, and
illuminated at night. Music for the church and
anthems composed by the best masters. The day
before was wet and stormy, but this was one of the
most serene and calm days that had been all the
year.
1 [He was Rector of Wotton (see ante, p. Sb^),"]
^ Over the French and Bavarians^ at Blenheim^ August ^, 1 704.
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1706 JOHN EVELYN 869
October. The year has been very plentiful.
81^^. Being my birthday and the 84th year of
my life, after particular reflections on my concerns
and passages of the year, I set some considerable
time of this day apart, to recollect and examine
my state and concution, giving God thanks, and
acknowledging His infinite mercies to me and
mine, begging His blessing, and imploring His
protection for the year following.
December. Lord Clarendon presented me with
the three volumes of his father's History of the
Rebellion.^
My Lord of Canterbury wrote to me for sufirage
for Mr. Clarke's continuance this year in the Boyle
Lecture,* which I willingly gave for his excellent
performance of this year.
1704-5 : Mh January. I dined at Lambeth with
the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Eling,' a sharp ready
man in politics, as well as very learned.
OM February. I went to wait on my Lord
Treasurer, where was the victorious Duke of
Marlborough, who came to me and took me by
the hand with extraordinary familiarity and civility,
as formerly he was used to do, without any altera-
tion of his good -nature. He had a most rich
George in a sardonyx set with diamonds of very
great value; for the rest, very plain. I had not
seen him for some years, and believed he might
have forgotten me.
2\st. Remarkable fine weather. Agues and
small-pox much in every place.
Wth March. An exceeding dry season. — Great
loss by fire, burning the outhouses and famous
1 [A mistake. He received them in December^ 1702 (Letter
to Pepjrs, 20th January, 1703).!
^ [Dr. Samuel Clarke's Boyle Lectures were '' On the Being
and Attributes of God."]
» [WiUiam King, 1650-1729; Archbishop of Dublin, 1708-29.]
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870 THE DIARY OF i706
stable of the Earl of Nottingham, at Burley
[Rutlandshire],^ full of rich goods and furniture^ by
the carelessness of a servant A little before, the
same happened at Lord Pembroke's, at Wilton.
The old Countess of Northumberland, Dowager
of Algernon Percy, Admiral of the Fleet to King
Charles I., died in the 88rd year of her age. She
was sister to the Earl of Suffolk, and left a great
estate, her jointure to descend to the Duke of
Somerset.^
May. The Bailiff of Westminster hanged him-
self. He had an ill report
On the death of the Emperor, there was no
mourning worn at Court, because there was none
at the Imperial Court on the death of King
William.
IS^A. I went to see Sir John Chardin,' at
Tumham-Green, the gardens being very fine, and
exceeding well planted with fruit
20th. Most extravagant expense to debauch and
corrupt votes for Parliament members. I sent my
grandson with his party of my freeholders to vote
for Mr. Harvey, of Combe.*
June. The season very dry and hot — I went to
see Dr. Dickinson ^ the famous chemist We had
long conversation about the philosopher's elixir,
which he believed attainable, and had seen pro-
jection himself by one who went under the name
of Mundanus, who sometimes came among the
adepts, but was unknown as to his country, or
1 [Burley-on-the-Hill (see ante, vol. iL p. 88).]
3 This Duke had married Elizabeth Percy (see anU, p. 74)^
only daughter and heir to Josceline Percy^ the eleventh and
last Earl of Northumberland. ^ See ante, p. 51.
^ Sir Richard Onslow and Sir William Scawen were the other
candidates, and succeeded. Harvey was a violent Tory.
« Edmund Dickinson, M.D., 1624-1707, of Merton College,
Oxford. [He was King's physician, 1685-88, in which latter
year he retired from practice.] He published several things.
1706 JOHN EVELYN 871
abode ; of this the Doctor has written a treatise
in Latin, full of very astonishing relations. He is
a very learned person, formerly a Fellow of St
John's College, Oxford,^ in which he practised
Shysic, but has now altogether given it over, and
ves retired, being very old and infirm, yet con-
tinuing chemistry.
I went to Greenwich Hospital, where they now
began to take in wounded and worn-out seamen,
who are exceeding well provided for. The build-
ings now going on are very magnificent
October. Mr. Cowper* made Lord Keeper.
Observing how uncertain great officers are of
continuing long in their places, he would not
accept it, unless £2000 a-year were given him in
reversion when he was put out, in consideration
of his loss of practice. His predecessors, how
little time soever they had the seal, usually got
£100,000 and made themselves Barons. — A new
Secretary of State.* — Lord Abington, Lieutenant
of the Tower, displaced, and General Churchill,
brother to the Duke of Marlborough, put in. An
indication of great unsteadiness somewhere, but
thus the crafty Whig party (as called) begin to
change the face of the Court, in opposition to the
High Churchmen, which was another distinction
of a party from the Low Churchmen. The Parlia-
ment chose one Mr. Smith, Speaker.* There had
^ He was a Fellow of Merton. Evelyn must have mistaken
Dr. Dickinson as to his not knowing who Theodore Mundanus
was^ for in I686 the Doctor printed a letter to him with his
answer from Paris ; and in the latter^ Mundanus says he made
two projections in his presence. {Biog. Brii,, 1793, v. 176, art.
Dickinson.)
> William Cowper, d. 1723, created a Baron in 1706, and
Lord Chancellor^ afterwards (1718) Viscount Fordwich and first
Earl Cowper, by George the First
' Charles Spencer^ third Earl of Sunderland (see ante, p. 238).
^ John Smith, 1655-1723, Member for Anaover. [He was
elected Speaker for three years.]
872 DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN iroe
never been so great an assembly of members on the
first day of sitting, being more than 450. The
votes both of the old, as well as the new, fell to
those called Low Churchmen, contrary to all
expectation.
81^ October. I am this day arrived to the 85th
year of my age. Lord teach me so to number my
days to come, that I may apply them to wisdom !
1705-6 : 1^ January. Making up my accounts
for the past year, paid bills, wages, and new-year's
gifts, according to custom. Though much indis-
posed and in so advanced a stage, I went to our
chapel [in London] to give God public thanks,
beseeching Almighty God to assist me and my
family the ensuing year, if He should yet continue
my pilgrimage here, and bring me at last to a
better life with Him in His heavenly kingdom.
Divers of our friends and relations dined with us
this day.
21tn. My indisposition increasing, I was ex-
ceeding ill this whole week.
[Qrd February. Notes of the sermons at the
chapel in the morning and afternoon, written with
his own hand, conclude this Diary.]
*^* Mr. Evelyn died on the 27th of this month.
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APPENDIX VII
CRUCIFIX OF EDWARD THE CONFESSOR
Feb. 1687-8, there was printed what was called ^^A true
and perfect narrative of the strange and unexpected finding
the Crucifix and Grold- chain of that pious Prince, St.
Edward the King and Confessor, which was found after six
hundred and twenty years^ interment, and presented to his
most Sacred Majesty, King James the Second. By Charles
Taylour, Grent. London, printed by J. B., and are to be sold
by Bandal Taylor, near Stationers' Hall, 1688^
He says, that '' on St. Bamaby's Day [11 June], 1685,
between 11 and IS at noon, he went with two friends to see
the co£Sn of Edward the Confessor, having heard that it was
broke; fetched a ladder, looked on the co£Sn and found a
hole as reported, put his hand into the hole, and turning the
bones which he felt there, drew from under the shoulder-
bones a crucifix richly adorned and enamelled, and a golden
chain of twenty-four inches long to which it was fixed;
showed them to his two friends; was afraid to take them
away, till he had acquainted the Dean ; put them into the
coffin again. But the Dean not being to be spoke with then,
and fearing this treasure might be taken by some other, he
went two or three hours afterward to one of the choir,
acquainted him with what he had found, who accompanied
him to the monument, frx)m whence he again drew the crucifix
and chain; his friend advised him to keep them, until he
could show them to the Dean (the Bishop of Rochester) : kept
them three weeks before he could speak to the Bishop ; went
to the Archbishop of York, and showed them ; next morning,
the Archbishop of York carried him to the Archbishop of
Canterbury at Lambeth, and showed them. After this, he
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874 APPENDIX VII
procured an exact drawing to be made of them; showed
them to Sir William Dugdale. — 6th July, the Archbishop of
Canterbury told the Bishop of Rochester, who, about four that
afternoon, sent for him, and took him to Whitehall, that he
might present them to the King ; which he did accordingly.
The Kins ordered a new strong wooden coflin to be made to
enclose the broken one. The hnks of the chain oblong, and
curiously wrought ; the upper part joined by a locket, com-
posed oi a large round knob of gold, massy, in circumference
as big as a milled shilling, half an inch tibick ; round this
went a ?mre and half a dozen little beads, hanging loose,
running to €uid again on the same, all of pure gold, finely
wrought ; on each side of the locket were set two large square
stones (supposed to be rubies). From each side of this locket,
fixed to two rings of gold, tiie chain descends, and, meeting
below, passes through a square piece of gold, of a convenient
bigness, made hollow for the same purpose. This gold
wrought into several angles, was painted with divers colours,
resembling gems or precious stones, to which the crucifix was
joined, yet to be taken off by help of a screw. The form of
the cross nearest that of an humett^ flory (among the
heralds), or rather the [botonee]; yet the pieces not of
equal length, the perpendicular heean being near one-fourth
part longer than the traverse, as being four inches to the
extremity, whilst the other scarce exceeds three ; yet all neatly
turned at the ends, and the botons enamelled with figures
thereon. The cross of the same gold as the chain, but exceeds
it by its rich enamel, having on one side a picture of our
Saviour Christ in his passion wrought thereon, and an eye
from above casting a kind of beam on him ; on the reverse,
picture of a Benedictine monk in his habit, and on each
side of him these capital Roman letters : —
On the right,
And on the left.
(A)
P
Z A X
A C
A
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This cross is hollow, to be opened by two little screws
towards the top, wherein it is presumed some relic might
have been conserved. William 1. commanded the coffin to
be enshrined, and the shrine covered with plates of gold and
silver, adorned with pearls and precious stones. About one
hundred and thirty-six years after, the Abbot resolved to
inspect the body, said to be incorruptible, and, on opening.
APPENDIX VII 875
found it to be so, beine perfect, the limbs flexible : the teuce
covered ; Gundolph, Biwop of Rochester, withdrew the cover,
but, with great reverence, covered it affain, changing the former
vestments, and putting on others oi equal price. In 1163,
Thomas k Becket procured a canonisation of the King, and
in the ceremony the Abbot opened the coffin, found the body
lying in rich v^ments of cloth of gold, having on his feet
buskins of purple, and shoes of great price ; the body uncor-
rupted ; removed the whole body from the stone repository to
another of wood, some assisting at the head, others at the
arms and legs ; they lifted it gently, and laid the corpse first
on tapestry spread on the floor, and then wrapping tne same
in silken clotns of great value, they put it into the wooden
chest, with aU those things that were foumd in the Jbrmery
except the gold ring which was on the King'^s finger, which
the Abbot, out ofdevotiofiy retained, and ordered it to be kept
in the Treasury of the Abb^.
^ In 1226, King Henry III. again removed the coffin to a
chapel built for the purpose.^
II
EVELYN'S PUBLICATIONS
The subjoined List is from a Letteb of Evelyk^s to Dr.
Plot, dated 16 March, 168S-8.
Translations.
1. Of Liberty and Servitude, Lond. 1644 [1649], 12nio.
S. The JBVench Gardener and English Vineyard, 1658,
12mo, 8rd edit [1672].
S. An Essay on the first Book of Lucretius, 1666, 8vo.
4. Gkspar [Grabriel] Naudssus, Instructions concerning
Libraries, 1661, 8vo.
5. A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the
Modem, with a treatise on Statues, etc., 1664, folio.
6. All Idea of the Perfection of Painting, 1668, 8vo.
7. The Mystery of Jesuitism, 2 parts [1664], 8vo.
8. St Chrysostom^s Grolden Book for the Education of
Children, out of the Gieek, 1669, 12ino.
Original Works.
1. An Apology for the Royal Party, 1659, 4to. Three
Editions.
876 APPENDIX VII
«• Panegyric at his Majesty's Coronation, 1661, folio.
S. Fumimgium, or a prophetic Invective against the
and Smoke of London, with its Remedies, 1661, 4to.
4. Sculptura, or the History of the Art of Chalcography,
166s, 8vo.
5. Public Employment, and an active life preferred to
Solitude, 1667, 8vo.
6. History of the Three late Impostors, 1669, 8vo.
7. Ealendarium Hortense, 1664, 167^ 8vo. Six Editions.
8. Sylva [1664, 1670], 1679, folio. Three Editions.
9. Terra [1676], 1679. Two Editions [8vo.].
10. TVrannus, or the Mode [1661], 8vo.
11. The Dignity of Man, etc., not printed, nearly ready.
IS. Elysium Britannicum, not printed, nearly ready.
Prepared far the Press.
A Discourse of Medals. — Of Manuscripts. — Of Stones. —
Of Reason in Brute Animals.^
In a letter to Dr. Beale,^ 11 July, 1679, Evelyn says : ** I
have sometimes thought of publishing a Treatise of Acetaria^
which (though but one of the chapters of Elysium BrUan-
nicum) would make a competent volume, accompanied with
other necessaries, according to my manner ; but whilst I as
often think of performing my so long-since promised (more
universal) Hortulan work, 1 know not how to take that
chapter out, and single it for the press, without some
blemish to the rest. When again I consider into what an
ocean I am plunged, how much I have written and collected
for above tnese twenty years upon this fruitful and inex-
haustible subject (I mean Horticulture) not yet fiilly digested
to my mind, and what insuperable pains it will require to
insert the (daily increasing) particulars into what I have
already in some measure prepared, and which must of neces-
^ [The Nundsmata ; or, a Discourse of Medals was printed in folio in
1697 ; the " unfinished Treatise " '^ Of Manuscripts " occupies pp. 321-36
of vol. ii. of BraVs edition of the Memoirs, etc.^ 1819. The discourses
of ^' Reason iu Brute Animals " and ^' Stones " have not heen printed.]
There is also at Wotton a chapter of an essay^ entitled^ ^^ De Baculis
rstaves]," which from the proem seems to have been intended as jocular,
but it begins with great gravity.
2 [John Beale, F.R.S., 1603-83, Rector of Yeovil, Somerset, and
Chaplain to Charles II.]
^ [Published 1699, and dedicated to Lord Somers.]
APPENDIX VII 877
sity be done by my own hand, I am almost out of hope,
that I shall ever have strength and leisure to bring it to
maturity, having for the last ten years of my life been in
perpetual motion, and hardly two months in the year at my
own habitation, or conversant with my family.
^* You know what my charge and care has been during the
late unhappy war with the Hollanders ; and what it has cost
me as to avocations, and for the procuring money, and
attending the Lord iSreasurer, etc., to discharge the quarters
of many thousands.
^^ Since that, I have upon me no fewer than three executor-
ships, besides other domestic concerns, either of them enough
to distract a more steady and composed genius than is mine.
^^ Superadd to these the public confusions in church and
kingdom (never to be sufficiently deplored), and which can-
not but most sensibly touch every sober and honest man.
^^ In the midst oi these disturbances, who but Dr. Beale
(that stands upon the tower, looks down unconcernedly on all
those tempests) can think of gardens and fish-ponds, and the
diUces ana ornaments of peace and tranquillity ! With no
little conflict and force on my other business, 1 have yet at
last, and as I was able, published a third edition of my
Sylx)a [1 679], and with such additions as occurred ; and this in
truth only to pacify the importunity of very many besides the
printer, who quite tired me with calling on me for it, and
above all, threatening to reprint it with all its former
defects, if I did not speedily prevent it. I am only vexed
that it proving so popular as in so few years to pass so many
impressions, and (as I hear) gratify the avaricious printer with
some hundreds of pounds, there had not been some course
taken in it for the benefit of our Society. It is apparent,
that near .f 500 has been already gotten by it ; but we are
not yet economists.
" You know what pillars we have lost : Palmer,^ Murray,^
Chester,'^ Oldenburg,^ etc. ; €uad through what other discourage-
ments we still labour ; and therefore you will excuse the zeal
and fervour of what I have added in my Epistle to the Reader,
if at length it be possible to raise up some generous soul to
free us, or emerge out of our difficulties. In all events you
will see where my inclinations are fixed, and that love is
1 Dudley Palmer, 1602-66, and Sir Robert Murray, Knt, d. WS,
two of the first Council of the Royal Society.
[See ante, vol. ii. p. 76.]
See ante, voL ii. p. 192.]
878 APPENDIX VII
stronger than death ; and secular afiairs, which is the burial
of all philosophical speculations and improvements; thou^
they can never in the least diminish the great esteem I have
of your friendship, and the infinite obligations I daily receive
from your favours.^
Of Books which he had designed to publish, we find various
Memoranda in his letters, etc
In a letter to Mr. Boyle, 8 [9 ?] August, 1669, he says he
had intended to write a Higiory of Trades ; but had given it
up, from the great difficulty he found in the attempt.
In another, 28rd Nov., 1664, he says, ^ One Rhea [qu.
Ray?] has published a very useful l>ook concerning the
Culture of Flowers ; but it does nothing reach my long-sinoe
attempted design on that entire subject, with all its orna-
ments and circumstances, but Grod only knows when my
opportunities will permit me to bring it to maturity."*
In the Preface to the Acetaria^ published in 1699, he
mentions a Work in which he had spent upwards of forty
years, and his collections for which had in that time filled
several thousand pages. The author of the Biognmhia
BrUannica believes tibat this was the work, part of wnich
he had showed to his friends under the title of Efysium
BrUarmicumj but which in that Preface he calls ^^ The Plan
of a Royal Grarden,^ etc.; and that his Acetaria and
Gardener's Kalendar were parts of it. This is confirmed
by the preceding letter to ur. Beale.
Amongst the MSS. at Wotton there are parts of two
volumes with the running title of ISyswm Britannicumj
consisting of miscellaneous observations on a great variety of
subjects, out nothing digested, except a print^ sheet of the
contents of the intended Work, as follows : —
ELYSIUM BRITANNICUM
IN THBEE BOOKS
Prasmissis prasmUtendis, etc.
Book I
Chap. 1. A Garden derived and defined, with its dis-
tinctions and sorts. — H, Of a Gardener, and how he is to be
qualified. — 3. Of the Principles and Elements in general. —
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4. Of the Fire.— 6. Of the Air and Winds.— 6. Of the Water.
— ^7. Of the Earth. — 8. Of the Celestial Influences, particu-
larly the Sun, and Moon, and of the Climates. — ^9. Of the
Four Seasons.— 10. Of the Moidd and Soil of a Grarden. —
11. Of Composts and Stercoration. — IS. Of the Generation
of Plants.
Book II
Chap. 1. Of the Instruments belonging to a Gardener,
and their several uses. — S. Of the situation of a Grarden, with
its extent. — 8. Of fencing, enclosing, plotting, and disposing
the Ground. — I. Of a Seminary, and of propagating Trees,
Plants, and Flowers. — 5. Of Knots, Parteires, Compartments,
Borders, and Embossments. — 6. Of Walks, Terraces, Carpets,
and Alleys, Bowling-greens, Malls, their materials and pro-
portions.— ^7. Of Groves, Labyrinths, Dsedales, Cabinets,
Cradles, Pavilions, Gralleries, Close-walks, and other Rilievos.
— 8. Of Transplanting. — ^9. Of Fountains, Cascades, Rivulets,
Piscinas, and Water-works. — 10. Of Socks, Grots, Ciyptas,
Mounts, Precipices, Porticos, Vendiducts. — 11. Of Statues,
Columns, Dials, Perspectives, Pots, Vases, and other ornaments.
— IS. Of Artificial Echos, Music, and Hydraulic motions. — 18.
Of Aviaries, Apiaries, Vivaries, Insects. — 14. Of Orangeries,
and Conservatories of rare Plants. — 15. Of Verdures,
Perennial-Greens, and perpetual Springs. — 16. Of Coronary
Grardens, Flowers, and rare Plants, how they are to be pro-
pagated, governed, and improved ; together with a Catalogue
of the choicest Trees, Shrubs, Plants and Flowers, and how the
Gardener is to keep his Bister. — 17. Of the Philosophico-
Medical Grarden. — 18. Of a Vineyard. — 19- Of Watering,
Pruning, Clipping, Rolling, Weeding, etc — SO. Of the
Enemies and infirmities to which a Garden is obnoxious,
together with the remedies. — SI. Of the Gardener^s Almanack,
or Kalendarium Hortense, directing what he is to do Monthly,
and what Flowers are in prime.
Book III
Chap. 1. Of Conserving, Properating, Retarding, Multiply-
ing, Transmuting, and aUering the Species, Forms and sub-
stantial qualities of Flowers, etc. — i. Of Chaplets, Festoons,
Flower-pots, Nosegays, and Posies. — 3. Of the Gardener^s
Elaboratoiy, and of distilling and extracting of Essences,
Resuscitation of Plants, with other rare Experiments. — I. Of
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Composing the Hortus Hyemalis, and making books of
Natiural Arid Plants and Flowers, with other curious ways of
preserving them in their Natural — 5. Of planting of Flowers,
Flowers enamelled in Silk, Wax, and other artificial repre-
sentations of them. — 6. Of Hortulan Entertainments, to
show the riches, beauty, wonder, plenty, delight, and use of a
Graiden-Festival, etc. — 7. Of the most famous Grardens in the
World, Ancient and Modem. — 8. The Description of a Villa.
— ^The Corollary and Conclusion.
Amongst the MSS. at Wotton also, on a separate paper,
are the following Memoranda in Evdyn^s handwriting : —
^Things I would write out fair and reform, if I had
leisure : —
Londinum Redivivum, which I presented to the King
three or four days after the Conflagration of that City, 1666.
Pedigree of the Evelyns.
The three remaining Meditations on Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday, being the remaining course of Offices ; to which
belong a Book of Recollection bound in leather.
A Rational Account of the True Religion, or an History
of it. With a packet of Notes belonging to it.
Oeconomist to a Married Friend.
The Legend of the Pearl.
Some Letters of mine to Electra and to others in that
packet.
The life of Mrs. Godolphin.
A book of Some Observations, Political and Discourses of
that kind.
Thyrsander, a Tragi-Comedy.
Dignity of Mankind.
My own Ephemeris or Diary.
AAimadvenions upon Spin(4a.
Papers concerning Education.
Mathematical papers.*" ^
Of the works by Mr. Evelyn actually published, the list
now finally subjoined, comprising many which are included in
' Of the '^things" mentioned in this list as reserved for attention
and revision in Evel3ai'8 leisure^ the Diary and Letters^ and life of Mrs.
Godolphin (see also p. 21 of this volume) have since been given to
the world [1818 and 1847] ; and the work entitled A Ratwnal Aocouni ^
the True Religion, or an Huttory of it, edited from the MSS. at Wotton,
has also been published [1860^. It embodies the researches and refleo-
tions of Evelyn's life on the subject to which it relates.
APPENDIX VII 881
the collection of Evdyn^s Miscellaneous Writings edited by
Mr. Uocott, will, it is believed, be found tolerably accurate.
1. Of Liberty and Servitude, 1649, 12mo.
2. A Character of Ei^land, as it was lately presented in a
Letter to a Nobleman of France ; with Reflections upon Grallus
Castratus, 1651 [?], 8rd edit. 1659.
8. The State of France. London, 1652, 8vo.
4. An Essay on the first Book of Lucretius de Rerum
Natui-a, interpreted and made into English Verse, 1656, 8vo.
The frontispiece designed by his lady, Mary Evelyn.
5. Dedicato^ Epistles, etc., to " The French Gardener.^
London, 1658, 12mo. — ^The third edition, in 1672, was illus-
trated by plates. — In most of the editions is added ^^The
English vineyard Vindicated, by John Rose, Gardener to King
Charles IL^
6. The Golden Book of St. Chrysostom, concerning the
Education of Children. London, 1to9, 12mo.
7. An Apology for the Royal Party, written in a Letter to
a person of the late Council of State : with a Touch at the
pretended Plea of the Army. London, 1659, in two sheets,
4to. Three editions.
8. The late News from Brussels unmasked. London, 1660,
4to.
9. The manner of the Encounter between the French and
Spanish Ambassadors at the Landing of the Swedish
Ambassador [1661 J.
10. A Panegynck at his Majesty King CharWs Corona-
tion. London, 1661, folio.
11. Instructions concerning the erection of a Library.
Written by Gabriel Naud^, published in English with some
improvements b^ John Evelyn, Esq. London, 1661, 8vo.
12. Fumifiigium; or the Inconveniency of the Air and
Smoke of London dissipated. Together with some remedies
humbly proposed by John Evelyn, Esq. London, 1661, 4to,
in 5 sheets, addressed to the King and Parliament, and pub-
lished by his Majesty^s express Command.^
18. Tyrannus ; or the Mode ; in a Discourse of Sumptuary
Laws, 1661, 8vo.
14. Sculptura ; or the History and Art of Chalcography
and Engravmg in Copper and Mezzo-tinto. Lond. 1662, 8vo.
15. Sylva; or a Discourse of Forest-Trees. Lond. 1664,
fol. ; 2nd edition 1670 ; 8rd in 1679 ; 4th in 1706, also in
folio. — Pomona is an Appendix; 8rd edition, 1679; 4th,
^ Reprinted in 1772^ in quarto, with an additional Preftoe.
882 APPENDIX VII
1706; 5th, 1729. — CVThis learned work has since been
several times republished by Dr. A. Hunter, an eminent
physician in York, who has rendered it still more valuable by
adding to it the observations of later writers.
16. Dedicatory Epistles, etc, to Parallel of Ancient and
Modem Architecture. London, 1664, folio ; 4th edit. 1783,
fol. ; with the Elements of Architecture by Sir Hen. Wotton.
17. Ditto to ^Mvfmrjptjov rrjs 'AvofjJas ; another part of
the Mystery of Jesuitism. Lond. 1664, 8vo. Two parts.
18. Kalendarium Hortense, Lond. 1664, 8vo. — ^The 2nd
and Srd edit, was in folio, bound with the Sylva and Pomona ;
also reprinted in octavo in 1699.
19. Public Employment and active life preferred to
Solitude, in reply to Su: Greo. Mackenzie. Lond. 1667, 8vo.
20. An Idea of the Perfection of Painting, translated from
the French of Roland Freart Lond. 1668, 8vo.
21. History of the Three late famous Impostors. Lond.
1669, 8vo.
22. Navigation and Commerce, their Original and Progress.
Lond. 1674, 8vo.
23. Terra; a Philosophical Discourse of Earth. Lond.
1676, 8vo.
24. Mundus MuUebris. Lond. 1690, 4to.
25. Monsieur de la Quintinye^s Complete Gardener, and
Treatise of Orange-Trees, translated from the French. Lond.
1693, fol.
26. Advertisement to the Translation of the Compleat
Graidener, by M. de la Quintinye, 1693.
27. Ditto to M. de la Quintinye^s Directions oonoeming
Melons.
28. Ditto to M. de la Quintinye^s Directions concerning
Orange-Trees.
29. Numismata : a Discourse on Medals. Lond. 1697, fol.
30. Acetaria : a Discourse on Salads. Lond. 1699, 8vo.
31. An Account of Architects and Architecture — a tract.
32. Letter to Viscount Brouncker, concerning a new
Engine for Ploughing, etc. 1670.
33. Dedication to Renatus Rapinus of Gardens, 1673.
34. Letter to Mr. Aubrey, concerning Surrey Antiquities,
1676.
35. Abstract of a Letter to the Royal Society concerning
the damage done to his Gardens in the prececiing Winter,
1684.
36. The Diary and Letters. 1818, 1819, 1827.
APPENDIX VII 888
37. Miscellaneous Writings, collected and edited by Mr.
Upcott [18261.
38. life of Mrs. Godolphin. 1847.
Evelyn had likeyrise etched [see ante^jp. 369 n.], when he
came to Paris from Italy, five several Prospects of Places
which he had drawn on the spot between Rome and Naples,
to which he prefixed also a frontispiece, intituled,
^^Locorum aliquot insignium et celeberrimorum inter
Romam et Neapolm jacentium, im-oSei^is et exemplaria.
^^ Domino Dom. Thomse Hen^eaw Anglo, omnium
eximiarum et prseclarissimarum Artium Cultori ac propugna-
tori maximo, et crwo^fKv^ avn^ (non propter Operis pretium,
sed ut singulare Amoris sui Testimonium exhibeat) primas
has a^Kifjuurias Aqua forti excusas et insculptas, Jo. Evelynus
Delineator D. D. C. Q." R. Hoanre excud}
L Tres Tabemse sive Appii Forum, celebre illud, in sacris
Litteris. Act 28.
II. Terracini, olim Anxuris, Promontorium.
III. Prospectus versus Neapolin, a Monte Vesuvio.
IV. Montis Vesuvii Fauces: et Vorago, sive Barathrum
internum.
V. Montis Vesuvii juxta Neapolin externa Facies.
He etched also a View of his own Seat at Wotton, then in
the possession of his brother, Greorge Evelyn {antCy voL iL
p. 66); and Putney ad Ripam Tamesis — corrected on one
impression, by himself, to Battersea (see vol. ii. p. 18).
^ [According to Walpole's OtUahgue qf Engraven (DaUaway's ed.^
1828^ pp. 174-77)^ this only means tliat the plates^ executed at Paris in
1649^ were '^ taken off" hy R. Hoare (see €mte, vol. iL p. 14). There
are other etchings at the British Museum ; and from a letter to Pep3r8^
dated 20th January, 1668, it seems that Evelyn also made a ^^ Prospect
of Med way, while the Hollander rode master in it," from the hill above
Gillingham. The original sketch — says Mynors Bright — is in the
Bodleian.]
mm
m^
»^p»^"i
GENERAL INDEX
A. Becket, St. Thomas, relic oU I 202,
246
Abbeville, notice o^ L 65
Abbot, Dr. George, Archbishop of
Canterbury, his hospital at Guildford,
ii 68 and n.
Abbot, Mr., a scrivener, iii. 89 ; con-
demned as a loyalist, ib.
Abdy, Mr., L 818
AbeU, John, his voice, ill. 79 and n.
AbingtoD, Montague Bertie, Earl of.
Lieutenant of the Tower, displaced,
iiL 871
Ab's Court. See Apps Court
Academies, at Richelieu, i. 115 ; Paris,
102-8 and n., il 21, 24 ; Rome, L 246 ;
de la Crusca, 275 ; curriculum at, 108
n. ; fantastic titles of Italian, 246 n. ;
M. Foubert's, in London, iiL 72 tk, 87
Aceiaria (1699), by Evelyn, iii. 844
and n., 876 and »., 878, 882
Acheron, and Lake Acherusia, L 286
Acqua Paula, fountain ot, i- 216
Acquapendente, Fabricius de, i. 151 and
n. ; town of, ib.
Act at Oxford (1654), ii. 75-6 ; (1664),
216 ; (1669), 297-800
Act of Association (1696), iii 828, 826
Acts, of the Apostles, MS. of, i. 209 ; of
the Council of Basle, ii. 77
Adams, a servant of Evelyn, ii. 854
Addiscombe, Croydon, iiL 802, 820, 847,
861, 365 and n.
Addison, Joseph, his Remarks on Italy,
and letters, cited, L 96 n., 106 n,, 109
n., 188 n., 186 n,, 188 n., 147 n.,
148 n., 230 »., 281 n.
Addison, J^fe qf Joseph (Lucy Aikin),
cited, L 88 n.
Addresses to the King, iiL 228, 224, 888 ;
origin of, 888
Admiralty, Commissioners of, abolished,
iii. 126, 804 ; incompetency of, 276
Adometer, Colonel Blount's, iL 122 and m.
VOL. Ill
Adrian IV., Pope, tomb of, L 202
Adriatic, Gulf of the, notice of, L 286 ;
espousal of, by Doge of Venice, 287,
802, iL 198
Adventures of Five Howrs, a play (1668),
U. 199, 200
^fflfptiaeiis, Obeliscus, by Father Elir-
cher, ii. 110
iEsculapius, Temple of, Rome, L 242
Agates, etc., curious, L 67, 75, 182,
811, ii. 99, 100, 102, iiL 55
Agesandrus, sculptor, i. 211
Aghrim, battie of (1691), iiL 288 and n.
Agresti, Livio, painting by, L 207 n.
Agrippina, JuUa, mother of Kero, her
sepulchre, i. 287
Ague, cure for the, iiL 79 and n.
Aiguillon, Duchess d*, L S2n.
Aikin, Lucy, L^e aff Josqsh Addison,
cited, L 88 n.
Aileiimry, Memoirs qf Thomas, Karl qf,
cited, iii. 188 n., 140 n., 171 n.
Air, perftune of the Italian, i. 129 and
n. ; experiment on, iL 185
Airy's Charles IL, 1901, cited. Introduc-
tion, xUx, UL 98 n., 112 n.
Aitzema, Lieuwe van, his book on the
Dutch War, Introduction, Ii
Aix in Provence, account of, L 128
Albano, tombs of the Horatii and Curiatii
at, L 240
Albemarle, (George Monck, Duke of,
various references to, iL 202, 206, 218,
222, 225, 229, 280, 288, 284, 286,
287, 240, 248, 244, 245, 246, 278,
847, 404-10, iU. 69, 88; stays in
London during the plague (1665), il.
288 ; appointed General at sea, etc.,
287 ; his victory over the Dutch fleet,
244
Albemarle, Christopher, 2nd Duke of,
iiL 110 ; share of a Spanish galleon,
222 and n. ; trial respecting his estate,
806 and n., 828, 850, 851 and n,, 858
885 2 C
886
GENERAL INDEX
Albemarle, Dacheae of, ii. 861, iii. 110 ;
(1694), 806 «.
Albemarle, Arnold Joost Van Keppel,
1ft Earl of, iii 889 and n,
Albemarle House and baildings, notice
of; iii. 100 n.
Albert Bremitanot boat of; L 806
Alberti, Ghembino, paintings by, i. 208
and n.
Albins, Thomaa, IL 86 n.
Albury Park, Surrey, seat of the
Howards, L 60 and n., ii. 102, 188 ;
the grounds improved by Evelyn, 281
and n., iiL 225 ; bought by Mr.
SoUcitor Finch (1687), 226
Alchemist, a pretended one at Paris
(1650), ii 82, 86 ; stories of an, 48, 49
Alcoran, MS. of; at Oxford, ii 78
Alcttinus, the martyr, ii 298 n,
Aldermaston, ii 78
Aldobrandini, Cardinal Pietro, garden
and house o^ i 198, 262
Aldrich, Dr., iii 208
Aldrovandus, museum, etc., of; i 281 n.
Aldus, books printed by, iii. 105
Alessandro, Signor, musician, i 201, ii 21
Alexander III., Pope, painting respecting;
i 206 and n. ; alluded to, 291
Alexander VII., Pope, Fabio Chigi, his
intrigues with the Queen of Sweden,
iii 57 and n,
Alexander VIII., Pope Peter Ottoboni,
iii 268 and n.
Algardi, Alessandro, architect, i 267
and n.
Allegri, Antonio da Ck>rreggio, paintings
by. See Correggio
Allen, Captain Sir Thomas, ii 226 and
n,, 228 and n., 826
Allestree, Dr. Richard, Dean of West-
minster, u. 157 and n., 170, 800, 801,
iii 296 fk ; sermons of, ii 157, 878,
iii 41
Alleyn, Edward, his college at Dulwich,
ii. 884
Allibone, Sir Richard, Justice of the
King's Bench, a Papist, iii. 284 and n.
AUington, William, Lord, ii 809 and n, ;
his house at Horseheath, 810 and n.,
824
Allington, Rev. John, preaches against
regicides, ii 98
Allix, Dr. Peter, iii 190 and n., 207
All Souls, church at Lewes, i. 7
All Souls* College, Oxford, ii 77 ; paint-
ing in the chapel of; 216
Alps, journey over the (1646), i 884-40
Alstedius, John Henry, referred to, ii 87,
218 and n., iii 809
Alston, Sir Edward, PresideBt of the
College of Phystdans (1664), ii 21S
and n.
Althorp, Northamptonshire, seat of
Lord Sunderland, ii 382 and n. , iiL
18, 286, 287 ; earthquake at, 281 ;
William IIL visits, 821
Amazons in Persia, iii 58
Ambassadors, on the contention between
the French and Spanish (1661), ii 178 ;
narrative by Evelyn vindicating the
King and his servants, 174 ; receptions
and entries of, Russian, ii 197, 199,
200, 280, iii 74 ; French, a 289 ;
Swedish, 286 ; Venetian, 290, iii 19S-
194, 825; Danish, ii 802; Portugal, iiL
29 ; Morocco^ 75 ; by Queen Catharine
after death of Charles IL, 148. See
Embassies
Amber, spider, etc, enclosed in, IiL 15^
82 ; cabinet of, 808
Ambleteuse, Brittany, iii. 248 n.
Amboise, village and castle, noticed, L
109 and «.
Amboise, Cardinal Geoige d', birthplace^
i 109 and n. ; his tomb, 122
Amboise, Chapel d\ at Rouen, i. 98
and n.
Ambrosian library at Milan, i 828
Ammanati, Vinoenzo, architecture of, L
250
Amonoourt, Paul Barrillon d', French
Ambassador (1685), iii 194 and n.
Awaure de Voyage (Clough), cited, i
167 n.
Amphitheatre at Vienne, i 121 ; at
Pirigueux, 126 ; of Vespasian, 175 ;
at Verona, 821
Ampoule, Holy, at Abbey of Marmoutiers,
i 112 and n.
Amsterdam, account of (1641), i 84-9 ;
hospital, 86 n. ; charges sgainst
Deputies of, iii 123, 124
Anabaptists, iii 228, 224 and n. ; one.
Lord Mayor of London, 226 ; their
objection to oaths, ii 125 ; increase of;
t&. ; join Duke of Monmouth, iii 168
Anastasius, St., burial-place, i 255
Anatomy, school o^ at Leyden, i 42
and n, ; at Padua, 806, 815 and n. ;
at Oxford, ii. 78
Anchor, method of casting in Acte
xxvii 29 illustrated, iii 127
Anchorite of Mount Calvary near Paris,
iil8
Anderson, Sir Richard, iii 59 and n., 96
Andoyne, Abbot of, i 57
Andreas, John, i 280 and n.
Andrew, St., head and stetne of, i 184
GENERAL INDEX
887
Andrews, Dr. lAimcelot, Bishop of
Winchester, ii 96, iiL 29, 105
Angel gold, touch money, ii. 148 and n. ;
ductility of, iii 111
Angelico, an apothecary at Vicenza,L 820
Angelia, Paulus de, i. 171 n.
Angeloui, Signer, his medals, etc., i. 167>
240
Angera, L 384
Angle, M. de 1*, Minister of Charenton,
iiL 98
Anglesea, Arthur Annesley, Earl of,
Viscount Valentia, iL 162, 290
Animals,*an exhibition of representations
of wild, ii. 366 and n. See Menageries
Animals, Reason in BnUe, by Bvelyn,
iiL 876 and n.
Anio, cascade of the, L 265
Anjou, Gaston Jean-Baptiste, Duke o^
performs in an opera (1651), iL 85;
his embassy to Charles II., IL 151
Anna, St., relic of, L 212
Anne, of Denmark, Princess, afterwards
Queen, UL 106, 157, 161, 198, 216,
217 ; her marriage, 107 ; right of
succession to the Crown, 251, 255,
267 ; refuses to dismiss Lady Marl*
borough, 293 ; lives at Syon House,
293 and n. ; coolness with Queen Mary,
294 ; William III. reconciled to, 814
and 91. ; entertained when Queen at
Oxford, etc., 861 ; entertains King
Charles III. of Spain, 867 ; goes in
procession to St. Paul's Cathedral
(1704), 868
Anne of Austria, death of (1666), iL
240 and n.
Annunciata, churches of^ L 184 and n.,
144, 278
Antenor, founder of Padua, inscriptions
to,L 300
Anthony, St., tomb of, L 800
Antibes, L 127
Antichrist, final destruction of, iii. 268
Antiquities, Dictionary qf (Smith's),
cited, L 170 n.
Antonine's Itinerary^ iL 185
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of
Rome, his baths, L 244 ; column of,
249 ; his palace, ib.
Antonio, Marc, singer, i. 267 ; an
enameller, etc., at Paris, IL 48
Antwerp, account of (1641), L 49-58 ;
cathedra], the view from tlie tower, 50
and n, ; Plantin's *' shop," 52 and it. ;
its trees, 52 and n.
Anxur, L 219, UL 888
Apennines, passage over the (1645),
L279
Apiaries, transparent, notice of^ iL 79
Apollo (or Devil) Tavern, near Temple
Bar, iiL 270 and n,
Apollo, Temples of, L 285, 286
ApoUodoms, sculpture by, L 254
ApoUonius, sculptor, L 155
Apology for the Royal Party (1659), by
Evelyn, iL 140 and «., iiL 875, 881
Aponius, Ptoter, bust of, at Pfedua, i. 806
Appian Way, its extent, etc., L 21 7»
218 and It., 220
Appii Forum, etched by Evelyn, iiL
888
Apps, or Ab's, Court, near Walton-on-
Thames, iL 865 and it.
Apsley, Captain, L 80
Aqua Claudia, L 256
Aqua Triun^thalis, eto., engraved by
John Tatham (1662), iL 192 n.
Aquinas, St. Thomas, burial-place, L 218
and n. ; alluded to, 224
Ara Coeli, church of, at Rome, L 160,
208
Arabian horses, account of some, iiL 132,
183
Araisso, coral fishing at, L 127
Arch, of Titus, L 174 ; of Constantine, 88,
176 ; triumphal arches in London, ii.
163
ArehoBologiOj cited, L 26 n., 11. 891 n.,
UL 115 n.
Architecto in Rome (1645), L 267
Architects and Architecture, a tract by
Evelyn, tii. 382
Architecture, JSlements qf, by Sir Henry
Wotton, iU. 382
Architecture, Parallel between Ancient
and Modem (1664), by Evelyn, Intro-
duction, xlv, iL 214 and ft., 217, 219,
ilL 375, 882
Arconati, Cavallero Qaleazzo, his gift to
the Ambrosian library, L 828
Arena at Verona, i. 321
Aretino, Pietro^ tomb ot L 804 and n.
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, Marquis of,
iL 112, 118 ; executed, 185 ; notice
oi;il2n.
Argyll, Archibald, ninth Earl, son of the
preceding, iL 185 and ft. ; his rebellion,
iiL 163 and n. ; executed, 166
Arioeto, tomb of^ i. 285 and n,
Arlington, Sir Henry Bennet, Earl of^
Secretary of State, dinners with, iL 249,
295, 296, 807, 814, 816, 322, 828,
855, 885, 886, 893, 894, iiL 87, 109 ;
references to, U. 174 and ft., 175, 176,
184, 209, 218, 226, 227, 240, 266,
275, 278, 294, 810, 819, 824, 826,
849, 859, 361*2, 886, 891, ilL 14, 86,
888
GENERAL INDEX
114, 116, 130 ; siupected of RoDun
Ofttholicism, iL 841 ; Lord Chamber*
lain, 380, UL 147 ; Molberry Garden
granted to, U. 71 n. ; his daughter
married when five years old, 850 and
fk, iii 8, 88 ; Gtoring House bnmed,
871 ; hispictares, 896 and n. ; rebuilt
Euston church and parsonage, ilL 8, 6,
7 ; bis seat at Euston, 330, 381, 882,
iii. 2, 6, 6 ; life and character, ii. 868,
iiL 7, 8 ; wounded in the face, 8 and
n. ; died a Roman Catholic, 181 and n.
Arlington, Countess of, ii. 857, iii. 7 and
n., 86, 88. 98. 112, 198, 212
Arlington House, in London, iiL 50
Arminians, Synod against at Dort (1618-
1619), i. 27 and n.
Armorer, Sir James and Sir Nicholas, ii.
276 and n.
Armoury at Gtenoa, i. 138 and n, ; at
Florence, 143 and n., 274 ; the Pope's,
in the Vatican, 210 ; at Venice, 294
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, iiL 101 and n. ;
his execution, etc 128 and n., 824
Army, Rebel army (1648), iL 4 ; expels
the Parliament, 140 ; standing army
limited to 7000 men, iiL 887
Amo, notice of the River, L 139
Arnold, Michael, a brewer, against the
seven bishops (1688), iii. 234
Arona, L 834
Arpino, Cavaliero Giuseppe d', paintings
by, L 159, 165, 263 ; mosaics by, 182,
187 and n.
Arran, James Hamilton, Earl ot, iiL
88 and n., 176 ; his marriage, 227,
288
Arran, Lady Ann Spencer, Countess of,
iiL 227, 237, 238
Arsenal at Florence, i. 277 ; at Venice,
801 ; at Geneva, 350
Artemidoms, sculptor, i. 211
Arthur, King, Round Table at Win-
chester, L 61
Arundel of Wardour, Lord, iL 142, 210,
822, 328, iiL 150 ; released from the
Tower, UL 136. 164 ; (1687) Privy
Seal, iiL 216
Arundel and Surrey, Tliomas Howard,
Earl of, Earl Marshal, references to, i.
22 and ik, 45 and n., 56 and n., 58,
60, 156-244, 807 and n., 323, 828,
iiL 19 ; portrait, L 807. UL 303 ; his
last sickness, etc.. L 817 and n,
Arundel and Surrey, Henry Frederick
Howard, Earl of, and Eliz. Stuart, his
countess (1649), iL 12, 89
Arundel and Surrey, Henry Howard,
Lord, married to Lady Mary Mordaunt
(1677), UL 2 ; allnded to (1679), 26
and n., 65 and %.
Arundel and Surrey, Earl ot. Manor of
Worksop belonging to, iL 89
Amndel and Surrey, Countess of. iL 6
and n. See also Howard and Norfolk
Arundel House, various references to, L
28 and fk, U. 119, 140, 177, 179, 182,
189, 202, 267, 281, 285, 335, 366,
390
Arundel Street and Stairs, notices o^ L
59 andn.
Amndelian Library, procured for the
Royal Society by Evelyn, iL 267 and
«., 295, UL 19
Amndelian Marbles, procured by Evelyn
for the University of Oxford, L 807 fk,
iL 281 ; remainder bought by Sir
William Fermor, Ui. 283 and n.
Ascension Day, ceremony on, at Venice,
L 287 ; sports of Ascension Week, 295
Ascham, Roger, portrait, iL 293 n.
Ashbumham, Mr. John, iL 205, 279
and n.
Ashley. Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper,
Lord (1671-2), U. 292 and n., 324, 340
Ashmole, Elias, the antiquary, u. 105
and n., 133. in. 75 n., 169; his
library, museum, portrait, and collec-
tion of coins, iL 124 and n., ilL 15
and n. ; his history of the Order of the
Garter, UL 15 and n.
Ashtead, Surrey, seat of Sir Robert
Howard at, UL 126 and ».
Ashton, John, executed (1691), UL 283
Ashurst, Sir Henry, UL 292 n., 326
Ashurst, Sir WUliam, a subscriber to
Greenwich Hospital, UL 818 and n,.
329 tk. 330 n.
Ash- Wednesday, observance of^ neglected,
U. 70
Assassination Plot (1696), iU. 322 and
ft., 324
Association, Act of (1696), UL 828, 326
AthmoB Oaeonienses (Wood's), cited, i
154 n.
Atkins, Sir Jonathan, u. 848 and m, 866
Atkins, Sir Robert, Puisne Justice of the
Common Pleas, iU. 34 n., 226 it.
Atterbnry, Dr. Francis, Bishop of
Rochester, iU. 357
Attorneys, number of, reduced, UL 347
Atwood, Mr. WilUam, iU. 226 n.
Aubigny, Lord. Almoner to the Queen,
iL 46 and n., 186 n., 210 ; hia
character, 182
Aubrey, John, his HiMory qf Surrey
referred to, iL 276 n. ; letter to, iii.
882
GENERAL INDEX
889
Audlnet, Philip, engraving of Sir B.
Browne, L 69
Audley-End, Essex, Palace of the Earl of
Suffolk, iL 97 and n., 812, iii. 9,
llln.
Anger, Sir Anthony, ii. 277
Augustus Octavius Ceesar, Emperor of
Rome, his aqnednct, i. 216 ; Temple
of, at Puteoli, 288 ; obelisk of; 179
Aungier, Lord, IL 98 and n., iii. 14
Aurelius, Marcus, equestrian statue of, i.
168
Aurum Potabile, prepared by M. Bou|)el,
iL67
Austen, Colonel, a subscriber to Green-
wich Hospital, iii. 880 n.
Austiue, Mr., Secretary of Boyal Society,
iii 76
Avernus, Lake, Naples, i. 286
Aversa, L 222
Aviaries, notices of various, i. 88, 66, 90,
182 and n., 140, 177, 266, 261, 266,
iL71
Avignon, account of, L 122
Axtoll, Daniel, regicide, executed, ii. 168
Aylesbury, Bobert Bmoe, Earl of, iii. 88,
249
Ai/lmer*8 Fidd (Tennyson), quoted, In-
troduction, xx
Ayscue, Sir George, captured by the
Dutch, ii. 246
Babel, Tower of, ii. 867
Backhouse, Sir William, iii. 185 n.
Bacon, Dr., at Rome, i. 164
Bacon, Sir Edward, iii. 4
Bacon, Sir Francis, Essay Qf Oardens
cited, L 182 and n.
Bacon, Roger, portrait, U. 298
Bactdis, De, treatise by Evelyn, iiL 876
Boddeley, Mr. St. Clair, Hare's Walks in
Rome by, cited, i. 168 n., 174 n.,
242 9k, 248 n.
Baden, Prince Lewis of, in London,
iiL 806
Baglioni, Cavaliere, paintings by, i. 167,
246
Bagni di Tritoli, L 286
Bagnios, at Venice, 1. 286
Bagshot, Surrey, iiL 176 and n., 186
and n.
Bahamas, treasure from, iiL 222 and n.
Baiie, i. 229, 286
Baily, Dr., Vioe-Chancellor of Oxford
University, i. 14
Baize and Says, manufacture of, at
Colchester, iL 118 and n.
Baker, Captain, attempts the North-
west Passage, ii. 893
Baker, Mr., his house in Epping Forest,
iL 808 and n., UL 98
Baker, Sir Richard, his Ch/ronide referred
to, iL 404
Balance of Power^ Suays upon the, by
Dr. C. Davenant, cited, iii. 856 and n.
Baldarins, Andrea, L 804
Baldassare. See Peruzzi
Ball, Sir Peter, ii. 182
Ballard, George, his Memoirt qf Learned
Ladies referred to, IL 298 n.
Balle, Dr. Peter, his gift to the Royal
Society, iL 207 and n,
BaUiol CoUege, 1899, Davis's, cited, L
15 n., 16 n.
Balliol College, Oxford, Evelyn a Fellow
Commoner of, L 14, iL 76 ; his gift of
books to, L 16, 16 n. ; his grandson
enters, iiL 888
Ball's Park, Hertfordshire, i. 62 n.
Banbury, Nicholas KnoUys, Earl of
(1645), robbed in Italy, L 217 and n.
Bancroft, Dr. John, Bishop of Oxford,
i. 18 and n,
Bancroft, Dr. Richard, Archbishop of
Canterbury, his library, iL 96
Bandinelli, Baocio, productions of, L
141, 144, 145, 274
Banditti in Italy, i. 217, 824 ; in France,
i. 104, iL 88, 84
Bank, for the poor in Padua, i. 806 ; of
England, established (1694), iii. 809,
311 and n., 330
Banks, Sir John, an opulent merchant,
IL 393
Banqueting-house, touching for the evil
at the, iL 148 ; creation of Peers
there, 161 ; lottery held there, 211 ;
auction of pictures at, iiL 808 ; re-
ception of Ambassadors in, 74, 76
Banstead, Surrey, Roman medals found
near, iL 135 and n.
Bantam, or East India Ambassadors,
iii. 84 and n,
Bantry Bay, battle in (1689), iiL 266
and n.
Baptism, of a Turk and a Jew, L 258 ;
private, censured, iiL 261
Baptist, Signor John, iiL 129, 137
Baptistery, of San Giovanni, L 187 ; of
St. John Baptist, 187
Baraterius, Nicholas, architect, L 294
and n.
Barbadoes, iL 171, 189, 326, 839, 844,
866 ; consphracy of negroes at (1698),
iiL 300
Barhadoee, History of the Island </,
Ligon (1678), U. 290 and n.
Barbarossa, Emperor Frederick, L 291
890
GENERAL INDEX
Barberini, Cardinal Francesco, his
courtesy to the English, L 186 ;
account of, 186 n. ; noticed, 192 and
n., 247, 261
Barberini, Palazzo, Rome, i. 162
Barberino, Cardinal Antonio, L 172
Barclay, John, his locm ArUmarum
(1614), iL 63 and ». ; portrait,
293 n.
Bai^grave, Br. John, iL 846 and n.
Barill, Mr., ii. 4
Bariti^ Signer, of Florence, i 189
Barlow, Francis, painter, notices of,
ii. 109andn.,iiL 70
Barlow, Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln,
ii. 77 and n., 216, 282, 288, 800,
880 and n.
Barlow, Mrs., mother of Duke of Mon-
mouth, account of, ii 16 and n., iii.
171
Bameveldt, J. van Olden, L 82 and n.
Barnstaple, earthquake at (1690), iiL
281
Baron, Bernard, engraving fh>m Titian
by, ii. 132
Baronius, Cardinal Caesar, his sepulchre,
i. 165 and it. ; references to, 183 n.,
168 n.
Barrett's Trinity House (1895), cited,
IiL 173 n.
Barrillon, Mons., French Ambassador
(1685). See Amoncourt, d'
Barrow, Dr. Isaac, Bishop of Chester,
sermon by, iL 378 and n.
Bartholomeo^ Signor, musician, iiL 40,
79, 150
Bartholomew Fair (1648), ii. 6
Bartholomew, St., burial-place, L 242
and n. ; statue of, 325 and n.
Bartoletas, Fabritius, ii. 284 n,
Bartolomeo. See Porta
Barton, Mr. John, his death, iL 66
and n.
Basilisco, or great gun, at Ghent and
Milan, L 57 and n.
Basire, Dr. Isaac, ii. 177 and n., 196
Basle, Council of, original Acts of the,
iL 77 ; books printed at, iiL 19
Bassano. See Ponte
Bassano, Dominico, and his daughter,
musicians, L 313
Bassano, Veronese, paintings by, 199
Bassompierre, Fran9ois, Baron de, his
palace, L 69 and n,
Bastides, or country-houses of Provence,
L 124 and n.
Bastille, at Paris, i. 78 and n.
Baiavia lUiutrata (Peter Schryver or
Scriverius, 1609), L 81 n.
Batavia, New, strange earthquake at,
iiL 342
Bath, description of, ii. 74 and n, ;
declares for Prince of Orange, iiL 246
Bath, John Grenville, Earl of, account
of, ii. 162 n. ; references to, 392,
iiL 88, 97, 189, 147, 163, 226 ; trial
with, concerning an estate left by the
Duke of Albemarle, 306 and m., 328,
358 ; his death, 858 ; suicide of his
son, ib,
Bath, Knights of the, creation of (1661),
iL 161 ; Evelyn declines the honour,
i6.
Baths, medicinal, L 118 ; Diocletian's at
Rome, 168 and n., 169
Bathurst, Mr., of Trinity College, L
14
Bathurst, Mr., a merchant, ii. 879
Bathorst, Dr. Ralph, Dean of WeUs,
iL 242 and n., 267, 281, 380; his
death, iiL 367; Warton's L^e </,
cited, L 154 n.
Battersea, etching by Evelyn, iii. 388
Bauli, now Bacolo, notice of, L 237 and «.
Bayley, Dr., Vice-Chancellor of Oxford
(1636), L 353
Baynards, at Ewhnrst, Surrey, iL 4 ;
described, 121 and n.
Baynton, Sir Edward, his house at Spve
Park, ii. 81
Beach, Sir R., UL 180
Beaconsfield, Lord, reference to Evelyn
in Lothair cited. Introduction^ Ixvi
Beale, Dr. John, letters of Evelyn to, on
his "Acetaria" and Hortulan collec-
tions, etc., iii. 376 and n,, Introduc-
tion, Izviii n.
Bear-garden, Southwark, sports at the
(1670), u. 307 and n.
Beauce (Belsia), county of, L 106
Beauchamp, Lady, iL 105
Beaufort, Henry Somerset, first Duke of,
his house at Chelsea, iii. 27 and n.,
108 ; death of; 346 and n. ; his family,
iu. 93
Beaufort House, Chelsea, iL 184 and ».,
iii. 27 n.
Beauvais, town of, L 65
Becher, Mr., ii. 288
Beck's Draper*$ Dictionary, cited, ii.
113 n.
Becket, St. Thomas k, iii. 375 ; relic of,
L202
Beckford, Lady, iii. 44. 66
Beddington House, seat of the Carews,
L 9 and n., iL 135 and n., iiL 352
Bede, Venerable, MS. of, in the Bodlei&n
Library, iL 77 ; portrait, ii. 293 n.
GENERAL INDEX
891
Bedford, Wflliain Riusell, Earl of, iL
289, iiL 27, 186
Bedford Hoqm, BloonuBbury, ii. 228
and n.
Bedlam Hospital, noticed, iL 120, ill.
18, 14 and n.
Bedloe, William, a witness against Sir
George Wakeman, iii. 88 and n.
Bedsteads, splendid ones noticed, i 182,
166, 311, IL 188, iii. 215 ; beds in
cupboards, L 887 and n,
Beechers family, ii. 868
Beef, powdered, i 809 and n.
Beggars, absence of, at Ipswich, iiL 4
Belasyse, John, Lorid, ii. 201 and tk, 217,
289, iiL 26 n., 214
Belasyse, Thomas, Lord Fauconbeig, iiL
11 and n.
Belgium, Handbook for, Murray's, cited,
L 50n.
Belin, Mr., iL 214
Bell and Sons, Messrs. Ckorge, Bohn's
edition of the Diary, Pr^aee, z
Bella, Stefano della, engrayer, iL 22
and n,
Bellarmin, Cardinal Robert, his sepulchre,
i. 162 and n.
Bellay, Joachim du, his Regrets (1565),
cited, L 109 n.
Bellcar, pictures possessed by, iL 9
Belle Cour at Lyons, L 120
Bellino, GioyannL master of Titian, his
portrait, ii. 155
Bells, notices of, L 89, 40, 98, ii. 92
Belluccio, Dr., of Pisa, L 270
Belsia (Beauce), county of, i. 106
Belsize House, Hampstead, notice of, iL
892 and n.
Belvedere Gardens, Rome, L 168
Belvoir Castle, iL 88
Bembo, Cardinal Pietro, L 258
Benbow, John, Admiral, iii. 827 and n. ,
834 n., 836 n. ; his gallantry and
death, 868 and n.
Benedict VII., Pope, L 255
Benetti, an artist in pietra commesaa,
L 148, 277
Benevento, statue by, L 144
Benlowes, Edward, references to, and
notice of, iL 94 and n.
Bennet, Sir Henry. See Arlington, Earl
of
Bennet, Isabella, her marriage to the
Duke of Grafton, ii. 850 and n.
Bennet, Sir John, father of above, iiL
7n.
Bennet, Mrs., sister to Lord Arlington,
ii. 209
Bentiyoglio, Cardinal Guido^ his gardens,
etc., L 254 and n. ; Castle Bentiyoglio,
284
Bentley, Dr. Richard, references to, iiL
292 n., 298 and n., 807, 814 ; Keeper
of Library at St James's, 888 and n. ;
delivers the Boyle Lectures, 298 ti., 294,
299, 805 and n. ; Jebb's Bentley, cited,
805 ».
Bergamo, Damiano di, inlaying by, L 280
Bergen-op-Zoom, notice of, L 48 ; attack
on Dutch fleet at, ii. 368
Berkeley, George, first Earl of, various
references to, ii. 184 and n., 188, 189,
144, 198, 208, 860, 898, Ui. 84;
ambassador to France for the Treaty
of Nimeguen, iL 885, 890 ; seized with
apoplexy, 886 ; sets out for France,
887 ; his seat at Twickenham Park,
889 and n. ; commits his afiain to
Evelyn, 886, uL 1
Berkeley of Stratton, John, Lord, his
house in London, ii. 248 and n., 851 ;
references to, 248, 249, iiL 246
Berkeley, Lord, bombards Dieppe and
Havre (1694), iiL 811 and ».
Berkeley, Lady, property of, from
Berkeley Gardens, iiL 128
Berkeley, Sir Charles, iL 174 and n.,
201, 415, 416
Berkeley, Sir Robert, grandson of, iii.
115
Berkeley, Mr. (son of Lord Berkeley), iL
108, 110
Berkeley OasUe, East Indiamao, sunk,
iii. 807
Berkeley House, described, iL 248 n.,
851 ; gardens of, buUt over, ill. 127,
128 ; residence of Princess Anne (1696),
298 n., 814
Berkenshaw, Mr., musician, IL 212 and n.
Berkshire, Charles Howard, Earl of, ii.
296
Berkshire, or Cleveland, House, iL 266
andn.
Bemi, Marquis de, iL 280 and n.
Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo, sculptor and
architect, works of, L 166, 178, 188
and n^ 184, 186, 245, 267, 274, iL
19 ; his varied talents, L 188
Bertie, Mr., iL 244
Berwick, James Fitz-James, Duke of,
engaged in the conspiracy (1696), iiL
822
Betch worth Castle, iL 98 and n., 184
Beveretta, Switzerland. See Bouveret
Beveridge, Dr. William, anecdote of; iii.
285
Beverley, notice of the town o^ ii, 91
Beverweert, Isabella von, iii. 7 ».
892
GENERAL INDEX
Bianchi, a singer in Roma, I 267
Bibla, English MS. in the Bodleian
Library, Oxford, 11. 77 ; versions of
the, 103, iii 816
BMia Polyglotta, by Bishop Walton, IL
64 and n.
Bickers and Bush, Messrs., pnbllsh the
Diary in 1879, Preface, viii and n.
Bickerstaff, Sir Charles, purchases Pilton,
iU. 127
Bickerton, Mrs. Jane, afterwards Duchess
of Norfolk, ii. 383 and »., iiL 12 and
«., 16 n.
Biddnlph, Sir Tbeophilus, iL 199 and n.
Billiards, Portuguese manner of playing,
iii. 42
Bills, Parliamentary, tacked to Money
Bill, contested, iiL 349
BiUa qf Mortality, Obaervationa upon
(1661), iL 878
Bindley, James, his literary assistance,
Pr^CLce, ziii
Binyon, Mr. Laurence, of British
Museum, cited, iL 896 n.
Biographia Britannica, referred to, ii.
221 fk, 411, iu. 87lfk. 878
Birch, Dr., sermon by, against Papists,
iiL 212
Birds, Royal Collection of, in St. James's
Park, U. 228
Birrell, Mr. A., his Andrew Marvell
(1905), cited, iL 170 n., 805 n., 306 n.
Bishop Stortford. noticed, iL 98
Bishops, six Bishops petition James IL
against his declaration for liberty of
conscience, iii. 282 ; sent to the Tower,
283 ; trial of, 234 ; Bishops called
upon to prepare a form of prayer
against the expected ihyasion (1688),
241 n., 242 ; charged with disloyalty,
244 ; required to declare their ab-
horrence of inyasiott of Prince of
Orange, 245 ; advise James II. to
summon Parliament, 246 ; meeting of
(1688), 249, 250; deprived, 284;
refuse to recognise William III., 259
and n., 286 ; Bishops and convocation
at variance (1701), iiL 857
Black's Guide to Hampshire (1904), cited,
iiL 179 n.
Blackheath, camp at (1678), ii. 858 and
n., 859 ; (1685), iiL 172 ; (1690), 279 ;
fair on (1683), 95 and n, ; firing of
mortars at, 218
Blacksmiths, Ingenious works of, iL 80
and n.
Blackwall, accident to Evelyn at, IL
895
Blackwall, Dr., Boyle Lecturer, iiL 845
BlaektooodCs Magaxime, August 1888,
cited, iL 281 n.
Blaeuw (or Bleaw), William Jaasen, L
39-40 and n.
Blagge, Mrs. Maigaret, iL 297 and n^
850 and n., 373 and n., 874 and n, ;
marriage of, 879, Introduction, Iv-lviiL
See Godolphin
Blagge, Mary, iiL 102 n.
Blandford, Dr. Walter, Bishop of
Worcester, IL 852 and n.
Blathwayt, William, account of, iiL 224
and n.
Blenheim, thanksgiving for the victofy
of, m. 868
Bletchingley, Surrey, house of Henry
VIII. at, iL 108 ; sale of the manor
of, iii. 2
Blois, notice of the town, etc , of, L 107 ;
purity of French language at, 109
and n.
Blood, Colonel, account of, iL 822 and n.
Bloomsbury Square, building of, IL 223 ;
Montague House erected in,JiiL 88, 197
Blount, Colonel, u. 60, 105, 110, 122,
189
Blount, Edward, ii. 198
Blonnt, Sir Henry, iL 139 and n.
Blue Coat School, at Rome, L 215 and n, ;
London, ii. 120 and n,
Bobart, Jacob, Keeper of Physic Garden,
Oxford, ii. 217 and n.
Bodleian Libnury, Oxford, ii. 881 ;
curiosities of the, 77
Bodley, Sir T., portrait, IL 298 n.
Boet, Dr., ii. 82
Boethos of Chalcedon, L 160 n.
Boggi, a sculptor, L 1 84
Bohemia, Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of, L
29 and n. ; her funeral, iL 184 and n.
Bohemians, revolt of (1618), L 6 and ». ;
contributions to distressed (1637), IS
Bohn's edition of the Diary, Pr^ace, x
Bohun, Dr. Ralph, tutor to Evelyn's
son, iL 288 and n., 267, 817 ; living
presented to him, iiL 855 ; Dr.
Bathurst's legacy to, 368 ; sermon
by, 2 ; alluded to, 868 ; letter of
Evelyn to. Introduction, Ixi, Ixii and n.
Bohun, Mr., his house and garden at Lee
in Kent, iiL 87 and n., 86 and n., 109
Bois-de-Boulogne, muster of gens-d'armea
in the, L 108 ; referred to, ii. 22
Bois-de-Vincennes, palace of, L 78 and
n., iL 21
Bois-le-Duc, account of^ L 45 and «.
Boldero, Dr. Edmund, sermon by, ii.
158 and n.
Bologna, account of, L 280 ; Torre
GENERAL INDEX
898
d' Asinelli and charchei, ib. ; Palace of
the Legate, ib, ; Dr. Montalbano, 281 ;
St. Michel in BoscOf 282 ; religious
houses, etc., 283 ; observations on, 284;
Bologna sausages, ib. and n.
Bologna, Baldassa di, painting by, L 169
Bologna, John di, sculptures ot, i. 70
and n., 144, 145
Bolognesi, Qiovanui Francesco Grimaldi,
called II Bolognesi, painting by, L 247
Bolsena, Lake o^ i. 161
Bolton, Dr., sermon by, ii. 198
Bombardment, a cruel species of war&re,
iiu 311, 319
Bombay, iii. 159
Bombs, experiments made with, iii. 218
Bommel, toAvn of, L 81
Bonannus of Pisa, L 270 n.
Bond, Sir Thomas, his house at Peckham,
ii. 392 and n., iiL 72 ; builds Bond
Street, etc, 100 n.
Bonifacio, Father, at Venice, L 316
Bonnefons's French Oardener, Jnirodue-
turn, xxxix
Bons Hommes, Convent of^ near Paris, i.
85 and n,, iL 32
Book of Days, Chambers's, cited, ii. 148n.
Books, various particulars concerning, i.
16, 67, 209 and «., 350, ii 77, 78,
94, 96, 103, 153, 217, iii. 79, 105, 202,
204, 213, 300, 309, 839, 346
Booksellers, at Geneva, L 347
Boord, Mad. de, censures the carving of
Gibbons, 11 320 and n.
Booth, Sir George, created Lord Delamere,
il 162
Booth, Mr., iL 28
Borcht, Van der,Hendrik, a painter of
Brussels, L 23 and n.
Bordeaux, wines of, iii. 104
Boreman, Sir William, Clerk of Green
Cloth, iii. 194
Borghese, Cardinal Scipio, house and
garden of, 1. 198-9, 268
Borghese Villa, i. 176-8
Borromean Islands, L 334 and n,
Borromeo, St. Carlo, church at Antwerp,
i, 50 and n.
Borromeo^ St. Charles, burial-place, L
825 and 7u ; munificence of, 327
Borromeo, Cardinal Frederico, L 327 and
n. ; munificence of, 327, 328
Boscawen, Mr., iii. 173
Boscawen, Anne, his daughter, iii. 831,
358 and n.
Boscawen, Mrs., lit 20
Bodo, Antonio, his Roma SoUerranea
(1682), L 259 and n.
Bosse, Abraham, engraver, ii, 20 and n.
I
Bossuet's Oraisona Funibrea (1874),
cited, iii 190 n,
Botargos, or Bologna sausages, i 284
and n.
Boucharvant, Abbess of, ii. 86
Bouillon, Duke and Duchess of, i 256
and n.
Boulogne, account of^ i. 64
Bourbon TArchambault, town and cattle
of, i 118 ; engraving of, 119
Bourdon, Sebastiau, his portrait of Mrs.
Evelyn, ii 10 and n., 55
Bourges, account of, i 116
Bottveret, Switzerland, i Introduction^
xxix, 343
Bow Church, iii 293, 294, 348
Bowles, Sir John, iii 117
Bowyer, Sir Edward, ii 122, 277 ; his
seat at Camberwell, 122
Box Hill, Surrey, noticed, ii 108
Boyle, Richard, first Earl of Cork, ii 213
Boyle, Hon. Robert, references to, ii. 110
and tk, 139 and n., 188, 216, 889,
iii 248, 277 ; experiments by, ii 151,
159 and n., 185 ; elected President of
the Royal Society, iii. 59 ; Evelyn's
letter to, on a plan for a college, ii.
399 ; on projected publications, iii.
378 ; his death, and Bishop Burnet's
funeral sermon, 290 ; particulan of
him, 290, 291 ; trustees for his charit-
able bequests, 292 and n., 299 and fk
Boyle Lecture, notices of the, iii 292
n., 293 and n., 294, 299, 305 and n.,
314, 321, 326, 345, 869
Boyne, battle of the, iii. 278 and ra.
Braboume, yew tree in churchyard at,
ii 204 9k
Bracciano, Duke di, his house, i 201
Bradshaw, Gkorge, of Balliol College,
Oxford, i 14 and n., Introdtuticn^
XX and n.
Bradshaw, John, regicide, ii 7, 13 and
n., 29 and n., 61, 158
Bragg, Thomas, engraver, iii. 185 n.
Bramante. See Lazzori
Bramhall, Dr. John, Archbishop of
Armagh, notice of^ U. 150 and n., iii
202
Bramston, Francis, Baron of the
Exchequer, i 310 and n., 812, ii 289
and n.
Bramston, Sir John, Chief Justice of
King's Bench, i 318 and n. ; his AtUo-
biography, cited, iii 100, 242 n., 288
n.. Introduction, xxiv
Brandenburgh, Duke o^ his present to
the Royal Society (1682), iii 82 ; to
the Queen (1698), 308
894
GENERAL INDEX
Brandon, Clutrles Gerard, Lord, trial and
pardon of, iii. 192 and ».
Brandon, Charles, Dnke of Suffolk,
painting of, iii. 16
Bnseras (Bnuier), iiL 114 and n.
Bray, Sir Edward, ii. 121 n.
Bray, William, F.S.A^ cited, i. 145 %,,
154 »., 838 n^ ii. 14 «!., 20 n^ 68 n.,
80 n., 87 fu, 259 n., 287 n., 860 n.,
375 n., iii. 24 n., 120 »., 143 fk, 158
n., 800 n., 819 ik, 827 n., JfUrodue-
tian, xziii n., Iii n., Ixvi ; Hittoryqf
Surrey referred to, ii. 266 n., Pr^aet,
yii ; edited the Diary (1818), iVi/cm,
vu
Brayley's Hilary qf Surrey . See Surrey
Breakspear, Nicholas (Pope Adrian IV.),
tomb of, I 202
Breakwater at GJenoa, L 184
Breames, Sir Richard, ii 265
Breda, ship of war, blown up, iiL 281
Brederode, Herr Van, L 45
Brederode, family of, iiL 7
Brenta, fine country on its banks, i. 299
Brentford, battle of; Introduction, xziii
and n,, L 61 and n.
Brereton, Lord, iL 189, 276
Brereton, William, son of Lord Brereton,
iL 189 and n.
Brescia, account of, L 828
Brest, English fleet before (1689), iiL 267 ;
(1694), 811
Bret, Colonel, iiL 78
Breton, Dr. John, sermon by, iL 808
Breton, Rev. Robert^ Vicar of Deptford,
sermons by, ii. 177 and n., 839 ; his
death and Evelyn's regret for him, iL
888, 839
Breton language, its resemblance to
Welsh, ii. 880
Brett, Sir Edward, ii. 286
Bre?all, Mons., ii. 838
Brevint, Dr. Daniel, Dean of Durham, iL
25 and n.
Briat, a giant, bones of, L 117
Brick Close, Deptford, granted to Evelyn,
a 289
Brideoake, Dr. Ralph, Bishop of
Chichester, ii. 878 and n., 889
Bridgeman, Sir Orlando, iL 324 and n.,
858
Bridgeman, Ifr., Clerk of the Council, ii.
893
Bridgeman, Mrs., iiL 120
Bridges, particulars concerning, L 54, 69,
70, 88, 92 and »., 95, 96, 105, 109,
110, 119. 122, 189, 140, 151, 284,
264, 288, 821, 889, 850, 851, ii. 27,
90, iiL 7
Bridges, Mr., ii. 6
Bridgewater, Earl of; his roamage, iiL
863
Bridgman, Lord Keeper, iiL 164
Bridgman, Mr., iiL 340
Briga, town of, L 840
Brigg, Lincolnshire, iL 92
Bright's Dorking, cited, L 807 n., iL
806 ».
Bright, Mynors, cited, iiL 888 n,
Brightman, Thomas, an expounder of the
Revelation, iii. 278 and n.
Bril, Paul, paintings of; L 86
Brill, departure of Prince of Orange
from the (1688), iiL 244
Briloft, Amsterdam, curious mechanisia
at the, L 87, 88 n.
Brisbane, Mr. , Secretary to the Admiralty,
iiL 67, 115
Bristol, U. 74 ; St. Vincent's rock at,
%b. and n. ; diamonds and hot wells.
75 and n. ; declares for Prince of
Orange, iii. 246
Bristol, George Digby, Earl of, iL 176,
187 ; his house and library at
Wimbledon, 184 and n., iiL 12, 13 ;
at Chelsea, iiL 27 and n., 108 ; house
of, in Qneen Street, ii. 328 ; account
of, 176 ?i.
Bristol, Countess of, iiL 107, 238 ; her
house at Chelsea, iiL 27 and ii., 30,
89, 108
Britannia, model for figure of; on coinage^
iiL 15 n.
Britannia, Camden's, iii. 816 and n.
Broad Hinton, Sir John Glanville's seat,
iL80
Brochi, Vincentio, sculptor, L 277
Brodrick, Sir Aleyn, u. 376
Broghill, Richard, Lord, Plays by, ii. 263
and n. See aUo Orrery, Earl of
Bromley, Evelyn robbed near, iL 68 ;
Proclamation of James II. at, iiL 145
Bromley, Mr. John, his house at Horse-
heatii, ii. 810
Brompton Park, near Ejiightsbridge,
rare plants in, iiL 308 and n., 858
Bronze Tables at Lyons, L 120
Bronzini, Agnolo, paintings by, L 142,
276
Brook, seat of Lady Camden, ii. 88
Brooke, Francis Greville, Lord, his
house at Warwick, iL 85
Brooke, Lady, her garden at Hackney,
iL71
Broome-field, Deptford, Kentish loyalists
meet in, iL 5
Brouncker, William, Viscount, first
President of the Royal Society, iL
GENERAL INDEX
895
168, 192, 208, iiL 2, 12 ; aooonnt of,
168 n. ; Evelyn's letter to, conoerning
ploughing^ iii. 882
Broancker, Henry, afterwards Lord,
ii. 824 and n., iiL 56 ; his house at
Sheen, iii. 18 and n., 229
Browne, Sir Adam, of Betchworth, lit
28 and n., 158, 864 n.
Browne, Sir Ambrose, of Betchworth,
iL 98, 184
Browne, Edward, letters of, cited, i. 125
n., 186 n., 168 n., 281 n., 281 n.,
285 n., 815 n., iiL 57 n.
Browne, Sir Richard, Ambassador to
France, Evelyn's father-in-law, account
of, i. 68 n. ; references to, ii. 1, 8 n.,
19, 28, 44, 146, 156, 159, 288, 864,
879 ; secret correspondence with, 10 ;
audience with Louis XIV., 42 ; his
support of the Church while abroad,
26, 146, UL 91 ; gift of land to the
Trinity House, ii. 828 and n. ; dis-
appointed of the Wardenship of Merton
College, Oxford, 160 ; resigns the
Clerkship of Council, 887 ; Master of
the Trinity House, 356 ; his death and
funeral, iiL 90 ; eulogium on, 90-98 ;
debts owing to from the Crown, 221 ,
Introduction, ]z, Izi ; portrait, L 69
Browne, Lady, wife of above, iL 58 ;
her death and character, 68
Browne, Mary, daughter of above and
wife of Evelyn. See Evelyn
Browne, Sir Richard, grandfather of
above, iiL 91
Browne, Sir Thomas, ii. 883 and n. ; his
curiosities, 384 ; his Works cited, L
32 n., 136 n., 168 n., 205 n., 281 n.,
281 n., 285 n., 315 n., iL 229 n.,
iii. 57 n.
Browne, Sir William, epigram by, iii.
840 n.
Browning, his Holy Orosa Day, cited,
L 203 n. ; Orr's handbook to his
Works, cited, L 173 n, ; Brouming
CfyclopcediOy cited, L 203 n.
Brownists, sect ot at Amsterdam, L 85
and n.
Bruce, Thomas, Lord, L 297 and n.,
iL 108, iii. 120
Bruce, Thomas, afterwards second Earl of
Ailesbury, his account of illness of
Charles XL, iiL 188 n., 140 n., 171 n.
Brudenell, Thomas, created Earl of
Cardigan, iL 162
Brueghel, the old and young, paintings
by, L 54 and n., 328, iL 4, 8, 808
Bruges, Jerusalem Church at, L 51 and
n., 58
Brussels, account of, L 54-6
Brussels, The late news from Brussels
unmasked (1660), iL 144 and »., iii.
881, Introduction, zli and n,
Buat, Mons., ii. 266
Bncentaur, the Doges' vessel, at Venice,
L802
Buchanan, G^ige, portrait, iL 298 n.
Buckingham, Qeorge Villiers, first Duke
of, L 8, iL 106 n., 115 ; first user of
a sedan-chair in England, L 289 n.
Buckingham, George Villiers, second
Duke, iL 17, 88, 218, 291, 828, 886,
iiL 12, 40 ; his Rehearsal performed,
iL 887 and n., iiL 147 n. ; his glass-
works, ii. 895 and n. ; seat of, at
Cliveden, iii. 85 and n. ; his estate at
Helmsley, 828 and n.
Buckingham, Duchess of (1686), iiL 207
Buckingham House, ii. 71 n. ; at Chelsea,
iiL 27 and n., 80
Buckingham Palace, iL 71 n., 226 n.
Buckinghamshire, rising in (1694), iiL
809 and n.
Buckle, Sir Christopher, IL 185 and «.
Buckley, W. E., Memoirs of Thomas,
Earl of AilesHmry, cited, iiL 188 n.,
140 n.
Buda, thanksgiving on the capture of
(1686), iiL 210
Buffaloes at Pisa, L 188
Bulkeley, Sir Richard, chariot invented
by, iii. 187 and n.
Bull, Mr., F.R.S., iL 168
Buon Convento, noticed, i. 149
Buonarrotti, Michael Angelo, architec-
ture of, L 154, 160, 168, 169, 172,
258; paintings by, 86, 142, 192, 207.
214, 274, 276, 278 and n., iii. 226,
827; sculpture, etc., L 141 and n.,
185 and n., 192 and n., 194, 274
Buret, Jean, i. 105
Burghclere, Lady, Life (if Oeorge ViUisrs
(1908), cited, ii. 886 n., 895 n.
Burghers, Michael, engraving by, iL
217 n.
Burghley House, Stamford, iiL 116
and ft.
Burials, in churches censored, iiL 92
and n. ; tax on, 818
Burleigh, Robert Cecil, Lord, picture of,
in mosaic, L 62
Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland, ii. 88 and
n. ; fire at, iii. 870
Burlington, Earl of, iii. 248 ; his hoose
at Chiswick, iiL 88 and n.
Burnet, Dr. Gilbert, Bishop of Salisbury,
iiL 261 ; Evelyn contributes to his
History of the B^ormation, iii. 67 and
896
GENERAL INDEX
fu ; his preaching, iL 872 ; sennoxu
by, iii 84, 256, 261, 274, 332, 848 ;
faneral sermon for Mr. Boyle, 290 ;
Pastoral Letter burned, 8<K> ; portrait,
266 and n, ; varioos references to,
i. 209 n., 334 n., ii. 18 n., 372 n. ;
iU. 32, 48, 55 n. ; bis HUtory qf His
Own Timet, cited, ii. 18 n., 247 n.,
286 n., 854 n., 359 n., 860 n., ui.
103 n., 128 n., 138 n., 201 n., 204 n.,
206 M., 248 n., 244 n., 248 «., 260 n.,
265 n., 857 n.
Barrow Green, Cambrid^esbire, Mr.
Slingsby's house at, iL 309 and n.
Barton, Mr., Sheriff of Surrey, iii. 117
Burton, Mr., of Honson Grange, iii. 146
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, abbey and
town of, iii. 2
Busby, Dr. Richard, theatrical perform-
ance of, L 354 n.
Bushel, Thomas, ii. 215 and n.
Bushell's Wells at Enstone, Oxfordshire,
ii.215
Butler, Mrs., ii. 373 n,
Butler, Richard, Lord, ii. 21 and n,
Butler's HudQmUf cited, ii 14 n.
Butler's Oenui/tu Remains (1759), cited,
ii. 81 n.
Butterflies, M. Morine's collection, i.
102
Byfleet, Surrey, iii 16, 17 ; paper miUa
at, ib, and n.
Byron, Sir John, first Lord, ii 48 ;
family seat at Newstead Abbey, ii. 89
and n,
Byron, Lord, ii 89 n.
Cabal Ministry, ii 279 and n.
Cabinets, remarkable, i 142, 274, 281
n., ii 11, 158, iii 86, 114; of
inlaid leather, ii 36 ; Indian, 188
Cade, Dr., a CommissioDer of Greenwich
Hospital, iii 329 n.
Cadenham, house of Mr. Hungerford at,
ii 73, 84
Cadiz, bombardment of (1695), iii 319
Caen, town and abbey o^ i. 95-6 and n,
Caernarvon, Charles Dormer, Earl of,
i 845 and n.
Csesar, Augustus Octavius, Emperor of
Rome. See Augustus
Ceesar, C. Julius, Emperor of Rome,
obelisk erected to, i 179, 180
Cagliari, Paolo, called Veronese, paintings
by, i 86, 87, 275, 298, 801
Caieta (Gaeta), i. 220
Cigetan, Cardinal, his tomb, i. 173
CiUais, notices of, i 63-4, ii 15
Calamy, Edmund, iii 161 n.
Caldwell, Mrs., married to George
Evelyn, i 19 and n., iii 342
Caligula, C, Emperor of Rome, bridge
of, i 234
Oalista, a comedy performed at Court
(1674), ii 373, 374; account of it,
ib, n.
Callot, Jacques, prints by, i 101
Calvary, Mount, near Paris, anchorite at,
ii 18
Calvinism, History of (Maimburg),
iii 84
Camberwell, Sir E. Bowyer's house at,
ii 122 ; Roman urn found at, iii 187
Cambridge, remarks on the colleges,
ii. 94 ; gift of Dr. John Moors'fi
library, iii 840 n.
Camden, William, Clarendeux King of
Arms, his Briiannia, (1695), additions
to Surrey, furnished by Evelyn, iii.
816 and n.
Camden, Lady, her seat at Brook, ii 88
Camilla (Viigil), birthplace, i 218
and n.
Camlets, manufacture of, i 111 and n.,
ii 56
Camomile flowers, fumes of^ for the
headache, ii 11
Camp, M. del, his academy at Paiis,
i 102 n., ii 21
Campania, notice of, i 221
Campanile at Pisa, i 136
Campbell, — , brother of Duke of Argyll,
executed, iii 282
Campidoglio, Piazza del, i 158 and ik '
Campion, Edmund, his portrait, i 246
and n.
Campo de* Fiori at Rome, i 247
Campo Martio at Viceuza, i 321
Campo Santo at Pisa, i 186 and n.; at
Rome, 202
Campo Scelerato at Rome, i 170 and n.
Campo Yaccino at Rome, i 156-7, 158
Campus Martins at Geneva, i 848
Cau, Dr., sermon by, iii. 127
Canary merchants desire a new charter,
ii. 218
Cane, Grotto del, i 230
Cannes, notice of the town of^ i 126
Cannon, of leather, i 64-5 and n. ; re-
markable one at Ghent, 57 and n. ;
at Milan, 57 n. ; at Havre, 94 ; at
Venice, 802 and n. ; at Villa Borghese,
177
Canterbury Cathedral, notices of, i 59
and n., 222
Capel, Algernon, son of first Earl of
Essex, iii 46 and n.
Capel, Arthur, Lord, ii 105 ; trial and
GENERAL INDEX
897
death (1649), ii. 8 and n., 10 and n.,
147, ill. 46 and n.
Gapel, Arthur, created Earl of Essex
(1661), ii 162
Capel, Sir Henry, afterwards Lord Capel
of Tewkesbury, ii. 272 and n., in.
30, 298 and n., 804 ; his house at
Kew, iiL 19 and n., 115, 116, 280
Capellus, Mons., iiL 265
Capitol at Borne described, L 157
Capo di Bove, Borne, L 245
Capra, Count Martio, i. 820 and n. .
Caprarola, palace of, near Borne, L 268
Capri, i. 222 and n.
Capua, notice of, i. 221
Capuchins at Borne, i. 248
Caracci, Annibale, paintings of, i. 155 ».,
162, 248, 269 and n., 288, u. 155
Caracci, Augustine, gallery painted by,
L155
Caracci, Ludovico, fresco-painting by,
L 155 fk, 282 and n,
Caravaggio, Polydore Caldara, L 165,
251
Carbines, manufactory of, at Brescia,
i828
Cardi, Ludovico, called Cigali, i. 86
Cardigan, Thomas Brudenell, Earl of, his
creation (1661), iL 162
Cardinal's hat given at the Vatican,
il78
Carduus Benedictus, used as a posset-
drink, iii 79 and n.
Carew, family and seat at Beddington, i.
'9, iL 185, uL 852 and n.
Carew, John, regicide, executed, ii. 158
Carew, Mr., a performer on the harp, ii.
12,218
Carew, Sir Nicholas, iiL 852 n.
Caribbee Islands, ii. 844
Carisbrooke Castle, iL 116
Carlingford, Theobald Taaife, Earl of,
new fuel projected by, IL 275 and n.
Carlisle, Charles Howard, Earl of, his
creation (1661), iL 162 and n. ; com-
plained of as Ambassador, 200 n.
Carlisle, Countess of; iii. 226
Carlyle, Thomas, his Cromwell's Leltera,
etc., cited, ii. 88 n.
Carmarthen, Thomas Osborne, Marquis
of (1690), iii. 270 and n., 855
Carnivals at Naples, L 226 ; at Borne,
255 ; at Venice, 818
Caro, Annibal, L 269 n.
Caroline Poets (1905), Prof. Salntsbury's,
iL286n.
Oarolus Quintus, a captured vessel,
iL 282
Carr, — , pilloried for a libel, IL 285
Carr, Lady Ann, Mrs. Evelyn's letter to,
ii. 848 n.
Carr, Sir Bobert, IL 209 and n,
Carrara, marble quarries at, L 135
Carshalton, Surrey, ii. 185
Carteret, Sir George, Treasurer of the
Navy, Vice-Chamberlain and Governor
of Jersey, iL 149, 206, 828, iiL 211 ;
account of, ii. 15 and ti., his daughters'
weddings, 196, 208
Carthusian church and monastery,
Naples, L 225 and n. ; at Sheen, iiL 18
Cartwright, Colonel, iL 826
Cartwright, Dr., Archdeacon of St.
Albans, his library, iiL 285
Cartwright, Dr. Thomas, Dean of Bipon,
sermon by, iiL 208 and n.
Cartwright, William, his Rajfol Slave,
L 854 n.
Cary, Mrs., iL 102, 119
Cary, Patrick, at Bome, i. 154
Caryll, Mr., L 25
Casaubon, Meric, Iniroduction, xxxix n.
Cascade of the Anio, L 265
Cassiobury (or Cashiobury), Hertford-
shire, seat of the Earl of Essex, iiL 44
and n., 45, 46
Castelfranco, Gioz|;ione da, L 288
Castel-Mellor, Count de, his character,
etc., uL 18, 169
Castello Nuovo, II, at Naples, i. 223 and n.
Castilion, Dr., Prebendaj^ of Canterbury,
sermon by, iL 892
Castle, Mrs., her marriage, iiL 117
Castle Street, St Martin's Lane, iiL 128 n.
Castlehaven, the second Earl, his arraign-
ment and execution, L 9 and n,
Castiehaven, Lord, iiL 88, 97
Castlemaine, Barbara Villiers, Countess
of; iL 286 and »., 287 and n.
Castlemaine, Lord, iiL 166 n. ; arrested,
266 and n.
Castles, notices of, L 29, 41, 64, 78, 82,
84, 94, 107, 109, 116, 117, 118, 122,
147, 222 and n., 228, 241, 257, 284,
822, 823, 880, 840, 851 ; in England,
iL 72, 74, 88, 90. <S^ Fortiflcations
Cat, singular one at OrleanK, i. 104 and
n. ; another (Lemur maccLco) seen at
Greenwich, ii. 121 and n.
Catacombs at Bome, L 245, 259
Catania, earthquake at (1698), iiL 801
Catharine, Pepys' yacht, iiL 88 n.
Catharine, Infanta of Portugal, Queen of
Charles II., various references to^ ii.
168 and n., 179, 196, 218, 270, 819,
820, 890, iii. 283, 248 ; arrival of,
ii. 186 and n. ; her person, t&. and n.;
gift to, by Corporation of London,
898
GENERAL INDEX
187 ; ftunitare o^ 188 ; her toilet
service, 857 ; Thames procession in
honour of, 192-3 ; entertained at Sayes
Court, 890 ; birthdays (1668), 291 ;
(1672), 864 ; (1674), 372 ; (1677), Ui.
11 ; (1678), 25, 26 ; (1684), 131 ;
accused of conspiring to poison her
husband, iii 26, 82 and n, ; grief on
death of Charles II., 140, 148 ; removes
to Somerset House, 158 and n, ; goes
to Portuga], 294 and n.
Cathedrals, notices of, in England, L 59,
61, iL 74, 78, 81, 84, 85, 86, iu.
236 ; York, ii. 90 ; St Paul's, 256-7 ;
abroad, L 40, 46, 50, 54, 72, 93, 106,
117, 119, 123, 125, 186, 147, 224,
270, 271, 824 ; St. Peter's at Rome,
181-6 ; St John Lateran, 187, 190-2 ;
Milan, 826
Catherine of Siena, St, 1. 147 and n.,
258, 270
Catherine, Queen, wife of Henry VIII.,
burial-place, ii. 98 and n.
Catherine Hall, Cambridge, ii 96
Catholics, Roman. See Papists and
Roman Catholics
Oatilinef tragedy of, IL 292 and n,
Caval, altar of, i, 246
Cavallerizza at Florence, i 145 ; at Naples,
225
Cave, Dr. William, sermon of, iii 48
and n.
Cavendish, T., portrait, ii 298 n.
Cavershani, ii. 78
Caves, notices of, I 110, 113, 220, 230,
235, 268, ii 86, 88
Cecil, Robert Earl of Salisbury, his
portrait in mosaic, i. 62
Cecilia, St, bath of, at Rome, L 192,
243 ; silver shrine, 242 and n.
Cento Camerelle, notice of the, L 287
Cercean Promontory, etc, i. 219
Cesari, Giuseppe. See Arpino
Cestius, C, tomb of, at Rome, i. 243
Chaillot, convent at iL 38
Chairs, curious ones, i, 178, 200
Cfhalcoffraphy, History qf, by Evelyn
(1662), notices of, u. 158, 160, 188
and «., iii 876, 881, Introduetion, zlv
Chamberlain, Mr., ii. 141
Chambord, palace of the French Kings
at i 107 and n.
Chamois goats, account of, i 341
Champaigns, Philippe de, portrait of
Richelieu, i. 74 n.
Champneys, Justinian, liis imprisonment
and portrait, iii 856 n.
Chanterell, Mr., portrait of Evelyn by,
i7
Chapelle and Bachaumont*s VoyiMge en
Provence, cited, ii 40 n.
Chaplin, Dr., said to be the author of the
WhoU Duty of Man, iii 296 and n.
Charcoal, a man who ate live, iii 120
Chardin, Sir John, references to, iii 52
andn., 115, 119, 123, 124, 209, 221,
226, 870
Charenton, Protestant Church at, i 88
and n. ; monument there, ii 19 ; per-
secution at iii 98
Charing Cross, ii 158, 285
Chariot invented by Sir R. Bulkdey, iii
187, 188
Charitable Uses, etc^ Commission of
Inquiry concerning, ii 189, 190, 193
Chariti, Hospitals of La, i 77, 120, ii 22
Charlemagne, crown, sceptre, fOtc., of^ i.
67 ; sword of, 148
Charles I., portrait by Lely, ii 188 ; bis
standard raised at Nottingham, ii 89
and n. ; progress into Scotland (168S),
i 11 ; visits to Oxford (1636), 18 n.,
353 ; procession (1640), to the Short
Parliament i 19 ; on return from
the North, 20 ; on proclamation of
peace (1642), 60 ; Court festivities
at time of Strafford's trial, 22 m-. ;
execution o^ ii 8 ; painthigs, etc.,
dispersed, 9 ; restored, 147 ; st&tues
thrown down, 12 ; daily forms of
prayer ordered by, 48, 44 ; his burial-
place, 72 ; his murderers executed,
153 ; Dast on his martyrdom ordered
(1661), 158 ; prayers used on anni-
versary of his death curtailed (1689),
iii 255 ; Prayer Book used by him
on the scaffold, ii 160 n. ; salutary
effect of his blood in curing blindness,
iii 177 ; sermon on anniversary of his
death (1688), 227 ; Dr. Sharp's sermon
on 30th Jan. 1689 disUked, iu. 255 ;
Stephen's sermon on the annivennry
in 1700, 847 ; Fast kept on 80th Jan.
in 1704, 367
Charles II., his escape after battle of
Worcester, ii. 16 n., 44 ; letter in
defence of, 144 ; declaration to Parlia-
ment and their Address to it t&. ;
return to London, 145 ; entertained at
Guildhall, 148 ; touches for the evil,
ib, ; speech to Parliament. 149 ; Peers
created by, 161 ; coronation, 163-7 ;
presented by Evelyn with a panegyric,
167, iii 876, 381 ; opens Parliament
and declares intention to marry, ii
168 ; Mrs. Evelyn presents a minia-
ture to, 169 ; sailing match with Duke
of York, 178 ; commands Evelyn to
GENERAL INDEX
899
write an account of encounter between
Frencli and Spanish Ambassadors, t6. ;
his knowledge of shipping, 177 ; in
danger at sea, 189 ; attends masque
at Lincoln's Inn, 180 ; gambling at
Court of, 181 ; head of, drawn for new
coinage, ib. ; plan of rebuilding Green-
wich Palace, 184 ; marriage, 186 n. ;
grand pageant, on Thames, 192-8 ; re-
ceives Council of Boyal Society, 193 ;
visit with Evelyn to M. Lefevre, 194 ;
receives Russian Ambassador, 199, 280 ;
visits Sayes Court, 202 ; commends
Evelyn's writings, and explains his
plans of buUding Whitehall, 217, and
King Street, iiL 314 ; prorogues Par-
liament (1665), ii. 225; visits the
fleet (1665), 281 ; (1666), 246 ; (1672),
849 ; gracious reception of Evelyn
after the Plague, 240 ; orders thanks-
giving on 6ght witli the Dutch (1666),
245 ; energy during the Great Fire of
London, 256 ; his Proclamation re-
garding refugees from the Fire, 259 n. ;
examines Evelyn's plan for rebuilding
London, 261 ; celebration of St.
George's Day (1667), 269; assumes
the Persian habit, 262 and n. ; dines
in ancient state, 270, 278 ; gaming at
Court, gaiety of ladies, etc., 268, 285 ;
grants a lease to Evelyn, other atten-
tions, 289, 887 and n. ; attends a
sitting of House of Lords, 805 and n, ;
project for a divorce, ib, ; desires
Evelyn to write a History of the Dutch
War, 807, 814, 818, and to write
on the Duty of the Flag and Fishery,
867 ; commends Evelyn for it, but
recalls the work, 870.; at Newmarket,
316, 330 and n. ; examines carvings
by Grinling Gibbons, 819 ; nominates
Evelyn on Council for Foreign Plan-
tations, 819 ; converses with Nell
Gwyn in Pall MaU, 821 ; subsidy
to him, 322; at Euston with Mile,
de K^roualle, 331 ; attachment to
Frances Teresa Stewart, 869 n. ;
closes the Exchequer and seizes the
Goldsmiths' funds, 340 and n. ; De-
claration of Indulgence, 341 and n. ;
Court at Windsor, iii. 18 ; the Queen
accused of conspiring to poison him,
26, 32 ; his dangerous illness (1679),
37; Library at Whitehall, 54, 71;
alarm at the Rye House Plot, 105 ;
profligacy of his Court, 136, 144, 145 ;
reduces privileges of Corporation of
London, 99, 113 ; saved firom assassina-
tion by a fire at Newmarket (1683),
112 and n. ; designs a Palace at Win-
chester, ib. ; visit to Duchess of Ports-
mouth, 113 ; receives the Sacrament
on Easter Day (1684), 125 ; declara-
tions denying marriage with Mrs.
Barlow, 171 and n. ; sickness and
death, 137-9, 318 ; Sacrament ad-
ministered by Father Hnddlestone,
189, 140 n. ; conduct in his last hours,
138 n., 139, 140 n., 178 ; character,
Introduction, xlii, iii. 140, 141. 183,
184 ; his obscure burial at night, 146
and n. ; proved to be a Roman
Catholic, 181-4 ; anniversary of his
Hestoration neglected (1686), 204 ;
(1692), 295
Cfuirles 11, (1901), Airy, cited, iii. 98 «.,
112 n., Introduction, xlix
Charles III. of Spain in England (1704),
ilL 367 and n.
Charles V., statue of, i. 57 and n, ; his
horse-armour, 274 ; coronation monu-
ment, 281
Charles, man-of-war, ii. 231 ; ship of
110 guns, hiunching of; 286, 349
Charles the Second, a ship, IL 288, 342 n,
Charleton, Dr. Walter, lecture on the
heart, iii. 94 ; noticed, ib, n.
Charleton, Mr., ii. 390
Charlton, Mr., his collection, iii. 212,
213 and n., 276, 290
Charlton, Kent, churoh and Sir H.
Newton's house at, ii. 56, 67, 212
Chamock, Robert, executed, iii. 324 n.
Charon's Cave, i. 230
Charter-House, London, IL 120 and n.
Charts of the British Coast, iii 90
Cliastre, Claude de la, chapel of, i. 117
Ch&telets, the Grand and Petit, at Paris,
L 77 and n., ii. 33
Chatham, ships burned by the Dutch at,
u. 273 and n.. 274, 275
Chaucer, Geoffrey, referred to, IL 73, 277
Chaumont, notice of, i. 109 and n.
Chaworth, Dr., ii. 206
Chaworth, Lord, ii. 88
Cheapside, Great Fire of 1666, ii, 252 ;
Cross destroyed, i. 62 and n., ii. 86
and n.
Cheke, family of, seat at Burrow-green,
ii 309 ; Sir J., portrait of, 293 n.
Chelmsford, noticed, ii. 114
Chelsea, Buckingham or Beaufort House
at, ii. 184 and n., lit 27 and n., 80,
39, 108; Apothecaries' Garden at,
iii. 178 ; Winstanley's water -works
there, 828
Chelsea College, prisoners-of-war confined
at, ii. 223, 227 and n. ; given to the
400
GENERAL INDEX
Royal Society, 281, 296 and n. ; pur-
chased to erect the Royal Hospital,
iii. 71, 78 ; design of new bailding,
88,86
Chenonceanx, Castle of, i. 116 and n.
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of,
IL 23 and «., 801, iU. 42
Chetto de San Felice at Venice, L 208
Chetwin (Chetwynd), John, aennon by,
iii. 215 and n.
Chevereuz, L 113
Cheyne, Mr., son of Viscount Cheyne,
iiL 272 and n., 296, 328
Chi Vali, licentious custom of; at Padua,
L812
Chicheley, Sir Thomas, ii. 247 and n.,
250, 251, 811
Chiesa Nuova, at Rome, i. 164, 193, 198,
203
Chiffinch, Mr. Thomas, the King's closet-
keeper, iL 178 and n.
Chigi, Palazzo di, Rome, i. 201, 241
Child, Sir Josiah, his great wealth and
seat, iii. 92, 93
Children, " long coats " of, iL 268 and n. ;
marriage of, 350 and n.
Children, Golden Book for (he Education
o/, by St. Chrysostom, translated by
Evelyn, iL 134 and n., iiL 375,
381
Chilston, Kent, seat of Mr. Hales at, ii.
243
Chimes, at Amsterdam, L 88, 89 ; at
Venice, 289
China, curiosities from, iL 210
Chiswick, Lady Fox's house at, iiL 87,
88 and n,
Chiatoick, Fhillimore and Whitear's,
(1897), cited, iiL 88 n,
Chopines of the Venetian ladies, L 295
and n.
Christ Church, Oxford, iL 78 ; London,
257
Christ College, Cambridge, iL 96
Christ's Hospital, at Rome, account of,
L 215 ; in London, ii. 120 and n.,
iiL 217-18
Christina, Queen of Sweden, iii. 57 and n,
Christmas Day, in Rome, i. 203 ; observ-
ance of, prohibited in England, iL 64,
69, 99, 107, 137 ; Evelyn's observance
of, 117, 126, 137, 220, 294, 367, iii.
333 ; riotous, at Inner Temple, 333
Christmas Eve, ceremonies on, in Rome,
L202
Christopher, St., statue of, i. 72 ; relic
of, 202
Chronicle, Sir R. Baker's, iL 404
ChronicU, Heath's, U. 411
C^ronicue Canon, Sir John ManihMn
(1672), iL 141 n.
Chrysostom, St., Comment on Gospel of
St. John, L 148 ; his Golden Book cnt
Education translated by Evelyn, In-
trodueiion, xxxvii, ii. 134 and n.,
iiL 875, 381 ; tomb of, L 202
Church music, dispute on, i. 81 ; altera-
tion in, iL 199
Church of England, ritual in 1637, L 16 ;
service and clergy of the, iL 63, 65,
69 ; solemn fast for calamities of^ 38 ;
Puritan services in Englisfa churches,
58 and n., 116 ; their doctrines, 117 ;
sermon by a mechanic, 69 ; feasts and
fast-days not observed, 64, 69, 70, 72,
99, 107 ; Lituiigy allowed only at St.
Gregory's, 101 ; ministers prohibited
from preaching, or teaching in schools;,
106 and n., 107 and n., 116 ; Evelyn
and others arrested during service at
Exeter Chapel, 126 ; sad condition of
the, 139 ; private fast by the, 140 ;
collection for persecuted ministers,
131 ; controversy of Papists with,
146 ; restoration of the Lituigy, 149,
191 ; and Conmiunion Table, 185 ;
missionary of the, 177 ; Asian Churches
subscribe to, 196 ; violins first used with
organ in, 199 ; excellence of the, iiL
184 ; Solemn League and Covenant ab-
jured, iL 191 and n. ; English Liturgy
used at French Church, Savoy, 805 ;
weakened by the Declaration of In-
dulgence (1672), 341 ; danger of, from
Papists, iiL 33, 184, 220 ; Convocation
to reform the Liturgy, 269, 271 ; re-
fusal to read Declaration of Liberty of
Conscience, 232 ; oollection for relief
of French Protestants, 201, 202, 281 ;
High and Low Church parties, 871 ;
James II. promises to support the,
162
Churches, measures of, in Italy, L 288 ;
objections to burials in, iiL 92 n., 262
Churchill, Anne, marriage of, iiL 288 n.
Churchill, ArabeUa, iiL 198
Churchill, Francis Almerio, Baron, ii.
214 n.
Churchill, General, made lieutenant of
the Tower, iiL 871
Churchill, Mr., his oollection of curiosi-
ties, iiL 821
Churchill, Sir Winston, iiL 292
Churchyards in Norwich, iL 835
Cibo, Christophero, statue by, L 825
and n.
Cicero's Palace, etc^ L 157, 284 ; tomb,
etc., 220-21
GENERAL INDEX
401
Cifaooio, a famons finger, UL 216, 220
Gigali (Ladovico Gardi), painting bj, i 86
drcmneision, Jewish ceremony of, at
Rome, u 204-6 and n.
Circus Caracalla, i. 244
Circus Flaminins, 1. 246
Circos Mazimns, Rome, L 161, 198
Cis^, Signer Pietro, iL 290 and n.
Citolin, M., Evelyn's tutor, i. 8
Clanoarty, Earl, iii 288
Clanoarty, Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Countess
of, iii 281 and n,
Clandon Park, West Clandon, ii. 816
Clanricarde, Ulick de Buxgh, Earl of;
house at Summer-hill, ii 60
Clapham, houses at, iii 297 and n,, 868,
864
Clara Isabella Eugenia, Archduchess, i
64 and n.
dare, John Holies, Earl of; ii 88
Clare, Dr., ii 44 n. ; sermon by, 46
Clare Hall, Cambridge, ii 96
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, Lord
Chancellor, dinners with and references
to, ii. 167, 169, 161 and n., 167, 178,
186, 189, 191, 198, 204, 208, 218,
214, 217, 218, 228, 227, 248, 248,
250, 266, 267, 268, 271 ; attempts
to remove him from the oflice of
Chancellor (1666-7), 161 n. ; elevated
to the Peerage, ib. ; visits Evelyn in
state, 191 ; portraits worth collecting
proposed to him by Evelyn, 298 and
n, ; collection formed by, ib. ; im-
peached by Parliament and Seals taken
from him, 279 and n., 284 ; party in
Parliament, etc, against him, tS., 282 ;
his flight, 284 and n.; injurious charges
against him, ib., iii 110 ; his Hittory
0/ the Rebellion^ ii 8 n., 6 m., 182 n.,
iii. 869 and n., IrUroduetion, In.; his
Life cited, ii. 248 n., iii 8 n. See
also Hyde, Sir Edward, and Clarendon
House
Clarendon, Henry Hyde (Lord Combury),
second Earl, references to, ii 191 and
n., 214, 216, 244, 271, 292, 296, 868,
iii. 41, 87, 98, 100, 108, 119, 180,
166, 226, 249, 267, 869 ; Evelyn's
letters to him about The Mystery qf
JesuUism, 221 n. ; and dareudon
House, iii 111 «. ; made Lord Privy
Seal, 147, 161 ; dismissed, 216 ; Lord-
lieutenant of Ireland, 174, 181, 187
and n., 188, 198 ; his recall, 216,
216 ; refuses to sit at a Council with
Papists (1688), 248 ; opposes William's
assumption of the Cirown, 267 ; sent to
the Tower, 278 ; bailed, 280 and n, ;
VOL. Ill
I confined again, 282, 288, 284, 286 ;
I permitted to ikke oountry air, 287
Clarendon, Countess, references to, ii
166, iii. 48, 129, 154, 169, 186, 267 ;
her house at Swallowfield, 186 and n.,
186
Clarendon, Edward (Lord Combury),
third Earl, grandson of the Chancellor,
iii 188 and n. ; his account of
Denmark (1687), 226 ; goes over to
the Prince of Onnge, 246
Clarendon House, Piccadilly, ii 214 and
n., 266, 271, iii 100 n. ; collection
of pictures at, ii 292 ; sold and de-
molished, iii 100, 109, 128 ; Evelyn's
opinion of the house. 111 n.
darges, Ann, Duchess of Albemarle, iii.
861 n.
Claiges, Sir Thomas, ii. 404, 409
Clarges, Sir Walter, iii. 860
Clark, Mr., player on the Irish harp, ii
70, 291
Clarke, Dr. Samuel, Boyle Lecturer, iii
869 and n.
Clarke's L^e qf James the Second (1 816),
cited, ii 162 n., 866 n., iii 140 n.
Claude, Dr., physician, ii 148
Claude, John, forced to quit France, iii.
190 and n. ; his book burned, ib., 204
and n. ; account of, iii 190 n.
Claudian, ii. 186
daudius, the Censor, speech of; on
bronze tables at Lyons, i 120 and n.
Clayton, Sir John, ii. 898
Clayton, Sir Robert, ii 117, 868, iii
2 and n., 80, 87 and n., 40, 44, 268,
817 ; house of, in Old Jewry, ii 861
and n. ; seat at Maiden, iii 9 and n.,
861 ; account of; 89, 40
Clayton, Sir T., Warden of Merton
CoUege, ii 160
dement III., Pope, crudfiz carved by,
i66
dement VIII., Hippolito Aldobrandini,
Pope, i 268 and n.
dement. Dr., i 12
dement, regicide, executed, ii. 168
dench, Dr., his son's early talents, iii
261-8 ; murder of, 261 n., 291
derkenwell, Duke of Newcastle's house
bi, ii 269 and n,
develand, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of
(1668), ii 208 and n. ; lawsuit of,
264 ; noticed, ib. n.
develand. Duchess, ii 821, iii 89, 186,
140, 146 ; her children by Charles H.,
ii. 860, 894 and n.
develand House, ii 266 and n., 821
and ft., iii 42
2d
1
402
GENERAL INDEX
deves, Dake of, hii heart preier?ed at
BoiB-Ie-Dao, i. 46
Cliff dweUingi in France, L 110
CUffe, near Lewes, i 8 and ik
CliffhouM, ii« 6
Clifford, Sir Thomas, afterwarda Comp-
troller and Treasurer of the Household,
ii 218, 265 and n., 816, 819, 822,
828, 829, 847, 850, 852, 859 ; death
I of his eldest son, 821 ; Exchequer
closed by his advice (1672), 840, 860
and n. ; inclined to Popery, 841 ;
created a Baron, 844 ; resigns his
Treasurer's staff, 859 and n. ; his
mind affected, 868 ; his life and
nnhappy death, 861-8 ; anecdotes of
him, 862-4
Clinkers (bricksX i 88 and «., 267
Cliveden, Duke of Backingham's house
at, iii« 85 and n,
docks, curions, L 119, 166, 178, iL 100,
154 and n., 171, 251, iii 55, 86 ; at
St Mark's, Venice, L 289
docks <md WcUcheSt OwriasUistqf (IS66),
S. J. Wood, cited, u. 154 n.
Cloister and ths Hearth, Chas. Beade,
cited, L 28 n.
dothworkers' Company, Lord Mayor's
pageant, ii 196 n.
doud effects at Badicofani, i. 150 and n,
dough's Amoura de Voyage, cited, L 167
Clove Tree, a captured Dutch ship, iL 232
Coaches, in Borne, L 181 ; in Naples,
239 ; races in Hyde Park (1658), ii
181 ; on the Thames, iii. 121, 122 ;
Busrian Ambassador's not allowed into
the Court, iiL 74
Coal, project of charring, ii. 115 and n.
Coale, Gregory, 11. 266 and n,
Cochran-Patrick, B. W., note on post-
Bestoration touch-pieces, ii 148 n.
Cock, Mr., lottery prize gained by, iii.
818
Cock, The, an ordinary in Suffolk Street,
Charing Cross, ii 887 and n.
Cocke, Captain, Treasurer to the Com-
mission for Sick and Wounded, ii 220
Cocke, Mr., Evelyn's lawsuit with, ii.
825
Cockpit, play performed there, ii 4
" Coena Domini " of Leonardo da Vinci, i.
827 and 91.
Coeur, Jacques, house of, at Bourges, i
117 and n.
Coffee introduced into England, i 15
and n. ; coffee-houses established, 1^.
CoUus, King of Britain, u. 118
Coin, plan for reducing gold, ii. 205 ;
depreciated state of (1694), iii 811 ;
diffieolties in reforming it (1695), 822
and n. ; new coinage (1664), ii 209 ;
(1696), iii 822 ; the figure of Britaniiia
on, 15 Ii. ; scarcity o^ 826, 827
Coins, observations on Boman, L 266
Coke, production of, ii 115 and n,
Colbert, Charles, Marquis de Craisiy,
French Ambassador, ii 264 and n^
289, 880
Colbum, Henry, first issue of Evelyn'i
Diary by, in 1818, Pt^aot, Tii
Colchester, siege of, ii 5 and m^ 147 ;
account of, 118 ; manufacture of baiis
and says at, ib, and «. ; oyaten, A.
andn.
Coldbrook, at Cassiobury, Herts, iii 45
Coleman, Edward, executed (1678), iii
26 and n. ; allusions to, 25, 38, 63
Colepeper, Lord, ii 248, 823
Coligni, Oaspard de, assassination ol^ a
painting, i 206 and n.
OUUction qf PricaU Devotions (1627))
Dr. Cosin, ii 43 and n.
Colleoni, Bartolommeo, statue o^ i 303
Collier, Jeremy, noi\juring clei^gymaii,
iii 325 and ».
Collins, Captain John, sea-charts by, iii
90 andn.
Collins, Dr. Samuel, of King's College,
ii 95 and n.
Cologne, City ot addreases Charles IL,
ii 149 ; KLogs of, their bodies, i 827
Colombi^e, caves near, i 113
Colonna, Connestabile, i 191 and «. ;
wife of, iii 341 n.
Colonna Miliaria, i 158
Colonna Bostrata, of Dnillins, i 158
Colosseum at Bome, i 175
Columbus, Christopher, painting of, ill
136
Colyear, David, Earl of Portmore, iii 16 «.
Comber, Eleanor (Mrs. Standsfield),
Evelyn's grandmother, i 8, 7
Comber, Mr., i 5
Comenius, J. A., his Jaiwa Linguarumt
ii 127
Comets, notices of (1618), i 6 ; (1666-7),
269 ; (1680), iii 66 ; (1682), 87
Cominazzo, Lazarino, carbine-maker, i
823 and n.
Cominges, Oaston - Jean - Baptiste de^
French Ambassador, ii 208 and n.,
218, 230
Commissions of which Evelyn was a
member, q.v, : — Charitable IJses, etc ;
for regulating the Mint ; to examine
Laws of West Indian Colonies ; of
Privy Seal ; of Sewers ; for care of Sick
and Wounded Priaoners-of-War ; for
GENERAL. INDEX
408
reforming itreeta, etc, in London ; for
restoring St. Paul's Getthedral; for
regulating farming, etc, of Saltpetre ;
for Trade and Foreign Plantations ;
about subsidy given by Parliament to
Charles IL
CfommiUee^ a play by Sir B. Howard, ii«
197
Compagno, Hieronymus, sculptor, L 800
Complie Angler (Izaak Walton), cited,
L 236 n.
Compton, Dr. Henry, Bisbop of London,
ii. 299, 898, iiL 72, 86, 92 n., 97,
196, 261, 270 ; sermon by, U. 867 ;
suspended, iii 209 ; account of, ii.
299 n.
Compton, Sir William, ii. 178, 174, 416
Cond^ Louis, Prince of, and his party
referred to, ii. 9, 17, 21 and n.
Coney, John, his sketch of Wotton
Church, L 6
Confederates (1689), progress of, ill. 266
Conflans, bathing at» ii 88
Conopios, Nathaniel, i. 15 and n.
Conscience, liberty of^ proclamation for,
in Scotland (1687), ill. 215 ; bishops
petition against roeuling the declaration
for, 282 ; proceedings against them,
233, 284
Conservatori, Palace of the, at Rome, i
158-9 ; procession of the, 208
CofindercUion, Treatise on, by Dr.
Homeck, iU. 93 and n.
Constant Warwick, the first frigate built
in England, iii. 272 and n,
Constantine the Great, statue of^ i. 158 ;
arch, 176 ; realistic painting of the
arch, 83 ; palace, 187 ; obelisk, 188 ;
churches built by, 254, 255 ; reference
to, ii. 118
Convention (1689), proceedings o^ as to
disposal of the Crown, iii. 251, 255
Convents and monasteries, notices of,
i. 80, 46, 51, 54, 58, 73, 147, 149,
151, 169, 224, 232, 289, 242, 246,
248, 280, 298, 801, 804, 805, 808,
318, 827, 829
Convocation (1690), for reforming
Liturgy, etc., iii. 269, 271; (1701)
notices a passage in a book of Dr.
Davenant's, 856 and n. ; disputes in,
857
Conway, Edward, Lord, ilL 18
Cony, Mr., ii 387
Cook, Mr., noiijuring clergyman, iiL 825
and n.
Cook, Moses, iii. 46 and n.
Cook, regicide, executed, iL 158
Cook, Sir Robert, ii. 29
Cooke, Captain Henry, an excellent
singer, etc., iL 99 and n., 117
Cooke, Colonel, ii. 17, iii. 120
Cooke, Rev. Edward, pamphlet reprinted
by, iiL 809 n.
Cooke, Sir T., discovery about East
India Company, iiL 817
Cooper, Anthony Ashley, Lord, creation
o^ iL 162
Cooper, Rev. Mr., Fellow at Balliol
College, L 16
Cooper, Samuel, portrait painter, iL 181
andn.
Cope, rare one at Rome, L 207 and n«
Coque, Mens, le, iiL 268
Coquerel, M. Athanase, jS2«, his For^aU
pour la Foi, iiL 189
Corbeil, notice of, L 91
Cordeliers, Church of the, Avignon, L
122 and n,
Cork, surrenders, ML 281
Cork, Richard Boyle, first Earl of, iL
218
Corker, James, trial of (1679), ilL 88
and n.
Com, cheapness of (1708), iiL 864
Comaro, family, iiL 198; painting o^
iL 182 and n.
Comaro, Lewis, writer on Temperance,
ii. 35 and n.
Combury, Lord Combury's house at, iL
214 and n. See Clarendon
Cornea, Antonio de la, painter at Rome,
L 267
Comelius Nepos, statue of, L 822
Comwallis, Lord, iL 162, iii, 56, 184
Coronada, Don Juan Vasques, i. 880
Coronettion, ship lost, iiL 289
Coronation of Charles II., ii. 163-7
Corpus Christi Day in Paris, ii. 87
Correggio, Antonio Allegri da, paintings
by, L 86, 87, 142, 199, 241, iL 195,
iii. 304, 825
Corsica, Island of, L 127
Cortona, Pletro Berretini da, {laintings,
etc, by, L 162, 165, 267, 277
Cortone, Dr., of Verona, L 822
Coryat, Thomas, his Oruditiee cited, i.
57 n., 71 n., 126 n., 292 m., 295 n,,
337 n.
Cosin, Dr. John, Dean of Peterborough,
afterwards Bishop of Durham, notice
of, ii. 25 n. ; officiates in English
Chapel at Paris, 25; occasion of
publishing his Offices, 43 and n. ;
sermons by, 86, 48 and n. ; aUuded
to, ii. 20, 44 n., 54 and n., 55, 96, 202
Cosin, John, son of the Bishop, perverted
to Popery, iL 47, 54
404
GENERAL INDEX
CkNmo L d» Medici, Qnad Duke of
TuBcaay, L 140 and n.
Coimo n., Onnd Dnke of Florenoe, floe
sUtae of, L 276 ; wife of, 272 n.
Coster, Laurene Janazoon, of Haarlem,
i. 41 n.
Goetomes of Venetiana, L 2M-7
Gotterell, Sir Charlea, iL 290, iiL 74 ;
hia aon, iL 846
Ciottiiigtoii, FranciB, Lord, ii. 15 and n.,
85
Ootton, Ladj, alladed to, L 5 and «.,
christening of her daughter, iL 6 ;
birth of a son, 54 and n. ; death and
funeral, 212, 213
C!otton, Sir John, L 4 n., 92 and n.,
iL 247 ; Ubrary, 287 ; his reUct, ilL
848
Cotton, Sir Robert, iL 247; MSa
collected by, 287
Cottsmore, aeat of Mr. Heath, iL 88
Course, in Paris, L 80 ; at Vicenza, 821 ;
in Milan, 881
Court of Vulcan, L 282 and n.
Courtiers, slaTery of; iiL 98
Courtiers, a Party in Parliament so
caUed (1699), ilL 846
Courtney, Father, at Rome, L 154
Courta in Venioe, L 298-4
Covel, Dr. John, iiL 821 and sk
Covenant, Scottish, burnt, iL 170;
ordered to be abjured, 191 and n.
Covenberg, F., painting by, L 44 and n.
Coveut (^rden. Church and Piazza oi^
copied from Leghorn, L 189
Coventry, city of, notice of, ii. 86 ;
address to James II., iiL 228
Coventry, Sir William, Secretary to
James, Duke of York, account of,
iL 18 and n., 140 and n. ; allusions
to, 201, 232, 240, 277, IrUroduetion,
11 n. ; his lodge in iSnfteld Chase,
891 and n.
Cowley, Abraham, ii. 202, 207 and ».,
iiL 57 ; his death, funeral, and monu-
ment, iL 277 and n. ; Evelyn's letter to,
268 n., 418, IiUroduUion, lii; Cow-
ley's reply, iL 420 ; his Oa/rden quoted,
Iniroduetion^ xxxix n., Irvl n.
Cowper, Mr., surgeon, iii. 359
Cowper, Mr. WUliam (afterwards Earl
Cowper), made Lord Keeper, iiL 871
andn.
Cox, captain of the ChairUt (he Second,
iL 288, 842
Coxhall, Rev. Mr., of South Mailing,
L7
Cradock, Dr. Zachary, Provost of Eton,
iii. 85 and n., 87, 48 ; sermon by, 201
Crafford, John, notice of, L 18
Cranbonie Lodges Windsor Park. m.
211 and «., 296
Cranbum, Lord, iiL 78
Crane, Mr., Clerk of Green Cloth, iL
154 and »., 155, 157
Craven, William, Lord, iL 826; house
at Caversham, ii. 78 ; notice of, t&. «.
Creigfaton, Dr. Robert, sermons by, ii.
17 and n., 178, 202, 865, 898. iiL
174 ; account of, iL 17 »•
Crema, L 824
Creasing Temple, Essex, iL 137
Cressy, Dean, his answer to Dr. Pierce,
iL 205 and n.
Crevecceur, Marquis de, xL 85
Crew, Dr. Nathaniel, Bishop of Dnrham,
iiL 196 and n., 208, 210
Crew, Sir Clepesby, iL 4 and n.
Crew, Thomas, Lord, creation of, iL 162
Crisp, Sir Nicholas, projects of, iL 105
and n., 188
Crocodile, from West Indies, iii. 180
Croft, Dr. Herbert, Bishop of Hereford,
Naked TnUh by, U. 888 and «.; re-
ferred to, 295
Crofts, Lord, iL 17, iiL 2
Crombe, Colonel, L 46
Cromer, — , musician, iL 199
Cromwell, Oliver, allusions to, iL 51 and
n., 71, 101, 106, 115, 116, 121, 171,
848, iU. 888 ; dines with Lord Mayor
on Ash Wednesday, iL 70 ; murders by
his guards, 5; reftises offer of the
Crown, 120 ; death of, 134 and ». ;
frmeral, 186 and «., 158 and n*,
Pre/aeef xii ; his body exhumed and
hanged, 158
Cromwell, Letters and Speeehee (Carlyle),
cited, ii. 88 n.
Cromwell, Richard, ii. 188
Cross, fitHB^ents of the, L 180, 184, 207,
254, 255, iii. 177, 178; of St.
Edward discovered, iiL 177, 178 ; sign
of^ in Greek Church, L 267 ; huge one
at Lucca, 271
Crowder, Rev. Mr., ii. 44 n,
Crowe, Sir Saokville, iL 227
Crown, of Mary, Queen of James II. ^
iii. 161
Crowns, John, masque by, at Court
(1674), iL 878
Croydon Church, monuments in, iiL 352
and n,
Croydon, Dr., IL 87
Ontditiea, Thomas Coryat (1776), cited,
L 57 n., 71 n., 126 n., 292 n., 295 7^
887 n.
Crusca, Academy de la, L 275 and ».
GENERAL INDEX
405
Crymes, Thomaa, old receipt signed by,
i. 2n.
Crypt, of St. Peter's, Borne, L 202 ; at
Pitusilippas, 229 and n. ; at Albnry,
ii. 315 and n. : ancient, L 287
Crystal, coffin o^ i. 825 and n.
Cudworth, Dr. Ralph, sermon by, iiL 28
and n,
Culmer, Richard, a fanatical divine, L
59 n.
Culpeper, Colonel, attack on the Earl of
Devonshire, iiL 168
Culpepper, Thomas and William, im-
prisoned, iii. 856 and n.
Cume, city of, I 286
Cumberland, Dr. Richard, Bishop of
Peterborough, iii. 284 and n., 286
andn.
Cunningham's London (1850), cited, ii.
226 n., 278 n.
Cupid and Psyche, Raphael's painting of,
i. 199
Cupola, curious eifects of one on the
voice, i. 137
Curiatii, tomb of, i 240
GHriotities qf ZAtenUure, Disraeli, cited,
ii. 41 n.
Curtius, M., his place of sacrifice, i.
156
Curtius, Sir William, Resident for Charles
XL at Frankfort, iL 87 and n., 218
Custom House, rebuilt after fire, iL 329
and n.
Cutler, Alderman Sir John, patron of
Deptford, iL 137 and n., 889, 344
Cuttance, Captain Roger, knighted, iL
231 and n.
Cylinder with chimes, L 88
Cypress tree, remarkable one, L 322
Cyril, patriarch of Constantinople, L 15
D'Adda, F., Count, Pope's Nuncio,
iiL 195 and n., 226
Daincourt, Lord, ii. 378 n.
Damiano, church of, at Rome, L 156
Dampier, Captain William, notices of,
iiL 836 and n., 837
Danby, Thomas Osborne, Earl of. Lord
Treasurer, iiL 12, 18 and n., 28;
imprisonment of, 76 and n., 118 ;
released, 122. &e Carmarthen, Mar-
quis of
Danby, Lady, iiL 118
Dangerfield, Thomas, whipped for per-
jury, iiL 166 and n.
Daphne, statue of, at Villa Borghese,
L 178 and n.
Darcy, Edward, Evelyn's sister un-
happily married to, i. 9 and n. ; her
death, and monument, 11 and n. ; his
second marriage and character, 11 n,
Darcy, Lady, of Sutton, L 9
Darien, a Scottish book about, burned
by order of Parliament, iii. 846 and
n. ; vote against Scottish Settlement,
847
Darnel, Rev. Mr., sermon by, iL 104
Damford, Magna, farm so called, ii.
88
Dartmouth, a frigate, iL 227
Dartmouth, Lord, Ikir on Blaokheath
procured by, iii. 95 and n, ; Master
of Trinity House, ib. n., 96, 127;
alluded to, 96, 173
Daun, Mr., iii. 804
Dauphin, origin of title, L 120 and n. ;
alluded to (1686), iiL 207
DavenantySir William, plays, etc., by,
iL 138 n., 177 n., 181 n., 199 n.
Davenant, Dr. Charles, iiL 804 and n. ;
Convocation displeased by a book of
his, 856 and n,
Davenport, Mra, ''Rozalana,"ii. 181 n.,
263 fk
David, statue of, at Villa Borghese,
L 178
D'Avinson, Dr., of Paris, iL 18
Davis's BaUiU College, cited, L 15 n.,
16 9k
Davis, Mrs., 11. 268 n., 873 n.
Dean Forest, planting of, suggested by
Evelyn, iL 197
Deane, Sir Anthony, iiL 79 and n., 80,
276 ; on mode of building men-of-war,
ib, ; conversation respecting frigates,
fire-ships, etc., 272
Dearth, extraordinary, in England, L 9
Debrosse, Salomon, architect of the
Luxembourg, i. 96 n. , 98 n,
Decio (or Decius), Philip, L 187 and n.
Declaration of Liberty of Conscience
(1688), opposition to reading it in
churches, iiL 282
Decoy in St James's Park, iL 224, 226
and n. ; at Thetford, iiL 8 ; at Pyr-
ford Park, iii. 70
De Crete, or De Critz, painter, ii. 82
Dedham, Essex, notice of, iL 114
Deepdene, at Dorking, U. 102 and n.,
212, 815
Deering, Sir Edward, and his daughter,
iiL 47
D^eruiOj Salmaslus's, iL 207
D'Harcourt, Count, Qrand Ecuyer of
France, ii. 41
Delabarr, collection of paintings, iL 11
Delamere, Lord, joins the Prince of
Orange, iiL 246
406
GENERAL INDEX
Delft, i. 28 ; Church and Senate^bonae
of, 83
DelichiOp Basqueto, leaning tower of
Pisa bnilt by, i. 270 and n,
Demalhoy, Mr., iL 867
Denbigh, BaaU Fielding, Earl of (1664),
ii. 214
Denham, Sir John, ii. 70 and n., 108,
176
Denmark, King of, liL 210, 266
Denmark, Resident of the King of, ii.
151 ; Ambassador ftom, 152, 802 ;
visits meeting at Gresham College,
158-9 ; tyranny exercised in (1687),
iii 225
Denmark, Prince George of (1662), ii
196 ; married to Princess Anne, ilL
106, 107 ; allnsions to him, iii. 183,
185
Denmark, Princess of. See Anne
Denton, Sussex, iii. 311
Dep^ord, Dews's (1884), cited, Pr^ace,
viii. n., L 26 n,, ii 65 n., iii 272 n.,
885 71., 836 n.
Deptford, plague at, ii. 248, 248, 249 ;
fire in dockyard, 274 ; almshouses,
323 and n. ; repairs of church com-
pleted, iii. 18 ; rebuilding of church,
298 and n. ; congregation leave for
Dissenters' meeting-house, 220; new
church, 342 ; projected dock at, ii
105, 188 ; Court-leet, iii. 115 and n. ;
Peter the Great at, 385 n.
Derby, James Stanley, Earl of, executed,
ii. 45 and n.
Derby, Countess of, ii 894
Derby, William George Richard Stanley,
Lord (1689), iii 254 and n., 258
Derby House, notice of, ii. 136
Deserted Village, Goldsmith's, cited, i
150 n.
D'Espagne, Mons., ii 116
D'Eate, Palace of, i. 264
D'Este, Mary Beatrice, Duchess of York,
ii 366 and n.
D'Estrades, Marshal, obliged James II.
to dismiss Protestants, iii 262
D'Estrades, Louis Godeftoy, Connt,
French Ambassador, ii 173 and n,j
411-17
Devereux, Lord, house at Ipswich, ii 114
De VeritcUe, by Lord Herbert of Cher-
bury, ii. 52 and n,
De Vic, Sir Henry, i 56 and 91., ii 172,
270
Devin du Village (Rousseau's), referred
to, i 116 n.
Devonshire, William Cavendish, Earl of,
afterwards Duke (1652), ii. 56, 190,
iii 804 ; Colonel Culpeper's assault on,
168 ; Lord Steward, 258 ; subKribes
to Greenwich Hospital, 829 n. ; lodg-
ing at Whitehall burned, 834 n, ; loss
at a horse-race, 889 ; account of, i
56 n.
Devonshire, Christiana Cavendish,
Countess of (1662), ii 190 and n. ;
(1686), iii. 198
Dews's Deptford^ cited, Pr^ojoe, viii ».,
i 26 n., ii 65 «., iii. 272 n., 885 fk,
886 n.
JHamumdi man-of-war, launched, ii 53 ;
Dutch privateers taken by the, 227
and n.
Diamonds, Bristol, ii. 75 and «.
Diana, baths of, etc., i 286
Diary, Suunder^^fXjn ; Fiennes, Oelia ;
Pepys ; Thoresby ; Ward, Rev. J.
Dickinson, Dr. Edmund, iii 870 and ».,
871 and n.
Dictionary qf National Biography, cited,
iid68n.
Dieppe, account of, i 94 ; bombarded,
iti. 311 and n.
Digby, Earl of, portrait, iii 186
Digby, Sir Eventrd, iii. 25 and n.
I^S^yi Sif Kenelm, account of, i 46 and
n., 70 ; Evelyn's opinion of him, etc,
ii. 45 and n. ; alluded to, 46, 78,
171, 197, 308 ; portrait, iii 136
Digby, John, son of Sir Kenelm, i 318
and n.
Digesters, Papin's, bones dissolved by«
iii. 82, 88 and n.
Dinner, cosUy, ii 198, 200, 289, iii 70,
194
Diocletian, Emperor, bath o( at Rome,
i 168 and n., 169
Diodati, Dr., of Geneva, i 846, 349
Diskvelts, Mynheer, Dutch Ambassador,
iii 221
Disraeli, I., Cwnonties of LiUnUure,
cited, ii 41 n.
Dissenters, Act of Indulgence for, iii
220 and »., 265 and n,
Ditchley, Sir Henry Lee's seat at, ii 215
Diurnal, Rugge's, cited, ii 262 n.
Diving-bell, trial of (1661), ii 171
Dobson, William, notice of, iii 135 n. ;
paintings by, iii. 15 n,, 135
Doge of Venice, his espousal of the
Adriatic, i 287, 302
"Dog!*, market of, at Amsterdam, i. 86 ;
use of, in HoUand, 56-7 ; in Bologna,
283 ; spaniel lost by Evelyn, 851 ;
mention of; 182, ii 191, 281, 807,
m. 120, 141, 338
Dolben, Dr. John, Bishop of Rochester,
GENERAL INDEX
40T
iL 802, iii. 11 aod n., 38 and n^ 76,
84, 90; hoose at Bromley, iL 802
and n. ; Archbiahop of Yorl^ iiL 107
and fu, 108 ; death of, 202
Dolben, Mr. Jnstioe, iiL 84 n.
D'Olonne, Count, iL 40
Domenico^ Gnido, painting by, L 282
Donatello, statue by, L 144
Doncaater, notice o^ ii. 89
Donghi, Cardinal, L 149
Donna, Count, Swedish Ambassador, iL
286
Donnington, notice of, iL 78
Dool- house {Dolhuia), mad -house, at
Amsterdam, L 86
Dorchester, Henry Pierrepoint, Marquis
of, iL 88, 272
Dorchester, Countess of, iiL 197
Dorel, Major, iL 849
DorelL Mr., ii. 188
Doria, Don Carlo, house o^ at Genoa, L
188
Doria, Prince, palace and gardens of, at
Genoa, L 181-2 and n.
Dorislans, Dr. Isaac, death of; iL 18
and n.
Dorking, Surrey, iL 102
Dorking, Bright's, cited, L 807 n., ii.
806 n.
Dormitory of St Michael, L 288
Dorset, Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of;
iL 263, 860 and m., iii. 197 n., 817 ;
Lord Chamberlain, iiL 258 ; subscribes
to Greenwich Hospital, 829 n,
Dorset, Countess of (1657), iL 126
Dorsetshire, earthquake in (1696), iiL 822
Dort, notice of the town of, L 27, 47 ;
Synod of; 27 and n.
Douglas, Lieut -Gen., iiL 271
Douthwaite's Oray*8 Inn, iL 180 n.
Dove, Dr., sermons by, iiL 38, 186 and n.
Dover, Henry Carey, Earl of (1657), iL
119 and n. ; his daughters, ib,
Dover, Lord (1687), iiL 214, 247, 289
Dover, Countess of (1686), iii. 198
Dover Castle, prisoners-of-war at, iL 222,
229
Dover Street, London, Evelyn's house in,
iii. 287, 841, 867
Dow, Gerard, painting by, it. 155
Dwm Hall (M. Prior), cited, L 809 n.
Downs, naval battle off the (1666), iL
244-5 ; Spanish treasure brought to
(1687), iiL 222 and n.
Downes, Mr., funeral of, iL 18
Downing, Sir George, account of, iL 248
and n. ; Minister in Holland, 818
D'Oyly, Sir William, ii. 218 and n., 242
and n., 250, 261
Dragoons, armed with grenadea, IiL 118
Drainage works at Bois-le-Duc, L 45 ;
near Newmarket, iL 811
Drake, Sir Francis, painting of his action
in 1580, ii. 115 ; portrait, 298 n.
Draper, William, married Evelyn's
daughter Susanna, iii. 800 and n., 801 ;
Evelyn's character of his daughter, 801 ;
their mutual happiness, 302 ; Sayes
Court lent to, 810 ; Commissioner for
Greenwich Hospital, 329 ; Treasurer
for, 366 ; alluded to, 820, 828, 847,
861
Draper, Mrs., mother of the preceding
her death, iiL 355 and n.
Draper's Dictionary, Beck's, cited, ii.
118 n.
Drapers' Company, London, iii. 86
Drebbell, Cornelius Van, chemist, ii.
249 and n.
Dress, various notices concerning, L 84,
74, 111, 112, 124, 184, 194, 195, 208,
239, 271, 281, 296, 297, iL 41, 186,
210, 261, 262
Droghedataken(1649),iL18 ; surrendered
(1690), iii. 279
Drolleries, pictures of low humour, L 82
and n.
Dromedary, Ii. 88
Drought (1684), iii. 129 ; (1685), 165
Druids' Grove, Norbury Park, IL 104
and n.
Dryden, John, plays by, iL 201 and ft.,
208 n., 269 and n., 288 n., 819 n. ;
alluded to, 867 and n., iiL 98 and n.,
806 ; said to go to Mass, iii. 197 and n.
Dryfield, Sir John Prettyman's house at,
iL84
Dublin, surrendered, iii. 279 ; earthquake
at, 281
Dubois, John, paintings possessed by,
iL 9 ; alluded to, 28 ; his election, iiL 99
Du Bosse. jSeeBosse
Ducal Palace at Genoa, L 188 ; at Venice,
298
Ducie, Sir William (afterwards Lord
Downe), ii. 4 and n., 189, 212, 295 ;
account of, 4 n. ; his paintings, 9, 71
Duck decoys near Dort, L 47
DuetoT DubitanHum, Dr. Taylor's (1660),
iL 120 and n.
Duels, fatal (1685), iii. 168 ; (1686),
199 ; (1694), 808 ; increase in number
(1684), 135
Duerte, Signor, an Antwerp merchant,
L58
Dugdale, Sir WUliam, Garter King of
Arms, ii. 110 and n., 141, iiL 19, 874 ;
his great age, 161
408
GENERAL INDEX
Dngdale, Stephen, a witneM tganut Lord
Stafford, iii. 61 and n.
Doilliiu, itatues by, L 158
Doke, Dr., iL 288
Duke's Playhooee, the, in Portngal Bow,
iL 168 and n.
Dnlwich CoUege, iL 884
Dn Menie, chemist, fraud o^ iL 88 and n.
Dunbarton, G^rge Douglas, Earl ol^
iii. 205 and n.
Dunblane, Peregrine Osborne, Yisoonnt,
iL 878 »., iiL 118 n. ; his wife, 118
Duncan, Bev. Dr., iL 44 n. ; sermon by,
82
Duucomb, Edward, drawing by, L 1
Dancomb, Mr., iiL 2 ; a Lard Justice in
Ireland, 804
Dunoomb, Bev. Mr., of Albury, his
sermons, iiL 811
Duncomb, Bev. William, Beetor of Ash-
tead, iiL 816 and fk, 882
Duncomb, Sir Sanders, his liunous
powder, L 12 ; introduced sedans into
England, 289 and n.
Duncombe, Anthony, iiL 2, 884 n.
Duncombe, Sir Charles, M.P., his wealth,
iiL 828 and n. ; expelled for falsely
endorsing Exchequer Bills, 884 and n,
Duncombe, Sir John, IL 247, 248, 249,
824, iii. 76 ; Burnet's character of him,
iL 247 n.
Dundas, Lord, ii. 888 n.
Dunkirk, L 59; Louis XIV. before
(1671X U. 821
Duomo, at Siena, L 147, 270 ; at Lucca,
271 and n.
Duperrler, Francois, his singing, iii. 187,
145
Dupin, Mme., proprietress of Ch^on-
ceaux, L 116 n.
Duport, Dr. James, Greek Professor, ii.
169 and n, ; sermon by, 850
Duppa, Dr. Brian, Bishop of Chichester,
iii. 55
Du Prue, performer on the lute, iiL 40
Durance river, i. 128
Durante, painting of, L 246
Duras, Louis, Earl of Feversham, ii.
885 and n.
Durdans, at Epsom, iL 184 and n., 198,
860
Durel, Dr. John, Dean of Windsor, iL 25
and 91., iiL 28, 98 ; translation of the
Liturgy into French, ii. 805 and n.
Dtirer, Albert, drawings by, L 87, 101,
142 ; prints, 101 ; carvings, iL 102 ;
paintings, L 191, 199, 272, 274
Durfort See Duras
Dutch, their traflSc in pictures, L 82;
canals in the towns o^ 87 and fu ;
avarice of the, iL 141 ; embassy to con-
gratulate William IIL, iiL 265 ; cor-
rupted by the French (1684), 127
Dutch Bishop, humorous story of, L 152
Dutch boy, phenomena in tiie eyes of
(1701), iiL 856
Dutch feast, iu. 88
Dutch Fleet, first action of the (1665),
iL 228 ; defeat at Sole Bay (1665), 229,
280 ; (1672), 846 and n. ; defeat, 12tfa
Sept (1665), 284 ; battle in the Downs
(1666), 244 ; battle off North Foreland
(1666), 249 ; daring enterprise (1667),
in the destruction of ships at Chatham,
etc, 278 and n. ; completely block the
Thames, 274 ; encounter with, off
Oravesend (1667), 277 ; capture and
misfortunes of Vice-Admiral of, 2S5-
286; attack on Dutch convoy of
Smyrna fleet, 889 ; James II. alarmed
at (1688), iiL 281
Dutch War, vigorous proeecution of, on
both sides (1665), iL 227, 245, 249,
272, 274, 277 ; peace proclaimed, iL
279 and n. ; Evelyn's occupation with
the, 229, 281, 244, 246, 278, 274-5,
277 ; requested by the Eing to write the
History of, 807, 867 ; the Preface sap-
pressed and tiie work laid aside, 870 ;
references to the work, 280, 294, 814,
815, 816, 818, 828, 829, 850 ; attack
on Dutch Smyrna fleet before Procla-
mation of War, 840 ; treatment of
prisoners, iiL 160 n.
Dyce's edition of Bentley's TTorfo, cited,
iiL 292 n.
Dyers, use of saundus (sandalwood t),
iLS54
Dyve, Sir Lewis, chequered career o( iL
38 and tu, 46 and n.
Earle, Dr. John, Bishop of Salisbury, it
2 and n., 16, 44 n. ; sermon by, 156 ;
consecration, character, and works o^
198
Earth and Vegetation^ Evelyn's Dieoowne
of (1675), iL 878 and n.
Earthquakes, in England (1687), i!L 221 ;
at Lima (1688), 288 ; in all parts
(1688), 240 ; (1692), 298 ; at Altborp
and other places (1690X 281 ; in
Jamaica (1692), 297; at Catania,
Sicily, and Malta (1698X 801; at
Portland (1696), 822 ; at New Batavia
(1699), 842 ; at Portugal (1699), 845 ;
at Bome (1708), 864
East India, Ambassadors (1682), iiL 84 n.,
85
GENERAL INDEX
409
East India Company, union of; etc
(1667), it. 126 and n. ; prosperona,
ill. 89 ; probable diaaolntion, 266 ;
transactions in Parliament respecting,
iU. 298, 888 ; bribes paid out of stock,
817
East India Company, Dutch, prizes taken
from, u. 286, 288; tbeir piOace at
Antwerp, i. 62 ; account of the Com-
pany (1667), ii. 118; yaohts intro-
duced by the, 172
East India Company, Scottish, iii. 827
Easter in Rome, l 267-9
Eastern languages, loss of time to study,
u. 108
Easton, near Towcester, iiu 288
Eaton, Judge, ii. 14
Ecclesiastical Affairs, Commission for
(1686), iii. 208, 210, 289
JScclesuutieal History (CsBsar Baronius),
i. 166 n.
Echo, remarkable one, i 88
Eclipse of the sun (1662), u. 66 ; (1684),
iii. 129 ; (1699), 842
Edgecombe, Sir Richard, ii. 288
Edgehill, battle of, i. 61 and n. ; Prtface,
xii
Education, Papers concerning, by Evelyn,
ill 876, 880
Edward the Confessor, King of England,
crucifix and gold chain found in his
coffin, iii. 177, 178 ; account and de*
scription, 878-6
Edward VI., King of England, U. 120-21
and n. ; MS. exercises of, iii. 64 and
n. ; his schools, 218
Edward, Prince, ii. 198
Edwards, Rev. Mr., of Denton, ill.
811
Eggs fried in sugar Aimace at Bristol, ii.
74 and n.
Egyptian antiquities given to Mr. Evelyn,
i. 809, ii. 110
Eleanor, Queen, ii. 92
Elector, Charles of Bavaria, Prince Pala-
tine of the Rhine, iL 20
Elector Palatine, Frederick, 1. 7 n.
Elephant of a monstrous size, i. 82 and n.
Eliot, Mr., of the Bedchamber, ii.
880
Elizabeth, Queen of England, Dutch
hospital founded by, L 86 ; her resi-
dence. Nonsuch House, Surrey, ii. 288
and n. ; portrait of, 9 ; head o^ cut
in sardonyx, 62 ; her effigies unhurt
by the fire (1666), 268 ; referred to,
114
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, L 29 and
n., ii. 184 and n.
Elowes, Sir John, iii 69
Eltham Palace, dilapidated state of, ii.
108, 110
Eltham, Sir John Shaw's house at, ii.
211 and n.
Ely, Isle of, settlement of Family of Love
in, iii. 224 and n.
Ely Place (or House), ii. 291, 880 and n. ;
chapel of, iiL 801
Elysian Fields, notice of the, i 288
JUyHum BriianfUcum, Mr. Evelyn's col-
lections for that work, iii. 878 ; plan
of the contents, 378-80
Elzevfr printing-press at Leyden, L 42
and n.
Embalming, newly invented method of,
iii. 81 and n.
Embassies and ambassadors attend
Charles II. on his restoration, ii. 147,
149, 161
Emerald, remarkable, i. 188 and n.
EmOiana, Margaret, of Verona, i. 809
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, iL 96
EmploymttUf Public, and Active lAfe
pr^erred to Solitude, published by
Evelyn (1667), ii. 268 and n., iii. 876,
882 ; his letter to Cowley respecting,
ii. 418
JEneyelcpcedia Bibliea, of Alstedius, iii
809
EnfiM, History qf (Robinson), referred
to, ii 891 n.
Enfield Chase, Lord Coventry's Lodge in,
ii. 891 and n. ; rural nature of, &.
England, reflections upon the policy and
people of, iii 106 ; Great Seal o^
thrown into Thames by James IL,
248 n, ; condition of rural parishes,
ii 87
England, Church of. See Church
England^ A Character qf (1669), by
Evelyn, Introduetiot^, xl, iii 881 ;
cited, ii. 68 n., 66 n., 71 n. ; men-
tioned, 166 and n.
England, Annals qf, 1876, cited, ii
106 n., iii 80 n., 166 n., 220 n.,
360 n.
England, History of^ Macaulay, cited,
ii 148 n., 186 n.
England under the Stuarts (1904), Mr.
Trevelyan, cited, iii 26 n., 60 n., 189
n., 190 n.
England, New, proceedings in the
Colony of (1671-2), ii. 824, 826, 326,
827, 888 ; increase of witches in, iii
800 and n.
English, or Inglis, Mrs., beautiM MS.
by, ii 77 and n.
English Essays from a French Pen
410
GENERAL INDEX
(M. Jnnerand**), rafoned to, IiUro-
dueUon, zl n.
English portnits collected by Lord
darendon, il 292, 298 ; othen worthy
of being preaerved, ib. n,
BnglxMh Vineyard VindiaUed, by John
Boee, iii 831
Engravers, OcUalogue qf, Wslpole't,
cited, iii. 888 n., IntroduOian, liii
EnhyditM, stone so called by Pliny, L 198
Bnstone, Oxfordshire, Boshell's Wells st»
ii. 215
Epidemic of coldi^ iL 885
Epiphany, ceremony on the, at Borne,
L 208
Episcopacy, Cromwell's opposition to^
ii. 106
Epping Forest, Earl of Norwich's honse
in, ii 803, iii 98 ; Sir Joeiah ChUd's
seat in, 93 ; Mr. Honblon's honse in, ib,
Erasmus, Dedderios, honse of, at Rotter-
dam, i. 28 and n. ; portrait by Hol-
bein, ii. 102
Eremitano, Albert, head of, i 806
Emley, Sir John, iii. 214
Erskiue, William, Master of the Charter-
house, iii 74 and n.
Esdras, ancient books of, i 280
Espagne, Monsieur d', ii 116
Esquire, poll-money for an, ii 152
BseaySf Bacon's, cited, i 182 and n.
Essex, Arthur CapeJ, Earl of, his crea-
tion (1661), ii 162 ; house at Cassio-
bury, iii. 44 ; Burghley House, 116
and n, ; character, etc, of, and of his
Countess, 46 ; alluded to, 87, 66, 104 ;
not acquainted with the marriage of
Lady Ogle and Mr. Thynne, 72-8;
committed to the Tower, 101 ; his
death, 102, 103 and n., 123; his
rooms at Whitehall burned, 384 n.
Essex, Earl of, portrait, ii 298 n.
Essex, Elizabeth, Countess of, iii 46
Essex, petition brought from, ii. 5
Bsaex, Wright and BartleU's, dted, ii.
189 ».
Essex House, notice of, ii. 353 and ».,
iii. 44 and n.
Essling, Mons., of Paris, his gardens,
i 91
Essonues, M. Essling's house, i 91
Estcourt, Sir WiUUm, kUled, iii 185 m.
Este, Palazzo d', at Tivoli, i 264
Este, Princess Mary Beatrice d'. Su
Mary, consort of James II.
Estrades, Count d', ii 50, 55
Atampes, noticed, i 108
Etherege, Sir George, his Love in a Tub^
ii 209 n.
Etna, Mount, eruption of (1669), ii 303
Eton School, iii 296
Bnganean BiiUs, notice of the, i 318
Enston Hall, Thetford, ii 830 and «.,
iii 2 ; church and parsonage leboflt
by Lord Arlington, 8, 6, 7 ; house and
gardens described, ii 382, iii 6, 6
Evanoe, Sir Stephen, iii 829 and ».
ETana, ReT. — ^, iii 2
Evanson, Bst. R. M., iii 227 n.
Ere, statue oi; i 298
Erdin, William, physician, ii 806 and «.
Evelyn family, French branch of, ii 307
Evelyn, Ann, daughter of Richard of
Woodcote, marriage of^ rsfisrred to^ ii
805 «.
Evelyn, Sir Edward, cousin of Evelyn,
elected M.P., iii. 158 and n. ; dea^h,
295 and n,
Evelyn, Eleanor, mother of Evelyn, i. 1 ;
character, 8 ; her illness and death,
11-18 ; epitaph, 18 n.
Evelyn, Eliza, sister of Evelyn, birth, L
1 and n. ; see Darcy ; her death and
monument, 11 and n.
Evelyn, Elizabeth, second daughter of
Evelyn, birth, ii 280 and n. ; marriage
and death, iii 178
Evelyn, Elizabeth, daughter of George
Eveljm, iii 338 and w.
Evelyn, Sir Frederick, and Lady, Prtfctee,
• • •• •
VU, VUl
Evelyn, Gkorge, grandfather of Eveljrn,
i. 8 and n.
Evelyn, George, elder brother of Evelyn,
birth, i 1 and ». ; his second wife^
Lady Cotton, 5 and n, ; letter to bis
father, Richard, descriptive of visit of
Charles I. to Oxford (1636), 13 n.,
358 ; marriage, 19 ; his brother John's
present to his daughter at her christen-
ing, ii. 6 ; improvements by, in the
garden at Wotton, 54 ; birth of his
son, 54 and n, ; death of his second
wife. Lady Cotton, 212 ; choeen Knight
for county of Surrey (1679), iii 28 ;
prevented from becoming a candidate
for Surrey (1685), 158 ; Deputy-Iieu-
tenant for the County, 806 ; his death,
342 ; bis character, and particulars of
his family, t&., 848 ; his property, ib. ;
various allusions to, ii 8, 66, 238, iii
225, 888 n.
Evelyn, Captain George, son of Sir John,
and cousin of Evelyn, a great traveller,
his skill in architecture, ii 9 and «.,
66
Evelyn, George, of Nutfield, cousin of
Evelyn, Deputy- Lieutenant of Surrey,
GENERAL INDEX
411
iil 806 ; his family, 812 ; his death,
841 and n.
ETelyn, Gkorge, son of George, and
nephew of ETelyn, L 74 and n., it
56 ; travels, marriage, and death, ilL
843 and n. ; daughters of, ib.
Evelyn, George, fourth son of Evelyn,
birth, ii 121 ; death, 180
Evelyn, Glanville, iii 860 n.
Evelyn, Jane, sister of John, married to
William Glanville, birth of, L 1 and n. ;
death of, ii. 48 ; allusions to, L 28, ii.
4, 14, 29, iii 860
Evelyn, Jane, grand-daughter of Evelyn,
iii 290, 291
Evelyn, Sir John (sen.), monument at
Godstone, iii. 10 and n.
Evelyn, Sir John, of Godstone, cousin of
Evelyn, ii 18 and n., 69, 207 and n,,
iii 9, 852 ; his house at Godstone, ii
188 and n. ; his forty-first wedding-
day, 141
Evelyn, Sir John, of Deane, in Wiltshire,
ii. 18 ; his daughter, Mrs. Pierrei>ont,
*b. and n., iii 222 and n., 837
Evelyn, John, i>ortraits, Frontispiecea ;
summary of his life and character —
(1620) birth, i 1, 8 ; baptism, 5 ;
childhood, 6 ; (1624) received his first
instruction under Mr. Frier, 6 ; (1625)
passed his childhood at Lewes, with
his grandfather, 7 ; (1626) portrait
painted by ChantereU, 7 ; (1628)Uught
to write by M. Citolin, and sent to the
free school at Southover, 8 ; (1681)
begins to record remarkable circum-
stances, 9 ; (1685) illness and death of
his mother, 11-18 ; (1687) admitted to
the Middle Temple, 18; (1687) entered
a Fellow-Commoner of Balliol CSoUege,
14 ; presents books to its library, 15 ;
first exercise, 16 ; accident to, in the
CoUege Hall, 16 ; (1688) visits his
frieuds, 17; begins to manage his own
expenses, 17 ; afflicted with ague, 18 ;
(1689) studies music, and visits vwious
parts of Eugland, 18 ; confirmed at
St Mary's, 18; (1640) resident at
Bfiddle Temple, 19 ; (1641) portrait
painted by Van der Borcht, 28 ; makes
a tour through various parts of Holland
and Flanders, 25-59 ; vohmteers be-
fore Gennep, 27, 80 ; at the Court of
the Queen of Bohemia, 29 ; at the
Fair of Rotterdam, 82 ; visits Amster-
dam, 84, Haarlem, 40, and Antwerp,
49 ; matriculates at Ley den, 41 ;
curious conversation with a Jew at
Leyden, 48 ; visits Brussels, 54 ; leaves
HoUand and arrives in London, 59 ;
elected one of the Comptrollers of the
Revellers of the Middle Temple, but
declines, 60 ; (1642) a royal volunteer
at the battle of Brentford, 61 ; reason
of his not joining the Royal Army,
IntrodueUtm, xxiii and n. ; improves
the house at Wotton, 62; sends a
horse, accoutred, to the King at Oxford,
68 ; embarks for France, 68 ; his
remarks during his travels in that
kingdom (1648-4), 68-126; (1644)
travels in Normandy, 92-6 ; returns to
Paris, 96 ; sends his portrait to his
sister, 102 and n. ; journey to Orleans,
108 ; attacked by robbers, 104 ; studies
French at St. Gatien, 111 ; arrested
by his valet, 118-14 ; establishes two of
his relations at Tours, 114 ; travels in
Southern France, 116-26 ; sets out
for Italy, 127 ; embarks at Cannes, 127 ;
sails down the Mediterranean, 127 ;
in peril of shipwreck, 128 ; arrives at
Genoa, 129 ; account of his travels
(1644-6) in various parts of Italy,
185-885 ; omissions in Evelyn's MS.,
145 n., 217; visits Rome, 158-217,
and Naples, 222; his etchings of
Naples, iii 888 ; visits Vesuvius, i.
227 ; godfather to a converted Turk
and Jew, i 252 ; blessed by the
Pope, 262 ; travelling expenses of,
268, 286, 818, 851, iii. 848 n. ;
leaves Rome for Venice, i 268 ; im-
prudent use of a hot bath at Venice,
286 ; disappointed of a voyage to the
Holy Land, 298 ; matriculates at
Padua, 806 ; accompanies the Earl of
Arundel to the gardens of Mantua, 807 ;
contributes to Father Kircher's Obdis-
eus PamphUius, 309 ; elected Syndicus
Artistarum at Padua, but declines,
810 ; studies at Padua, ib, ; obliged to
arm there in self-defence, 312 ; illnesa
from drinking iced wine, ib, ; learns
the theorbo, 818 ; receives a birthday
present from the nuns of St. Catharine
at Padua, ib, ; entertains the British
residents (1646), 818 ; fired at by a
noble Venetian from his gondola, 814 ;
studies surgery at Padua, ib. ; obtains
a Spanish pass, 816 ; with the Earl of
Arundel at Padua, 817 ; visits Milan,
824 ; adventure with a Scottish
colonel, 881 ; journey over the Alps
into Switzerland (1646), 884-40;
detained by Swiss at Mount Simplon,
888 and n., 841 ; catches the small-
I>ox, 848, 851 ; crosses the Lake of
412
GENERAL INDEX
OenevB, 844 ; joins in the exerdaes of
the Oampns If aitiufl, 848 ; Bails down
tlie Rhone and arrives in France, 851 ;
learns High Dutch and Spanish at
Paris, 852 ; (1647) attends a conrse of
chemistry, iL 1 ; learns the lute, A. ;
marries Mary, daughter of Sir Richard
Browne, Ambassador at Paris, 2 ;
returns to England, i&. ; yisits King
Charles I. at Hampton Court, 8 ; buys
the manor of Huroott, 5 ; his portrait
painted by Walker, ib. ; gives a present
to his niece Mary (daughter of his
brother George) at her christening, 6 ;
(1649) narrow escape, 7 ; Liberty and
Servitude, published, 8 and n. ;
passages therein for which he was
"threatened," Introduction, xxziv ;
studies chemistry, ib. ; corresponds
with Sir Richard Broi^'ue, 10 ; illness,
11 ; buys manor of Warley, ib., 105 ;
sets out for Paris, 14 ; remarks upon
his residence in France (1649-50), 15-
28; with King Charles 11. at St
Germain, 16 ; presented at an audience
with the French Regency, 19 ; declines
knighthood, 17, Introduction, XTii n, ;
(1650) perilous adventure in com-
pany with Lord Ossory, 28 ; portrait
drawn and engraved by Nanteiiil, 26 ;
sails for England (1650), 27 ; his pass
from. Bradshaw, 29 and n. ; in danger
with the rebel army, 2^ ; returns to
France, 80 ; remarks during his stay
there (1650-52), 80 ; resolves to return
to England, 46 ; (1652) recovers a lost
portrait of his wife, 50 and n. ; returns
to England, 51 ; motives for settling
in England, 52; (1652) settles at
Sayes Court, Deptford, ib., 101 ; im-
proves the garden at Wotton, 54 ;
orders his first coach, 56 ; goes to Rye
to meet his wife, 57 ; robbed near
Bromley, 58 ; birth of his first son,
Richard, 62 and n. ; (1653) arranges
the garden at Sayes Court, 65 and n, ;
purchases ditto, ib, ; discharges all his
debts, 67 ; birth of his second son,
John, 68 ; (1654) death of ditto, 70 ;
binds his servant apprentice, 71 ;
journey into Wiltshire, etc., 72, to
Oxford, 75, and to Midland counties,
85 ; birth of his third son, John, 100 ;
attends a private meeting of the
Church of E^land in London (1655),
99 ; (1656), 116 ; (1657), 126 ; (1655)
begins housekeeping, 101 ; visits Arch-
lilshop Ussher, 108 ; conversation with
Oughtred, 104 ; catechises his family.
105 ; visits Mr. Hartlib, 106 ; sevoe
cold, ib. ; attends a farewell sermon
on the prohibition of church ministers,
107 and n. ; (1656) severe cold, 108 ;
procures ordination for Mons. le
Franc, whom he had converted. 111 ;
publishes his translation of Luoreiius
(1656), 111 and n, ; visiU the Dutch
Ambassador, 112 ; journey to the
north-east of England (1656), 112 ;
(1657) fedls from hU coach, 121;
soldiers quartered on, ib, ; birth of his
fourth son, Geoige, ib, ; uses his
interest about the living of Eltham,
122 ; subscribes to the stock of the
English East India Company, 125;
surprised with many others in Exeter
Chapel by the miUtary, 126 ; (1658)
grief at the death of his eldest son,
Richard, 129-80; Dr. Jeremy Taylor*s
letter to Evelyn on the death of his
son, 897 ; publishes a translation of
SL OhrysosUm on Bdueation (1659),
184 and n, ; summoned by Commis-
sioners for New FoundationB, 186, 187;
his French. Oardener (1658), 137,
IniroducHan, xxxix and n. ; (1669)
bis intimacy with Hon. Robert Boyle,
189 ; his letter to Boyle, planning a
college or society, 399 ; comes to lodge
in London, 140 ; pubUshes his Apology
for the Royal Party (1659), 140 and
n. ; his Cffuuratter qf England and
reply to foreign critic, Introduction^
xl and n. ; treats with Colonel Morley
to bring in the Eing^ 142, 404-10 ;
illness, 148 ; publishes his I^ewe
from BrusteU Unmasked (1660), in
defence of the King, 144 ; solicited to
go and invite the King, ib. ; procures
Colonel Morley's pardon, 1 48 ; pre-
sented to the King at the Restoration,
146, 147 ; invited to accept a oomniis-
sion for a troop of horse, but dedinea,
150 ; presented to Anne, Duchess of
York, 156 ; his Character qf England
(1659)presented to Princess Henrietta,
156 and n. ; (1661) chosen a member
of the Philosophical Society (after-
wards the Royal Society), 157 ;
presents his CiroU of Mechanimt
Trades to the Society, 158, and his
Relation of the Peak qf Teiutriffe, 160 ;
Prince Rupert shows him the method
of mexzo tinto, 159, 160 ; declines the
Bath, 161, Introduction, xvii n. ;
presents his Panegyric qf the Coromor
turn (1661) to the King, 167 and n. ;
discourses with Charles II. about the
GENERAL INDEX
418
Boyol Society, etc, 170, and presents
his Fmvtf%gium (1661) to the King,
172 end n. ; sails down the Thames
with the King (on a wager between the
King and the Duke of York's pleasure
boats), 178 ; discourses with the King,
t&., 177, 178 ; oommanded to draw np
a relation of the encounter of the
Spanish and French Ambassadors, 174;
reads it to the King, 176 ; the narra-
tive printed, 175 fi., 411-17 ; his
translation of Gabriel Naudieas' In-
gtructiona amceming Librariea, 178 ;
receives the thanks of the Royal Society
for a compliment in its Preface, 179 ;
James, Dake of York's disoourse with,
ib. ; his Tyranmu, or the Mode (1661),
180 and n, ; (1662) holds the candle
while King Charles's head was drawn
for the new coin, 181 ; visited by the
Duke of York, 183 ; attends the King
and talks with him about the Palace
at Greenwich, 184 ; appointed a Com-
missioner for improving streets, etc.,
tn London, 185 ; presented to the
Queen, 187 ; attends Prince Rupert to
the RoyiJ Society, 185 ; presents his
Hittory of Chalcography (1662) to the
Royal Society, 188 and n. ; made a
Commissioner for Charitable Uses,
189; visited by the Queen- Mother
and LfOrd Chancellor Hyde, 191 ;
nominated by the King to tiie Council
of the Royal Society, ift. ; sails down
the Thames with the King and Queen,
198 ; i)etitions the King about his
own concerns, and goes with him
to Mons. Lefevre, 194 ; presents his
Sylva to the Royal Society and to
the King, 195, 208 ; at Court, 196 ;
suggests the planting of the Forest
of Dean with oak, 197 ; (1668) his
house broken open, 201 ; King visits
him at Sayes Court, 202 ; made a
Commissioner of the Mint, 205 ;
(1664) discourses with the King,
208 and ». ; death of his son
Richard, 209 ; subscribes to Sir Arthur
Slingsby's Lottery, 211; goes with
Lord Combury into Oxfordshire,
214 ; King Charles commends his
Parallel qfAncienl and Modem Archi-
tecture (1664) and his Sylva, 217 ;
appointed a Commissioner for Sick
and Wounded, 218 ; proceedings in
that office, 219, 220, 222, 228, 226,
227, 228, 229, 280, 282, 284, 285,
286, 241, 242, 248, 245, 256, 264,
276, 278, 280, 287, 888, 842, 848
and n., 849, 865 ; Queen-Mother's
compliment to, for his book on Archi-
tecture, 219 ; publishes a part of the
Mystery ofJeeuiHsm (1665), 221 and
n. ; presents copy of it to Lord Com-
bury, <b, ; King Charles commends it,
228 ; his KaUmdarium Bortetue pub-
lished (1664), iii. 876, 882 ; visits the
Royal Menagerie in St. James's Park,
ii. 224 ; present at prorogation of
Parliament (1665), 225 ; presents a
captured Dutch officer to the King,
227 ; entertained on board the fleet at
the Nore, 281 ; sends his family from
London on account of the Plague, but
remains there himself 288 ; passes
through the infected parts of the City,
284 ; a merry meeting with Pepys
and Sir J. Minnes, 285 n. ; visited at
Sayes Court by Pepys, 287 n. ; birth
of his daughter Mary, 286 ; (1666)
graciously received, and his services
acknowledged, by the ELing and the
Duke of York, 240 ; plan for an
Infirmary for sick and wounded, 241 ;
presents a part of Mystery qf Jesuitism
to the King, 241 ; declines office of
Justice of the Peace, 242 ; commanded
by the King to recommend a Justice
of the Peace for Surrey, ib. ; elected
to the Council of the Royal Society,
but declines, 248 ; with Prince Rupert
at the Nore, ib,, 246 ; made a Com-
missioner for the farming and making
of saltpetre, 247 ; a Commissioner for
repair of old St. Paul's Cathedral,
250 ; witnesses the Fire of London,
252-9 ; passes over the ruins, 256,
260 ; presents his plan for rebuilding
London to the King, ib, and n, ;
Persian habit assumed by the King,
262 and m. ; wears it himself; 264 ;
overturned in his carriage, ib,; (1667)
library and M8S. of the Barl of
Arundel given to the Royal Society
by his means, 267 ; publishes his
Public jEmployment pr^erred to Soli-
tude, 268 and n. ; correspondence
with Cowley, 418-420; visits the
Duke and Duchess of Newcastle, 269 ;
conducts the Duchess to a meeting of
the Royal Society, 272; with King
Charles, ib, ; alarmed by Dutch fleet
in the Thames, 278 ; commanded by
the King to search for peat, 274 ; his
receipt for making *'houllies" (a
mixture of charcoal and loam) tried,
275-6 ; daughter Elizabeth bom, 280 ;
obtains the Arandel Marbles for
414
GENERAL INDEX
Oxford UniTeiBity, 281; Umvcralty
in Convocation presents its acknow-
ledgments, 282 ; gives Royal Society
his Tables of Veins and Arteries,
284 and «. ; gives bricks for building
a college for Royal Society, 287;
purchases Raveusbonme Mills, 288 ;
lease of land granted him by the King,
who disooorses on several subjects,
289; publishes hie Petfedion of
Painting (1668), 290 and n. ; list
of great men whose portraits he re-
commended Lord Clarendon to pro-
cure, 298 n, ; (1669) presents his
History qf the Three laU Famous
Impostors to the King, 294; his
daughter Susanna bora, 296 ; again
visite Oxford, 297 ; degree of Doctor
conferred on him by the University,
301 ; illness of, 803 ; his affliction on
account of his brother Richard, i6.,
804, 305; (1670) solicits the office
of LatiD Secretary, 806 ; pressed to
write the History of the Dutch War,
307, 814 ; draws up a draft of the
History, 814 ; official documents given
to him for the History, t6., 816, 816,
329 ; introduces Gibbons, the carver,
at Court, 817 and n. ; appointed on a
Council for Trade and Foreign Planta-
tions, 819 ; attends meetings of, 823,
324, 826, 827, 828, 837, 388, 839,
344, 849, 850, 853, 354, 359, 860,
365, 371, 872; sits as one of the
Commissioners about the subsidy to
Charles XL, 322 ; entertained by the
Trinity Company on passing a fine of
land for their alms-house, 328 and
n. ; lawsuit with Mr. Cocke, 325 ;
visits Newmarket races, 329 and n. ;
dines with the King at Euston, 881 ;
(1672) King grants him a lease of
Sayes Court, 337 and n. ; visits the
fleet and reports to the King, 344-6,
349, 350 ; conversations with Lord
Sandwich, and reflections on his death,
347 ; reads the first part of lus Dutch
War to Lord Clifford, 350 ; serves on
West Indies Committee, 853 ; chosen
Secretary of the Royal Society, 354 ;
(1673) swora a Younger Brother of
the Trinity House, 855; takes the
Sacrament and Oaths as ordered by
Parliament, 857 ; Lord Clifford's
prophetic farewell, 862; charitoble
works of, 866 ; commanded by the
TCing to write about the duty of the
Flag and Fishery, 367, 870 ; (1674)
his Navigation and Oommerce, their
Original and Progress^ the preface to
the History of the Dutch War, 369,
870 ; commended by the King, but
publicly recalled, ib, ; (1675) his char-
acter of Sir William Petty, 376-7;
his Disamrse qf Earth and Vegeta-
tion (1675), 878 and n. ; Lord Berkeley
confides his estates and property to,
886, 887 ; (1676), ill 1 ; the Queen
entertained at Sayes Courts ii. 390 ;
copy of Marmora Oxoniensia Anan-
deUana presented to him by the
University, tb. ; serious consequences
of a fall to him, 395 ; (1677) becomes
a trustee for Lord Mordaunt, iiL 1 ;
(1678) his friendship for Mrs. Godol-
phin, 20, 21 ; acts as Trustee and
Executor for Lady Mordaunt, 32,
41, 47 ; treats for marriage of his son
with daughter of Sir John Stonehoose,
42 and n., 43, 44 ; (1679) letter to
Dr. Beale about his Aeetaria and
Elysium Britannicum, 876; (1680)
last conversation with Lord Ossory,
49, and grief at his death, 51 ;
reflections on his 60th birthday, 58,
59 ; consulted by Sir Stephen Fox
about Chelsea Hospital, 71 ; Barl of
Essex vindicates himself from an
injurious report, 73; attacked with
ague, and settles his affairs, 79 ; seized
with a fainting fit, and declines to
stand the election for President of
Royal Society, 88, 89 ; disposes of
his East India adventure, ib. ; (1683)
his account of Sir Richard Browne,
90-93 ; communicates to Dr. Plot a
list of his works, 875 ; plants the
walks at Sayes Court, 95 ; declines
a lucrative employment from con-
scientious motives, 112 ; attends the
King on a visit to the Duchess of
Portsmouth, 118 ; takes a house in
Villiers Street, 116 ; visits Lord Danby
in the Tower, 118 ; (1684) consulted
by Dr. Tenison about erecting a Public
lAbrarv, 123, 124 ; his Account qf the
Winter of 1683-4 published in PhU,
Trans,, 125 and n^ ; consulted about
building over Berkeley Gkirdeus, 127 ;
his account of illness and death of
Charles II., 187-42; (1685) assists
in proclaiming James IL| 144, 145 ;
his affliction on the death of his
daughter Mary, 149, 152 ; Mundus
MuliOris (1690), referred to, 151 n.,
152 and n. ; account of Duke of Mon-
mouth and his rebellion, 167-72 ;
death of his daughter Elizabeth, 178 ;
GENERAL INDEX
415
melancholy reflections on the deaths
of hie daughters, t&. ; nominated a
Commissioner of Pri^y Seal, 174 ;
appointed, 195 ; transactions as Com-
missioner, »&., 196, 198, 200, 201,
208, 208, 214 ; James II. 's gracious
reception of^ ib^ 175 ; accompanies
Mr. Pepys to Portsmouth to attend
on James II., 175, 179, 180 ; papers
proving Charles II. to be a Roman
Catholic, 181 -4 ; portrait painted by
Kneller, 185 and n. ; appointed Com-
missioner of Sewers, 192; (1686)
takes the Test, 199 ; his law-suit, i&.,
206, 219, 221 ; Sir Gilbert Gernird
proposes to marry his son to Mr.
ETelyn's daughter Susanna, 199 ; re-
fuses the IMvy Seal for printing
Missals, etc., 200, 204, and declines
attendance, 201 ; attends James II.
on his birthday, 210 ; (1687) reflec-
tions on King James's attempt to
Introduce Popery, 214 ; Commis-
sioners for Privy Seal dismissed, 216 ;
granted £6000 by James II. in dis-
charge of debt due to Sir R. Browne,
221, 224 ; particulars relating to his
law-suit, 221 ; which was terminated
by the favour of James IL, 222, 224 ;
appointed a Governor of St. Thomas's
Hospital, 225 ; (1688) writes a re-
ligious treatise, 227 and n. ; petitions
to be allowed charges as a Commis-
sioner of Sick and Wounded, 228,
281 ; his letter to the Archbishop of
Canterbury, 241 and n. ; his account
of landing of Prince of Orange and
flight of James II., 244-9 ; (1689)
Archbishop Sancroft thanks him for
his letter, 250 ; his examination of
the extraordinary talents of Dr.
Clench's son, 251-8; remarks on
Queen Mary II., 256 ; conversations
with Archbishop Sancroft and Bishop
Lloyd, 261, 268 ; his portrait painted
by Kneller, 266 and ». ; prayer on
his birthday (1689), 268, 269 ; (1690)
conversation with Mr. Pepys on the
Navy, 272-4 ; dines with Sir G.
Mackenzie, against whom he had
written his JSiaay on PtMie Employ'
ment, 275 ; conversatito with Dr.
lioyd, 276-8 ; becomes one of the
bail for Lord Clarendon, 280 ; de-
clines appointment as President of
Royal Society, 282 ; encourages Dr.
Hans Sloane to write a History of
Jamaica, 284 and n, ; (1692) at the
Ameral of Mr. Boyle, 290 ; a trustee
for the Boyle Lecture, 292 and n. ;
his opinion of Dr. Bentley's Boyle
Lecture, 294 ; Mr. Draper's marriage
with his daughter Susanna, 801 ;
declines Presidentship of Royal
Society, 805; (1694) his translation
of M. de la Quintinye's Complete
Gardener (1698), 875, 882; Duke
of Norfolk's kindness to the Evelyn
family, 807 ; goes with his family to
live with his brother at Wotton, 809 ;
his JEssay on Medals referred to, i.
16 n., iiL 888 and n., 876, 882;
conversation with Marquis of Nor-
manby about Charles II., 818, 814 ;
Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital, 814 ;
account of the death of Queen Mary,
815 ; furnishes the additions to Surrey
in Camden's Britannia (1695), 816 ;
one of a Committee to survey Green-
wich House, etc., 817 ; intimacy with
Dr. Tenison, 818 ; interests himself
about the Royal Library at St. James's,
821, 888; (1696) settles the Boyle
Lecture in perpetuity, 826 ; lets Sayes
Court to Admiral Benbow, 827 ; first
stone of Greenwich Hospital laid by
him and Sir Christopher Wren, 829 ;
(1698) goes with the Surrey Address
of congratulation for peace to King
William IIL, 882 ; his NumitnuUa,
888 and n. ; Sayes Court let to Peter
the Great, 884 ; damage done by him,
886 and n, ; (1699) affliction for the
loss of his son, 888 ; resides in Dover
Street, London, 841 ; regret for his
brother Richard's death, 842; (1700)
his Acetaria referred to, 844 and n. ;
illness, 851 ; settles at Wotton, ib, ;
prayer on completing his 80th year,
858 ; concern for tibe illness of his
grandson, ifr. ; (1701) his statement of
accounts relating to Greenwich Hos-
pital, 855 and »., 860; subscribes
towards rebuilding Oakwood Chapel,
at Wotton, 858 ; holds his courts in
Surrey, 859; (1702) his Tables of
Veins and Arteries ordered by the
Royal Society to be engraved, 859 ;
elected a member of the Society for
the Propagation of Gospel in Foreign
Parts, 861 ; pious examination of
himself on completing his 82nd year,
ib, ; (1708) resigns the Treasurership
of Greenwich Hospital to his son-in-
law, Draper, 866 ; account of his
Treasurership, 855, 866 ; reflections
on his 88rd year, 866 ; losses through
the great storm of 1703, 867 ; (1704)
416
GENERAL INDEX
refleotions on beginning his 84th
year, 869 ; interview with Dake of
Marlboroogh, ib. ; (1705) conversa-
tion with Dr. Dickinson about the
Philosopher's Elixir, 870 ; 86 years
of age, 872 ; his sickness and death,
872; Christmas hospitality to his
neighbours, iL 220, 294, 867, iiL
888 ; epitaph, %b,, xvii, IzIt ; Pepys'
references to Evelyn, xlvi ; his pious
reflections at the New Year and on
his birthday, see at the close of each
year and 81st October; list of his
unpublished Treatises, ill 878, 880;
his published Works, 875, 880 ; etch-
ings by, iiL 888 and n. ; his character,
Introduetiont xvii, Ixvi-lxix ; his writ-
ings, Ixix-lxxii ; facsimile of a letter
of, iiL 55 ; his Fop-Dictionary cited,
114 n.
Ske Pediffree, L Ixxiii
His Diary^ a partial transcription of
it at Wotton, Pr^ace, xiii and n. ; first
issued in 1818, vil ; edited by William
Bray, ib. ; dedication, A. ; MS. saved
from destruction by accidental exhibi-
tion to Upcott, viii ; reviewed by
Southey, ib, ; later editions, d., ix ;
Forster's edition, ix-xii; "Memoirs"
rather than a '* Diary," xii-xiii ; notes
in the present and previous editions,
xiii-xv ; the Illustrations, xv
Su Introductian, xvii-lxxii
Evelyn, John Standsfield (second son of
John), birth, iL 68 ; death, 70
Evelyn, John (third son of John), account
of him, iiL 888 n. ; birth, ii. 100
presented to the Queen-Mother, 155
alluded to, 189, 190, 264, 896
entered of Oxford University, 267
admitted of Middle Temple, 844
publishes a translation of Rapiuns
Hortorum, 854 ; instructed by the
Bishop of Chichester, 856 ; a Younger
Brother of the Trinity House,
857 ; goes with Lord Berkeley into
France, 885, 887 and n. ; return,
891 ; gift of a prayer-book to, iiL 12 ;
marriage, 42, 48 ; sent into Devon
by Lords of the Treasury, 226 ; Com-
missioner of Irish Revenue, 294, 297
and n. ; returns from Ireland, 826 ;
in ill health, 382 ; death and burial,
888 and n., 889
Evelyn, John (grandson of John), account
of, iiL 80 n. ; birth, iiL 80 ; at Eton,
296 ; entered of Oxford, 888 ; attacked
wiUi small-pox, 858 ; Commissioner of
Prizes, 857 ; treaty for marriage, ib^
858 and n. ; qnits College, 859 ;
Treasurer of Stamp Duties, 867
Evelyn, John (son of Qeozge and nephew
of John), marriage, iiL 44 and n^ 66 ;
ftineral, 285
Evelyn, John, of Nutfield, M.P., his
death, iii. 862 and n.
Evelyn, John (1817), Prrface^ vii
Evelyn, Sir Joseph, ii. 11
Evelyn, Martha (daughter-in-law of
John), account of her, iiL 48 ; thrown
out of her coach, 227
Evelyn, Martha Maria (grand-daughter
of John), birth, iiL 102; death,
108
Evelyn, Mary (daughter of Sir Richard
Browne and wife of John Evelyn),
marriage with, iL 2 ; references to,
271, 286 n., 829 fi., 848 n., iiL 11,
40, 859 n. ; portrait, iL 50 and ft.,
59 ; Princess Henrietta thanks her for
a copy of the Character qf Bngland^
156 ; Charles II. 's condescension and
promise to, 161 ; presents a copy of a
miniature by Oliver to Charles XL,
169 ; visit to Duchess of Newcastle,
271 and n. ; entertains the Queen at
Sayes Court, 890; her views on the
duties of women, liUroduetion^ Ixv ;
character of her by Dr. Bohun, Intro-
duction^ Ixv; her reference to her
husband in her will, Introdvetion^
xxxiU
Evelyn, Mary (daughter of John), ii.
868, iiL 29, 79, 169 ; birth, iL 286
and n. ; death, iii. 149 ; her piety
and accomplishments, 187* 149-5^
156 ; monument and epitaph, 155 n.
Evelyn, Mary, Lady Wyche (niece of
John, and daughter of Qeoige), John
Evelyn presents her with a piece of
plate at her christening, ii. 6 ;
marriage, iiL 295 and n. See Wyche
Evelyn, Mary (niece of John, and
daughter of Richard), marriage of, iL
808 ; death of, iiL 228
Evelyn, Richard (father of John), his
marriage and family, L 1 ; his person
and character, 1, 2 ; fined for
declining knighthood, 2 and w. ;
High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex,
2, 10 ; sickness and death, 21 ;
epitaph, ib.
Evelyn, Richard, of Woodoote (brother
of John), birth, L 1 and n. ; chamber-
fellow with his brother John at Oxford,
19 ; alluded to, 6, iL 4 and n., 100,
198, 291, 292 n., 808 ; marriage, iL 6 ;
his house called Baynards, 121 and
GENERAL INDEX
417
n. ; afilicted with the stone, 296, 804 ;
his death and funeral, 804, 805
Evelyn, Richard (son of John), birth, ii.
62, and christening, 68 ; death, 127 ;
his remarkable early talents and piety,
t&. and n. ; iii. 268, his death-bed
alluded to, U. 120; Dr. Jeremy
Taylor's letter on the death o^
897
Evelyn, Richard (another son of John),
death and burial, ii. 209
Evelyn, Richard (grandson of Evelyn),
birth, Ui 66 ; death, 71
Evelyn, Rose (cousin of Evelyn), i. 5
and n.
Evelyn, Susanna (daughter of Evelyn),
birth, ii 296 and n. ; marriage, ilL
199, 800 and n., 801 ; character and
accomplishments, 801, 859 n. See
Draper
Evelyn, Sir Thomas, L 6 and n.
Evelyn, William, of St. dere (son of
George of Nutfield), assumes the
name of Glanville, iii 860 n. ; his
issue, ib,
Evelyn, William (cousin of Evelyn), his
house near Cliveden, iii. 86 and n.
Evelyn, Mr. William John, the present
owner of Wotton House, L 4 n.,
Pr^ace, iz
Evening Lover, The, a play, iL 288 and n.
Everard, Mrs., a chemist, it 28
Eversfield, Mr., of Sussex, his daughter,
iii. 44, 66, 843
Evertzen, Captain, taken prisoner, ii.
227 and n, ; his liberty restored by
Charles II. on account of his father's
services, 228
Evil, touching for the, ii. 148 and n.,
iiL 125, 246
Evreuz, noticed, L 96
Exchange, at Amsterdam, u 86 ; at Paris,
74 ; merchants' walk at Genoa, 188 ;
at Venice, 288
Exchange, the Royal, the King's statue
at, thrown down (1649), ii 12 ;
destroyed in Great Fire of 1666, 257 ;
new building, 866 ; Proclamation of
James II. at, iii 144
Exchequer, shut up (1672), ii 840 and
n., 860 and n, ; Tallies at a discount
(1696), iii 880 and n., 881
Excise, etc., continuance of, iii. 147
and n. ; duties let to farm by James
II., ib, ; Scots grant them for ever,
161
Executions (see Question) at Rome, i 267;
at Venice, 808 ; in Switzerland, 848 ;
in England, ii 55, 62
VOL. Ill
Exeter, Earl of, garden at Burghley, iii.
116
Exeter Chapel and House, London, ii.
126
Exeter OoUege, Oxford, comedy per-
formed at (1687), i 16
Exhalation, account of fiery (1694), Hi.
807
EoBomologetie, by Dean Creasy, ii 205 n.
Eoqferimenif a ship with two bottoms,
ii 220, 876
Exton, Dr., Judge of the Admiralty, ii.
205
Eye of a Dutch boy, phenomenon in, iii
856
Eyre, Mr. Justice, a subscriber to Green-
wich Hospital, iii 880 n.
Faber, engraver, iii 116 n,
Fabricius, Jerome, physician, i 151
and n.
Fagg, Mr., ii 405, 406
Fairfax, Lord, ii 90 n., iii. 9
Fairfax, Mii^or, iii 9 ; character of, ib.
Fairs, three proclaimed, ii. 96 n.
Falkland, Lord (Treasurer of the Navy),
Ui 97, 129, 158, 156; death, and
account of, 810
Falkland, Lady, iii 158
Falmouth, Charles Berkeley, Earl of, ii
174 and n.
Familiar Letters, cited. Su Howell
" Family of Love," address to James II.
trom the (1687), ui 224 and n.
Fane, Mrs., Pepys's housekeeper, iii. 279
and n.
Fanelli, statues in copper by, ii 188
Fans, from China, ii. 210
Fanshawe, Lady Anne, her Memoirs
cited, ii 45 n.
Fanshawe, Sir Richard, allusions to, ii
51 and n., 99, 164, 190 and n,
Fardingales, ii 186
Famese Palace at Rome, account of^ i
154-5 and n., 218
Famese, Cardinal Alessandro, i 269
Famese, Alexander, Duke of Parma,
statue of, i. 218 and n.
Famesina, at Rome, i 201, 241
Farringdon, Mr., fimeral of^ ii 278
Farringdon, town of, ii 80
Fasts, notices of, ii 8, 88, 114 and n.,
181, 140, 141, 148, 158, 182, 226
and n., 288, 286, 247, 261, iii 66,
265, 276, 281, 286, 295, 297, 811,
867
Fauoonberg, Thomas Belasyse, Viscount,
iii 11 and n., 97
Faustina, Temple of; i 157 and n.
2e
418
GENERAL INDEX
Fayenham, iii. 247, 248 n.
Fay, Governor of Portsmouth, iL 142
Feame, Dr., ii. 141
Feasts, the Lord Mayor's (1679), iu. 89,
40 ; Mr. Denzil Onslow's, 70 ; a Dutch
feast, 88
Felix, St., burial-place, L 248
Felkin's History of Machine - wrought
Hosiery^ etc, Mant^aeturea (1867),
dted, iL 168 n.
Fell, Dr. John, Bishop of Oxford, ii.
169, 216, 800, 801 and n., 890;
sermon in blank verse, 225 ; death oi^
iii. 208 ; account of, 169 n.
Felton, Sir John, iii. 4
Fenwick, Mr., and his wife, cause
between, iii. 864 and n.
Fenwick, a Jesuit, executed, iii 80 n.
Fenwick, Sir John, taken, iii. 827 and
n. ; executed, 882
Ferdinand, Duke, public works, and
statue, at Leghorn, i. 188 and n.
Ferdinand I., Grand Duke of Florence,
chapel o^ i. 276
Ferdinand of Spain, Governor of
Flanders (1638-41), I 56 and n.
Ferguson, Bobert, the '* Plotter," iii. 101
and n., 104, 168, 169
Feria, Duke o^ L 828
Fermor, Sir William, afterwards Baron
Leominster, iiL 80 and n., 68, 298
and n. ; some Arundelian statues
purchased by, now at Oxford, iii. 288
and n.
Ferrara, notice of; i. 285
Ferrari, Dr. Francisco Bernardino, 1.
325 and n., 828
Ferrers, Baron, tenure of^ at Oakham,
ii. 87, 88 and n.
F^te Dieu, at Tours, i. 112
Feversham, Lewis de Duras, Earl ot ii>
385 n., ill. 184, 189, 167, 176 ; taken
prisoner by Prince of Orange, 248
Flamingo, sculpture, etc, by, L 169, 184,
267, ii. 26
Fiat, Mons., ii. 76
Field, Dr., Bishop of Oxford, I 7
Fielding, Sir John, i. 9 n.
Fielding, Lady Mary, her marriage, iiL
222 n.
Fiennes, Dr., sermon by, iiL 132
Fiennes, Celia, her Diary cited, ii. 74 n.,
75 n., 79 n., 86 n., 87 n., 92 n., 98 n.,
118 n., iiL 4 n.
Fiesole, Giovanni di, painting by, L 258
Fifth -Monarchy -Men, sermon against,
iL 122 and n. ; insurrection of, 157
FUmer, Sir E., iiL 118
Finale, notice of the shore of, L 128
I Finch, Sir John, Lord Keeper, in Hol-
land (1641), L 29 and ^, 85 ; allu-
sions to, IL 824
Finch, Heneage, afterwards Lord Chan-
cellor, and Earl of Nottingham, IL 218
and Ik, iiL 64
Finch, Heneage (son of Lord ChanceUorX
afterwards Earl of Aylesford, iii. 30,
199 and n., 219 ; James II.'s speech
to the CSouncil on his accession, taken
down in writing by, 142 n. ; purchases
Albury, 225 ; Burley-on-the-Hill
bought by the family of, ii. 88 n.
Finch, Mr., Warden of All Souls', iiL
197 n.
Fioravanti, a painter in Borne, L 267,
iL27
Fiorenzuola, L 279
Fire-eater, performances of a, iL 352
and n., iii. 120
Fire-works, at Rome (1644), L 196-7,
261 ; on the Thames (1684), iiL 131
and n. ; London (1688), 286 ; (1697),
832; in St. James's Square (1695),
321
Fire-worshippers, in Persia, ilL 53
Firmin, Mr. Thomas, account of, iii. 268
andn., 829 n.
Fish, horn of one presented to Royal
Society, ii. 209-10 and n.
Fishmongers' Hall, iL 220 and n., iiL 50
Fish-ponds, various references to, L 236 n.,
265, 346, iiL 4, 93, 18t3, 377
Fitzgerald, Lady Catherine, iii. 129
Fitz-Harding, Lord, death of; iL 361
Fitzmaurice-Eelly, Mr. J., L\fe of Cer-
vantes cited, L 294 and n.
Fitzpatrick, Colonel, iiL 221
Fls^^Bllants at Rome, L 258
Flamel, Nicholas, the alchemist, i. 100
and n.
Flamerin, Mons., iii. 180
Flamsteed, Dr. John, astronomer, iL 894
and n., iiL 48, 107, 128, 829
Fleet, engagement with the Dutch (1665),
iL 227 ; victory over the Dutch at
Sole Bay (1665), 229; Charles U.
visits fleet at the Noie, 231 ; fight
with the Dutch in the Downs (June
1666), 244, 245 ; mangled state of the^
246 ; defeat of the Dutch off North
Foreland (1666X 249 and n. ; ships
burned by Dutch at Chatham (1667),
278 and n. ; encounter with Dutch
fleet off Gravesend, 277 ; English and
French united fleets (1672), 345;
victory at Sole Bay (1672), 346-9;
poor state of; in 1683, iiL 106 ; (1689),
266; delated by French in Bantry
GENERAL INDEX
419
Bay, 265 ; need for fast frigates, 278 ;
cannot meet the French fleet, 289 ;
battle of La Hogue, 295 and n, ;
Admiral and officers disagree, 297
and n. ; prevents embarkation of
French troops (1696), 823 n.
Fleetwood, Dr. James, Bishop of Wor-
cester, sermon bj, ii. 889
Fleming, Sir Daniel, Introdueiionf Ixli n.
Fletcher, Sir Geoige, Introduction, Ixii n.
Floors of rooms, red plaster, etc., used
for, L 181 and n,
Florence, account of city of, i. 189 ;
bridges, 189 ; goldsmiths' shops, 189
and n, ; palaces of Strozzi and Pitti,
140 ; church of Santo Spirito, 141 ;
Palazzo Vecohio^ 141, 274 ; Hanging
Tower, 141 ; the Duke*s Repository of
Curiosities, 141 ; church of the An-
nunziata, 144» 273 ; Duke's Cayallerizza
and Menagerie, 145 ; Poggio Imperiale,
272 ; coUections of Prince Leopold
and Signer Gkuldi, Academy de la
Grusca, 275 ; church of St Laurence,
276 ; arsenal, artists, etc., 277
Florival, Mons., of Geneva, iii. 889
Fog, remarkable (1670), IL 817 ; (1676),
896 ; (1699), 844 ; (1684), ill 121
Foudaco del Tedeschi, at Venice, i 288
Fondi, i. 220
Fons Felix, Rome. 1. 168
Fontaine, Mrs., it 111
Fontainebleau, palace and gardens, i.
88-90 and n.
Fontana, Annibal, carving by, L 826
Fontana, Domenico - Maria^ architect,
works of, i. 171, 178, 179 and n.,
189, 190, 210, 247, 251
Fontana, Lavinia, painting by, i. 212
and n., 248 and n,
Fontana delle Terme, at Rome, i. 168
Fontana di Speocho, i. 264
Fonts, remarkable, i. 44, 46 and n^ 187
Fop-Dictionary (1690), Evelyn's, cited,
iii 114 n,
Forbes, Mr., iii 116
Force, Duchess de la, iii 268
Forfeits pour kt Foi (1866), M. Athanase
Coquerel, iii 189 n.
Forests, notices of, i 88, 104, 108
and n., ii. 197
FormeUo, Donate de, painting by, i
207} n,
Formia (Formie), i 220
Fomeron, M. Henri, Louise de KirouaUe^
cited, ii 820 n., 831 n.
Forreine Travell, Instructions for (1642),
Howell, cited, i 88 n., 74 n., 100 n.,
108 n.
Forster, Sir H., house at Aldermaston,
ii 78
Forster, John, cited, ii 89 n. ; his
edition of the Diary, Pr^ace, ix-ziv
Fortifications, continental, i 80, 81, 52,
58, 64, 65, 94, 115, 117, 122, 124, 126,
184, 145, 147, 150, 228, 808, 822,
828, 880, 884, 847 ; English, ii. 88,
91, iii. 175, 179
Fortuna Virilis, Temple of, Rome, i 242
Forum Boarium at Rome, i 161)
Forum July, i 126
Forum Romanum, Rome, i 198, 196
Forum Tnganum, i 258
Forum Vulcani, i 282
Foscari all' Arena, Palace of, i 808
Fossa Nuova, monastery at, i 218
Fotherbee, Sir John, i 85
Foubert, Mons., iii 72 ; his academy,
ib, n., 87, 188, 184
Fouchris, Johannes de, i 152
Fountains. Su Waterworks
Fowler, Dr. Edward, Bishop of Glou-
cester, iii 284 n.
Fowler, Sir Thomas, his aviary, ii 71
Fox, Shr Stephen, ii 249 and n. ; a Lord
Commissioner of the Treasury, iii. 48,
214 ; account of him, ii 249 n., iii. 55 ;
his daughter, 68, 69, 287 ; proposed pur-
chase of Chelsea College, 71 ; directed
by the King to draw up Reguli^tions,
etc, for Chelsea Hospital, 78, 88 ; his
great interest with bankers, 76 ; his
house at Chiswick, 87, 88 and n., 96 ;
allusions to him, 80, 86, 89, 76, 86,
88 n., 96, 114, 120, 180, 156, 175,
244 ; grand dinner given by, 188 ;
subscription to Greenwich Hospital,
829 n.
Fox, Jane, proposal for marriage of^
in. 68
Fox, Lady, iii. 87, 88 n.
Foa^s Journal, Mr. P. L. Parker (1908),
cited, U. 114 n.
Foy, Dr., iii 887
Fraber, Dr. Sir Alexander, ii 201 and n.,
246
Frampton, Dr. Robert, afterwards Bishop
of Gloucester, ii 889 and n. ; sermons
by, 858, iii. 200 ; deprived, 284 n.
Franc, Mons. le, notice of, ii 110 ; or-
dained of the Church of England, 111
France, Evelyn's travels in, i 68-126 ;
paved roads in, 108 ; centre of, 117 ;
peace made with (1649), ii 11 ; perse-
cution of Protestants (1688), iii. 98 ;
(1685), 165, 189-91, 192; (1686),
198, 201, 202, 204, 206, 207, 210 ;
(1687), 225, 228, 229, 281, 268, 270,
420
GENERAL INDEX
276, 888; Europe in arm* againft,
267 ; famine in (1692)/800. See French
Ambassador, French Court, etc.
France, North- Wetiem, Hare (1895),
dted, L 95 n.
France^ Stmth- Eastern, Hare (1890),
dted, i. 128 n.
France, The State qf (Eveljn), references
to, i. 25 n., 97 n.. Ill n,, 120 n., iu.
881, Introduction, zxzli, zzxviii
France, Travel* in (1698), Dr. M. Lister,
cited, i. 85 n., 100 n.
Francesco, Signor, a master of the harp-
sichord, iL 873, iiL 79
Francis L, King of France, tomb of,
i. 66 ; his palace caUed Madrid, 85
and n. ; his regard for Leonardo da
Vinci, 828 ; portrait of; ii. 9
Francis de Paolo, St., i. 113, 250
Francis, Robert, iiu 167 n.
Franciscan Monastery at Siena, L 151
Franco, John Baptist, manufacturer of
firearms, L 828
Frascati, description of; L 262
Fraser, Mr., books purchased by, iiL 105
Frate, II, paintings by, i. 274
Freart, Roland, treatise of, translated by
Evdyn, iii 882
Frederic, Elector Palatine, i. 6 n.
Frederick, Sir John, his pageant, etc,
when Lord Mayor, iL 176 and n.
Freeman, Sir Ralph, of Betchworth, iL
197 and n.
French, Dr., ii. 75 and n., 206
French Ambassador's encounter with
Spanish Ambassador in London (1661),
iL 178, 411-17, iiL 881
French Ambaeeador at the Court qf
Charies IL, M. Jusserand's, mentioned,
iL 175 n., 412 n., 414 n., 417 n.
French capture Luxemburg, effect of,
iii. 127 ; bedege Genoa, i&.
French Church in the Savoy, iL 805
French Court, audience of British Am-
bassador, iL 19, 42 ; masque at, 85 ;
▼isit of Grandees from the, 821
French fleet, masters at sea (1689), iii.
266; (1690), 279; Benbow's fight
with, in West Indies (1702), 863 ; de-
feated at La Hogue, 295 and n.
French Gardens and English Vineyard
(1658), iiL 875, 881, Initroductiim,
xzziz and n. ; published, iL 187 and n.
French invasion feared (1692), iii. 294,
295 ; defeated (1696), 823, 824
French, landing of, at Teignmouth, iii.
279 and n.
French language, pure quality of, at
Blois, i. 109 and n. ; at Bourges, 117
French reftigees at Greenwidi, church
service for (1687), iiL 220, 228, 224
French, Robina, nie Cromwdl, iL 108
andn.
Frene, M., of Paris, his ooUection, L 87
Frescoes at Fontainebleau, L 89 and n.
Friend, Sir John, executed (1696), iii.
824 ; absolved by non-juring ministerB,
825 and n.
Frier, Mr., schoolmaster, L 6
Fries, Hans, lute-maker, L 284
Frigates, peculiar advantages of, iiL 273 ;
the first one built in England, 272
and n.
Frobisher, Sir Martin, portrait, ii. 293 n.
Frognall, Sii* Philip Warwick's houae at,
ii. 384
Fromantil, curious dock by, iL 154
and n., 168
Frost, nunarkable (1658), IL 181 ; (1681),
iii. 67 ; (1688-4), 119, 181 ; (1684-5),
185 ; (1688-9), 249 ; (1694-5), 314 ;
(1695), 319; (1696-7), 831, 832;
(1698), 885
Frost Fair on Thames (1684)» iii. 120
and n., 121, 122
Frowde, Mr., derk to Mr. Lodce, iL 853
and n.
Fuel, scardty, etc, o^ iL 275 ; trials of
new, 276
Fuentes, Marquis de la, pass granted by,
Ldl6
Fulgentine Monks, at Rome, L 245
Fulgod, Rodolphus, tomb of, L 300
Fulham, Dr., sermon by, iiL 333 and n.
Fuller, Isaac, paintings by, ii. 216 and fi.,
217
FwnifVigium (1661), by Evelyn, dted,
L 129 n., iL 255 and n. ; publication
of, 172 and n., 173, iiL 376, 381
Fwnmd, Steele's play (1701), dted, iiL
81 n.
Gaddi, Signor, of Florence, collection of,
L275
Gaeta, city of, L 220
Gaetano. Su Pulsone
Gaillon, palace of the Archbishop of
Rouen, L 92 and n.
Gale, Dr. Thomas, Master of St. Paul'a
School, iiL 89 and n., 816, 820
Galicano, Prince of; at Rome, L 260
QaUant, The Wild, by Dryden, u. 201
and n.
Galleries in the Vatican, L 208
Galley-slaves, at Marseilles, L 124-5 ; at
Leghorn, 138
Galloway, Thomas Sydserff, Bishop of
(1658), iL 44 n. ; ordinaUon by, 25
^m^mi-tm-^KX^m^m^iv^a
GENERAL INDEX
421
GaUoway, Lord (1669), iL 188
Oallus dutroUuSf a pamphlet. Introduc-
tion, xl
Galway, Henry de Ruyigny, Earl of
(1701), m. 209 n., 867 and n.
Gamboo, Castle of^ taken by the French,
iii807
Gaming^ at Leghorn, L 188 ; at Venice,
814 ; at Court of Charles IL, iL 181,
286, iii 186
Oardenf The (Cowley), quoted, Inirodue-
tion, zxziz n., Izvi n.
Qardms, in Four Books (1678), a transla-
tion by John Evelyn, jun., iL 854
andn.
Gardens: Abroad — at the Prince's Court
at the Hague, L 84 ; at Leyden, 42 ;
Bois-le-Duc, 46 ; Prince's Court at
Brussels, 65 ; Jardin Royal, Paris, 77;
of the Tuileries, 79-80 ; of the Arch-
bishop of Paris at St. Cloud, 81 ; of
Cardinal Richelieu at Rueil, 82 and n. ;
ditto at Palais Cardinal, Paris, 102, iL
20, 42 ; of Count de Liancourt, L 86 ;
at St. Germain, 84 ; Fontainebleau,
90 ; of M. Essling at Paris, 91 ; at
Caen, 96 ; Luxembourg Palace, 98 and
n. ; M. Morine's, at Paris, 101, ii. 86 ;
at Blois, L 108 and n. ; Du Pleesis,
112 and n. ; Chevereux, 118 ; Riche-
lieu, 116; St Pietro d' Arena, 129
and n. ; of the Palace of Negros,
Genoa, 181 ; of Prince Doria at Genoa,
181-2 ; of the Marquess Spinola, 188 ;
at Pisa, 187 ; at the Palace of Pitti,
Florence, 140 ; Palazzo de Medids,
Rome, 164 ; Prince Ludovisi's, 165 ;
Villa BoTghese, 176, 260 ; Cardinal
Borghese's, at Rome, 199 ; at Monte
Cavallo, 168, 200 ; of Sallust, 169 ;
Vaticui, 210 ; Horti Mathsi, 244 ; of
Justinian, 251, 256 ; Cardinal B^ti-
voglio's, 254 ; Frascati (Cardinal
Aldobrandini's), 262 ; Mondragone,
268 ; Palace d' Este, at Tivoli, 264 ;
Garden of Simples, Siena, 270 ; at
Pratolino, 278 ; Padua, 807 ; Mantua,
ib. ; Count Ulmarini's, Vicenza, 820
and n, ; Count Giusti's, at Verona, 822 ;
Geneva, 850 ; of President Maison at
Paris, iL 17 ; Royal Gardens, Paris, 42.
In England— nX Hatfield^ i. 62 ;
Theobalds, A.; Wotton, ib., iL 54
and n. ; Mr. Barriirs, 4 ; at Sayes
Court, 65 and n., iii. 95 and n., 121,
882, Introdwstion, zzxvi and n. ;
Lady Brook's, at Hackney, ii. 71 ; Mr.
Tomb's, ib, ; Spring and Mulberry
Gardens, ib, and n. ; Physic Garden at
Oxford, 79 and n., 217 ; Earl of Pem-
broke's, at Wilton, 82 ; Orangery, etc,
at Beddington, iL 186, ilL 852 ; at
Audley-End, iL 97 ; Deepdene, Dork-
ing, 102 and n.» 815 ; at New Hall,
115 ; Medical Garden, Westminster,
188 ; New Spring Garden, Lambeth,
171 andn. ; Lord Bristol's, at Wimble-
don, 184 ; Hampton Court, 188, iii.
267 ; Mr. Pett's, at Chatham, iL 204 ;
of the Earl of Norwich, Epping Forest,
808 ; at Syon House, 282 ; at Albury,
281 and n., 816, iii. 225; Lord
Arlington's, at Euston, iL 882, iiL 5 ;
at Berkeley House, London, iL 851,
iiL 128 ; at Althorp, iL 882 ; Enfield,
891 and n. ; at Beliize House, Hamp-
stead, 892 ; Sir Thomas Bond's, at
Peckham, 892, iiL 72 ; at Roehamp-
ton, 1 ; Lord Lauderdale's, at Ham
House, 18 and n. ; Sir Henry Capel's,
at Eew, 19, 115, 280 ; Countess of
Bristol's, at Chelsea, 27; at Cashiobury,
46 ; at Fulham Palace, 72 ; at Chis-
wick, 87, 88 n. ; Mr. Bohun's, at
Lee, 109 ; at Burghley House, 116 ;
Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea, 178 ;
Lady Clarendon's, at Swallowfield,
185-6 ; St. James's, 209 ; Sir William
Temple's, at Sheen, 280 ; Lord North-
ampton's, 287 ; at Brompton Park,
80^ 858 ; Kensington, 825 ; Tumham
Green, 870 ; Evelyn's plan for a Royal
Garden, 878
Gkrdner, Mrs., ii. 81 ; marriage of^ 46
Garmus, Mr^ Hamburg Resident in
England, his entertainment, iL 170
andn.
Garro, arrest of Evelyn by, L 118-14
Garter, Order of the, celebration of St.
George's Day (1667), iL 269; Mr.
Ashmole's Institutiont, etc, qf the, iiL
16 and n.
Gaseoigne, Sir Bernard, iL 810 and n.,
886, ilL 18
Gassendi, Pierre, translation of his Vita
PeireUHi (edit. 1667), iL 120 and n.
Gassion, — , soldier, monument for, at
Charenton, iL 19
Gaston of Orleans, cited, L 94 n.
Gattamelata, statue, etc, of, at Padua,
L 800 and n.
Gatteridge, Captain, iiL 829 n.
Gauden, Sir Denis, iiL 86 and n., 297
Gauden, Dr. John, iiL 85 n.
Gaunt, John of, L 67 and n. ; Hospital
of, iL 87
Gaums, Mount, i. 284
> Gawdie, Sir John, account of; iii. 8 and n.
422
GENERAL INDEX
Gtoere, Sir B., present to St. James's
Church, PiccadiUy, iii 132
Geneva, account of, i 347 ; booksellers,
the Town House, ib. ; si>ort8 in the
Campns Martins, 348 ; religion, 849 ;
ezerclBes in Man' Field, i&. ; Chnrch
of St Peter, ib, ; College, 850
Gennaro, natural stoves at, i. 231
Gennep, siege of^ L 27 and n., 29
Genoa (1644), account of, L 129-84;
Palace of Hieronymo del Negros, 180-
131; of the Prince Doria, 131-2;
armoury, 183 ; Strada Nova, churches,
ib, ; the Mole and WaUa, 134 and n. ;
dress of the inhabitants, 184 and n. ;
besieged by the French, iii 127
OenavOf PaUmi di (Rubens), i. 130'and n.
Gens d'armes of Paris, muster of, i. 108
Gentileschi (Orazio liomi), painting by,
L246
OenUemtm*8 Magazine quoted, i 20 n,,
239 n., it 46 n., 139 n., 176 m.,
iii. 365 n.
Qenuina Rmutvna (1759), Butler's, cited,
iL 81 n.
George, Prince of Denmark, iL 196, iii.
106, 107
Georgia, etc., women of, iii. 53
Georgione (Giorgio Barbarelli), painting
by, U. 182
Gkrard, Charles, Lord, account of^ iL 38
and n., 201 ; referred to, 268
Gkrards, Balthasar, L 33 n.
Germain, Lord, ii. 17
Germaine, Sir John, iii. 348
Germans at Orleans University, L 105-6
and n.
Germany, revolution in (1623), L 6 ;
method of perfuming rooms in, iL 106
Gerrard, Lady, iL 6, 58, 67, 69, 71
Gerrard, Sir Gilbert, iu. 199
Ghent, account of, L 57
Ghetto, at Rome, L 204 ; at Venice, 816
Giant rock at Pratolino, L 279 and n.
Gibbons, Christopher, musician, iL 79
and n.
Gibbons, Grinling, carver, discovered by
Evelyn, and introduced to the King,
etc, iL 817 and n., 819, 320 ; carvings,
eta, by, iiL 14,! 86, 87, 45, 48, 86, 97,
182 and n., 213
Gibbe, Dr. James Alban, account o^ L
154 and n., 215
Gibson, Dr. Edmund, Bishop of I/ondon,
communication to, by Evelyn, for
Camden's jBritonnio, iiL 316 and n.
Gifford, Captain, misfortune of, iiL 819
Gilbert, lapidary of Venice, L 318
Gilbert, Dr. William, portrait o^ iL 194
Gildron, collection of paintings, ii. 11
Ginkell, Godart van, iiL 288 n,
Giolo, the painted Prince, iiL 386 and n.
Giotto (Ambrogiotto), mosaic by, L 186
GiovannL Signer, of Florence, L 277
Giovio, Paulus. See Jovins
Girandolas, revolving fireworks, iiL 131
and n.
Giuseppe, Cavaliero. See Arpino
Giusti, Count of Verona, his Villa, L 322
Gladiators, celebrated statues of, L 178
and n., 200 and n. 218
Glanviile, William (brother-in-law of
Evelyn), ii. 4, 66, iiL 285 and n. ;
his deatii and burial in the sea, 860 ;
descendants, i&.'n.
Glanviile, Jane (Evelyn's sister). See
Evelyn
GlanviUe, William (nephew of Evelyn),
iL 80, iii. 803
Glanviile, Sir John (Speaker), iL 66, 80
and n,
Glanviile, William (son of Speaker),
iL 66
Glass colouring, remarks relative to, iiL
82 ; ale glass, a yard long, 145 and n.
Glass manuflMiture, i. 808, iL 858, 895
and M.
Qlaucester, wreck of the (1682), iii. 88 tu
Gloucester, Henry Stuart, Diiike of, ii.
816 ; death of, 152 and n.
Gloucester, Duke of, son of Princess
Anne, iiL 351 and n.
Gloucester Cathedral, ii. 84 ; Castle, 85
Gloves, custom of presenting, L 858 and n.
Glow-worms, flying (LuccioU), L 284
Godbid, William, iu. 842 n,
Gk>dfrey, Sir Edmund Berry, murder of
(1678), iii. 24, 25 and n., 84, 166 ».
Qhdfrey^ Sir Edmund Berry ^ Who kUled
(1905), by Mr. Alfred Marks, cited, iiL
25 n.
Gtodolphin, Francis (son of Lord), birth,
iiL 165, 173 ; marriage of, 386 and «.,
868 ; aUuded to, 173
Godolphin, Dr. Henry, iiL 87 and n.,
285, 325 ; sermon by, 124
Godolphin, Sidney, afterwards Lord
Godolphin, his marriage, ii. 879 and n. ;
Evelyn builds him a house, 895;
Master of the Bobes, iiL 15 ; a Lord
Commissioner of the Treasury, 29, 82,
129, 214 ; created Baron Godolphin,
129 ; made Chamberlain to Queen
Mary (1685), 147 ; his infant son, 165,
178 ; his house, Cranbome Lodge, in
Windsor Park, 211 and n., 296 ; a
Commissioner to the Prince of Orazige,
246 ; subscription to Greenwich Hos-
GENERAL INDEX
428
pital, 829 and n, ; retires from the
Treasury, 881 ; his return to it, 282,
854 ; Lord Treasurer, 361, 867 ; offers
Evelyn the Treasurership of Qreenwich
Hospital, 814 ; a Commissioner for the
Hospital, 817; alluded to, ii. 886
and n., 895, 896, iiL 1, 20, 21, 22
and n., 24, 81, 87, 156, 159, 222, 802,
808, 869
Oodolphin, lira. Margaret, wife of the
preceding (formerly Miss Blagge),
IrUroduetumf Iv-lvii ; her marriage,
ii. 879 ; allusions to her, 887 and n,,
890, 895, 896, iii. 11 ; birth of her son,
20 ; her charities, 15 ; her death, ib, ;
character, etc. , 21 ; funeral, 22 ;
papers, etc, 28 ; life of, prepared by
Evelyn, 880 and »., 888, Introduc-
tiony Iviii n.
Godolphin, Sir William, iii. 20 and n.,
22, 26, 180, 156, 165, 285
Godolphin, Cornwall, iii. 22
Gtodstone, Surrey, descent of the Evelyns
i^om. Pedigree ; Sir John Evelyn's
house at, ii 188 and n. ; monument
of Sir John Evelyn at, iiL 10 and n.
Gtodwin, Williani, his Lives qf Edward
and John Phillips, u. 207
Gk>ffe, Colonel, ii. 126
Goffe, Dr. Stephen, a Romish priest,
i 80 and n. ; Evelyn's conversation
with, respecting Cressy's Answer to
Pierce, ii. 205 and n.
Gold, ductility of; iii. Ill
Oolden Orovef The^ by Dr. Jeremy
Taylor, u. 104 n.
Golden Square, Tabernacle near, iii 800
and n., 805
Golding, Captain, killed in engagement
with the Dutch, ii. 227 n.
Gk>ldsmith, Oliver, Deserted Village
cited, i 150 n.
Goldsmiths' Company, ftmds seized by
Charles H., ii 340 n.
GoUancz, Prof., reprint of Evelyn's I^fe
of Margaret Oodolphin, Introduction,
Iviii n.
Gondolas of Venice, description of^ i
287 ; gift of one to Charles U., ii 187
Gondomar, Count, Spanish Ambassador
(1624), i 6 and n.
Gk>od Friday, ceremonies at Rome, i.
258
Goode, Dr., minister of St Martin's, iii
806
Goodman, Dr., sermon of, iii 180
Goodrick, Sir Henry, a subscriber to
Greenwich HospitiU, iii. 880 n.
Goose, uzmatural one, ii. 70
Goroum, or Gtorinchem, town of^ i 82
andn.
Gore, Mrs., married Gkoige Evelyn,
junior, iii 848
Gorges, Sir Arthur, his house at Chelsea,
ii. 184 and n.
Gorges, Mr., ii. 827
Goring, CoL Geoige, i. 80 and n., 44, 61
Gk>ring House, ii 226 and n., 295 and n.,
807, 857 ; burned, 871
Gospel, ancient copy of St. John's, i 141
Gospel in Foreign Parts, Society for Pro-
pagation of, iii 861 and n.
Gk>8se, Mr. Edmund, Seventeenth Century
Studies, ii. 286 n.
Gostling, John, his fine bass voice, iii 187
and n.
GoteAredi, Signor, collection of medals,
i 262
Goi^'on, Jean, i 101 ».
Gk>upy, L., engraver, iii 79 n.
Gtoutti^res^ near Colombi&re, caves so
called, i 118
Govern^ Madame de, iii. 207
Oovemar qf Havannah, capture of, iii.
804
Grafton, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of (natural
son of Charles II.), marriage of, ii
850 and n. ; re-marriage, iii 88 ;
alluded to, 39 and n., 86, 178 ; duel
fought by, 199; death, 116 n., 279
and n., 281 ; birth of his son, 116 ;
alluded to, 201
Grafton, Charles, Duke of (son of above),
iii 116 and n.
Grafton, Duchess of (daughter of Lord
Arlington), marriage, ii 850 and n.,
iii 88 ; character and notices of, 88 ;
allusions to, 5 and n., 8, 86, 109, 114,
808 and n. ; appeal to the House of
Lords, 805 ; birth of her son, 116
Graham, Colonel James, in love with
Mrs. Dorothy Howard, ii. 882 and ».,
iii 11 ; married, ii. 883 and n. ; Mrs.
Graham, iii. 11, 175 ; their house at
Bagshot, etc., 175, 185 and n. ; alluded
to, ii. 898
Graham, Mr., absconded, iii 288 ; in the
Fleet, 824
Grammont, Philibert, Corate de, ii 822
and n. ; his Memoirs cited, iii 8 n.
Oranada, Conquest or Siege of, a play
by Dryden, ii 819 and n.
Grand SUgnor, letters of, to the Popes,
i 829
Grange, Prince de la, at Lincoln's Inn
(1662), u. 180
Grantham, notice of the town, ii. 92
andn.
424
GENERAL INDEX
Graonti John, his remarics on the BiUa
of Mortality, iL 378 and n.
Qraves, Robert, his print of Boee, gardener
to Charles U., u. 171
Gray's Inn, ii. 171 ; Douthwaite*s Qni^9
Inn, 180 n.
Gray's Works (Gosse), cited, i. 67 n.
Greatorix, Balph, mathematical -instm-
ment maker, iL 111 and n.
Grebner, Ezekiel, his Visiona and Pro-
phecies eoneeming England, etc., ii
95
Greek Chnroh, at Rome, L 256 ; sign of
Cross in, 267 ; schismatic Gre^ at
Venice, 804
Greenborow (Robert Greenbnry I), paint-
ing by, ii 217 and n.
Greene, Anne, restored after hanging,
ii. 874
Green's S^pUen, quoted, Introduction,
zzxyi n.
Greenwich, Italian glass-house at, ii
858 ; Ferry, 115 ; French refugees at,
iii 220, 228, 224
Greenwich, palace at, possessed by the
rebels, ii 6, 55 and n. ; design of
building a new Palace at, 176, 184
Greenwich Hospital, commission for en-
dowing, etc., and proceedings in re-
lation to it, iii 817, 818, 820, 825 ;
new commission, 866 ; Evelyn offered
the Treasurership, 814 ; agreement
with workmen, 826, 827 ; first stone
laid, 829 ; subscriptions, t^. ; want of
money for (in 1696), 380 and n, ; hall
and chapel of; 886 ; lottery for, 340 ;
Evelyn's accounts as Treasurer,
355 and n., 860, 861 ; Mr. Draper
becomes Treasurer, 866 ; seamen first
received there, 371 ; subscribers to,
829, 880 ; view ot, 287
Greenwich Park, elms planted in, ii. 209 ;
Observatory buUt, 394, iii 48, 128
Gregory XIII., Pope, Cardinal Hugo
Buoncompagno, palace built by, i 168
and n. ; chapd, 188 ; his hall in the
Vatican, 205
Gregory XIV., Pope, Cardinal Nicolo
Sfrondati, bridge built by, i. 151
Gregory, Mr. Justice, a subscriber to
Greenwich Hospital, iii 880 n,
Gregory, St., statue of, at Rome, i 192
and n.
Grenades, ii 208 and n., 272
Grenadiers, introduction of (1678), iii
14 ; (1688), 118
Grenville, Bernard, house at Ab's Court,
ii 365 and n.
Grenville, Sir Bevil, ii 162 n.
Grenville, Sir John, afterwards Earl of
Bath, ii 162 and n.
Gresham, Sir Thomas, statue of, preserved
in the Fire of London, ii 258 ; noticed,
i 37, ii 191, 193
Gresham College, meetings of Royal
Society at, ii 157 and n., 159, 366
{see Royid Society) ; inquiry into
revenues o^ 189 ; trUl of a new fuel
at, 276 ; view of; 157
Greville, Sir F., portrait, ii. 293 n.
Grew, Dr. Nehemiah, iii. 12 and n.
Grew's Oatalogue qf Rariiies belonging to
the Rogcd Society (1681), ii. 210 n.
Grey, Forde, Lord, proclamation against,
iii 101 and n. ; defeated with the
Duke of Monmouth, and taken, 167 ;
condemned and pardoned, 192 ; heavily
fined, 214
Grey, Lady Jane, portrait, ii 298 n.
Grey, Mr. (son of Lord Grey), ii 324
Griffith, Captain, ii. 50 and fi.
Griffith, Lord, his Chapel (1693), iii 802
Griffith, Prince, ii 24
Griffith, Sir John, ii. 236
Grimaldi family, i 127
Grimaldi, Giovanni Firancesco (II Bolo-
gQese), i 247
Grimani Palace, Venice, 1. 303
Grindal, Edmund, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, monument of, iii 352
Grograms {Qros-grain), manufkcture of;
i 111 and n., ii. 56
Groomsbridge (Kent), house and chapel,
ii 61 and n., 369
Groot, de (or Grotius), Hugo, his escape
from Fort Loevestein, i 32 and n.
Groot, de, Mons. (son of Hugo), i 815
Grotto del Cane, Naples, i 230-31 and n.
Grotto di Natura, i 265
Guarda-Damas, office of, ii 187 and «.
Guarini, John Baptist, portrait o^ i 246
and n.
Guercino, Giovanni Francisco Barbiero^
called, painting by, i 282
Guesclin, Bertrand du, his sepulchre, i 66
Guicciardini, Francisco, portrait, ii. 396
and n.
Guido. See Reni
Guildford, Surrey, Red Lion Inn and
Hospital at, ii. 68 and n.
Guildford, Elizabeth, Countess of, ii. 155
and Tu
Guildford, Francis North, Lord, ii 344
and n. ; fVineral and character of his
wife, iii 344-5
Guildhall, London, paintings in, ii 195,
860 and n. ; Loid Mayor's feast in
(1664), 218
GENERAL INDEX
425
Quillotin6k in Naples, Venioe, and France,
i. 267, 808 and n.
Guinea, Gamboo Castle taken by the
French, liL 807
Gniscard, attempts to stab Robert Harley,
iii 854 n.
Guise, Duke of, iL 821
Guitar, skilftil Italian player on the, ii.
180
Gundolph, Bishop of Bochester, iii. 876
Gunman, Captain, ii. 888 ; account of
him, iii. 157
Gunning, Dr. Peter, Bishop of Ely,
sermons by, and allusions to, IL 125
and n., 126, 180, 141, 142, 854 and
n., 856, 388 ; character, etc., of; 854
and n. ; opinion on the Tes^ iii 26 ;
death, 181
Gunpowder Plot, ill 25 and n, ; bonfires
forbidden (1685), 191
Guns, first use of, i 188. See Cannon
Gunson, IVeasurer of the Navy, iii. 92
Gustavus Adolphus II., King of Sweden,
iiL 58, 264
Gutenbuig, or Gensfleisch, John, inventor
of prinUng, t 48 and n.
Guzman, Don Gaspar de Teres y, Spanish
Ambassador at Venice, i. 816
Gwyn, Nell, iL 268 n., 269 n., 286 ik,
821 and n., iii 77, 140 ; said to go
to Mass, 197
Haarlem, church, etc., at, i 40 and n. ;
perspective of, ii 108
Haberdashers' Company, Lord Mayor's
pageant in 1664, ii 218 n.
Hacker, Coi Francis, regicide, executed,
ii. 153
Hacket, Dr. John, Bishop of lichfield,
sermon by, ii 185 and n.
Hackney, Lady Brooke's garden at, ii 71
Haddock, Sir Bicbard, lottery prize won
by, iii 804
Hadrian IV., portrait, ii 293 n.
Hague, The^ Queen of Bohemia's Court
at, i 29 ; Hof; or Prioce's Court at,
34 ; Hof van Hounsler's Dyck, 44
Hale, Sir Matthew, Chief Justice, ii 825
and n.
Hales, Edward, of Chilston (Evelyn's
cousin), ii 248 and n.
Hales, Sir Edward, ii. 102 and n., 105,
iii 208 ; Governor of Dover Castle, iii.
201 and n. ; Lieutenant of the Tower,
235, 247 n. ; arrested, 249, 266 n.
Hales, Mr., iii 81
Halford, Sir Henry, College of Physicians
opened by, iii 94 n.
Halifax, Sir George Savile, Marquis of.
ii 289, 828, 898 and n., iii 147, 207,
248, 246, 258, 271 and n. ; death of,
iii 816
Hall, patent of King's Printer reftued to,
iii 200
Hall, Dr. George, sermon by, ii 185 and
n., 800
Hall, Dr. Joseph, Bishop of Exeter,
translated to Norwich, ii 185, iii 92
andn.
Halls, notices of various, i 84, 54, 75
304, 819, iii. 96, 174
Ham House, Petersham, Duke of
Lauderdale's house, iii. 18 and n.
Ham House, Weybridge, belonging to
the Duke of Norfolk, iii. 16 and n.,
226
Ham Hou9e, its Siatory and Treaeures
(Mrs. C. Roundell), cited, i 294 n.,
iii. 19 n.
Hamburg, siege oj^ iii 210 ; relieved, ib,
Hamet, ti^e Morocco Ambassador (1682),
iii 75 n.
Hamilton, James, first Duke, trial (1649),
ii 8 and n. ; execution, 10 and n. ;
treachery of, ii. 47 and n.
Hamilton, General Richard, captured at
Battie of the Boyne, iii 278 and n.
Hamilton, Lady and George, her husband,
11.887
Hamilton, Rev. Mr., ii 44 n.
Hamilton, William, imprisoned, iii.
856 n.
Hamilton, William Douglas, Duke (1660),
ii 150 and n. ; (1682), iii 88 ;
(1688), 248 ; marriage of his son, 227,
287
SamitsL, Prince qf Denmark^ performed,
ii 178 and n. ; cited, i 295 n.
Hammond, Dr. Henry, ii 76, iii. 149
andn.
Hampden, John (1680), iii. 61 and n. ;
(1689), 254 ; (1693), 804 ; committed
to the Tower, 101 ; released, 118 ;
tried and fined, 122
ffampthire, frigate, ii. 244
Hampshire, Guide to (1904), Black, cited,
iii. 179 n.
Hempstead, Lord Wotton's house at, ii.
892
Hampton Court, Charles I. at, ii 8 and
f»., 186; gardens, ii 188, iii. 267;
Court held there (1665), ii 282;
(1666), 240 ; (1681), iti. 69 ; addresses
presented to James IL at (1687), 228,
224 ; Palace at, ii 187 and n., 188,
iii 267 n. ; view of, ii. 187
Handbook to Brouming'e Works (Orr)
cited, i 178 n.
426
GENERAL INDEX
Hanging, woman restored to life after,
ii. 374
Hanging tower, at Pisa, i. 186, 270 ; at
Florence, 141 ; at Bologna, 280
Hanmer, Sir Thomas, ii. 120 and n. ;
portrait of, iii 135 and n.
Hannibal, headpiece of, L 148
Hanover, Duke of, excluded fit>m the
British throne (1689), iii. 267
Hanover, Sophia, Electress of, L 29 n.
Harbord, Sir Charles, iL 170 ; his son's
death, 346
Harbord, William, Ambassador to
Turkey, iii. 298 and n.
Harcourt, Count d'. Grand Ecuyer de
France, ii. 41
Harcourt, Prince, L 127
Harcourt, Sir Simon, iii. 867
Hardwick Hall, plaster floor at, L 181 n.
Hare, Augustus, North- Western France,
cited, i 95 n. ; South-Eastem France,
cited,'!. 123 n. ; Walks in Rome, dted,
1. 168 n., 174 n., 242 n., 243 n.
Harlakenton, Mr., ii 105
Harley, Col. Edward, ilL 23 n.
Harley, Robert, Earl of Oxford, Speiker
of House of Commons, liL 854 ;
account of, ib., n.
Harlington, village of; iii. 8 and n.
Harman, Captain, ii. 244
Harpsichord, new form of, ii 218
Harrison, Henry, executed, iii. 251 n.
Harrison, Sir John, house near Hertford,
i. 62 and n.
Hartlib, Samuel, visited by Evelyn, ii.
106 ; notice of, ib, n.
Hortlip, Kent, war prisoners at, ii. 343
Harvey, Dr., statue of, ii. 194 ; anni-
versary oration, 213, iii. 87 ; portrait,
ii. 293 n.
Harvey, Mr., of Combe, iii. 370 and n,
Harvey, Sir Daniel, ii 245
ffanoich, a ship, lost, iiL 289
Hasted, Edward, his History qf Kent
cited, ii. 61 n,
Hatfield, palace at, i. 61 and n.
Hatton, Christopher, Lord, ii. 13 n,, 17}
23, 31, 120, 171 ; house of, at Eirby,
ii. 93
Hatton, Lady, ii. 18 and n., 126
Hatton, Serjeant Richard (Evelyn's
cousin), i. 60 and n.., ii. 3
Hatton Garden, built over, ii 189 and
n. ; exhibition in, 865 and n,
Hausse, M. de, his library, etc., L 87
Havannah, Governor of, his misfortunes,
ii. 118 and n,
Havre de Grfioe, citadel, etc., of, i. 94
and n. ; bombarded, iiL 811 and n.
Hawkins, Sir J., portrait, ii. 298 n.
Hawley, Lord, iL 336
Hayes, Sir James, iL 850
Haymarket, paving of (1662), iL 190
Haywood, Sir William, iL 887, iiL 192
Headache, cure for, iL 11
Headly, Thomas, Evelyn's servant, iL 71
Hearth Tftx, abolition o^ iiL 259 and n.
Heath, Captain, iiL 829 n.
Heath, Mr. and Mrs., iL 50, 88, 285
Heath's Chronicle, iL 411
Heaviside, Mr., iL 159 n.
Hebert, Evelyn's valet, robs him, iL 1
Hebrew manuscript, L 209
Hedges, Sir Charles, iiL 354
Heinsius, Daniel, notice of, L 41 and n. ;
library, iii. 105
Helena, St., statue o^ L 184; monu-
ment, 192 ; chapel, 255
Helmsley, Yorks, Duke of Buckingham's
estate, iiL 328 and n.
Henchman, Dr. Humphrey, Bishop of
London, iL 141 and n., 149, 250
Hengist, the Saxon, mound built by, L 41
Henrietta, Princess (daughter of Charles
I.), iL 31 and n., 306 n. ; condescen-
sion to Mrs. Evelyn, 156
Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles L, her
reception at Tours, L 114 and m. ;
resides at Bourbon I'Archambault, 118
and n. ; averse to marriage of Duke of
York, ii. 152 ; arrives in England, 154
and n. ; returns to France, 157 and n. ;
visits Evelyn, 191 ; compliments him,
ib„ 219 ; alluded to, ii. 184, 189 and
n., 193, 197 ; portrait, L 115
Henrietta Maria, Life of (Miss I. A.
Taylor), cited, i. 118 n.
Henry, a ship, ii. 244
Henry, Prince of Wales, son of James L,
his palace at Charlton, iL 56
Henry III. of England, iiL 375
Henry IV., King of France, statues of, L
70, 89, 192 ; crowns, etc., of, 67 ;
alluded to, 44 and n. ; book of draw-
ings belonging to, iL 26
Henry VII., Emperor, L 149
Henry VII., King of England, picture of;
at WhitehaU, ii. 108; referred to,
114 ; '* office*' of, at Whitehall, iiL 54
Henry VIII., King of England, his Book
against Luther, i. 209 and n. ;
portrait of, ii. 9 ; an " office " of, iL
78 ; chimney-piece belonging to, 108 ;
referred to, iL 93, 103, 114
Henry IV. S, cited, L 82 ru
Henry the Kighth, Life and Baigne qf
King (1694), cited, i. 65 n.
Henshaw, Thomas, travels with Evelyn,
GENERAL INDEX
427
L 185 and n., 242, 254, 260, 266,
309, 810, 818 ; allusions to after his
return, iL 7, 14, 67, 110, 117, 188,
151, 171, 898, iiL 48 ; recommended
for an embassy by Evelyn, ii 147* and
as French Secretary to the King, 172 ;
his History qf Salt • Petre, 171;
return from Denmark, 885 ; etchings
dedicated to by Evelyn, iii. 888; a
letter to, cited, IfUroductian, xzzi
Heralds' College, part of the Arundel
Library presented to, iiL 19
Herbal, Miller's (1722), cited, iii. 79 n.
Herbert, Admiral, defeated by the French
in Bantry Bay, iiL 265 and n. See
Torrington, Ea^l of
Herbert, Lord, son of Earl of Pembroke,
iL 70, 226
Herbert, Lady, iL 21, 81
Herbert, Lord Edward, of Cherbury, 1.
65 and n., ii. 52 ; his Life cited, Intro-
dtictioru, xzT n.
Herbert, Mr., iii. 80 and n., 286
Herbert, Sir Edward, afterwards Lord
Keeper, iL 21
Herbert, Sir Edward, iiL 199 and n. ;
Lord Chief Justice, bold speech of, iii.
207 ; a Commissioner for Ecclesiastical
Affairs, 209 ; his house at Oatlands,
226 and n. ; attainted, etc., ib. n,
Herbert, George, his CowUry Parson
cited. Introduction^ zzr n.
Herbert, Sir Henry, ii. 52 and n., 228
and n.
Herbert's AntiquUiea qf the Inns of
Court, etc., ii. 180 n.
Hercules, L 282, 284, 242, 807 ; temple
of, at Milan, 827
Hercules in Lydia, an opera, L 298
Hereford, Viscount, his house at Ipswich,
iiL 4 and n.
Hermit of the Colosseum at Rome, L 176
Hertfordshire, remarkable robb^ in,
iii. 298
Hervey, John, iL 108 and n., iiL 20
Henrey, Mr., of Betch worth, iiL 859
and n.
Heusden, town and fort of, L 46
Hevelius, or Hevelke, John, L 50 and n.
Hewer, Mr. William, house at Clapham,
iii. 297, 864 ; account of him, ib, n,
Hewit, St. John, iL 68 and n., 181 ;
executed, 182
Hewson, regicide, executed, ii. 158
Heylyn, Dr. Peter, odours of Paris, L 71
n, ; sermon by, ii. 161 and n.
Heynes, Thomasine, iii. 10
Hickes, Sir William, house and family
at Rookwood, iL 189
Hicks's Hall (Sessions House), iii. 108
and n.
Hieroglyphics, stone with, communicated
by Evelyn to Kircher, L 809
Higgins, Sir Thomas, his daughter, iiL
212
High Church Party, expression used
(1705), iu. 871
Higham, Rev. Mr., L 5, 21, iii. 2 ;
sermons by, iL 68, 98 ; death, iii. 128
Highgate, refugees from Great Fire of
London resort to, iL 258
Highland Dragoons (1694), iii. 807 ; two
Dutohmen killed by one of them, ib,
Hilcus, Sydrach, contrives decoy in St.
James's Park, iL 226 n.
Hill, Abraham, F.R.S., iiL 80 and »., 89
HilL Birkbeck, note to Johnson's Poets
cited, uL 197 n., 205 n.
Hillyard, Henry, iL 9, 47 and n., 67 and
n., 98, iiL 208, 286
Hippodrome at Rome, 1. 248
Hispaniola, treasure from, iii. 222 and n.
HisUnia Piseivm, Ray (1686), iii. 200 n.
Historical MSS. Commission, Reports of,
cited. Introduction, Ixii n,, iiL 197
n., 834 n.
History of England (Macaulay), cited^
iL 148 n., 185 n.
History qf His Own Time, Burnet (1724),
cited, see notes on pp. ii. 18, 247, 286,
854, 859, 860, iiL 108, 128, 188,
201, 204, 206, 248, 244, 248, 260,
265, 856
History of the Rebellion, Clarendon's,
cited, iL 8 n., 5 n,, 182 n., iu. 869
and n,
Hoare, Richard, an excellent penman, ii.
14 and n., iii. 888 and n. ; strange
sickness of, IL 66
Hobbes, John, visited by Evelyn, iL
89 and n., 107 ; book against his
Leviathan, 65 ; alluded to, iii. 28
Hobbs, Dr., L 14
Hobbson, Mr., a merchant of Venice, i.
315
Hobson, the Cambridge carrier, ii. 96
and n,
Hof van Hounsler's Dyck, account of, L
44
Holbein, Hans, portraite ete., by, ii. 9,
71, 102, 155, iiL 4, 18 and n., 55,
115, 218, 325
Holden, Dr. Richard, Vicar of Deptford,
ii. 855 and n., 889, iii. 209 ; char-
acter of, iL 355 ; sermon by, ib.
Holden, Dr., a Sorbonne Divine, iL 20
Holder, Dr., iiL 125
Holland, Evelyn's travels in, L 27-59 ;
428
GENERAL INDEX
Tidt to, recommended by Erelyn, 25
n. ; East India Company of, ii. 118 ;
Peace proclaimed, 279 and n. ; com-
plaint against Evelyn's Preface to his
History of the Dntoh War, 870;
effect of capture of Luxemburg by the
French (1684), ilL 127 ; Embassy to
congratulate William and Mary, 265
Holland, Henry Rich, first Earl of,
execution of, iL 10 and n.
Holland, Sir John, ii 261
ffoUandia lUurirata (or Batavia
lUuttnUa of Peter Schryver), referred
to, i. 81 and n.
Hollar, Wenoeslans, notice of, i 24 and
n. ; engravings by, i. 28, iL 147 n.,
258, 260 n.
Holies, Denzil, Lord, creation of^ etc., ii.
162 ; account of, ib, n.
Holloway, Sir Bichanl, Justice of the
King's Bench, iiL 284 and «., 285,
268 n.
Holmby House, ruins of, U. 888 and n. ;
given to Louis Duras, Earl of Fevers-
ham, 885
Holmes, Sir Robert, ii 296 and n., 889,
840, 852, 868, iii 180
Holt, Sir John, Lord Chief Justice, iii
829 n.
Holy Oro88 Day (Browning), felted, i
208 n.
Holy Thursday, ceremonies on, at Rome,
i. 257
Holy Wells, near Malvern, ii. 85
Holyhead, earthquake at, iii 281
Homer, ancient edition of, iii. 889
Hondius, or de Hondt, William, ot
Amsterdam, i 89, 40 and n.
Honfleur, in Normandy, notice of^ i 95
Honiton, iii. 246
Honson Grange, Staffordshire, sale of,
iu. 146
Honywood, Captain-lieutenant, i 80
Hooke, Dr. Robert, ii. 208 and n., 288 ;
built Montagu House, 891 and n.,
iii 88, 115 ; Bedlam Hospital, iii.
14 n.
Hooker, William, portrait, ii. 298 n.
Hooper, Dr. Geoige, Bishop of Bath
and Wells, sermon by, iii 72 and n.
Hope, Lord Henry PeUiam Clinton, his
seat called Deepdene, ii. 102
Hdpital de la Charity Paris, i 77 and n.
Hopkins, Williams, engraving by, ii.
195 n.
Hopton, Sir Arthur, ii 12 and n., iii
176 n.
Horace, cited, i 286 and n., ii. 194 n.,
iii 98 and n.
fforaoe, Mrs. Philip's tragedy, ii 285
and n., 294
Horace, ImitaHoM qf (Pope), dted, L
109 n., iii 828 n.
Horata and Curiatii, tomb of, i 240
Homeck, Dr. Anthony, character o^
iii 93 and n. ; sermon by his sod,
844
Hominghold, Leicestershire, ii 87 and
f»., 98
Horns, at Hampton Court, ii 188
Horseheath, Lord Allington's house at,
ii. 810 and n.
Horses, Evelyn's man^ horse, i 68
and n. ; the '* great" or war-horse,
iTUroduetion, xxv and n. ; fine statues
of^ i 144, 167 ; fatal accident to rider
at Milan, 882 ; racing of Barbery, at
Rome, 256 ; St. Mark's, Venice, 290
and n, ; wooden, 212 and n, ; horse
baited to death, ii. 278 ; Newmarket
races, 880 ; Isabella barb, 41 and n. ;
Turkish or Asian brought over (1684),
iii 182,' 188 ; exhibition of horse-
manship, 77, 134 ; notices of, i 145,
223, 225, 328, 889, ii 811
Horsley, East and West, ii 67 and n.,
184
Horti Mathei, Rome, i 244
Horticulture, Spanish, ii. 292
JTbrtorum, RapinuSjtnmslated by Evelyn's
son, ii 854 and ft.
ffortus siceuSf or hyemaliSf i 807 and
n., Iniroduetion, xlviii
Hodery and Lace Manufadureiy Hittcry
of the JIfachine-wroughi, Felkin (1867),
cited, ii 168
Hosklns, Sir John, iii. 52 ; President of
Royal Society, ib^ n., iii 89 and n.
Hospice des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, i 77
and n.
Hospitals, various notices of, abroad,
i 77 and n., 148 and n., 202, 215,
242, 246, 251, 252, 815, 826, 850,
ii. 22 ; in England, ii 68, 87
Hdtel Dieu, Paris, i 77 and n.
Hotham, Sir John, commander of Hull,
ii. 91
Houblon, Mr., merchant, iii 27 and «.,
181 ; his house in Epping Forest,
iii 98
Houblon, Sir John, iii 27 n., 829 n.
Hough, Dr. John, Bishop of Worcester,
iii. 282 and n.
Houllies, a species of fuel, ii 275, 276
Hounslow Heath, camp on (1678), iii.
14 ; (1686), 205 and n., 206 ; (1687-,
222 and n. ; (1688), 285 ; (1689),
259
GENERAL INDEX
429
House-boats, L 53
Household, Comptroller of the, public
dinners at Court, ii. 206
Household, Royal, purveyors of the,
regulated, iii. 91 and n.
How, John, complained of Bishop
Burnet's book (1698), iiL 800
How, Mr., made a Baron, iii 856
Howard, Anne, wife of Sir G. Sylvius,
ii. 297 snd n., iiL 11 and n.
Howard, Bernard, ii. 190, iii 186
Howard, Charles, ii 190, 211 ; house at
Dorking, ii 102 and n., 212, 315
Howard, Craven, law -suit against his
mother, ii. 888 ; account of him, tb,
and n.
Howard, Dorothy, ii 858, iii 11 ;
married to Coi Qraham, ii. 882 and n.
Howard, Earls of Berkshire, mansion of,
ii 266 n.
Howard, Edward, ii 190
Howard, Lord George (son of sixth Duke
of Norfolk), iii. 16 ».
Howard, Henry, Lord, grandson of the
Earl of Arundel (afterwards sixth
Duke of Norfolk), at Padua, i 812
and ft., 818, U. 189, 140; viUa at
Albury, pictures, etc., ii 102, 281
and n. ; dukedom restored, 189 ;
compounds a debt of his grandfather's,
%b. ; permits the Boyal Society to
meet at Arundel House, 267 ; gives
them the Arundelian Library, ib, and
m., 295 ; presents the Arundelian
Marbles to Oxford University, i 807
n., ii 281 ; thanked by the Uni-
versity, 282, 288; created Lord on
his embassy to Morocco, 288 and n.,
296 ; conversation with Evelyn re-
■ garding marriage of his son, his own
connection wi^ Mrs. Bickerton, his
house at Norwich, etc., 888 ; alluded
to, 189, 190, 272, 290, 295, 816, 851,
iii 12 and n. See Norfolk
Howard, Henry (son of the preceding,
afterwards seventh Duke of Norfolk),
ii. 190. See Norfolk!
Howard, Mrs. (widow of William, fourth
son of first Earl of Berkshire), and her
daughters, U. 297 and m., 880, iu.
11 ; law-suit against, by her son, ii 888
andm.
Howard, Philip (afterwards Cardinal),
i 817 and n., ii 190 and n., 806
Howard, Sir Robert (son of the Earl of
Berkshire), play by, U. 197, 208 n. ;
alluded to, 263 and n., 296 ; im-
peached Sir Wm. Penn, 287 and n. ;
*<an universal pretender," iii 96, 147
and n, ; his house at Ashtead, 126
andn.
Howard, Mr. Thomas (son of Sir Robert),
iii 285 ; death, 856
Howard, Lord Thomas (son of Henry,
sixth Duke of Norfolk), ii 190, iii.
17, 60 and n. ; children alluded to>
iii 848
Howard, of Eserick, Lord, concerned in
the Rye House Plot and betrays hia
associates, iii 101 and n., 102 ;
Algernon Sidney executed on his evi-
dence, 117
Howell, James, dted, i 88 fk, 62 n.,
68 Ik, 72 n., 74 n., 100 n., 108 n.,
284 n., Iniroduetion, xxv
Huddlestone, Father, present at death of
Charles IL, iii. 189, 140 n.
Htuiilmu, cited, ii 14 n.
Hughes, Margaret, mistress of Charles II.,
ii 268 f».
Huguenots, persecution of^ in France,
iii 189-91, 192; brief in England
for relieving, 201, 202 ; book exposing
the persecution burnt, 190 n., 204
and n. ; released and driven out of
France, 228 ; remorse and massacre
of those who had conformed to the
Romish faith, 229 ; service for, at
Greenwich church, 220
Hull, town of, noticed, ii 91 ; declares
for Prince of Orange, iii. 246
Humber, the, noticed, ii 91
Hume, Colonel, iii. 860 n.
Hum(nists, academy ot, at Rome^ i 245
andn.
Hungary, Turkish successes in, iii. 106
Hungerford, Edward, of Cadenham, ii
78, 88, 87 n.
Hungerford, town of, ii 75 and n.
Hunter, Dr. A., editor of Evelyn's SjflvOf
iii 382
Huntercombe, descent of Evelyns oU
Pedigree^ i Ixxiii
Huntingdon, custom at, ii. 94
Huntingdon, Theophilus Hastings, Earl
and Countess of, ii 808 and n., 828
Huntingtower, Lord, iii 8
Hurcott (manor of Worcester), ii 5, 6
Hurt, Mr., purchases Warley Magna
(1655), u. 105
Huss, John, medal of his martyrdom,
iii 182
Hussey, Mr., his attachment to Evelyn's
daughter, and death, iii. 169 and n.
Hussey, Mr., marries daughter of George
Evelyn, iii 814 and n.
Hussey, Peter, of Sutton, ii 815 and n. ;
his attention to husbandry, iii 71
480
GENERAL INDEX
H1ltcllesox^ Lady, iL 809
HtUcKinsonf Memoirs of OoUmd^ cited,
IfUrodtuAion, zzzIt
Huygens, or Haygh«nB, CJonstantine.
Su Zulichem
Hyde, Anne, married to James, Duke of
York, aUuded to, ii. 162, 156, 184 ;
death, 866 n.
Hyde, Dr. Thomas, ii. 299 and n.
Hyde, Dr., ii. 216
Hyde, Sir Edward (afterwards Earl of
Clarendon), iL 15 andn., 86 ; portrait,
191. See Clarendon
Hyde, Lawrence. See Rochester, Earl of
Hyde, Mr., iu. 87, 88 n.
Hyde, Sir Henry, ii. 216
Hyde, Lady Frances, ii. 358
Hyde, Lady Harrietta, ii. 249
Hyde Park, toll at (1653), U. 66 and ft. ;
coach-race in (1658), 181 ; referred to
(1660), 147; (1661), 167; (1667),
271 ; review in (1663), 203 ; (1679),
iii. 31 ; (1686), iii. 201 ; display of
horsemanship by Morocco Ambassador
(1682), 77
Ice, blue and transparent, ii. 398
Icon Animarum (1614), notice o^ ii. 68
and n.
II Ponte, notice o^ L 279
Imitatums qf fforace (Pope), cited, L
109 n.
Imperati, Ferdinando, his collection, L
225
ImpostorSy History qf the Three late
(1669), by Evelyn, ii. 290 n., 294 and
n., iii 376, 882
Impresses (devices), i. 169, 276 and n.
Incense, use of, iii. 125
Inchiquin, first Earl of, ii. 32 and n.
Inchiquin, second Earl o^ Governor of
Tangiers, iii. 49 Jind n.
India, curiosities from, iii 17
Indian Ambassadors (1682), account of,
iii 84 9k, 85
Indian Queen^ a play, ii. 208 and n.
Indulgence, Declaration of (1672), ii 841
andn. ; (1687), iu. 220 and n. ; (1689),
265 and n.
Infirmary for sick and wounded, Evelyn's
plan for, ii 241
Inglis, or English, Hester, beautiful
writing of, ii 77 and n,
Ingoldsby, Sir — , house at York, ii.
91
Inks for copying, ii. 106
Innocent X., John Baptista Pamphili,
Pope, his election, i. 149 ; procession
to St. John di Laterano, 148 and n.
Inns qf Court, etc, AntiqtnUes qf the,
Herbert (1804), ii 180 n.
Inquisition, references to the, i 202,
824, 882
Inscriptions, odd, i 158
Ipswich, account of, ii 114, iii 8, 4
Ireland, nomination of bishops for, ii
150 ; remarks respecting its natural
history, 177 ; map of; by Sir Wm.
Petty, 876 ; capture of Drogheda
(1649), 18 ; Lord Clarendon appointed
Lord -Lieutenant, iii 174, 181 ; farces
sent to (1689), 266 ; Lord Tyrconnel
and his army in, 256, 260 ; James
II. 's expedition to, 262, 264 ; sea
fight in Bantry Bay, 265 and n. ;
movement to relieve Londonderry,
267, 268 ; French land in (1690), 276 ;
conquered by William, 281 ; houses
burned by Jacobite party, ib, ; decisive
battle of Aghrim, 288 and n, ; Parlia-
ment reverses donations of forfeitures,
845 ; Commissioners for forfeited
estotes, 349
Ireton, Henry, the regicide, death, ii.
48 and 91. ; ftineral, 51 and n, ; his
severity at Colchester, ii. 62 and «.,
113 ; disinterment, etc, 158
Irish Rebellion breaks out, i 60
Irish soldiers, disorderly, iii. 289
Iron crown, Milan, i 829 and n.
Iron ovens, portable, ii 249
Ironmongers' Company, fraternity feast
(1671), ii 829 and n.
Iron-work in England, ii 81
Isaac, Mons., dancing master, iii. 79 and
f»., 161 and n.
Isabella, origin of colour called, ii 41 n.
Isabella, Island o^ i 884
Isidore, St., borlal-plaoe of; i 291
Isis, statue of, in Palazzo Famese, i.
214
Islands about Venice, i 286-7, 295, 805,
808
Isle Bouchard, i 114
Isle of Wight, iii 180 ; Treaty, ii. 7
Islington, resorted to by refugees from
Great Fire of London, ii 258 ; legacy
to poor of; iii 848
Isola, i 334 and n.
Isola Tiberina, i 242
Ispahan, plague at, iii 109
Italian, player on the guitar,* ii. 180;
Scaramuccio at Whitehall, 885
Italian glass-house at Qreenwich. ii 858
Italian Opera, introduction o^ into
England, ii 867
Italian Puppet-pUiy, ii 278 and n. ;
comedy at Court, 858
GENERAL INDEX
481
Italian singer, female, encouragement
given to, iii. 864
Italy, notices of Evelyn's travels in,
L 135-885 ; Mount Vesuvius, I 226,
iii. 824, 388 ; measures of churches
in, L 288 ; etchings of views in, by
Evelyn, iii 388 and n.
Italy, New Voyage to (Miason), referred
to, L 227 n,
Italy, Northern, cited. See Murray
Italy, Remarks on (1705), Addison,
cited, i. 96 fk, 138 n„ 136 n., 188 n^
147 n., 148 tk, 280 n., 231 n.
Italy, Voyage qf (1670), cited. See
Lassels
Itinerary, Antonine's, ii. 135
Ivelin, of Evelin, Normandy, family o^
ii. 807
Jackson, Mr., heir to Mr. Pepys, iii. 865
Jacobites, so called in 1696, iii. 881
Jacombe, Dr., ii. 368
Jamaica, iL 152, 821, 825, 827, 388 ;
complaints against the Spaniards, 844 ;
design of the Dutch upon (1673), 853 ;
Na^iaral History of (Sir Hans Sloane),
iii. 284 and n. ; earthquake at (1692),
iiL 297 ; profanely mimicked at South-
wark Fair, 298
James I., King of England, ii. 96
James, Duke of York, afterwards King
James IL, birth, L 11 ; discourse with
Evelyn (1661), iL 179 ; collection of
books, etc., for, 43 ; sailing match
with Charles II., 173 ; visits Evelyn
at Deptford, 183 ; letter to Evelyn on
the Dutch fleet, 227 ; victory over the
Dutch at Sole Bay, 229 and n., 230 ;
thanks Evelyn for his services during
the Plague, 240 ; visits the fleet (1666),
246 ; opposes laying up men-of-war
(1667), 275 n. ; at Newmarket (1671),
831 ; forbears receiving the Sacrament,
856 ; resigns appointment in conse-
quence of the Test Act, 359 n, ;
marriage with Mary of Modena, 366 ;
neglects to attend Protestant worship,
390 ; his secretary, Edward Coleman,
executed, iii. 25, 26 ; Commons vote
against, for recusancy, 29 and n. ;
libellous papers against, 81 ; his return
to England on account of the King's
illness (1679), 37 and n. ; his case as
to the succession, 67 and n. ; remark-
able escape ot, from shipwreck, 88 and
n., 157 ; office of Admiral restored to,
126 ; present at death of Charles IL,
188 n., 140 ; account of the last
hours of Charles II. , 140 n. ; speech
in Council on his accession, 142
and ft., 148 ; proclaimed, 143, 144,
145 ; opens a Popish Oratory at
Whitehall, 146, 148; lets to farm
duties of customs, etc., 147 and n. ;
coronation, 159 ; his firat speech
to Parliament, 162 ; discourse respect-
ing the miracles of the Saludadora,
relics, etc., 176 and?!., 177 ; reception
at Portsmouth (1685), 179 ; remarks
on his character, 181, 358 ; proves to
Pepys that Charles II. died a Roman
CathoUc, 181, 182 ; celebration of his
birthday (1685), 185 ; improvements
at Whitehall, 185 ; orders a Huguenot
book to be burned, 190 n. ; speech to
Parliament, 191 ; entertains Venetian
Ambassadors, 198 ; anniversary of his
accession (1686), 198 ; birthday
(1686), 210; (1688), 242; repays
part of debt due to Sir R. Browne,
221, 222 ; speech to a deputation from
Coventry, 223; alarm at the Dutch
fleet, 231 ; enjoins the readiug of his
declaration for liberty of conscience,
232 ; birth of his son, 233 and n. ;
his consternation at the landing of the
Prince of Orange, 239, 240, 245 ; his
military preparations, 240, 243 n.,
245 ; touches for the evil, 246 ; invites
Prince of Orange to St. James's, 248 ;
his flight and return to Whitehall, 247,
248 and n. ; hU flight to France, 248
and n., 249 and n. ; throws the Great
Seal into the Thames, 248 n. ; com-
pared to Maxentius, 252 ; protest
sgainst having abdicated, 255 ; assisted
by France in his Irish expedition, 259 ;
in Ireland, 262 and n. ; Scots' reasons
for setting him aside, 268 ; surprised
Londonderry, 264; declaration of
pardon, 266, 802 ; defeat at the Boyne,
278 and n. ; returns to France, 279
and n. ; takes news of his defeat, 280 ;
letter respecting the pregnancy of his
Queen, 294 ; ofien to submit all differ-
ences to Parliament, 302; intended
invasion of England (1696), 322;
Oates's book against him, 3^ and n. ;
his death, 858 and n. ; alluded to, ii.
17, 314, 845, 349, 871, 890, iiL 188 ;
portrait, iiL 249
James Stuart, the "Old Pretender."
birth of, iiL 288 and n.
James the Second, Life qf, Clarke (1816),
cited, iL 162 «., 275 n., 856 n., iii.
140 n., 142 n., 146 n., 171 n.
James, Dr. Robert, probable origin of his
fever powder, ii. 88 n.
482
GENERAL INDEX
James, Mr., iii 286
James, St., relics of, L 187 ; Bt James
minor, 202
Janicios, Dr., physician, L 810
JaniJta lAnguarum (J. A. Comenins), ii
127 and n.
Janoarius, St, L 224 and n., 238 and n.
January 30th first kept as a fast (1661),
U. 158
Janus Qoadrifons, Temple of, L 161, iL
87
Japan, cariosities from, iL 210
Jardin Boyal, at Paris, i. 77
Jaya, Ui. 85
Jaye, Ck)lonel, L 51
Jebb's BenUey cited, iii 805 m.
Jeffreys, George, made Lord Chief
Justice, iii. 118, 117 ; created Baron
Jeffreys of Wem, 113 »., 164 ; his
sentence on Titus Oates, 161 n. ;
likely to be Loid Keeper, 164, 175 ;
Lord Chancellor, 188, 195, 199, 234 ;
character of him, 113 n., 188 ; a Com-
missioner for Ecclesiastical Affairs,
209 ; aUnded to, iii. 128 n., 129, 263 ;
death, 263 n.
Jeffryes, Dr., minister of Althorp, iii 236
Jemmy f a yacht, iu 246
Jenkins, Sir Leoline, IL 282 and n.
Jenner, Sir Thomas, iiL 113 and n,
Jennings, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough,
ii. 373 n.
Jermyn, Mr. Henry, afterwards Baron
Jermyn of Dover, ii. 272 and ti., 830
Jermyn, Henry, Lord, ii. 17
Jeronimo, painting by, L 86
Jersey, Edward Villiers, Earl of^ Lord
Chamberlain, iiL 350
Jerusalem, Church at Bruges, L 51 ;
earth of, carried to Pisa, 136, and
Rome, 202, 255
Jesuitism^ Mystery qf, in. ^ vols., the
second translated by Evelyn (1665),
iL 221 and n., 241, iii. 375, 382 ;
thanked by Charles II. for it, ii.
223
Jesuits, their church, schools, etc., at
Antwerp, L 49, 51 ; Paris, 73, ii. 37 ;
Bourges, L 117 ; Toumon, 121 and n. ;
Aiz, 123 ; Genoa, 133 and n. ; Rome,
162 ; English College at Rome, 197,
246; Naples, 225; Milan, 826;
Powder, iii. 139 ; other notices of, i.
208, 246, 260, 333, iL 133, 210, iiL
30 and n. 33, 34, 190, 214, 240, 241,
251, 275, 358; fly on landing of
Prince of Orange, iiL 247 ; Evelyn's
books against the, ii. 221 and n., 241 ;
Tonge's JeauiU Morals, iiL 23 and n.
Jesus CoUegSi Cambridge^ IL 96
Jeu de Goblets, iL 868 and n.
Jewels, notices of various, L 66-8, 101,
132, 138, 141 2-8, 167, 193, 275, 276,
292, 811, iL 140, 874 ; attempt to
steal the Crown, etc., from the Tower
of London, 322 and n.
Jews, synagogue at Amsterdam, and
burial-place at Overkirk, L 34 ; curious
conversation with a Jew at Leyden,
43 ; wear red hats at Avignon, 123,
yellow at Rome, 205, 267 ; sermon to,
at Rome, 203 and n. ; ceremony of
circumcision, 204-5 and n. ; Jews at
Venice, marriage, 316 ; baptism of
converted Jew, 253 ; admitted in
England, iL 107 and n,
Joachim, Abbot, painting by, L 291
Joan d'Arc, her statue at Orleans, L 105
and n.
Job, the painted Prince, iii. 336 and n.
John, St., relic of^ L 183 n. ; original of
the Gkispel of, 141 ; Apocalypee of,
iiL 277. 278
John the Baptist, St., his arm preserved,
L 148 ; baptistery of, 187
John of Gaunt, iL 87
John of Udine, paintings by, L 205 n,
John, Father, of Rome, L 153, 176
Johnson, Samuel, autlior of Julian the
Apostate, ill. 123 and n,
Johnson, Mr., Commissioner for Green-
wich Hospital, iiL 329 n.
Johnson, Sir — , executed at Tyburn, iiL
282
Johnson's Poets, note to, dted, iiL 197
n^ 205 fi.
Jones, regicide, executed, iL 158
Jones, Sir Henry, ii. 329
Jones, Inigo, iL 176 n.
Jones, Mr., of Gray's Inn, lawyer, iL
325
Jones, Sir William (1680), iiL 61, 62
Jonson, Ben, IL 183 n., 196 n., 292 n,
Joseph of Arimathea, relic of, L 202
Josephos, Flavins, History of^ on the
bark of trees, i. 329
Joust and tournament at Rome (1645),
L260
Jovius (or Giovio), Paulns, museum of,
L 141 and n, ; sepulchre, 276
Joyliffe, Dr. Gecnrge, physician, iL 9 and
n., 118, 124
JtUian the Apostate (1683), Samuel John-
son, iiL 128 and n.
Julio Romano, paintings by, L 87
Julius II., Cardinal Julian deUa Rovere,
Pope, tomb, L 194 and n.
Juno, Temple o^ i. 257
GENERAL INDEX
488
Japiter, temples of, at Rome, L 166 ; at
Terracina, 219 ; huge atatae of; 279
Jusserand, M., his French Avibcuscuior at
the Ckyyiri qf CharUe II, mentioned, iL
175 n., 412 fk, 417 n. ; his Mngliah
Buayefraok a French Fen^ Introduc-
tion, zl n,
Jnstel, Mons. Henry and Mme., iii. 120
n., 182 ; arranged the Library at tit,
James's, 122 m., 288 ; account of,
122 n.
Justice, statue of, at Florence, L 275
Justinian, gardens of, L 251, 256 ; statue,
256
Justiniani, Venetian Ambassador, iiL 198
Juvenal, quoted, i. 886 and n.
Juzon, Dr. William, Bishop of London,
afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury,
noticed, ii 160 and n., 165, 204
Kalendarium Hortense (1664), etc., by
Evelyn, i. 5 n., iii. 876, 882
Eeele, notice of, L 47, 48
Eeepe, Henry, pamphlet by, iiL 178 n,
Keffler, Dr., ii. 249
Keightiey, Thomas, cousin of Evelyn, L
5 n., 61, ii. 67
Keightley, Mrs. Rose, her old age, iii
66 and m., 67
Reiser's Qracht, Amsterdam, i. 88 and n,
Kello, Rev. Bartholomew, ii. 77 ».
Kemp, Mr., Impropriator of South
Mailing, ii 5
Ken, Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Bath and
Wells, account of, iii 217 n. ; attends
Charles II. in his last illness, 189,
140 n. ; sermons by, against Romanists,
etc. (1686-87), 200, 217, 218, 280 ;
refuses to read Declaration of Liberty
of Conscience, 282 ; sent to the Tower,
288 ; tried and acquitted, 284 ; his
scruples on King William's accession,
217 n., 260 n. ; deprived, i&., 284 ;
' beloved in his diocese, 285 ; alluded
to, 249
Kendal, Dr., Oxford Act performed by,
ii 76 and n.
Kendrick, Alderman John, a fanatic Lord
Mayor, ii 55
Kensington, Mr. Wise's house and
gardens at, iii. 858
Kensington Palace, purchased by King
Willhun, iii 272 and n. ; fire at, 289 ;
pictures, etc., 825
Kent, Anthony Qrey, Earl of, ii 209
and n.
Kent, Countess of; ii 803
Kenty History qf, Hasted's, dted, ii
61 n.
VOL. Ill
Kent, rising in (1648), ii 5 and n. ; good
cultivation in, ii. 848 ; Kentish Horse
(1685), iii. 145 ; Kentish men im-
prisoned (1701), 856 and n.
Keppel, Arnold Joost Van, Earl of Albe-
marle, commander of the King's
Guard, iii 889 and n.
K^roualle, Mile. Louise-Ren^e de, eee
Portsmouth, Duchess of ; Life of, by
M. Fomeron, cited, ii. 820, 881 n,;
portrait, iii 118
K&oualle, Gnillaume de Penancoet, Sieur
de, ii 879 n.
Ketch, Jack, the hangman, iii 170 n.
Kew, Sir H. Capel's house at, iii 19 and
n., 115, 116, 280
Keys, Thomas, executed (1696), iii. 824 n.
Keysler, John George, his Travels cited,
i 167 n., 172 n., 190 m., 192 n., 206
n,, 207 n., 209 n., 229 n., 242 n., 248
n., 269 n., 800 n.
Kidd, Captain William, pirate, iii 846
and n.
Kidder, Dr. Richard, Bishop of Bath and
WeUs, iii. 299 n., 805 n., 867
Kildare, John Fitzgerald, Earl of, iii. 69
and n.
Killing no Murder, by Colonel Titus, ii
295 and n.
Kilmorey, Lord, ii 188
Kineir, Andrew, iii. 884 n.
King of England, speech in 1686 assert-
ing him to be absolute, iii 207
King, Dr. Edmund, relieved Charles n.
in apoplexy, iii 187, 188 n.
King, Dr. William, Archbishop of Dublin,
iii 869 and n.
King, Edward, executed (1696), iii. 824 n.
King, Rev. Mr., of Ashtead, ii. 184
King Street, Golden Square, Tabernacle
in, iii 300 n., 805
King Street, Westminster, design of
Charles n., iii 814
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, ii 95
King's Evil, Royal touch for (1660), ii.
148 and n. ; (1688), iii 246 ; great
pressure at the (1684), 125
King's household, ancient supply of, ii
155 n.
King's Lynn, iii 8
Kingston, Evelyn Pierrepont, Earl of, ii.
18, iii. 78
Kinsale, surrender of, iii 281 and n.
Kip, print by, iii 88 n.
Elippis, editor of Biogrcgthia BriUmnioa,
iii 805 n,
Kirby, seat of Lord Hatton, ii 98
Kirby, Captain, court-martial on, and
execution of, iii 868 and n.
2f
484
GENERAL INDEX
Eirby's Wondrnfut Museum (1805), died,
u. 808 ».
Eircher, Father Athanadof , account of,
and attentions to Evelyn at Borne, i
162 and n. ; his collection, 163 and
n. ; communication by Evelyn to his
ObdiscuB PamphiUus (1650-64), 809,
ii. 110 ; alluded to, 189 and n., 197,
250, IL 108
Eirke, M^jor-Qeneral, relieves London-
deny, Hi 268 and n,
Eiviet, Sir Jobn, ii. 266 and »., 280 ;
his proposal to wharf the Thames with
brick, 268, 269 ; his drainage project,
811
Eleomenes, statue by, i. 200 and n., 275
Enatchbull, Sir Norton, sermon, etc., by,
ii.204
Enatchbull, Sir Thomas, Commissioner
of Privy Seal, iii 272
Eneller, Sir Qodfny, his portrait of
Evelyn, iiL 185 and n., 266 and n. ;
of Bishop Burnet, 266 and n.
Enife-swallowers, L 42, ii 179 and n,,
889
Enight, Mr., of Northamptonshire, ii
67
Enight, Mrs., singer and mistress of
Charles IL, ii 188 and n. ; compass
of her voice, 878
Enight, Serjeant, surgeon, ii 848
Enight-Baronets' fees, iii 205
Enightsbridge, iU. 808 and n.
Enole Park, Eent, Duke of Dorset's
house at, ii 860 and n.
Eonigsmarck, Count Carl Johann von,
iii. 72 n,, 78 n., 81 and n., 103 n.
Eonigsmarck, Philip von, iii 72 n., 78 n.
Eouwenberg (Covenberg), Christian van,
i 44 f».
La Dor^ Mons., ii 56
U Hogue, baUle of (1692), iii 295
La Mothe le Vayer, F. de, ii 8 n.
La Neve, paintings by, ii 8 and n.
Labulla, boiling fbuntain of, i 226
Lac Tigiidis, drug so called, ii 211
Lacy, John, comedian, portraits, ii. 195
and n. ; performance of, 197 and ft.
Lago d' AgnanOy Naples, i 280
Lago di Garda, i 823
Lago Maggiore, etc., i 388
Lake, Dr. John, Bishop of Chichester,
petitions against reacUng the Declara-
tion of Liberty of Conscience, iii. 282 ;
sent to the Tower, 233 ; tried and
acquitted, 234 ; alluded to, 249 ;
refuses to go to Parliament (1689),
260 n.
Lake, Mr., a Commissioner of Greenwich
Hospital, iii 829
Lakin, Dan., P.C., MiracuUms Cure of
the Prussian Swallow Knife (1642),
ii 179 n.
Lambard, Mr., estate at Westerham, ii 69
Lambert, Coi, ii 404, 405, 408
Lambeth, marble and glass works at, ii
895 and n. ; Mr. Ashmole's library,
etc, at, iii 15 ; Sir Samuel Morland's
house at, 71 n.
Lambeth Palace, assaulted by a mob
(1640), i 20 and n. ; library at, ii
296, iii 225
Lamedrati, sea-horses sculptured by, i 144
Lamot, Mons., sermon by, iii. 228
Lamplugh, Dr. Thomas, sermon by, ii.
357 and n.
Lampreys, tame, i 236 and n.
Lancaster, Dr., vicar of St. Martin's, iii.
298, 846
Lance of St Longinus, i 184 ; letter
concerning, 829
Lane, Mrs. Jane, loyalty o^ ii 47 and «.
Lane, Sir Thomas, iii. 829 and n, ; sub-
scriber to Greenwich Hospital, 880 «.
Lanfranco, Giovanni, works of^ i 168,
212, 249, 252 and n.
Lang, Mr. Andrew, his VaUfs Tragedy
and other Studies^ cited, iii. 25 n.
Langdale, Sir Marmaduke, afterwards
Lord,ii 19
Langham, Lady, ii 99
Langhom, — , executed, iii 80 ik
Laniere, Jerome, artist and mudcian, ii
62 and n.
Lansdowne, Lord, Count of the Roman
Empire, iii 135 ; suicide, 858
Land, Loggia de', i 144 n.
Laocoon and his sons, statue of, i 210
and n.
Lapidaries at Venice, i 318
Lashford, Sir Richard, ii 815
Lassels, Richard, account o^ i 100 n, ;
' his Voyage cf Italy (1670), dted, see
notes on pp. 100, 129, 132, 183, 184,
138, 143, 146, 147, 151, 152, 157, 175,
177, 179, 181, 182, 184, 188, 198,
205, 207, 209, 210-18, 218, 222, 224,
283, 271, 280, 281, 290, 292, 300-803,
305, 317, 319, 820, 321, 828, 825,
828, iii 131
Last Judgment, by Michad Angdo, i 207
Last Supper^ by Leonardo da Vinci, i
827 ; in waxwork, ii 348
Latimer, Bishop, portrdt, ii 298 n,
Latin, odd pronunciation of, at West-
minster School, ii. 169 ; sentences in
sermons out of fashion, iii 105
GENERAL INDEX
485
Laad, William, Archbishop of Canter-
bury, i 15, 358 ; his paLeuse attacked,
20 ; gift to St. John's College, Oxford,
78 ; part of Bodleian Library bnilt by,
iL78
Lauderdale, Buke of; ii 202 and »., 208,
828, 880, iii. 81 ; bis house at Ham,
iiL 18 and n.
Laundress, statue of, i. 278, 279 n.
Laura, her tomb at Avignon, L 122
andn.
Laurence, St, burial-place, L 255
Lauretto, Caralier, of Bome, i« 267
Lavaran, Madame, singer, ii. 87
Lavinia, painting by, i« 212 and n.
Law against Lovers^ a tngi-comedy, IL
199 and n.
Lawrence, Dr. Thomas, Master of Balliol
CoUege, L 14, 15
Lawrence, Sir John, his pageant as Lord
Mayor, ii 218 n.
Lawrence^ President of Cromwell's Coun-
cil, ii. 121
Laws, a Scotchman, duel fought by, iii.
808
Lawyers, etc., required to renounce
James XL, iii 826
Lazzari (called Bramante), palaces built
by, i 258 ; church built by, 826
Le Chat, Mons., physician, i 346
Le Fleming MS&, Historioal MS3, Cknnr
mission, cited, iii 197 n.
L'Estrange, Sir Boger, ii 109 and n.,
867 ; account of his ObsenatoTt 109 n.,
iii 160 and n.
Le Vayer, Fran9oi8 de la Mothe, ii 8 n.
League and Covenant, abjured, ii 191
Leake, Dr., his daughter, ii 892
Leaning towers, i 186, 141, 270, 280
LsarMd Ladies, by George Ballard, re-
ferred to, ii. 293 n,
Leatherhead, iii 158 ; picture at the
Swan Inn at, ii 268 n.
Lechmore, Mr. Baron, subscriber to
Greenwich Hospital, iii 380 n.
Lee, Lady and Sir Henry, ii 215
Lee, Mr. Sidney, Life of Lord Herbert qf
Oherbury, cited, IntroduUioTi, zxv n.
Lee, Sir Thomas, iii 61
Lee, William, inventor of machine for
weaving stockings, ii 168 n.
Lee, or Leigh Place, Sir John Evelyn's
house at Godstone, ii 133 n.
Lee, Kent, Mr. Bohun's house, etc., at,
iU. 87 and n., 86, 109
Leech, Mr. and Mrs., ii 69, 188
Leeds, Duke ot, Commissioner of Green-
wich Hospital, iii 317 ; his subscrip-
tion, 329 n.
Leeds Castle, Kent, prisoners kept at,
ii. 286 and n., 248, 264, 278
Leeward Islands, Sir C. Wheeler's indis-
creet government at, ii 837 ; threatened
by the French, 339
Lefevre, Nicasius or Nicolas, chemist, ii
1 and n., 46, 194
Legate of Bologna, his palace, i 280-81
and n.
Legend qf the Pearl, by Evelyn, iii 380
Legge, Colonel William, ii. 280 and n.,
iii 96 and n., 180
Leghorn, account of, i 138-9 ; consulate
of, ii 853
Leicester, city of, noticed, ii 87
Leicester, Robert Dudley, (the great)
Earl of, his vase, ii 99 ; alluded to,
107 ; portrait, 298 n.
Leicester, Robert Sidney, Earl of; house
at Penshurst, ii. 61
Leicester Fields, ii. 80 n., iii. 67
Leicester House, London, noticed, ii 852
and n,
Leighton, Sir Elisha, project of, ii 291 ;
account of; i6., n.
Leith Hill, Surrey, i 3 and n.
Lely, Sir Peter, iii 96 ; portraits by,
ii 138, 847, iii 15 n., 138 n.
Lennox, Duke of; ii 182
Lennox, portrait of the Duchess of, ii 158
Lent, ceremonies in Rome, i 255-8 ; in
V^ce, 818-14 ; preaching in London
during (1678), ii 355
Leominster, William Fermor, Baron, iii
298 fi.
Leoncenas, Dr. John Athelsteinus, ana-
tomical preparations by, i 315 and n,
Leopold, Rrince, his collection of paint-
ings, i 275
Lepanto, picture of the battle, i 206
and n., 294 and n.
Lepers, in Holland, notice of, i 28 and n.
Lepidus, fountains of, at Rome, i 170
Lerici, procession at, i 135
Leslie, Lady Jane (Countess of Rothes),
her marriage and issue, iii 360 n.
Leviathan, Hobbes's, ii 65
Lewen, Samuel, Sheriff of Surrey, iii 158
andn.
Lewes, Sussex, Evelyn's boyhood at, i 7,
8, 9, 18
Lewis, Prince, of Baden, iii 805
Lewisham, service in church at, ii 58, 64
Lewkner, Mr., i 49
Leyden, account of, i 41-8
Leyden, Lucas Van, painting by, i 87 ;
prints by, 101
Liancourt, Count de, his palace, garden,
and pictures, i 85-6 and n.
486
GENERAL INDEX
Liberty and Servitude (1649), a transla-
tion by Evelyn, ii 8 and n., iii. 375,
881, IfUroduetion, zzzir
Libraries : Foreign — Rome, L 198 ; Vati-
can, 208 ; Florence, 277 ; Milan, 828.
In England-— OiIoTd, L 15, ii 77 ; Cam-
bridge, 96; Arundelian, 267 and n.,
295, iii 19 ; Ck>llege of Physicians,
ii 194 ; Sir John Cotton's, 287 ; Lord
Bristors, iii 12 ; at Cassiobnry, 45 ;
Whitehall, 54, 71 ; Archbishop Teni-
Bon's, the first public one in London,
128 and n. ; Lambeth, 225 ; Dr. Cart-
wright's, 235; Queen Mary's, 808;
Lonl Sunderland's, 815 ; Lord
Spencer's, 889 ; Dr. John Moore's, 340
Libraries^ Instructions concerning, Gabriel
Naudffius (1661), ii 178 and n., iii
875, 881
Licences to leave England, i 68 and n.,
Introduction^ zzzii n.
Lichfield, Lady, daughter of Charles XL,
iii 77
licola, in Italy, i 286
lievens, or Livens, John, engraving by,
i71
Light, contrivance for reflecting, i. 86
Ligne, Prince de. Ambassador from Spain,
u. 151
Ligon, Captain, ii 290 and n.
LUlo, fori: of, i. 48
Lilly, William, astrologer, iii 842 ; por-
trait, ii 298 n.
Limn, earthquake at (1688), iii. 233
Limerick, siege of; raised (1690), iii. 280
Lincoln, City and Cathedral of; ii 92
Lincoln's Inn, revels at (1662), ii 180
and n. ; chapel, iii 212
Lincoln's Inn Fields, theatre in, ii 158
and n. ; Mr. Povey's house in, 211 ;
Lord Bristol's house in, 328 ; Lord
William Russell executed in, iii 107
Lincolnshire, fens of; ii 94
lindsey, Robert Bertie, first Earl of; i 10
and n.
Lion, gentleness of one, ii 70 ; of St.
Mark, Venice, i 294 ; present of, iii. 75
and n.
Lionberg, Mons., Swedish Resident, iii 88
lippeus, Nichohui, dockmaker, of Basle,
i 119 n.
lisle. Lord (son of Earl of Leicester),
ii. 107 ; his house at Sheen, iii 18
lisle. Sir George, put to death by Ireton,
ii 52 and n., 118
lister. Dr. Martin, his Travels in France
cited, i 85 n., 100 n.
Littler, Rev. Robert, vicar of Deptford,
ii 138 and n.
Littleton, Sir Charles, his house at Sheen,
iii 229
Littleton, Sir Henry, iii 229
livius, Titus, relics of, i 224 ; bast of,
805
Livomo, i 185
Lloyd, Mr., ii 358
Lloyd, Sir Richard, u. 15, 50
Lloyd, Dr. William, Bishop of Llandaff,
Peterborough, and Norwich, attended
the English Court in France, ii 44 n. ;
sermons by, 889 and n. ; reflections
on a sermon by, iii 41 ; depriyed,
286 ; alluded to, ii. 282, iii. 82, 249,
385
Lloyd, Dr. William, Bishop of St Asaph,
Coventry, and Worcester, iii. 48 and n,;
petitioned against reading Declaration
of Liberty of Conscience, 282 ; sent to
the Tower, 238 ; tried and acquitted,
234 ; his interview with Archbishop of
Canterbury (1689X 261, 263 ; his in-
terpretation of prophecies, 268, 264,
277, 278, 280 ; sermon (1689) on the
deliverance of the Church of England,
269 ; almoner to Queen Mary, 275 ;
aUuded to, 50, 58, 59, 67, 265, 271,
276
Loadstone, a remarkable one, i 140
Locke, John, Secretary to Council of
Trade and Plantations, ii 358 and n.,
865
Lockhart, Lord, Ambassador to France
(1678), ii. 866 and n.
Locks, notices of curious, ii 80 and n.
Locks on River Brenta in Italy, i
299
Lodi, notice of, i 824 and n.
Loevestein, fort of, i 81 and n.
Loftus, Mr., iii 47
Loggan, R., ii. 217 n.
Lombardus, Tnllius, sculptor, i 800
Lombart, Peter, engraver, ii 67 and n.
Lomellini, the brothers, i. 134 n.
Londinopolis, Howell (1657), quoted,
i 62 91.
Londinum Redivivttm, by Evelyn, iii
380
London, pestilence in (1625 and 1636),
i 7 and n., 13 ; processions of Charles
L (1640), 19; (1642), 60; tumults,
20 and n., ii 4, 12, 68 ; sickness
in, 58, 122; great rain in, 122,
148; Charles IL at Guildhall, 148;
entry of Spanish Ambassador into,
151 ; Lord Mayor's show (1660), 158;
(1661) by water, 176 ; (1662), 196
and n. ; (1664), 218 and n. ; (1684),
iii 180 ; (1686), 212 ; King's progress
GENERAL INDEX
487
through before his coronation, ii 168 ;
Scottish Covenant burnt by hangman
in, 170 ; nuisance of smoke in, 172 n.,
173, 182 ; fast in (1662), 182 ; Com-
mission for regulating buildings, etc.
(1662), 186 ; St. Martin's Lane, im-
provement o^ ib. ; present to the
Queen of Charles II., 187 ; tumults
from Nonconformists, 191 ; water
pageant on Thames to conduct the
Queen to Whitehall (1662), 192 and
n. ; entrance of Russian Ambassador,
197 ; pUgne (1665), 282, 283 and n.,
286 ; fast on account of^ 233 ; increase
of, 234 ; abates, 237, 241, 264 ; Cor-
poration welcome Charles II. after
the Plague, 240 ; Londant frigate, built
by Corporation of, 246 ; great fire of
1666, 252-9; alarm in, of landing
of the Dutch, 258 ; survey of the
ruins and plans for rebuilding, 256,
260 ; Evelyn's Londinum RedivimLm,
iii 380 ; fast appointed, ii. 261 ; alarm
on Dutch entering Thames, 278 ; re-
building of City begun, 302, iii. 68
and n. ; pictures of judges and others
in Quildhall, ii. 360 and n. ; Royal
Society return to Gresham College,
366 ; Pope burned in eflSgy, 866 ;
petition of the Corporation on the Quo
Warranto against their Charter, iii
98 ; their privileges diminished, 99,
and judgment entered, 112, 113 ; re-
joicings at return of Duke of Mon-
mouth from Holland, 42 ; great frost
and fog (1684), 121 ; first public
library in, 128 and n. ; proclamation
of James II., 144 ; inscription on the
Monument altered (1685), 166 and n.;
rejoicings on James II. 's birthday
(1686), 210; an Anabaptist Lord
Mayor entertains James II. and the
Papal Nuncio, 226 and n. ; Popish
chapel and nunnery demolished (1688),
242, 246, 247; house of Spanish
Ambassador pillaged, 247 ; rejoicings
at accession of William and Mary, 256 ;
Charter restored, 27 6 ; great fog ( 1 699 ),
844 ; robberies and murders in (1699),
845 and n.; great storm (1708), 866
and n. ; tha^sgiving after battle of
Blenheim, 868 ; Hollar's Plan of, ii
258 ; view of, 257
London (1891), Wheatley and Cun-
ningham's, cited, ii. 7 n., 116 n., 226 n.,
278 n.
London^ Environs of, Lysons', cited, ii.
100 n., iii 88 n., 852 n. ; Thome's,
cited, iii. 17 n., 95 n.
London, frigate, blown up, ii. 225 and
n., 228 ; new frigate launched, 246
London, George, gardener to Sir Chris-
topher Wren, iii. 886 and n.
London Institution, House of, in Old
Jewry, ii. 351 n.
London and Westminster, Societies /or
Reformation qf Manners in (1744),
Woodward, cited, iii. 845 n.
London* s Triumphs, etc., John Tatham
(1661), cited, ii 176 n.
Londonderry, surprised by James II.,
iii. 262 n., 264 ; Schombeig sent to
its relief, 267 ; relieved, 268 and n.
Long Ditton, Surrey, descent of Evelyns
o^ Pedigree, i zxiii
Longevity, instances of^ ii. 91
Longford, Lord, Treasurer of Ireland,
iu. 14, 28
Longinus, St., lance of, i 184 ; letter
concerning it, 829 ; burial-place,
202
Longueville, Duke of, ii. 321
Lords, House of, ii 879 ; divorce of
Loi^ Roos, 805 and n. ; speech of
James IL on his accession, iii. 162
Lorraine, Louise de, i. 116 n.
Lort, Mr., at Lincoln's Inn (1662), ii.
180
Loihair (Lord Beaconsfield), cited,
Introduction, Ixvi
Lothian, Lord, aUuded to, ii. 112, 150
Lottery, in 1664, ii 211 ; (1698), iU. 304 ;
State lottery (1694), 809, 818 and n. ;
(1699), 840 ; frequency of lotteries
(1696), 828 ; suppression of (1699),
840
Loudun, Nuns of, impostures practised
by, ii 818
Louis XIL, King of France, equestrian
statue of, at Blois, i 107
Louis XIII., statue of, i 76 and n, ; his
sepulchre, i 66
Louis XIY., performs in a masque (1651),
ii 85 ; pi-ocession to Parliament,
89 ; audience of Sir Richard Browne
with, 42; his ambitious career, iii
106, 111, 800 ; the King and Dauphin
alluded to, ii 16 ; iii. 207, 249 ; per-
secution of Protestants, 190, 204,
• 228, 229 ; excommunicated, 266
Louvre, at Paris, described, i 78 ;
referred to, ii 18
Love, Captain, duel fought by, iii 168
Love and Honour, a tragi-comedy, ii.
177 and n.
Love in a Tub, a play, ii 209 and n.
Love Triumphant, by Dryden, iii 806
and n.
488
GENERAL INDEX
Low Ghuich Party, nae of ezpression
(1706), iii 871, 872
Lower, I>r., phyaiciaii, iiL 818
Lowman, Mr., of the Marshabea, ii
285
Lowndes, Mr., Secretary to the Treasury,
iii 817, 830 n.
Lowther, Sir John, iii. 11 and n., 80 ;
subdcription to Greenwich Hospital,
829 n.
Loyola, Ignatins, his burial-place, i.
162
Lnbicer, his skill on the violin, iL 109
Lucas, Sir Charles, put to death by
Ireton, ii. 52 and n., 118
Lucas, Lord, ii. 271
Lucas, Lord, Lieutenant of the Tower,
iiL 271, 288
Lucas, Rev. Mr., ilL 316
Lucca, city ot account of; etc., 1. 270
Lucie, Sir William, ii. 189 and n.
Lucretia, Signora, a Qreek lady, ii. 12
LucreHus Oarus de Rerum NaUau, trans-
lated by £7elyn into English verse, iL
111 and fk, uL 875, 881, Intro-
duction, zzxviii and n. ; his remarks
upon the printing, etc., iL 111 ».
Lucrine, Lake of, 1. 284
Ludgate, prisoners at, iL 867
Ludovicus, works of, iiL 265
Ludovisi, Prince, his villa at Bome, i. 165
and n. ; view of palace and garden, t&.
Luke, St, pictures said to be painted by,
L 144, 160, 172 and n., 188 ; reUcs
of, 202, 298, 801
Lumley, family of, iL 185
Lumley, Lord, iL 289, iiL 167 and n.,
168, 221
Luna and Lunaris, L 185
Lutes made at Bologna, L 284
Lutterel, Henry, painting by, iii. 812 ;
notice of, t&. n.
Luxembouig, palace and gardens, L 96-9
and n, ; view of, 97 ; surrender of^ to
the French, iiL 127, 221 and n.
Lyme, Dorset, iiL 165, 166 n.
Lynch, Sir Thomas, Gk)vemor of Jamaica,
ii. 821 andn^, 858, 889
Lynn Regis, notice ot, iii. 8
Lyons, city of, L 119, 851
Lyra, Don Emmanuel de, iiL 18, 29
and 9k
Lysdun, church at, L 44
Lysons* Environt qf London, cited, iL
100 n., iiL 88 n., 852 n. ; Magna
Britannia, cited, ii. 810 n.
Lytcott, Mr., iiL 198
Lyttelton, Sir Thomas, Speaker, iiL 854
and n.
Macarino, inlaid pavement by, L 269
Bfacaulay, Lord, his History qf England
referred to^ iL 148 n., 185 n.
Macclesfield, Lord, his death, iiL 306
Mackenzie^ Sir George, his Essay On
Solitude answered by Evelyn, iL 268
and n., 418, 420. iiL 275 n. ; Lord
Advocate of Scotland, iiL 249, 250;
particulars respecting Scotland by, 275
Mack worth, Sir Humphrey, iiL 147 n.
Macmichael, Mr. J. Holden, his Memctrt
qf the Sedan Chair, cited, L 239 n.
Mad Margery, the great gun at Ghent, L
57 fk
Maddoz, Mr., Evelyn's letter to, cited,
Introduction, zzzi
Madonna delle Grazie, monastery o^
Milan, L 827
Madrid, a palace of the French King, L
85 and n., ii. 22
Maestricht, siege of, represented at
Windsor, iL 371
Magdalen College and Chapel, Oxford,
ii. 79, iiL 282; ejected Fellows re-
stored, iiL 240
Magdalen of Austria, L 272 and n.
Magi, tomb of the, at Milan, L 327 and n.
Magna Britannia (1810), Lyson, cited,
u. 310 n.
Magniani, Marquis, L 288
Magnin, M. Charles, L 86 n.
Mahomet, design of his sepulchre, L 210
Maiden Queen, by Dryden, iL 269 ».
Maids of Honour, office of Mother o^ u.
187, 392
Maimburg, Father, hit History qf
Ckdvinism, iiL 84
Maison, President, his palace near Pans,
ii. 17
Maison Rouge, near Paris, i. 91
Majolus, Simon, i. 281
Mskins, Mrs. Bathsua, school of, IL 11 n.
Mai Albeigo, an inn, L 284
Malamocco, noticie of, L 286
Mailing, South, church consecrated, L 7 ;
impropriation sold, ii. 5
Mallory, Thomas, ii. 122 and n., 187
Malpighi, Maroellus, presents a treatise
to the Royal Society, iL 295 ; notice
of, i&. n.
Malta, earthquake at, iiL 801 ; Grand
Master of, 97
Malvern Hills, view from, ii. 85
Man, The Dignity of, etc., by Evelyn,
iiL 376, 880
Manchester, Edward Montague, Earl of.
Lord Chamberlain, ii. 156, 218
Mancini, Marie, iiL 841 and n,
Mancini, Signer, of Rome, L 245
GENERAL INDEX
489
Mander, Dr. Roger, Master of Balliol
OoUoge, m. S38 and n., 853
Mann, Mr., Recorder of Ipswich, iii. 8
Manna, at Naples, L 289
Manners, general depravity of (1690),
iiL 272; (1699), 845; Society for
Reformation of (1699), 845 n., 848
and n.
Manning and Bray's Surrey (1814), cited,
ii 215 n., iii 72 fk, 185 n,, 226 n.,
268 n., 800 n.
Mantegna, Andrea, paintings by, i. 86,
ii. 187
Manton, Dr. Thomas, sermon by, ii. 181
and n.
Mantua, Garden ot, i, 807 ; Dnke of, ii.
187
Manufactures, notices of, L 111, 808,
828, it 56, 858, 895 and n., ij^ 16,
17 and n.
Manuscripts in the Bodleian, ii 77
Bfanuscripts, Essay on, by Svelyn, iii
876 and n.
Maps, huge volume o^ ii 158
Marais du- Temple, Paris, i 76
Marble, magazine for, at Lambeth, ii 895
Marcellino, relic of, i 246
^Marcello, Dr., of Verona, i 322
Marcellus, Theatre of, Rome, i 161
Marchand, Florian, the water-spouter,
ii 83 and n.
Marchmont, Earl of (1698), iii 384 n.
Marcus Aurelius, statue of, i 158 ;
relieft relating to, 159 and n.
Marden, Surrey, Sir Robert Clayton's
seat at, iii 9 and n., 351, 852
Margaret, daughter of Henry YII., iii
54
Margate, notice of, ii 845
Marionettes, i 86 and n., ii 278 and n,
Marius, Caius, villa of, i 237 ; victory
of, 822, 823
Marius, trophies of, i 254
Mark, St., reUc of, i 246 ; Gospel of, 293
Markets, notices of, i 86, 54, 58, ii 96
Marks, Mr. Alfred, his Who killed Sir
Edmund Berry Godfrey ^ cited, iii 25 n.
Marlborough, John Qiurchill, Lord
(afterwards Duke), at Sedgemoor, iii
167 n. ; dismissed from office (1692),
292, 298 and n. ; deserted James II.,
ib, ; Master of Ordnance (1700), 854 ;
his honours and estate, 368 ; marriage
of his daughters, 886, 368 ; death of
his son, 864 ; his attention to Evelyn,
869 ; his brother referred to, 871
Marlborough, Sarah Jennings, Duchess
of, iii 298, 868
Marlborough, town o( ii 78
Marmora ArundeUiana (1628), i 807 n.,
ii 281, 282
Marmora Oxonienaia ex ArumdeUianis
(1676), i 807 n., U. 890
Marmorata, Rome, i 243
Marmoutiers, Abbey of, i 112 and n.
Mame, famous bridge over, i 88
Marriages, numerous by one person, i
40 ; of a Jew at Venice, 816 ; tax on,
m. 818
Mars' Field, Geneva, i 349
Marseilles, account of, i 124 ; slaves
there, t&.
Marsh, Francis and Mary, iii. 44 and n.
Marshall, WUliam, portrait by, a 11 n. ;
book of flowers painted by, iii. 86
Marshall, trial of (1679), iii 88 and n.
Marshalsea, London, iii 169
Marsham, Sir John, ii 141 and n.
Marston Moor, battle ot ii 91
Martial, cited, i 175 n., 286 and n.,
iii 258
Martigny, Switzerland, i 842
Martin, Mr., iii 359
Martin, Mrs. Wykeham, ii. 236 n.
Martin, St., relics, i. 110
Marvell, Andrew, Birrell (1905), cited,
ii 170 ra., 805 n., 806 n, ; a poem by,
cited, 273 n.
Mary, a yacht, ii. 888
Mary of Modena (Princess Mary Beatrice
D'Este), Duchess of York, ii 866 and
n. ; references to^ as Queen, iii 144,
148, 161, 185, 197, 226, 227, 286,
289, 803 ; coronation of, 159 ; her
crown, 161 ; loss at cards, 208 ; her
apartments, 215 ; her flight, 247 n, ;
James II. 's letter respecting, 294
Mary, daughter of Charles I., ii. 816
Mary, daughter of James II., ii 892
Mary, Queen (consort of William III.),
married, iii. 11 and n. ; right of succes-
sion, 251 ; declared to be Queen, 255 ;
proclaimed, 256 ; her conduct on her
accession to the Crown, 256, 257 ;
coronation of, 260, 261 ; coolness with
Princess Anne, 294 ; approves pardon
of witches tn New England, 800 n. ;
her cabinets and collection of china,
803 ; her death and ftineral, 814 and
n., 815 ; her character, 315 ; alluded
to, ii 892, iii 11, 298, 806
Mary, Queen of Scots, her burial-place,
ii. 98 and n. ; alluded to, iii 243
Mary Magdalen, her place of penance,
i 126 ; relics of, 187, 298 ; picture
of; 192
Mas^res, Baron, tracts respecting the
Civil War, ii 409 and n.
440
GENERAL INDEX
Mason, Dr., his house, ii. 68
Masom Rev. John, his deluded followers,
ilL 809 and n.
Maaqnes, at Court in France, ii 85 ; at
Lincoln's Inn, 180 and n. ; at Charles
II.'s Court, 228, 268 ; between the acts
of plays, 286 and n.
Hassachosetts, North America, ii. 827
Massey, Sir Edward, Governor of Jamaica,
iL 152
Hassey, William, his Origin and Progress
qf Letters, referred to, ii 77 n.
Mastiff dogs draw pedlars' carts in
Holland, i. 56
Mathei, Horti, at Borne, i. 244
Matilda, Queen, bridge at Bouen built
by (1167), L 92 and n.
Matthew, St., relics of, i. 187
Matthews, — , iii 168
Matthias, Emperor, i. 6
Maurice, Prince, i. 29
Mausoleum Augusti, at Rome, i. 252
Mazimus, St, burial-place, L 801
Maxwell, Mr., iii. 16 ft.
May, Hugh, architect, ii. 214 and n.,
215, 820, 851, iii. 45, 87, 88 n. ; a
Commissioner for repair of old St.
Paul's, u. 250
May 29th, festival on, ii 170 and n.
Maynard, Serjeant, Sir John, iii. 60, 61
and n.
Maynard, Lord, Comptroller of House-
hold, iii 147
Mazarin, Cardinal Julius, proscribed, ii
82 ; death, 160 and n. ; alluded to, i
94 91., ii 66
Mazarin, Duchess, mistress of Charles
n., ii 894 and n., iU. 136, 145 ; her
death, 840 and n. ; character of, 841
Mazotti, an artist in pietra-cofMnessa,
i. 277
Meadows, Sir Philip, his son married,
iii. 881
Meath, Bishop of (1656), poverty of,
ii 111
Meauz, Bishop of, iii. 214
Mechanical Trades, Circle of, by Evelyn,
iil58
Medals, ancient, observations on Roman,
i 266, ii. 185 and n, ; authors on,
887 ; coronation medal of William
and Mary, iii. 261 ; various collections
noticed, i 167, 240, 258, 811, iii 182
MedalSf Discourse qf, by Evelyn, i 16 n.,
iu. 838 and n,, 376, 882
Mede (or Mead), Joseph, on prophecy,
iii. 264 and n,, 278
Medici, Cardinal, Ambassador, i 260 ;
fireworks at his palace, 261
Medici, Cosmo I. de, Duke, his statue
of justice, 139, 275 ; statue of, 144
Medici, Cosmo II. de, Palace of Pitti, i
140 ; stotue of, 275
Medici, Pietro and John di, i 276
Medids, palace of, at Rome, i 163, 199
M^dicis, Catherine de, i 109 9k, 110
M^dicis, Marie de, Queen-Mother, porferait»
i 35 ; her reception in Holland, 45
and 91. ; notices of^ 44, 96 and ft., Ill,
ii 17, 41
Mediterranean, Evelyn's voyage in ^e
(1644), i 127
Medway, Prospect of, by Evelyn, iii
883 91.
Meeres, Sir Thomas, ii 898, iii 81
Meggot, Dr., Deau of Winchester, ii.
247 9k, iii. 176 ; sermons by, 247,
iii 424, 207, 216
Melfort, John Drummond, Earl of, his
pictures sold, iii 808
Mell, Davis or Davie, musician, ii. 62
and 91., 109
Meloa, Don Francisco de, ii. 271* 854
Memoirs of Sir John Beresby, cited.
See Beresby
Memoirs of Lady Anne Fanshawe (1829),
cited, ii 45 n.
Memoirs of Jean Marteilhe of Bergerac,
iii 189 91.
Menageries, notices of, i 55, 80, 85, 145
Mendicants, at Bologna, i 288
Mercato di Saboto, ruins of, i 239
Mercator, Nicholas, mathematician, ii
251 and n.
Mercers' Company (London), ii. 190 ;
Italian sermon at their chapel, ii. 7
and n. ; chapel of, burned, 257
Merceria at Venice, i 289
Mercure, Mons., teacher of the lute, ii. 1
Mercury, Transit of (1664), ii. 216
Merey, M., of St. Gkitien, i 111
Mergozzo, i 384
Merick, Sir WilUam, ii. 206
Merlin, a yacht, ii 840
Merret, Dr. Christopher, ii 194 and n,
Merrick, Mr., of Parson's Green, ii
159 91.
Merton College, election to the Warden-
ship of (1661), ii 160
Messary, Mons., Judge Advocate in
Jersey, ii. 149
Meta-Sudante, ruins of, i 175
Metellus, sepulchre of, Rome, i 245
Meteor, one in 1648, i 62; (1680),
iii 65
Meverall, Dr., i 12 and n.
Mews, Dr. Peter, of St. John's CoQege,
Oxford, ii 302 and f».
GENERAL INDEX
441
Mtsao UidOy engraving process shown
to Evelyn, iL 159, 160
Michael Angelo (Baonarrotti), architec-
ture of; i. 164, 160, 168, 169, 172 ;
paintings by, i. 86, 142
Michael, Mr., of Hoxighton, i 17
Michell, Bobert, estate at North Stoke
sold to, ill. 854
Mickleham, notice of, iL 108
Jliicro-coamographie, etc, Earle's (1628),
ii. 198 n.
Middleton, General, Lord, ii 278 and n.,
275, iii. 129, 221
Middleton, Colonel Thomas, iL 826, 827
Middleton, Dr., Italian sermon by, iL 7
Milan, description of; L 824, 829;
cathedral, 825 ; Governor's Palace,
826 ; Church of the Jesuits and St
Celso, ib. ; hospital, colleges, etc., 827 ;
Ambrosian Library, 828 ; Church of
St Ambrose, 829 ; citadd, etc, 880 ;
Signer Septalla's curiosities, 881 ;
civilities of a Scots colonel, ib.
Millennium, delusion respecting, iii. 809
andn.
Miller, Rev. Mr., vicar of Effingham, iiL
800 II.
Miller's fferbal (1722), cited, iiL 79 n.
Millington, Sir Thomas, iii. 94 and n.
Milton, John, allusions to, Introduction,
zzi n., L 246 n., 207, iiL 205
Milton, Sir Christopher, brother of John,
iiL 205 and n,
Minerva, Church of the, at Rome, i. 202
Mingrelia, women of, iiL 58
Minn, George and Elizabeth, iL 6 and n.
Mint, Committee for regulating the, ii.
205, 209, 248
Mint, at Venice, i. 295
Miracles, James XL's views, iiL 177 ;
instances of, ib,
Mirandola, John Picus, iL 808, iii. 82 ;
portrait of, ii. 803
Misenus, ruins of, L 287
Miss, courtesans so called, iL 181, 268,
881
Misson, M. Mazimilien, his Nowxau
Voyage cTItalie, L 227 n., 884 n.
Mocenigo, a noble Venetian fkmily, iiL
198
Mochi, Fra., statue by, L 184 and n.
Models, notices of various, L 40, 264
Modena, Duchess of, ii. 866
Modyford, Sir Thomas, Governor of
Jamaica, ii. 825 and n., 827, 828, 872
Mohun, Charles, Lord, tried for murder
and acquitted, iiL 299 and n.
Mole and Pharos at Genoa, L 129 and n.,
184 ; at Naples, 228
Mole, River, in Surrey, L 846 and n,
Molina, Cond^ de, Spanish Ambassador,
iL281
Molino, Signor, Doge of Venice, L 818
Mollen, famous for his lutes, L 284
Monaldeschi, Marquis, assassination of;
iiL 57 and n.
Monasteries, iii. 8, 18. See Convents
Monatticont Sir William Dugdale's, iii.
161
Monck, Georgs, Duke of Albemarle, ii.
142 ; his march from Scotland, 148
breaks down the gates of the city, ib.
marches to Whitehall, ib., and con
venes the old Parliament, ib. and n.
allusions to his conduct, 245. See
Albemarle
Monck, Dr. Nicholas, Bishop of Hereford,
consecration of, iL 157 ; foneral of; ii.
180 and n.
Monconys, Mens. Balthasar de, iL 818
and n.
Mondragone, Palace of, i. 268
Money, scarcity of, in England in 1696,
iii. 822, 827, 880 and n.
Monkeys, feats of, at Southwark Fair, iL
161
Monmouth, James Scott, Duke of; iL
225, 814, 856, 871, 894, iiL 87, 78,
140 ; his return from Holland, and
popularity, 42 and n. ; proclamation
against, 101 ; surrenders himself, 116 ;
pardoned, and banished Whitehall,
118 ; lands in England and sets up
his standard as King, 165, 166 and n. ;
proclaimed traitor, 166 ; defeated and
taken prisoner, 167 ; committed to
the Tower and executed, 169, 170;
character, 170, 171 and n. ; his mother,
171 and n. ; seen headless by a person
possessing the power of second sight,
177
Monmouth, Anne Scott, Duchess of, ii.
855 and n., 892, iiL 74 and tu, 169,
199 ; sermon by her chaplain, iii. 271
Monmouth, Earl of; iiL 817
Mens Quirinalis, Rome, L 167
Montagu, Ralph, Duke of; his palace at
Bloomsbury, iL 891 and n. ; (now the
British Museum), ib.; described, iii.
114 andn., 115 ; burned, iL 891 n., iiL
197
Montagu, Lady Elizabeth, wife of above,
iiL 114 and n.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, iii. 222 n.
Montagu, Lord, trial (1698-1696), con-
cerning estate left by Duke of Albe-
marle, iiL 806, 828, 858 ; subscription
to Greenwich Hospital, 829 n.
442
GENERAL INDEX
Montagn, Francis Browne, Viacoont, ii
142 and n., 284
Montagn, Sir William, his son married
to Mary Evelyn of Woodcote, IL 808 ;
her death, ilL 228
Montagn, Mr., Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, iii. 829 n.
Montagn House, Bloomsbnry, ii 891
and n., iii 88, 114 ; burned, 197
Montaigne, cited, ii. 808 n.
Montalbano, Dr., discoverer of phosphorus,
L281
Montalcino, noticed, L 149
Mont- Alto's villa, Rome, i. 169-70
Mont Louis, dwellings of its inhabitants,
LllO
Mont PieU, L 247 ; in Padua, L 306
Monte Cavallo, at Borne, I 167-8, 200 ;
view of Piazza, 167
Monte Feltre, Count and Countess, ill.
108
Monte Mantumiato, L 149
Monte Pientio, or Mantumiato, L 149
Montefiascone, notice of, i. 152 and n.
Montespan, Bfme. de, i 118 n.
Montford, Lord, ii 810 n.
Montgomeryshire, fiery exhalation in
(1694), iii 307
MontreuU, description of, i 66
Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of^
alluded to, ii 89
Monument (London), building of, iii. 68 ;
words on, against the Papists erased,
166 and n.
Moody, Rey. Mr., recommended for a
living, ii 122
Moon, on the nature of its light, i 50
Moore, X>r. John, Bishop of Norwich, iii
286 n. ; his library, iii. 340 and n.
Moorfields, its manufactory of camlets,
ii56
Mordaunt, Lady, her charity, etc, ii
888, iii 16 ; allusions to, ii 889, iii.
225 ; Evelyn her trustee and executor,
82, 41, 47
Mordaunt, Lady, house at Ashstead, ii
238 and n.
Mordaunt, Lady Mary, iii 2
Mordaunt, John, Viscount, ii. 119 and n.,
145, 156, 159, 168, 179, 202; trial
and acquittal, 119 n., 181 ; case be-
tween him and Captain Taylor, ii 265
and n. ; Evelyn his trustee, iii 1 ;
notice of, 119 n., 889 n.
More, Sir Thomas, portrait of, ii 9
Morgan, Colonel, afterwards Sir Henry,
buccaneering exploits at Panama, ii
827 and n,, 372
Morgan, Mr., botanist, ii 188
Morghen, Raphael, fine engraving by, i
828 n.
Morice, Mr. Secretary, ii 174, 206, 282,
268 ; his Ubrary, 206, 269
Morice, -Mons., professor at Geneva, i
849, 850
Morine, Mons., his garden and collection
of insects, etc, i 101, ii 86
Morison, Dr. Robert, Professor of Botany,
ii 881 and n.
Morland, Sir Samuel, his inventions, ii
276, 882, iii 6, 97 ; account of him
and his father, ib,, iu; his house at
Lambeth, 71 and n. ; inventions to
assist his blindness, etc, 820 ; buries
his music books, ib,
Morley, Agnes, school founded by, i 8
Morley, O>lonel Herbert, a friend of
Evelyn, and one of the Council of
State (1652), ii 56 and ik, 57, 102 ;
Evelyn attempts to bring him over to
the King, 141 and n. ; the colonel
hesitates, 142 ; procures pardon, 145 ;
Evelyn's negotiations witii him, 404-
410
Morley, Dr. George (Bishop of Win-
chester), ii 19 and n., 44 n., 204, 388,
iii 84 ; coronation sermon by, ii 166
and n. ; letter of Evelyn to, on the
Duchess of York's apostasy, iii 84
Morocco Ambassador, named Hamet
(1682), iii 75 and n, ; entertainment
given to, 77 ; admitted of the Royal
Society, 84 ; Lord Howaid made
Ambassador to, ii 288, 296
Morosini, Ambassador fh>m Venice to
France, ii 42
Morris, Mr., scrivener, iii 40
Morris, Sir Robert, ii 218
Morton, Countess, allusions to^ ii. 18, 81
Moros, Mons., a French preacher, ii 182
and n.
Mosaics, i 182, 186, 194, 201, 212, 255 ;
in wood, 280 and n. ; at St Mark's,
Venice, 290. See Ptetra-oommeasa
Moscow burnt (1699), iii 342
Moses, statue of, at Rome, i 194
Moulins, brief account of, i 117-18
Moulins, Mons., surgeon, ii 11
Mountains, travelling in the, i 334-40
Mountebanks at Rome, i 248, 266 ; at
Venice, 814
Mountford, William, murder of, iii 299
and n.
Mouse (Horace), iii 98 and n.
Mowbray, Lord (son of Earl of Arundel),
i 810 and n.
Muccinigo, Signor, Venetian Ambassador,
entertained by Evelyn (1668), U. 290 ;
GENERAL INDEX
448
Mb entry into London, %b.; alluded to,
816
Mulberry Gerden, ii. 71 and n.
Mnlgrave, John Sheffield, Earl o^ it 852
and n., iii 87, 803, 804
Mnmmiea, fragments of, given to Erelyn,
L 809
MnndanuB, Theodore, philoeopher'a elixir
projected by, ilL 870 and n.
Mundus Muliebris (1690), a poem by
Mary Evelyn, iii. 151 n., 152 and n.,
882; its *'PrefiBuse" quoted, Intro-
duction^ liz n.
Murano, near Venice, glass manufactory
at, L 808
Murillo, painting by, ill 808
Muro Torto at Rome, i. 251
Murray, Sir Robert, ii. 159 and n., 168,
192, 208, 223, 809, 859 and n., iiL
877 and n,
Murray's Handbooks cited — Belgium^ 1.
50 n. ; Northern Italy, i. 290 n, ;
Surrey, I 846 n., IL 281 n. ; Sufolkj
ii 810 n., 886 n.
MuBcatello, wine, i. 149
Muschamp, Mr., ii. 66
Muscovy Ambaesador, audience of (1662),
ii. 197, 199 ; (1681), iii 74
Muscovy, Czar of, his conduct to the
English Ambassador, ii. 200 n. ; lives
at Sayes Court, iii. 884 and n., 886
and n, ; his stay in Deptford, 385 n,
Musgrave, Sir Philip, ii. 19
Music, singing, etc, particulars relating
to, i 87, 39, 40, 165, ii 199, iii 40,
120 ; song-books buried, 820
Musical instrument, a new invention,
ii218
Mustapha, a tragedy by Earl of Orrery,
ii. 226 and n., 268 and n.
Mutiano, Girolamo, painting by, i 164
Myddelton, Sir Hugh, his New River
undertaking, iii 206 and n.
Myddleton, Mrs., a famous beauty, iii.
107 and n.
Naked Truth, a pamphlet, ii 888
Nantes, revocation of Edict of, iii. 189
and n. See Huguenots
Nantetiil, Robert, his portrait of Evelyn,
Frontispiece ; of Mrs. Evelyn, ii 59 ;
of the Evelyn family, 26 and n.,
Introduction, xzzv ; of Sir Richard
Browne, i 69 ; of Louis XIV., ii. 48
Naples, inscription over the gate, i 220 ;
account of the city, 222, 288 ; Castle
of St. Elmo, etc., ib, ; the Mole, 228 ;
Cathedral and churches, 224 ; Monas-
tery of the Carthusians, 225 ; Museums,
ib, ; Carnival, 226 ; Vesuvius, ib,, iii
824; Pausilippns, ii 229; Lago
d' Agnano, 280 ; Grotto del Cane, ib.
Court of Vulcan, 282 ; Puteoli, etc
288 ; Lake Avemus and cave, 285
Cum», 236 ; Bain, ib, ; Misenus, 237
Elysian Fields, 288; Arsenal, ib.
manners of the people, 289 ; guillotine
at, 267 ; etchings of views near, i 227*
229, iii. 888
Nassau, Prince William of, and his son
Maurice, monuments, i. 83 and n.
Naudnus, Gabriel, Instructions concern'
ing a lAbnvry, translated by Evelyn,
ii. 178, iii. 875, 881; noticed, ii
178 n.
Navalia, Pepys' History of the Navy
iii 365 and fi.
Navigation and Commerce, by Evelyn,
ii 870 and n„ iii. 881 ; TiUe-Page,
ii 871. iSto Dutch War
Navy, Memoires relating to the State
of the Royal (1690), Pepys, iii 865
and n.
Neale, Mr., lotteries set up by, iii 804 ;
built the Seven Dials, 812 and n.
Neapolitano, Carlo, painter, i 159 andn.,
174
Needham, Jane. See Myddleton, Mrs.
Needham, Dr. Jasper, ii 116 and n,,
148 ; ftmeral and eulogy, iii 88
Needham, Marchamont, Tract by (1660),
ii 144 n.
Needham, Sir Robert, and Lady, ii 124,
183, 206, iii. 107
Needlework, landscape of, ii 158
Negroes, to be baptized, iii. 178 ; con-
spiracy amongst, in Barbadoes (1692),
tii300
Negros, Hieronymo del. Palace at Genoa,
i 130-81
Neile, Sir Paul, ii. Ill and n., 168
Neptune, Temple of; i 233 ; Rock of,
846
N^tune, launch of, iii 95
Nerius, Philippus, i 164
Nero, Emperor of Rome, vestiges of, i
192, 202, 287 ; sepulchre, 251
Nerves, Veins, etc.. Tables ot i 815
and n.
Netherlands. See Holland
Netherlands, Journal of a Tour in,
Southey, cited, i 51 n.
Neve, La (Cornelius Nevef), painter, ii
8 and n.
Nevers, notice of, i 102, 351
New Buildings, Streets, etc. Commission
for, ii 186, 187, 185, 190
New College, Oxford, chapel, ii 78
444
GENERAL INDEX
New Hall (Dake of Backiiigham's seat),
iL 114, 115 and n.
New Palace Yard, London, affiray at, ii 6
New River, Sir Hugh Myddelton'a water
scheme, iii 206 and n.
New York, ii 86«, iu. S61
Newark-on-Tient, ii. 88
Newbuigh, Lord, iii. 184
Newcastie, Marquis of, seat at Welbeck,
ii. 89
Newcastle, Duke and Duchess of, visited
by Evelyn, ii. 269 and n., 271, 272 ;
fanciful dress of the Duchess, i6., 271
and n. ; visits the Royal Society, 272
and n. ; marriage of his daughter, iii.
314
Newgate Prison, iii 94
Newmarket, Charles XL's house at, iL
810 and n. ; fire at, iiL 112 and n. ;
collection for rebuilding after fire, ib. ;
stables and heath, ii. 811, 812 ; Court
at, and races (1671), 329, 830 ; revel-
lings, etc., at, 331, 386
Newport, Andrew, iiL 41
Newport, Montjoy Blount, Earl of, pro-
tests against Peers in Parliament under
age, ilL 164 ; pictures in his possession,
135 and n. ; Treasurer of the House-
hold (1685), 147 ; (1689), 258; alluded
to, 80, 176
Newport, Lady, iiL 80
Newstead Abbey, notice of^ ii. 89 and n.
Newton, Mr., married Evelyn's grand-
mother, L 8 ; her death, IL 32
Newton, Sir Adam, monument of, iL 56
and n.
Newton, Sir Henry, allusions to, iL 105,
116 ; his house at Charlton, ii. 56
and n,t 67, 212
Nice, in Savoy, notice of^ L 127
Nicholai, of Rome, bass singer, i. 267
Nicholao, Signor, excellence on the violin,
ii. 378, iiL 40
Nicholao del Abati, painting by, on a
stone, L 86
Nicholas, Sir Edward, Secretary of State,
alluded to, L 104 »., IL 15, 284
Nicholas, Friar, of Paris, chemist, ii. 88
and n.
Nicholas, Mr. John, son of Secretary
Nichohu, L 104, 117
Nicholas, Penelope, death of, ilL 867 n.
Nicholls, Colonel, iL 826
Nicholson, Dr. William, Bishop of Glou-
cester, ii. 180 and n.
Niclaes, Henrick, founder of the Family
of Love, iii. 224 n.
Nicolson, Dr. William, Bishop of Carlisle,
iiL 861 and n.
Nienport, Dutch Ambassador, notices of
u. 112, 118, 125, 186, 188, 147, 219,
227, 228 ; his account of the Dutch
East India Company, 118 ; policy of
his nation, 141
Nimeguen, Treaty of (1675), iL 856, 885
Nineveh, remains, etc., of| ii. 867, iiL 53
Niobe and her Family, statues o^ L 164
Noah's Ark, shop at Paris so called, L 76
Noli me tangere^ a picture by H&ns
Holbein, iiL 55
Nonsuch House, Surrey, iL 288 and n,
Norbury Park, Mickleham, ii. 104 and n.
Norden, John, accuracy of his maps, iii.
90 andn.
Norfolk, Thomas, fifth Duke of, restotred
to the title, ii. 179 ; his death, iiL 12
Norfolk, Henry, sixth Duke o^ L 312
and n. ; Mtmnora Oxoniensis Arttn-
ddliana presented to, by the Univer-
sity, ii. 890 ; marries his concubine, Mi&
Bickerton, iiL 12 and n. ; his house
and pictures at Weybridge, 16 and «. ;
presents the Arundelian Library to the
Royal Society, 19 ; collection of pic-
tures, 95 ; his skill in horsemanship,
184 ; alluded to, 12 and n., 18, 158.
Su Howard
Norfolk, Henry, seventh Duke of^ his
Divorce Bill thrown out (1692), iiL
293, 299 ; his kindness to the Evelyn
family, 806, 807 ; succeeds in obtain-
ing his divorce (1700), 348 ; his death,
856; alluded to» 882, 888. ^Howard
Norfolk, Duchess of (Mrs. Bickerton),
IL 833 and n., iiL 12 and n., 16 «.,
17, 226
Norfolk, Palace of the Dukes of (1671),
iL 384 and n.
Norfolk, Philip, Caidinal of, L 817
Normanby, Marquis of^ on death of
Charles IL, etc, ilL 818, 814.
Normandy, Evelyn's visit to, L 92-6
Normandy, Robert Curthose, Duke of,
his tomb at Gloucester, ii. 84 ik
North, Dr. (son of Lord), iL 898 ; sermon
by, 890
North, Sir Dudley. iiL 175
North, Sir Francis, iL 844 and n., iiL
124 ; Lord Chief Justice, 84 fk ; Lord
Keeper, ii. 419 n., iiL 89 ; character
of, ib„ 122 ; his death, 175 and n.
North, Loid, iii. 89
North, Roger, iii. 175
North Foreland, Kent, engagement with
Dutch fleet off the, iL 249 and n. ;
Lighthouse, 845
North Stoke, sale of estate at, iii. 854
North's PltUarch (1898), cited, L 5 n.
GENERAL INDEX
445
Northampton, James, third Earl of
(1659-60), iL 187 and n., 147 and n. ;
(1669), 299 ; (1676), 898
Northampton, Qeoige, fourth Earl of,
and Countess of (1688), liL 287 ; his
seat, %b,
Northampton, town of, iii 289
Northumberland, Countess of (Lady
Elizabeth Howard, wife of tenth Earl),
ii. 156 ; marriage of her grand-
daughter, iii. 78 ; her death, 870
Northumb^land, Countess of (widow of
eleventh Earl), iii. 114 and n.
Northumberland, Gteoige FitzRoy, Duke
of (natural son of Charles II.), iii. 125 ;
account of him, 130 and n. ; his horse-
manship, 134 ; attempt to spirit away
his wife, 201
Northumberland, Henry Percy, eighth
Earl of, suicide of^ iii. 103 n.
Northumberland, Algernon Percy, tenth
Earl of, account of; ii. 182 and n, ;
his pictures at Suffolk House, ib, ; his
house at Syon, 232 and n. ; alluded
to, iii 870
Northumberland, Sir Francis. See Quild-
ford. Lord
Northumberland, Josceline, eleventh Earl
of, his daughter's marriage, iii. 870 n.
North- West Passage, attempt to discover,
ii. 898
Norton, Colonel, iiL 180
Norton, Lady, infamous conduct of; to
Charles I., iL 69
Norwich, account o^ ii. 884-5 ; Ducal
palace at, 384 and n,
Norwich, George Goring, Earl of. Am-
bassador to France, heads the rising in
Kent (1648), ii. 5 and n. ; his trial,
8 and n. ; his house in Epping Forest,
803 ; alluded to, L 69 and n., ii. 46
and n.
Norwood, Colonel, ii 855
NoU8 and Queries, cited, iii. 145 n,
Ndtre, Andr6 Le, gardens, etc., laid out
by, i 80 n., 81 n., 90 n.
Notre Dame, Cathedral of, at Antwerp,
L 50; at Paris, 72; at Rouen, 93
and n. ; Marseilles, 125
Notre Dame de la Garde, Marseilles, i.
124 and n.
Nottingham, town of, ii. 88
Nottingham, Daniel Finch, Earl of, re-
fused to sit in Council with Papists
(1688), iii. 243 ; sent as Commissioner
to Prince of Orange, 246 ; protests
against the abdication of James II.,
255 ; sells Kensington to King William,
272 and n, ; quarrel with Admiral
Russell, 299 and n, ; resigns Secretary-
ship of State, 804 and n. ; marriage
of his son, 816 ; fire at his house at
Burley, 870
Nova Atlantis, referred to, ii. 210
November, Fifth of, forbidden to be kept,
ui. 191
Numismata: A Discowrse of Medals
(1697), by Evelyn, iiL 883 and n.,
876 and n., 882
Nuncio of the Poi)e at the French Court
(1649), iL 19
Nutfield, Surrey, descent of the Eivelyns
of, Pedigree, L Ixziii
Nuts found by swine, etc., L 121
Oakham, tenure of the Barons Ferrers
at, ii. 87, 88 and n.
Oakwood Chapel, endowment, and re-
pair of, iii. 819 n.
Gates, Titus, account oi; iiL 28 n. ; con-
spiracy discovered by, 23 ; character
o( 24 ; accuses the Queen, 26, and
several Popish Peers, ib, ; evidence
against Sir George Wakeman, 82 and
n. ; reflections on his conduct, 38, 84 ;
a witness against Lord Stafford, 61 ;
Lord Stafford's remarks on his evi-
dence, 62 ; his knavery and imprudence,
99 ; tried for perjury, 159, 160 and
n. ; his punishment, 161 and n., 164 ;
writ of error in the judgment of, 268
and n, ; released and pensioned, 266
and n. ; his reviling book against King
James, 325 and n.
Oatlands, Surrey, mansion at, referred
to, iii. 226 and n,
Obelisciu Pamphilius, et ^£gyptiaeu8
(1650-54), L 189 n., 309
Obelisk, of Octavius Coeear, L 179-81
and n. ; of Constantine, 188-9, 210 ;
in Circus Caracalla, 244 ; brought
firom Egypt by Augustus, 251
Obligations and Tests dispensed with
(1687), iii. 215, 220
ObUvion, Act of (1652), iL 54 and n.
O'Brien, Lord, iiL 11, 88 ; his widow,
ii. 369 and n.
ObservatoT, newspaper, ii. 109 n., iii.
160 and n.
Octavius CsBsar, obelisk of, L 179-81
Odours of Paris, L 71 and n.
Oeconomist to a Married Friend, by
Evelyn, iiL 880
Oesters House at Antwerp, L 52
Qficium Sanctce et Individuos TrinOaiis,
by Eivelyn, iL 14 n.
Offices and Meditaiums, by Evelyn, iL
880
446
GENERAL INDEX
Offley, Mr. Thomas, groom-porter, ii. 6
andn., 66, 133, 256
Offley, Dr., Bector of Abinger, iii. 819
and n. ; sermon of, ib, ; his gift to
Oakwood Chapel, ib,
Offley famUy, iii 843
Ogilby, John, the "King's Cosmo-
grapher"(1661), u. 163 n.
Ogilvie, Sir James, iiL 884 n.
Ogle, Lady, widow of Lord, remarriage
to Mr. Thynno, iii. 73 and n., 76, 81
Ogle, Mrs. Anne, married to Craven
Howard, ii. 883 and n.
Oglethorpe, Mr., duel fought by, iii. 868
Oglethorpe, Sir Theophilus, iii 868
and n.
Ogniati, Connt, ii 810
Ol&o, Nicholao, stotne of, i 285
Old Bailey, man pressed to death at the,
ii 62
Old Jewry, Sir Robert Clayton's house
in the, ii 851 and n.
Oldenburg, Henry, Secretary to Royal
Society, ii 192 n., 389, iii 377;
confined in the Tower, ii 278 and n. ;
letter of Evelyn to, ii. 260 n.
Oleine, Connt, his palace at Vicenza,
i. 320
Oliva, Padr^ General of the Jesuits,
iii 84 and n.
Oliver, man-of-war, ii 101
Oliver, Peter, miniatures by, ii 4 and
n., 102, 158, 169
Olivetani, Padri, Church of, i 305
Olonne, Count d', ii 40
O'Neale, Mr., built Belsize House, ii.
392
Onocrotalus, or Pelican, i 38, ii 228
Onslow, Arthur, his seat at West dandon,
ii. 315 and n.
Onslow, Denzil, his house at Pjrrford,
iii. 70 and n.
Onslow, Earl of, ii 121 tk, iii 70 n.
Onslow, Sir Richard, iii. 285, 333, 838,
355, 359, 370 n. ; subscription to
Greenvrich Hospital, 380 n. ; fights
a duel, 863 ; contested elections for
Surrey, 158, 359
Opera at Venice (1645), i 298; at
Milan, 831 ; at the Court in Paris,
ii 85 ; in Enghmd, 138 and n., 867
Oraisons FurUbres (1874), Bossuet, cited,
iii 190 n.
Orange, town and principality of, i. 122
Orange, Henry Frederick, Prince of,
iii 7
Orange, William the Silent, Prince of^
i 83 and n.
Orange, William II., Prince of, i 22-8
and II. ; his palace, Hof van Honnaler's
Dyok, 44 ; death (l^^O), ii 32
Orange, William, Prince of, afterwards
Ring William III., ii 316, iii 10, 11 ;
marries Princess Mary, 11 and n. ;
accuses Deputies of Amsterdam, ii
123, 124 ; sends forces to James II.,
ill. 172 ; Dutch refuse aid to relieve
Luzembuig (1684), 127 ; landing of,
hinted at, 236. See William UL
Orange, Mary, Princess of, sister of
Charles IL, i 9, ii. 152 and n., 316 ;
her death, 156 and n.
Oranges, raised in England, iii. 5, 27,
37, 230; first seen at Beddington,
ii 135, iii. 352
Ordination of Ministers in France (1650X
ii25
Orgagna's Loggia de' Lanzi, i. 144 ft.
Organs, notices of, i. 39, 40, 147, 201,
215, 253, 326, ii 79, 199
Orleans, Duke of, ii. 41
Orleans, Duke of [temp. Hen. V.), ii. 61
and n,, 369 and n.
Orleans, Gaston-Jean-Baptiste, Duke o^
his collection at the Luxembourg, i
97 and n. ; his garden at Blois, 108
and n. ; alluded to, iii. 213
Orleans, Henrietta, Duchess o^ ii. 31,
156, 306 and n.
Orleans, account of; i 104-6 and n., 352
Orleans, Forest of, robbers in, i. 104
Ormonde, James Butler, Marquess, after-
wards Duke of, account of, ii 21 m. ;
his estates restored, 149 ; on the
natural history of Ireland, 177 ;
Chancellor of Oxford, and created
Doctor, 301 ; anecdote respecting,
377 ; lays down his commission, iii.
339 ; restored, 840 ; alluded to, ii
32. 167, 177, 183, 187, 189, 212, 213,
218, 225, 289, 301, 880, iii 50
Ormonde, Marchioness of, ii 155 ;
Duchess of, iii 1
Orr, Mrs. Sutherland, Handbook to
Browning* 9 Works, cited, i 173 it.
Orrery, Richard Broghill, Earl of, plays
by, ii. 226 and n., 268 and n.
Osborne, Sir Thomas (afterwards Earl of
Danby, Marquis Carmarthen, and
Duke of Leeds), shooting match, ii.
31 ; Lord Treslsurer, 358 ; strictures
on, ib., 362 ; his administration, iii
76 ; his imprisonment, 76 andn., 118 ;
released, 122 ; alluded to, ii 81 ;
account of, 31 n. See also Danby,
Earl of
Osiris, inscriptions concerning, i 153 ;
statue of, 162
GENERAL INDEX
447
Ossory, Thomas Butler (Earl of), Lord,
his horsemanship, ii. 21 and n. ;
adventnre of, 28 ; return to England,
149 ; averse to attacking the Smyrna
Fleet, 840 ; iii. 51 ; a Younger
Brother of the Trinity House, IL 855 ;
Master, 879 ; commands foixies in
Holland, iii. 14 ; his expedition to
Tangier, 49 ; death, 50 ; his char-
acter, 51 ; alluded to, i. 108 n., 891,
iii. 10, 40, 42 ; his daughter, 894
Ossory, Countess of, iiL 51 and n.
Ossory, James Butler, Earl of (son of the
Great Earl), his marriage, iii. 89 ; his
mansion destroyed, 281 ; account of,
ii 21 n. ; references to, iiL 86 and n.,
188
Ostend, notice of^ i. 58 and n.
Ostriches, iiL 75 and n.
Otter-hunting, iL 180
Ottoboni, Cardinal Pietro, elected Pope
(Alexander VHE.), iiL 268 and n.
Oudart, Mr., ii. 212 and n., 218, 250
Ooghtred, Bey. William, mathematician,
ii. 68 and n, ; conversation with
Evelyn, 104 and n. ; portrait, 298 n.
Ouseley, Sir Charles, ii. 108
Outram, Dr., Vicar of St. Maigaret's,
iiL 41
Ovens, portable iron, ii. 249
Overkirk, Amsterdam, Jewish cemetery
at, L 84
Ovid, MetamorphouM of, in mezzo-rilievo,
L 264
Ovid, quoted, L 5 and n.
Owen, Richard, iL 8 and n., 10 and n.,
58, 63, 64, 68, 69, 70, 99, 183, 213
Owen, Sir John, IL 12 and n.
Owen, Dr. Jolm, the Independent, ii. 75
and n.
Ox, remarkable one, iL 11
Oxford, Aubrey de Vere, Earl of, notice
of, iL 201 n. ; his mistress, ii. 181,
263 n. ; alluded to, 205, 268, 814
Oxford, Royal visit to, i. 13 n., 858 ;
Balliol College, Evelyn admitted, 14 ;
his gift of books to, 15 ; first coffee-
house in England at, 15 n. ; visits of
Evelyn to (1654), u. 75 ; (1664), 216 ;
(1669), 297 ; (1675), 880 ; the Act at,
75 ; Bodleian Library, 77 ; Anatomi-
cal School, St. John's, New College,
and Christ Church, 78 ; Magdalen
College, Physic Garden, etc., 79 and
n. ; Theatre, 216 ; All Souls, Magdalen
Chapel, 217 ; Ashmolean Museum
given to, 124 and n., 183, iiL 15 and
n. ; Court and Parliament held at
(1665), iL 287 ; gift to wounded
sailors, 248 ; Arundelian Marbles
procuxwl for, 281, iii. 288 n. ; Convo-
cation formally thank Evelyn, ii. 282,
and Mr. Howard, 288 ; Encsnia on
the completion of the Theatre, 297 ;
the Terrs Alius, 298 ; the Act, 299 ;
Doctor's degree conferred on Evelyn
and others, 801 ; University present
Evelyn with a copy of Mcvrmora
Oxoniensia ArundeUianOj 390; Dr.
Plot's curiosities, 881 ; Parliament at
(1681), iiL 67; cold reception of
William IIL (1695), 820; ejected
Fellows of Magdalen College restored,
240 ; reception of Queen Anne, 861
Oafordshirt, NatwuL History qft Dr.
Plot's, iL 881, iii. 75
Oysters, Colchester, ii. 118 and n.
Pacific Ocean, Dampier's observations on
the, iii. 887
Packer, Mr., iL 289 ; his seat and chapel
at Groomsbridge, ii. 61 and n., 869,
iiL 115 ; his daughter's fine voice, iiL
187
Paddy, Sir William, portrait of, iL 195
Padua, described, L 299 ; inscription over
a gate, i&. ; tomb at SL Lorenzo, 800 ;
St. Anthony's Church, ib. ; Convent of
St. Justina, 801 ; Great Hall, 805 ;
Monte Pieti, 806 ; Schools, ib. ;
Garden of Simples, 807 ; nocturnal
disorders at, 812 ; Surgical Lectures
and Hospitals, 814-15 and n.
Pageant, at the Lord Mayor's Show
(1660), ii. 158 ; (1662), 196 ; on the
Thames (1662), 192. See liOndon
Paget, William, Lord, Ambassador to
Turkey, iii. 298 and n,
Paine, Captain, iL 50
Painted Chamber, Westminster, iL 7
and n., 879
Painter* 9 Voyage qf Italy, referred to, L
827 n.
Painters and sculptors in Rome, L 267 ;
in Florence, 277
Painters' Hall, iL 219, 247
Painting, old Roman, described, L 199
PaintiTigt Anecdotes qf, Walpole, cited,
i. 807 n.
Painting, An Idea qf the Perfection qf,
by Evelyn, iL 290 and n., iiL 875,
882
Painting, on the face, first used by
women, iL 72
Palace of the Pope, at Monte Cavallo, L
167-8 and n. ; at Rome, 200
Palais, at Paris, i. 75 and n. ; Isle du, at
Paris, 76
448
GENERAL INDEX
Palais Cardinal, at Paris, L 69 and n.,
102, ii. 19 ; Boyal masque at, 85
Palais Royal, Paris, I 75
Palazzo Barberini, at Borne, i 162 ;
Mediois, at Borne, 168 ; Magglore, at
Borne, 192 ; di Ghigi, at Borne, 201 ;
Garaffi, at Naples, 225 ; di Strozzi and
Pitti, Florence, 140; Vecchio, at
Florence, 141, 274 ; della Caneellaria,
at Borne, 247 ; Famese, at Borne,
154-5, 213 ; del Diamante, Ferrara,
285 and n.
Pall Mall, at Blois, L 108 ; Tours, 110
and n. ; Lyons, 120 ; Geneva, 848 ;
London, u. 821 n., 344
Palladio, Andrea, works of, L 801, 805,
819, 820 n., 821, iL 351 ; birthplace,
i. 819
Palma, Jacopo, paintings by, i 87, ii.
9, 396
Palmer, Dudley, of Gray's Lm, his
curious clocks, etc, ii. 171 and n.,
iii. 377 and «.
Palmer, Sir James, ii. 9
Palmer, Lady Anne, daughter of Charles
IL, ii. 894 n.
Pamphili, John Baptista, elected Pope
(Innocent X.), i 148-9 ; palaces of
his family, 248
Pamphilio, Cardinal, 1. 178, 260
Panama, expedition of Colonel Morgan
to, ii. 327, 328, 872
Pancirollus, Guido, story of the opening
of a Boman tomb, i. 219
Panegyric, A, at His Majesty Kiitg
ChaHe^B Goronation (1661), by Evelyn,
ii. 167 and 9»., iii. 376, 381
Pantheon, at Borne, i. 249
Paolo Veronese. See Cagliari
Paper, from China, iL 210 ; process of
manufacturing, iii. 16, 17 and n.
PapilHon, Mr., ii. Ill
Papillon, Mr., iii. 99
Papin, Denys, his digesters, iiL 82;
notice of, 88 n.
Papists, conspiracy of (1678), iii. 28, 24
and n.; (1688), 99; (1696), 822;
triumph at acquittal of Sir George
Wakeman, 83, and at Bye House
Plot, 105 ; Proclamation against, 284 ;
harsh law regarding their estates, 349 ;
their indiscreet acts, ib, ; dispossessed of
estates (1700), ib. ; banished ten miles
from London, 828 ; hiding-places for,
17 and n. See Boman Catholics
Papplewick, view from, ii. 89
Paradise, banqueting-house so called, ii.
188 ; an exhibition of animals, iL 865
and n.
Paris, view of; L 71; description of (1643-
1644), 68-91; (1646-7), iL 2, 8 ;
(1649-50), 15-27 ; (1650-51), 80-49 ;
Pont Neuf; L 69 ; odours o^ 71 and
n. ; Cathedral of Notre Dame, 72 ;
Jesuits' Church and College, 78 ; the
Sorbonne, 73 ; University, 73 ; the
Exchange, 74 ; Palais, 75 and n. ; St.
Chapelle, 75 ; Isle du Palais and
Noah's Ark, 76 ; Marais du Temple,
76 ; St. Genevieve and Palais Boyal*
76 ; Hospitals, 77 ; the Ch&telets, 77 ;
Jardin Boyal, 77 ; Bastille, 78 ; Bois
de Vincennes, 78 and n. ; the Louvre,
78 ; Palace of the Tuileries and ite
gardens, 78-80; St Germain-en -
Laye, 83-4; Count de Liancourt's
palace and pictures, 85-7 ; Fontaine-
bleau, 88-90 and n, ; the Luxembourg,
96 • 7 and n. ; its gardens, 98 - 9
and n. ; view oi; from St Jacques'
steeple, 99 ; St Innocent's church-
yard, 100 and n,; M. Morine*s
garden, L 101, iL 86 ; Palais Cardinal,
L 102, iL 19 ; muster of gent cTannea,
L 103 ; President Maison's palace,
iL 17 ; audience of the English
Ambassador (1649), 19 ; St Stephen's
Church, 20 ; masquerades at, 21, 85 ;
Madrid, 22; Ordination of ^lish
Divines at (1650), 25 ; Samaritan or
Pump at Pont Neuf^ L 70 and n., iL
26 ; Convent of Sons Hommes, 32 ;
Friar Nicholas, 33 ; torture at the
ChAtelet, ib. ; opera at the Palais
Cardinal, 35 ; ceremonies on Corpus
Christi, 87 ; procession of Louis XIV.
to Parliament, 89 ; audience of English
Ambassador, 42 ; King's gardens, ib. ;
Mark Antonio, the enameller, at, 48 ;
besieged in 1649 and 1652 by Prince
of Cond^ 9, 57 ; storm in (1687), iiL
225 ; rejoicings on reported deati^ of
William IIL (1690), 280
Paris, Archbishop of, house at St Cloud,
L 81
Park, at Brussels, L 55 ; at Pisa, 187-8 ;
Mont Alto, Bome, 170 ; at Hampton
Court, iL 188 ; Ipswich, iii. 4 ; Enston,
6 ; Bagshot, 176
Parker, Mr. P. L., George Fnc'e Journal,
cited, iL 114 n.
Parker, Dr. Samuel, Bishop of Oxford,
iii. 208 and n. ; his death and chaimoter,
228 and n,
Parkhurst, Dr., Master of Balliol, L 15
and n.
Parkhurst, Sir Bobfflrt, iiL 70
Parliament, the Long Parliament, L 21
GENERAL INDEX
449
and n, ; opening and diBaolation of
(1640), 19 ; surprised by the Rebel
army (1648), ii. 7 ; summoned by
Cromwell in 1656, 116 ; turned out
by the army, 140 ; Rump dissolved,
143 ; its action prior to the Restora-
tion, 409 and n. ; opened by Charles
II. (1661), 168 ; fast held by the, 188 ;
prorogued (1666), 225 ; dispute in
Committee as to use of lights to sit
longer, 265 ; grants subsidy to the
King (1671), 822; dispute between
Lords and Commons (1675), 879 ;
Roman Catholic Lords excluded (1678),
iii 26 ; Long Parliament dissolved
(1679), 28; votes against Duke of
York, 29, 66 ; convened at Oxford
(1681), 67 ; elections influenced by the
Court (1685), 148, 161, 168, 164;
trick at Surrey election, 158 ; speech
of James II. on his accession, 162 ;
proceedings of (1685), 168 ; steadfast-
ness of Protestant members, 191, 192 ;
prorogued (1687), 219 ; hastily sum-
moned (1688), 239; writs recalled,
240 ; members of Parliament of 1685
ask Prince of Orange to take charge of
public revenue, 249 ; debate in the
Lords on the Regency, 254 ; pre-
cipitate conduct of the Commons
(1689), 258; banquet and medals
given to members, 261 ; excludes Duke
of Hanover from succession, 267 ; pro-
rogued and dissolved (1690), 270, 271 ;
proposal to confiscate salaries over
£500, 290 ; Self-Denying Act, 299 ;
intent on reforming coinage, 821, 822
n. ; proceedings on discovery of con-
spiracy against William III. (1696),
823, 326 ; proceedings against Sir
Charles Duncombe, M.P., 834 and n. ;
fixes 7000 as the standing army, 837 ;
reverses donations of Irish forfeitures,
845 ; questions the pardon granted to
Captain Kidd, 846 ; orders book about
Darien to be burned, 346 and n, ;
resents a sermon preached on anni-
versary of death of Charles L, 847 ;
votes against Scottish settlement in
Darien, t&., and against attorneys,
ib, ; commission for Irish forfeited
estates, 349 ; contest over Lords'
power of amending BiUs tacked to
Money Bills, ib. ; Evelyn's Greenwich
Hospital Accounts presented to, 855 ;
petitioners imprisoned, 856 and n. ;
mig'ority hold Church of England
principles (1702), 861 ; large attend-
ance (1705), 872
VOL. Ill
Parma, Duke of, triumphal arch of the,
i. 196; his colleetion, 218-14; hU
palace Caprarola, 268
Parmensis, Battista, drawings by, i. 87,
322
Parr, Dr. Richard, funeral sermon on Dr.
Breton, iL 338 and n. ; alluded to,
72, iii. 303 ; Evelyn's visit to, 202
Parson, The Country, by Oeorge Herbert,
cited, Iniroduction, xxv n.
Parson's Green, Lord Mordaunt's house
at, iL 159 and n., iii. 32, 47
Pasquin and pasquinata, at Rome, i.
248 and n.
Passignano^ Domenico Cresti, painting
by, i. 87
Passion, instance of violent, L ISO
Passports, Spaniah, i 316
Paston, Sir Robert (Earl of Yarmouth),
ii 110 and 9k, 117, 230
Patriarchs, Eastern, subscriptions to our
Confessions, iL 196
Patrick, Dr. Simon, Dean of Peter-
borough and Bishop of Ely, ii. 292 n.,
iii 284 ; sermons by, iL 292, 303,
804, UL 192, 211
PattLson's MUUm, cited, Introduction,
xxi n.
Paul, Chevalier (Paul de Saumur), iL 40
andn.
Paul, Mr., agent of the Elector Palatine
in France, ii. 20
Paul, St, burial-place, L 185, 212 ; relics
o^ 185, 208, 212, 213 ; statue of,
249 ; Port o^ 244
Paul IIL, Pope, statue of, L 186 ;
shrine of, 251
Paul IV., Pope, statue of, i. 281
Paul v., Pope, chapel of, L 171 ;
fountain of, 216
Paullo, JuUo, bust of, at Padua, L 806
Pausilippe, a subterranean passage, iL
281, 315 and n,
Pausilippus, etc., near Naples, L 229
and n.
Peace, with Holland, proclaimed, iL 279
and n. ; of Ryswyk, iiL 332 and n,
Peake, Sir John, Lord Mayor (1687), iu.
226 n.
Pearls, notices of large ones, L 250 and
n., 275, 297 ; The Legend qf the Pearl,
by Evelyn, iiL 380
Pearson, Dr. John, Bishop of Chester,
alluded to, ii. 64 and n., 101 and n.,
170 ; sermons by, 355
Peat or turf, use of, proposed (1667), iL
274, 275
Peckham, Sir Henry, feast at the Temple,
iL 302
26
450
GENERAL INDEX
Peckham, Sir T. Bond's house at, IL 892,
iii 72
Pedigree of the Bvdyns, ill 880. See
alto L Ixxiii
Pelerini dells S. Trinita, Hospital of;
Rome, 1. 246
Pele8tri2u^ L 286
PeUcans, i. 88, ii 228
Pemberton, Sir Francis, Lord Chief
Justice, iii 84 n., 118 and n.
Pembroke, Philip Herbert, Earl ot^ seat
near Aldermaston, it 78 ; seat at
Wntaa, 82 ; fire at, iiL 870 ; Lord
Privy Seal (1696), 827; subscrip-
tion to Oreenwich Hospital, 829 n. ;
alluded to, ii. 78, 225, iii. 221
Penitents, procession of; on Good Friday,
i. 258
Penn, Admiral William, ii 100 and n.
Penn, Sir William, impeached, ii 287
and fu ; notice of, &. ; blasphemous
book by his son, ib., 294
Pennington, Isaac, Lord Mayor of
London, ii 86 n.
Penshurst, notice of; ii 61
Pepys, Samuel, Secretary to the
Admiralty, ii. 898 ; Erelyn's first
mention of him, 296 n. ; cut for the
stone, ib, ; Clerk of the Acts, 819 ;
twice Master of the Trinity House,
891, iii 178 ; committed to the Tower,
29 and n. ; accused of being a Papist,
and of treachery, ib. ; possessed Deane's
Art qf ShipbuUdvngt 79 ; accompanies
the King to Portsmouth (1685), 175,
180 ; impostures of the Salndadors
confessed to, 176 n. ; his conversation
with James IL respecting Charles II.
being a Catholic, etc, 181, 182;
portrait of Evelyn painted for, 266 ;
conversation with Evelyn on the Navy,
272 - 4 ; his remonstrance against
suspicions of him, 276, 282 ; sent to
the (Gatehouse, 278 and n. ; set free,
i&., 279 and n. ; his house at Clapham,
297 A., 858 ; his library, 365 n. ;
merry meeting with Evelyn, ii 284 n. ;
visits Evelyn at Sayes Court, 237 tk ;
his Hittory qf the Ncary, iii 276 n.,
365 and n. ; his death and character,
364, 865 and 9k ; meditated a History
of the Dutch War, Introductiotif Ii
and n. ; Evelyn's letters to him, ii
294 n., iii 869 n., 883 n. ; bis refer-
ences to Evelyn, Introduction^ zlvi-1 ;
allusions to him, ii 284, 319, 371, iii.
81, 80, 88 n., 172 n., 198, 220, 251,
280, 286, 297, 885, 836 ; his Diary
referred to, sm notes on pp. i 61, ii.
109, 148, 154, 177, 178, 196, 198, 200,
209, 212, 225-9, 284, 288, 242, 249,
262, 266, 269, 271, 272, 276, 278,
285-7, 858, 864^ 417, iii 17, 27, 270,
279, 297
Pepya* Oorreapmtdence, dted, iii 177 ft.
Pepye' Diary (1905), Prof. G. Oregory
Smith, cited, iii 29 n.
PqfySf Samuel, and the World he lived
in (1880), Mr. H. B. Wheatley, F.8JL,
cited, iii 851
Percy, Lady Elizabeth, iii 870 n.
Percy, Henry (brother to Earl of North-
umberland), iii 55
Perelle, Adam, drawing by, i 97
Pdrelle, Gabriel, engraver, i 82 n., 88,
ii 22 and n.
Perftiming rooms in Germany, singular
method of; ii 106
P^rigueuz, described, i 126 and n.
Periidiot, M., collection of; i 87
Perkins, Sir William, executed, iii 324 ;
absolved at Tyburn, 825 and n,
Pem^ notice o^ ii 49
Perpetual motion, ii 289
Pernor, Frauds, his book of Antiq%te
Statues, ii 26 and n.
Persepolis, ruins of, iii 52, 124
Persia, M. Chardin's travels in, iii 52,
53, 119, 124
Persian habit, i 281 and n., 854;
adopted at Court (1666), il 262, 264,
268
Perugino, Pietro, paintings by, i 142,
159, 253, 269
Peruzzi, Baldassare (called Baldassare da
Siena), i 201
Peschiera, i 828
Peter, Mrs., Evelyn's nurse, i 6
Peter House, Cambridge, ii 96
Peter, St, his bnrial-plaoe, i 185, 212 ;
statue and relics of; 185, 203
Peter of Toledo, i 281 ; palace of;
238
Peter the Great, occupies Evelyn's house,
iii 834 and n., 386 and n^ Introduc-
tion^ bdi and n,, Iziii ; his stay in
Deptford, 385 n.
Peterborough, notice ot Ii 94
Peterborough House, Parson's Green, ii
159 n., 179
Peterborough, Countess of, house at
Reigate, ii 108 and n. ; alluded to^
181, 179
Peterborough, Henry Mordaunt, second
Eari of, ii 179 and n., iii 1, 147, 294 ;
sale of lands to pay debts (1676), iii
1, 2 ; marriage of his daughter, 2 ;
arrested, 249, 266 and n.
GENERAL INDEX
451
Peten, Hugh, a rebel, ii. 7 and n. ;
executed, 153
Petit, Mohb., of Rome, i 158
Petit, old, paintings o^ ii 9
Petit-Luzembonrg, noticed, i 99 and n.
Petitot, John, enamel by, ii 158
Petrarch, Franciaco, MS. of, i 209 ;
Laara's tomb at Avignon, i 122 and n.
PetnUf Olossa, found at Sheemess, ii. 289
Petre, Lord, committed for Popish plot,
iii. 26 and n., 29
Petrifactions, i. 311
Petrified human body, i. 166, 262
Petrifying spring, i 118
Petronella, tomb of, i 202
Pett, Peter, naval architect, inventor of
frigates, i 26 91., ii 204 and n., 278 n.,
iii 272 and n.
Pett, Phineas, his skill in shipbuilding,
i. 26 and n.
Petty, Sir William, improvements of
shipping, ii 178, 208; ship with
hinged keei 178, and one with two
bottoms, 220, 375 ; restores a woman
who had been hanged, 875 and n. ; his
map of Ireland, 876 and n. ; his
character, 376-7 ; account of, 178 n.,
374 ; his house, 374 n. ; alluded to,
238, 889, iii. 89
Peyton, Sir Thomas, ii 28
Phidias and Praxiteles, horses ot^ i 167
and n.
Philips, Katherine, her tragedy, fforaoe,
ii. 285 and n., 294
Philips, M., portrait, ii. 298 n.
Phillimore and Whitear's C^iatricky cited,
iii. 88 n.
Phillips, Edward, preceptor of Evelyn's
son, ii 206 and n,, 225 ; preferred by
his recommendation, iii 9 ; his edition
of Baker's Chronicle, ii 404, 409
PhiUipi, Lives qf John and Edward^ by
Mr. Godwin, ii. 207 n.
Philosophic Society. See Gresham
College, Boyal Society
Phipps, Sir William, Governor of New
England, iii 300 n.
Phosphorescent stone, i 266 and n., 281
Physicians' College, iii 94 and n.
Piacentino, Giulio, painting by, i 247
Piazza, Judea, at Rome, i 204 ; Piscina,
257 ; Navona, 245, 248, 266 ; of St
Mark, Venice, 289 ; view of, ib, ; of
St. Anthony, Padua, 800 ; at Brescia,
324 ; at Milan, 826 ; at Leghorn, 188;
Vicenza, 319 ; della Colonna Tngano,
view of, 258
Picardy, the regiment of (1650), ii 80
Piccadilly paved (1662), ii 190 and n.
Piccioli, Evelyn's dog, i 351
Piccolomlni, ancient family o^ i 146,
252 and n.
Pichini, Signer, his collection, i 156
Pictures, at Rotterdam Fsir, i 32 ;
auction of, at Whitehall, iii 303 ;
collections noticed, i 86-7f 89, 91,
141, 164, 206, 275, ii. 9, 11, 62,
292-3, 854, 860 and n., iii 16, 18,
27, 185, 136, 303, 825 ; realistic, of
Arch of Constantine, i 88
Piedmont, massacre of Protestants in,
iii 204
Pierce, Dr. Thomas, President of Mag-
dalen College, ii 116 and n., 204, 205
n. ; sermons at Whitehall, iii 18, 28, 44
Pierce, Edward, paintings by, ii 82 and n.
Pierrepont, Evelyn, his marriage, iii 222
and n.
Pierrepont, Mr., house at Nottingham,
ii 88 ; near Pontefract, 90
Pierrepont, Mrs., married to Mr. Cheyne^
iii 272, 295
Pierrepont, Hon. William, his wife^
daughter of Sir John Evelyn, ii 18 and
n., iii 222 ; her death, 337
Ptetra-commeMa (inlaid marble), i 142
and n., 177, 185, 272, 801, U. 94 ;
artists in, at Florence, i 277
Pietra Mala, a burning mountain, i 279
Pietro, Signor, musician, iii 57, 150, 154
PUgrimea (Purchas), alluded to, Intro-
dtictionf xxxi
Pilgrims, ceremony of washing feet of,
i 246, 258
Pilton, Devon, sale o^ iii 127
Pine, Queen, frx)m Barbados, ii. 171 and
n, ; King, 289
Pintado, room hung with, ii 288 and n,
Pipemo, town o^ i 218
Pipet, Mont, ruins on, i 121 and n.
Piqudillo (Piccadilly), ii 190 and n.
Pirate, in Straits of Dover, ii 14, 28,
80
Pisa, city of, account of, i 185, 270
Pisano, Pietro, paintings by, i 190
Piscina Mirabilis, account of the, i 287
Pistoia, notice of, i 272
Piten, a Jesuit, iii 246
Pitti, Palace o^ at Florence, i 140
Plaats, dangerous sea called, i 48
Plague, in London, etc., ravages of, i 7,
18, 59 ; (1665), ii. 232, 283, 234, 286;
in the country, 243, 248, 249 ; abates,
287, 240, 241, 264 ; remedy for the,
iii 109
Plantations, Foreign Council for, appointed
(1671), ii. 819, 821. See Trade, etc,
Council for
452
GENERAL INDEX
Plantin, Christopher, shop of, at Ant-
werp, L 62 and n.
Flastei', used for floors, L 131
Plays and theatres, at Borne, L 256, 260;
at Venioe, 298 ; in Milan, 881 ; in
Paris, iL 85 ; in England, 188, 196,
197, 199, 201, 208, 209, 285, 288,
292, 294, 887
Plessis (Flessls-les-Tonrs), house of the
French King, 1. 112 and n.
Plessis, Mons. du, riding-school of, i. 102
Pliny, references to, L 185, 151, 164 and
n., 210 n., 211, 286 and n. ; death of,
228 and n. ; statue of, 822
Plot, Dr. Robert, account of; ii. 881 and
n. ; his natural curiosities, ib. ; his
projected History qf StafordsfUref ib, ;
the book cited, 215 ; Secretary of
Royal Society, ill. 75
Plots, references to various, lit 99, 112,
157, 266, 282, 289, 822, 881, 882
Plume, Mr., sermon by, ii 261
Plutarch^ North's, cited, L 5 n.
Pluto, Temple of, L 285
Plymouth, Charles Fitz-Charles, Earl of,
ui. 87
Plymouth, declares for Prince of Orange
(1688), iii. 246
Po, river, notice of the, i 286
Poem upon his Majesties Coronation,,
(1661), by Evelyn, ii. 167 and «.
Poggio Imperiale, Florence, t 272
Poignant, Mons., at Paris, his collection,
ii 87
Poitiers, Diane de, L 116 n.
Poland, incursion of the Swedes into, ii.
105
Poland, King of, Embassy to Charles II.,
ii. 151 ; raises the siege of Vienna, iii.
Ill and n.
Pole, Cardinal, portrait, ii 293 n,
Polemburg, Cornelius, paintings by, i. 86
Polhill, David, imprisoned, iii 856 n.
Political Discourses, etc, by Evelyn, iii
380
Poll tax, U. 152, iii. 265, 290 n.
Pollajuolo, sculpture by, i 181
Pollard, Sir Hugh, ii 197 and n., 208 ;
death of; 265
Pollock, Mr. John, his Popish Plot, cited,
iu. 25
Polydore, paintings by, ii. 62, 195
Polydorus, sculptor, i 211
Polythore, a musical instrument, ii. 172
Pomfret, Countess Dowager of (1755),
iii 288 n. ; Earl of, 298 n.
Pomfret, Thomas, his Life oj the Countess
qf Devonshire, ii 190 n.
Pomona, by Evelyn, iii. 881, 882
Pompey, ruins of house o^ Rome, L
198
Pomptini Campi, i 217
Pons Milvius, i 256
Pont Neuf, at Paris, i 69, ii 26, 27
Pont St. Anne, Paris, i 70
Pont St Esprit, at Valence, i 122
Pontac, Amaud de, account of; iii 104,
105 ; his eating-house, 104 n., 805
Pontanus, Job. Jov., chapel of; Naples,
i 224 and n,
Ponte, Francisco da (the elder Baasano),
paintings by, i 86, 87, 166, 241, 294
Ponte, Giacomo da (II Bansano), paintings
by, i 241, iii 27, 808, 825
Ponte, n, notice of, i 279
Ponte SistOk Rome, sermon at, i 203
Pontefract Castle, ii 90
Pontius Pilate, palace of, i 121 and n. ;
materials brought from his house at
Jerusalem, 187
Pontoise, Normandy, i 92
Pontormo, paintings by, i. 142, 276
Pope, palaces of, Monte Cavallo, i 168
and n., 200 ; Vatican, 205 ; chapel in
the Vatican, 207 ; library, 208 ;
armoury of, 210 ; procession to St.
John di Laterano, 148, 194-6; his
alms, 208 ; his tribute from Naples,
288 ; procession on the Annunciation,
258 ; on Lady Day, etc, 257 ; various
ceremonies of the, 257-61 ; burnt in
effigy in London, ii 366
Pope, Alexander, his works, cited, i 109
A., U. 187 A., iii 828 n.
Pope, Walter, verses by, ii 875 n.
Popham, Colonel, house of; ii 78
Popish Plot, by Mr. John Pollock
(1908), dted, iii 25 n. ; the Plot re-
ferred to, 99
Porcelain, chimes of; i 88
Porcupine, description of one, ii 186
Pordage, Bir., his excellent voice, iii 186
Pordenone, Giovanni Antoni licinio,
paintings of, i. 274
Porph]rry, statue in, i 189-40
Porta, Baccio della (called Fra Bar>
tolommeo di San Marco), painting by,
i278
Porta, Giacomo della, works of, i 162,
263
Porta, John Baptista, i 266 and n.
Porto Santa, at St Peter's, Rome, i 186
Porter, Endymion, ii 11 and n.
Portland, Richard Weston, Earl of. Lord
Treasurer, ii. 886 ; subscription to
Greenwich Hospital, Ui 880 n. ; his
lodgings at Whitehall saved from the
fire, 884 n.
■ ^tmt^ '■ ■
■*wi m^
GENERAL INDEX
458
Portman, Sir William, Duke of Monmouth
taken by, iii 167 and n., 168
Portmore, David Colyear, Earl of, iii. 16 n.
Porto Vencre, i. 186
Portraits, collected by Lord Clarendon,
ii 293 and n.
Portsmouth, fortifications of, i. 17, iii.
179, 180 ; siege (1642), i. 60-61 and
n. ; James II. 's visit (1685), iii. 179 ;
infant Prince of Wales sent to (1688),
247 and n. ; Town Hall, 180 ; Papists
put in o£Sce at, 240 ; King of Spain
lands at (1704), 867
Portsmouth, Duchess of (Louise-Ren^
de Eeroualle), account of, ii. 816
and n. ; her apartments at Whitehall,
385 and n. ; Morocco Ambassador
entertained there, ilL 77 ; visited in her
dressing-room by the King, iii. 113 ;
her apartments burnt, 283 and n. ;
alluded to, ii. 330, 831 and n., 879,
880, iii. 136, 140, 145 ; portrait, 118
Portugal, earthquake in (1699), iiL 345
Portugal, King of; Alphonso YI. (1688),
death of; iii. 117 and n.
Portugallo, Arco, in Rome, 1. 249
Portuguese Ambassador (1661), iL 170 ;
(1678), Ui. 18, 42 ; entry into London,
(1679), 29
Portus, Herculis, i. 127 ; Julius, 284
Positive, Sir (Sir Robert Howard), iii
147 and n.
Pott, Sir Gkoige, son of, ii. 139
Potts, Mr., Evelyn's schoolmaster, 1. 8
Poule, Henry, manager against Viscount
Stafford, iii. 61, 62
Poussin, Nichohu, i. 267, IL 27, iii. 186
Povey, Mr., notice of, ii. 199 n. ; his
house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, 211 ; his
house near Brentford, 249 and n. ;
alluded to, 199, 285, 388
Powell, Captain, i. 298 ; present to
Evelyn, 309, ii. Ill
Powell, Mr. Baron, subscription to
Greenmch Hospital, iii. 330 n.
Powell, Sir John, Justice of the King's
Bench, iti. 234 and n. ; displaced, 285 ;
subscription to Oreenwich Hospital,
iii. 330 n.
Power ^ Sssays on the Balance of, iiL
356 n.
Powis, Mr. Baron, subscription to
Oreenwich Hospital, lit 330 n.
Powis, Lord, iii. 26 and n.
Pozzo, Cavali^, his collection, L 193
and n.
Pozzuoli, 1. 233
Pratolino, villa of Duke of Florence, i.
278 ; giant rock at, 279 and n.
Pratt, Mr., architect, ii. 102 and n, ; a
Commissioner for repair of Old St.
Paul's, 250, 251 ; built Lord Ailing-
ton's house at Horseheath, 310 ;
Clarendon House, 250 ».
Praxiteles, sculptures by, i. 167 and n.,
804
Prayer, Common, disused in the English
churches, ii 10 and n. ; prohibited,
99 ; restricted allowance of; 101 ; used
again in England, 155, 805 ; Reforma-
tion of and order for, 191, iii 269
Prerogative Office, writing of Mr. Hoare
at, ii 14 and n.
Presbyterians in Holland, notice o^ i
35 ; of Scotland, character of, iii. 275
Pressing to death, inflicted, ii 62
Preston, Richard Graham, Viscount, iii.
221, 244 ; Secretary of State, 248 and
n. ; tried and condemned, 282 and n, ;
released, 286
Preston Beckhelvyn, manor of, ii. 6, 102
Pretyman, Mr., uncle of Mrs. Evelyn,
ii 3 and n., 75, 101, iii 206, 221
Pretyman, Sir John, house o^ at Dryfield,
ii 84
Price, Sir Herbert, ii. 164
Price, Dr. John, Mystery and Method qf
Hia Majeat^s Restoration^ ii. 409 n.
Prideaux, Dr. Humphrey, editor of
Marmora Oxoniensia, i 307 n,f ii.
390 and n.
Prideaux, Mr., ii. 863
Priest's holes, iii. 17 and n.
Priestman, Mr., subscription to Greenwich
HospitaJ, iii. 329 n.
Primaticcio, Francisco, paintings by, i
86, 89
Primitive Christianity (Dr. William
Cave), iii 48
Prince, of 90 guns, ii 231 ; burned, 245,
246, 346
Printing, invention of, i 41 and n.
Printing House, the King's, at Paris, i 78
Prior, M. , his Z>oi#n Hall cited, i 809 n.
Pritchard (or Pritchet), Dr. John, Bishop
of Gloucester, sermons by, ii. 388, iii.
29
Privateer of Charles H. (1649), ii 14
Privy Seal, commission for executing the
office of (1685), iii 174 ; proceedings
of (1686-7), 195, 196, 198, 200, 201,
208, 205, 208, 214, 216, 221, 224
Procession, Fdte Dieu at Tours, i 112 ;
of the Pope to St. John de Lateran,
194 ; of the Conservatori, 203 ; of the
Zitelle, 208 ; of the Viceroy of Naples,
226 ; of the Pope on the Annunciation,
i 253 ; ditto in Lent, 257 ; of penitents
454
GENERAL INDEX
on Qood Friday, 258 ; of the Doge of
Venice, 287 ; on Corpus Ghristi Day,
Paris, ii. 87 ; of Loais XIV. to Parlia-
ment, 89 ; funeral of Ireton, 51 ; of
Cromwell, 186 and ra. ; Restoration of
Cbarles II., 145, 161 ; at his corona-
tion, 168 ; aquatic, in honour of
Catherine Queen of Charles II., 192-8 ;
at reception of Russian Ambassador
(1662), 197 ; of Knights of the Garter
at Whitehall (1667), 270; at pro-
clamation of James II., iii. 144 ; of
Venetian Ambassadors (1685), 194 ;
at coronation of William, iii. 260
Prodigal Son, The, by Dr. Goodman,
iiL ISO
Prophecies, interpretations of, iii. 28,
263, 264, 277, 278
Prosdocimus, first Bishop of Padua, 1.
801 and n.
Protestants, Temple des, at Charenton, L
88 and n.
Protestants of France, persecution of^ iii.
98, 166, 188, 191, 192, 198, 201, 202,
206, 210, 225, 228, 229, 231, 268,
270, 276, 277, 838 ; injury to cause
by capture of Luxemburg (1684), iii
127 ; Complaints of the Oruel Treat-
ment qf (1686), iii 204 and n. iSIss
Huguenots, Savoy, Vaudois, Waldenses
Prouse, Mr., a mad Fellow of Balliol,
L 16
Proverb on the women of Venice, i. 296
Proverbs, beautiful MS. of the, il. 77
Prigean, Sir Francis, account of, ii. 172
and n.
Prussian Swallow Knife, Miraculous
cure of the^ by D. Lakin (1642), ii.
179 «.
Prynne, William, review of Dr. Cosin's
Offices, ii. 43 and n,
Pseudodoxia Epidemica, by Sir T.
Browne, cited, i. 32 n.
Public Employment . . . pr^erred to
Solitvde, by Eivelvn, Introdiiction, 111,
ii. 268 and n., 418, ill 376, 382
Puckering, Sir Henry, his seat at
Warwick, ii. 86
Pule, Mr. , his fine voice, iii. 835
Pulsone, Scipione (called Gaetano), paint-
ings by, i. 192
Pulteney, Sir William, ii. 296 and n.,
iii 272
Puntens, Jo., mountebank, ii. 171
Puppet-play in London, ii. 278 and n.
Purcell, Dr., iii 385 and n.
Purchas, his Pilgrims alluded to, Intro-
duction, xzzi
Purgatory, gates of, i. 282
PuteoU (Pozzuoli), i 233
Putney, schools at, ii 11 and n. ; draw-
ings and etchings, by Evelyn, ii 13
and n,, iii. 888
Putti (boys* heads), paintings of, ii 9
and n., 17, 27
Pye, Sir Walter, ii 18 and %, ; seat of,
80
Pyrenees, persecution of P)rotestants in,
iii 263, 264
Pyrford Park, Mr. Denzil Onslow's seat,
iii. 70 and n.
Pyrgus, or castle, at Leyden, i 41
Quakers, the new sect of^ ii 114 and ».,
iii. 224
Quarterly Review, voi ziz., cited, i 28 ». ;
April 1818, 53 n,, Pr^ace, viii, z
Queensberry, Duke of, iii 161
Quentin Durward, Sir Walter Scott,
referred to, i 112 n.
Quercei, Jacopo, sculpture by, i 146
Question given in the Ch&telet at Paris
(1651), ii 83
Quinquina, brought into use by Mr.
Tudor, iii 31 3 ; not allowed to be given
to Charles II., i6.
Quintin Matsys, the blacksmith, painting
by, ii 9
Quintinye's Complete Gardener, Treatise
on Chrange Trees, and Melons, trans-
lated by Evelyn, iii 882
Quinze-Vingts, Hospital of the, Paris, i.
77 -and n.
Quirinal, Rome, i 167-8
Rabinike, Rear-Admiral, his death, ii.
348
Racing at Rome, i 256
Radclifie, Sir Geoige, ii 20
Radicofani, notice of, i. 149 and n.
Raffaelle (Rafiaelle Sanzio di Urbino).
See Raphael
Rain, heavy or remarkable, ii. 7, 60, 122,
182, iii 87, 83, 95, 181, 196, 205,
206, 267, 289, 330, 366 ; absence of,
iii 68, 69, 70, 129, 165
Rainbow, Dr., sermon by, ii 155
Raleigh, Mr. Carew, son of Sir Walter,
ii 134
Raleigh, Sir Walter, ii. 67 and n. ; his
cordial, 194
Rand, Dr. R, i 12 and n.
Rand, Dr. W., ii. 120 and n.
Ranelagh, Earl of, his subscription to
Greenwich Hospital, iii. 329 n.
Ranelagh, Lady, iii 277 ; her death, 291
Raphael, paintings, etc, by, i 86, 89,
91, 142, 148, 161, 199, 201, 205 and
GENERAL INDEX
455
n., 241, 251, 269, 274, 275, 282, 822,
826, ii. 27, 62, 187, 896 and n., iiL
55, 95, 825 ; architecture, i. 277 ; his
burial-place, 250
Rapinus, Renatua, tranalation of hia
book on Gardena, ii. 854 and n., iii.
882
Rasp-house, at Antwerp, i. 86
Ratcliflfe, Sir (George, ii. 18
Ratcliffe, Mr., ii 82
Rattle-snakes, of Virginia, ii. 124
Ra^en, a white one, iL 186
Ravensboume Mills, Deptford, ii 288
Ray, Dr. , his book on Fishes, iiL 200 ;
noticed, i&., n.
Ray (Rhea), Mr., on the culture of
flowers, iii. 878
Reade, Charles, his Cloister and the
Hearth, cited, L 28 n.
Reading, Sir Robert, iii. 16, 120
Eecuon in Brute Anvmals, by Evelyn,
iiL 876
Rebellion, breaking out of the Irish, L
60 and n.
Rthellion, History of the. Clarendon's,
cited, ii. 8 n., 5 n.
Reccio, Andrea, mexxo-rilievo by, L 800
Red Lion Inn, at Guildford, ii. 68 and n.
Reeves, — , artist, ii. 56
Jt^onncUion, History of the (Burnet),
iiL 55 n., 67 and n.
Regalia, of the Pope, L 207
Regency, debate respecting (1689), iii.
257
Reggio, Signer Pietro, musician, iiL 129
Regrets (1565), J. du Bellay, cited, L
109 n.
Rehearsal, a farce by Duke of Bucking-
ham, ii. 887 and n., iii. 147 n.
Reigate Priory, notice of, iL 108 and n.
Relics, at Rome. L 184-5, 187, 191, 202,
212, 224, 255, 280, 291, 293, iL 86 ;
miracles due to, iiL 177
Religion, History qf,etc.,hj Evelyn, iii.
227 and n., 880 and n.
Reliquary, at St. Mark's, Venice, L
292
ReliquicB WottonianoB (1685), Sir Henry
Wotton, cited, i. 278
Rencia, Anna, singer, L 298, 814
Reni, Quido, paintings by, L 165, 172,
192, 218 and n., 254, 282 and n., 288,
iL62
Reresby, Sir John, notice of, L 71 n. ;
references to his Memoirs and Travels,
see notes on pp. L 71, 75, 85, 108,
108, 110, 112, 279, iL 330, iii. 59, 61,
72, 78, 75, 81, 88, 100, 215, 248, 247,
248
Restoration of Charles II., General
Thanksgiving Day, iL 170 and n.
Revels in the Middle Temple (1642), L
60; (1668), iL 285; Inner Temple
(1697), iiL 888; at Lincoln's Inn
(1662), iL 180 and 91. ; at Court (1662),
ib, ; (1668), iL 291
Review of the gens Cannes at Paris, L
108 ; in Hyde Park (1668), iL 208
Reynaldo. Prince, ii. 866
Reynolds, Dr. Edward, Bishop of Nor-
wich, sermon by, iL 125 and n. ; his
consecration, 157
Rhea (Ray ?), Mr., book on the Culture
of Flowers, iii. 878
Rhenish Wine House (Cannon Row ?), iL
249 andn.
Rheymes, Colonel BuUein, iL 218, 849
Rhinoceros, the first in England, iiL 180
Rhodes, Siege of, a tragi-comedy, iL 181
and n.
Rhodomante^ Signer Paulo^ of Venice,
L 286
Rhone, River, noticed, L 119, 840, 846
and Tk, 351
Rialto, at Venice, i. 288
Rich, Mr., Reader at Lincoln's Inn, iL
224
Rich, Nathanael, a rebel, iL 110
Rich, Sir Robert, subscription to Green-
wich Hospital, iii. 829 n.
Richard, St., an English King, epitaph
at Lucca, L 271 and n.
Richard II. , King of England, murder
of, iL 90
Richard III., King of England, tomb of,
ii. 87 and n.
Richards, Lady, of Yaverland, L 17
Richardson, Sir Thomas, Chief Justice,
L 10 and n.
Richardson, — , fire-eater, feats of, ii. 852
and n., iii. 120 and n.
Richelieu, Armand du Flessis, Cardinal-
Due de, his villa at Rueil, i. 82 and n. ;
view of garden, 83 ; Palace at Riche-
lieu, 115 ; Palais Cardinal, 102, iL 19 ;
noticed, L 74 n. ; alluded to, 94
Richelieu, Duke of; L 94
Richelieu, town, and palace at, L 115
Richett, Mr., engraver, iL 66
Richmond, Charles Stuart, Duke of
(1668), iL 202 and n. ; dies Ambas-
sador to Denmark, 869 n., 885
Richmond, James Stuart, Duke of, fkineral
(1641), L 28
Richmond, Duke of^ natural son of
Charles H., iU. 77, 125, 180
Richmond, Countess o^ mother of Henry
VHL, iL 95
456
GENERAL INDEX
Richmond, a frigate, U. 243
Richmond and Lennox, Frances Teresa
Stewart, Dacheea of, iiL 15 n.
Ridingschoole at Paris, L 102, it 21
Ridley, Bishop, portraiti iL 298 n.
RiUe, Sir Hugh, ii. 20
Rings, inflammable, i. 266 and n. ; mer-
curial, ii. 272
Ripe, near Lewes, Evelyn's farm at, ii.
869
Ripley, George, portrait, ii. 298 n.
Roiads, paved, in France, i 108
Roanne, notice oi; L 118-19, 851
Roberts, Dr. William, Bishop of Bangor,
iL 151 and n.
Robin Hood's Well, it 90
Robinson, Sir John, ii. Ill, 201 ; pageant
of, 196 and n.
Robinson's History qf Enjidd, cited, ii.
391 n.
Roche Corbon, castle at, i. 118
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of^ a pro-
fane wit, ii. 816 and n.
Rochester, Lawrence Hyde, Earl ol^ Com-
missioner of the Treasury, iii 41
and n, ; a favourite at Court, 89 ; made
Earl, ^. ; his daughter married, ib, ;
President of the Council, 129 ; alluded
to, 87 and n., 137, 206, 209, 214;
Lord Treasurer, 147, 204 ; his opposi-
tion to William and Mary, 257 ; Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland, 854
Rochester, Countess of (1664-86), ii 215,
iU. 154, 207
Rochester, flight of James IL to, iii. 248
and n.
Rocque, John, Map of Wotton House,
etc., i. 8
Roehampton, garden at, iii. 1
Roettier, John, the medallist, iii. 15 n.
Rogers, Dr., Consul in Padua University,
i. 806 and n, ; Harveian oration of,
iii. 87
Rokeby, Mr. Justice, subscription to
Qreenwich Hospital, iii. 880 n.
Rolls Chapel, ii. 29
Rolsies, notice of the, i. 126
Roma Sotterranea, account of, L 259
Roma Sotterranea (1682), by A. Bosio,
L 259 and n.
Roma Triumphans, at nnvoll, i. 264
Remain, St., Archbishop of Rouen, L 93
Roman Catholics (1678), banished, iii.
26 ; machinations of (1686-7), 28, 24
and n., 26, 88, 202 ; Mass publicly
said, 148 ; liberty of Mass refused in
Scotland, 204 ; allusions to, 202, 208,
214, 217 ; panic at landing of Prince
of Orange, 247. See Papists
Roman medals, found near BanatMul, ii
185 and n.
Roman money, observations on, L 266
Roman painting, at Cardinal Borghese'i,
i. 199
Roman Temple, at Leicester, iL 87
Romano, Julio, paintings l^, L 207, iL
62, ui. 825
Romano, Paris, L 171
Rome, description of, and events in
(1644-5), L 153-216, 240-68; Fsr-
nese Palace, 154-5 ; Temples of Peace,
Jupiter, Romulus, Faustina, 156;
Arch of St. Severus, the Capitol, 157 :
Ara Cceli, 160 ; Barberini Palace, 162 :
Jesuits' Church, 162; Medici Palace
and Gardens, 163-4 ; Chiesa Nova,
164 ; Prince Ludovisi's villa, 165 ;
Signer Angeloni's Collection, 167 ;
Monte Cavallo, and the Pope's Summer
Palace, 167 ; Diocletian's Baths, 168 ;
Fontana delle Terme, 168 ; Church of
St. Susanna, 169; Church of Sta.
Maria della Vittoria, 169 ; Mont Alto's
Villa, 170 ; Churches of St. Agnes and
St Gonstsnza, 170 ; Via Felic, 170 ;
St Maria Maggiore, 171 ; St Pnden-
tiana and St Prassede, 173 ; Arch of
Titus, 174; Sta. Maria Nuova and
Amphitheatre of Vespasian, 175 ; Arch
of Constantine, 176 ; St Gregorio and
Villa Borghese, 176 ; Obelisk dedicated
to Julius Caesar, 179 and n,; St
Peter's, 179-86 ; Crypt of St Peter's,
202 ; Baptistery of St John Baptist,
187 ; Scala Sancta and Obelisk, 188 ;
St John de Lateran, 190; Collection
of Cavaliero Pozzo, 193 ; St Pietro in
Vincoli, 194 ; Procession of the Pope
to St. John de Lateran, 194-6 ; fire-
works, 197 ; Jesuits' College, ib, ; Col-
lection of H. Vitellesco, 198 ; Cardinal
Borghese's Palace, ib.; Chigi Palace^
201 ; St. Mary's, ib, ; ceremonies on
Christmas Eve, 202; Zitelle, 203;
Ghetto, and ceremony of Circumcision,
204 ; the Vatican, 205 ; St Paul's,
212 ; Tre Fontana, 213 ; St Cedlia's,
242 and n.; Mons Testaceus, 243;
St Maria in Navicula, Horti Mathsi,
244 ; St Sebastian and Catacombs,
245; Hospital of Pelerini della S.
Trinita, 246 and n. ; Palace of Cardinal
Spada, 247 ; Palazzo della Cancellaria,
i&. ; Piazzo Navona, 248 ; Church of
the Capuchins, ib, ; Pantheon, 249 ;
Trinita de' Monte, 250 ; St. Augustine,
251 ; Mausoleum Augusti, 252 ; St
Andrea della Valle, ib, ; baptism of a
GENERAL INDEX
457
Turk and Jew, 258 ; Tngan's Ck>lnmn,
254 ; St Croce of Jerusalem, ib, ; St
Laurence, 255 ; Carnival, ib, ; Lent
and Easter ceremonies, 257-8 ; Pope's
portions to the Zitelle, 257; Roma
Sotterranea, 259 ; opera by Prince
Galicano, 260 ; Frascati, 262 ; model
of Rome, 264 ; Cascade of the Anio,
265 ; Roman coins and medals, 266 ;
execution at, 267 ; extent of Rome,
268 ; drawings made between Rome
and Naples by Evelyn, iii. 383
Home, Walks in (Hare), cited, i. 168 n.,
174 n., 242 n., 248 n.
Romney, Lord, iii. 321 and n., 854;
subscription to Greenwich Hospital,
329 n.
Romulus, Temples of, at Rome, i. 156
Ronquillo, Don Pietro, visit of Evelyn
to, iii. 67 and n.
Ronsard (Pierre de Roussard), his burial-
place, i. 112 and n.
Rooke, Admiral Sir George, iii 828;
squadron of Spanish galleons taken
by, 862 and n. ; subscription to Green-
wich Hospital, 829 n.
Rooke, Laurence, pendulum invented by,
ii. 251 ; account of, ib. n.
Rookwood (Ruckholt), at Leyton, Essex,
ii. 138 and n,
Rookwood, Sir T., ii. 832
Roos, Lord, divorce of, ii. 805 and ».
Rope-dancer, called "The Turk," ii. 128
and n.
Rose, Mr. (King Charles's gardener), his
English Vineyard Vindicated, iii. 881
Roses, instances of dislike to, iL 808
and n.
Ross, Alexander, iL 14 and n., 65
Rosso, Giovanbattista, gallery painted
by, i. 91 and n.
Rotherham, Sir John, Seijeant-at-Law,
iii 292 and n., 299, 305, 826
Rotherhithe, dreadAU fire at (1699), ill
340
Rotier, Mons., the medallist, iiL 15
andn.
Rotonda, a palace at Vicenza, i. 820
and n.
Rottenhammer, painting by, ii. 9
Rotterdam, house of Erasmus at, L 28
and 9k ; fair at, 82
Rouen, bridge, L 92 and n, ; Cathedral,
and Church of St Ouen, 98 and n.
Rouen, Archbishop of, palace at Gaillon,
L 92 and n.
Round Table, King Arthur's, i. 61
Roundell, Mrs. Charles, her Ham ffoiue
cited, I 294 n.
Roupel, Mons., his tincture of gold, ii.
67 and n.
Roussard, Pierre de. See Ronsard
Rousseau, his Deoin du Village referred
to, i 116 9k
Roxalana (Mrs. Davenport), an actress
so called, ii 181
Roxburghe, Lord, drowned, iiL 88 n.
Royal Charles, a ship, iL 246, 273 n.
Royal Exchange, London. See Exchange
Royal Party, An Apology for the (1659),
by Evelyn, iL 140 and n,, 405, iii.
875, 881
Royal Slave, a play, L 854
Royal Society, origin of, ii. 157 and n.,
179 ; shows Charles II. an eclipse of
Saturn, 168 ; incorporated, 172 and n.,
190, 192 and n. ; mace and arms, 192,
194 ; Evelyn nominated on the
Council in 1662, 191 ; declines ap-
pointment in 1666, 243 ; the King's
presents to the, 192, 207, 209, iii. 117 ;
statutes prepared, ii. 192, 197, 219 ;
thank the King and Lord Chancellor
for the charter, 198 ; first anniversary,
207 ; Mr. Balle's present to the, ib, ;
visit of Duchess of Newcastle to the,
272 and n. ; meet at Arundel House,
267 ; Chelsea College given to the,
281, 296 and n. ; proposed purchase
of the College by the King, iii. 71 ;
Arundel Library given by Mr. Howard,
ii. 267 and n,, 295, iiL 19, 20 ; Evelyn
presents his Sylva, ii. 195, 208, 803,
iii. 877, and Table of Veins, etc., iL
284 and n., iiL 359 ; his gift of bricks,
ii. 287 ; College for, designed at
Arundel House, 285 ; History qf the
Silkworm given to the, 295 ; Evelyn
chosen secretary, 854 ; meet again at
Gresham College, 866; Evelyn's
lecture, 0/ Earth and Vegetation, 378
and n. ; letters of Evelyn and Cowley
respecting the, 418 - 20 ; Cowley's
Ode to, 420 and n, ; regulations
respecting election of Fellows, iU. 76 ;
publication of transactions, etc., 82 ;
Morocco Ambassador admitted an
honorary member, 84 ; recommend
Foubert's Academy, 87 ; experiments
with magnets, 96 ; Evelyn's letter
to, regarding the great frost of 1684,
121 n., 125 and 9i. ; Roman urn
presented to, 187 ; Evelyn declines
appointment as President, 282, 305 ;
installation of Lord Somers as Presi-
dent, 887, 854 ; letter to, concerning
the damage done to Evelyn's gardens
by storms, 882 ; allusions to the
458
GENERAL INDEX
Society, ii 213, 229, 242, 251, 289,
298, 803, iii 12, 44, 52, 59, 75, 82,
88, 89, 90 n^ 130, 200, 246, 839
Jtoyal Society, CkUalogv^ qf Rarities qf
the. Grew (1681), iL 210 and n.
Royal Sovereign, a ship-of-war, L 26 and
n. ; burned, iii. 322 and n.
Rnbens, Sir Peter Panl, portrait of Earl
of Arundel, L 307 ; paintiDgs by, L
50 n., 54, 55, 97, iiL 308 ; his yiews
iD C^enoa, L 180 and n.
Ruby, man-of-war, launch of, ii. 53
Ruckholt, Eaeex, iL 188 n.
Raeil, Cardinal Richeliea's palace and
gaidena at, L 82 and n. ; view of, 83 ;
fountains, iL 18
Rttgge's Diurnal, cited, IL 262 n.
Bngini, Signor, of Venice, his collection,
L 311
Ramley, William, trial of (1679), iiL 33
and n.
Rump Parliament dispersed, iL 140 ;
dissolved by Monk, 143 ; action of,
prior to the Restoration, 409 and n.
Rnpert, Prince, at Oxford (1636), L 354 ;
shows Evelyn how to engrave in
mezzo tinio, iL 159, 160 ; alluded to,
185, 193, 203, 231, 243, 244, 246, 263,
273, 274, 314, iiL 11
RusseU, — i Catholic Bishop of Cape
Verde, iL 179
RusselL Colonel (uncle of Lord), iiL
107
Russell, Adndral Edward, Earl of Orford
(not Oxford, p. 300 n,\ quarrel with
Lord Nottingham, iii. 299 and n. ; put
aside, 300 ; restored, ib. n., 304, 323 n.
Russell, Lady, her Suxdlowfidd and its
Owners referred to, iii. 185 n.
Russell, Lord William, apprehended, iii.
101 and n. ; tried and condemned,
102, 103, 104 ; beheaded, 107
Russell, William, embalming practised
by, iiL 81
Russell family, possessions of, in Blooms-
bury, iL 223
Russian Ambassador, entrance of (1662),
ii. 197 ; takes leave, 202 ; curious
water-fowl presented by, to Charles XL,
223; audience of (1662), 199, 200
and n. ; (1667), 280 ; (1681), iu. 74 ;
alluded to, iiL 78
Rustat, Tobias, benefactions of; iiL 48
and n.
Ruvigny, Henri de Massue de. Marquis,
Earl of Gklway, account of, iii. 209
and n. ; alluded to, 221, 268 ; his
son,
367
Rycaut, Sir Paul, iiL 192 and n.
Rye, Sussex, embargo at (1652), IL 57 ;
church service at, ib,
Rye-House Plot, detected, xiL 100 and
n., 105 ; declaration concerning, 108 ;
thanksgiving, ib, ; view, 101
Rynen, (jueen of Bohemia's palace at, i.
29
Ryswyk, palace of the Prince of Orangie,
L 33 and n, ; Peace o^ ilL 332 and n.
Ryves, Dr. Bruno, Dean of Windsor,
sermon by, iL 183 and n,
S, man killed by the fall of a letter 8,
iL98ft.
Saavedra^ Lift of Miguel de Cervantes
(Mr. Fitznuturice-KeUy ), dted, L 294 n.
Saba (or Sheba), effigy of Queen of, L 68
and n,
Sacheverell, Dr. William, at Lord.
Stafford's trial, iiL 61 and n.
Sacraments disused in the English
churches, ii. 10 and n., 99 ; neglected
at Wotton, iii. 310
Sacristy at St Denis, L 66 ; St. John di
Laterano, L 191
** Sadler's Wells," Clerkenwell, iiL 206 m.
Saffron Walden, Essex, famous for saflfron,
ii. 98, 312
Sailor, fortitude o^ under amputation,
iL342
Sailor*s Word-Book, Smyth's, cited, L
59 n.
St. Agnes, at Rome, L 170
St. Albans, Henry Jermyn, Earl of^ iL
149 and n., 175, 191, 202, 240, 416 ;
house at Byfleet, iii. 16 ; a blind
gambler, 109, 182 n.
St. Albans, Duke of (son of Charles II.),
iiL 125, 130
St. Albans, Herts, iii. 235
St. Ambrose, at Milan, L 329
St. Ambrosio, at Oenoa, L 133
St. Auacletus, at Rome, L 193
St. Andrea della Valle, Rome, L 252
St. Andriano, at Rome, L 157
St. Andrew Under-shaft, iL 125
St. Andrew's, Holbom, iii. 43
St. Angelo, Castle of, L 203, 241
St. Angelo in Pescheria, Rome, L 208 n,
St. Anne-in-the- Willows, Aldersgate, iiL
219 and n., 270
St. Anthony, at Padua, L 300 and n.
St. Athanasius, at Rome, L 203
St Augustine, at Rome, L 251
St Bartholomew, at Rome, L 242 and n. ;
Hospital, London, iL 254
St Baume, L 126
St Benedict, Ferrara, L 285 and n.
St. Bernardo, at Rome, L 168
GENERAL INDEX
459
St. Bride's Church, London, iii 88
St. Bridget, tomb o^ at Rome, i 174
St. Carlo, at Rome, i 171
St. Catherine, Bonen, i. 92 ; nnns of, at
Padua, 818
Sta. Cecilia, church and bath, at Rome,
i. 192, 241, 242
St. Celso, at Milan, i 826
Ste. Chapelle, Paris, L 75 ; at Bouiges,
117 ; at Bourbon I'Archambault, I 118
St Christopher, colossal statue of, L 72 ;
Island of, ii 828, 887, 889, 844
SL Oirysostom, Sir H. SavUe (1610-18),
ii 194 and n.
St. Clara, religious order of, at Bois-le-
Duc, L 46
St. Clement's Church, London, iii 180
St. Clere, Kent, descent of the Evelyns
of, Pediffree, i. Ixziii
St. Clere, Mons., of Paris, collections of,
iL 26 and n.
St. Cloud, Paris, Archbishop's palace
and gardens at, i. 81 and n. ; inn at,
82 ; references to, iL 17, 18
Sta. Constanza, at Rome, i 170
St. Cosmo, Church of, at Rome, L 156
St Cosmo, Convent of, L 112-18
St Croce, at Rome^ described, L 254 ; at
Lucca, 271
St Croix Cathedral, at Orleans, i. 106
and n.
St Denis, Paris, i 66, ii. 15, 80
St Di^ Touraine, i. 107 and n.
St Dominic, at Naples, I 224 ; at
Florence, 147 ; at Bologna, 280
St Dunstan-in-the-East, Church of, iii.
209
St Edme, bridge at Tours, i 110
St. Elmo, Castle of, Naples, L 222 and n,
St Esprit, Pont, at Valence, i. 122
St Eustorgio, Milan, L 827
St Faith's Church, London, iL 257
St Flavian, Church of, L 152
St Francis, Geuoa, L 183 ; at Siena, 148 ;
at Bologna, 281
St. Fredian, Lucca, L 271 and n.
St Gatien, Tours, L 111
St Geminiano, Venice, L 290 n,
St. Genevieve, Paris, L 76
St. George's Church, Hanover Square,
iii. 287 n. ; Hall, Windsor Castle, iiL
96, 174 ; Chapel, 296 ; Venice, L 804 ;
St. George's Day celebration (1667),
iL269
St Geoigio Maggiore, Island of, Venice,
L 295, 805
St Germain, English Court at, iL 16 ;
Abbey of, 2 ; referred to, 88 ; James
II. at, iiL 249 and n.
St Germain, Mons., iL 28, 24
St Germain, Naples, natural stoves o^
L 281 and n.
St. Germain-en-Laye, L 81 ; palace at,
L 88-4 and n. ; view of, iL 17
St Giacomo degli Incurabili, Rome, L
251
St Giacomo degli Spag^uoli, Rome, L 248
St. Giles's, London, iiL 812 and n.
St Giovanni, Baptistery of; Pisa, L 187
SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Rome, L 192;
Venice, 808
St Giovanni Laterano, Hospital of, Rome,
L 192 and n,
St Gregorio, in Monte Celio, L 176
St. Gregory, by St. Paul's, London, iL
71, 101, 104, iu. 885 ; at Bologna,
L 282
St Honorat, Island of, i. 127
St Innocent's, Paris, churchyard of, L
100 and n., 136 n.
St Jacomo, Venice, L 290
St Jacques- la -Boncherie, Paris, L 99
and n.
St James's, London, improvement of
(1662), iL 190 ; a rebel preaching at,
28 ; Court at (1682), iii. 90 ; garden
at, 209 ; Prince of Orange at, 248
St James's Chapel, ii. 28, 892
St. James's Church, Piccadilly, iii. 182
and n,
St James's, Library at, iiL 122 »., 288,
821, 838, 889
St. James's Park, skating in, IL 198
and n. ; wrestling match in, 268 ;
Turkish horses in, iiL 132 ; collection
of rare beasts and fowls in, iL 228 ;
Decoy in, 224 and n., 226 and n.
St. James's Square, iiL 44 and n.
St Jean, Cathedral of, at Lyons, L 119,
120
St. John, Church of; at Bois-le-Duc, L
46 and n, ; at Genoa, 133 ; at
Bologna, 282 ; at Beverley, iL 91
St John, Lord, iL 296
St John, Oliver, regicide, iL 98 and n.
St John, Sir Walter, U. 215, iiL 185
St John, son of Sir Walter, murder by,
iii. 135 and n,
St John Baptist, Baptistery of, at Rome,
L 187
St John Calabita, Rome, L 242
St. John the Evangelist, Chapel of, at
Rome, L 187 ; Venice, L 804
St. John di Laterano, Church of; at
Rome, L 187, 190-92, 258 ; procession
of the Pope to, 148, 194-6
St. John's College, Oxford, iL 78;
Cambridge, 94
460
GENERAL INDEX
St. Jnst, cliif at Lj'ons, L 119
St Justina, Church of, at Padoa, i. 801
St. Laareuce in Panispema, Rome, L 174
and n,
St. Lanrence, at Genoa, i 183 ; Florence,
142, 276 ; Borne, 255 ; Venice, 305
St. Lawrence, Jewry, iii. 84 and n.
St. Leger, Lady, antipathy to rosea, it
808
St. Lorenzo, Padaa, L 300 and n.
St. Lorenzo in Lncina, i 174 n.
St. Lorenzo in Miranda, L 157 and n.
St. Louis, crown, etc, of, L 67
St. Luke, church at Venice, L 304
St. Malo, iii 297 n., 299 n. ; storm at,
225
St. Margaret, Island of, i. 127 ; Fair at
Southwark, ii. 151 and n. ; West-
minster, 183, iii. 41, 58
Sta. Maria, at Venice, i 804
Sta. Maria degli Angeli, Rome, i. 169
Sta. Maria del Popolo, Rome, i. 251
Sta. Maria della Pieti nel ColiBseo, i.
. 176
Sta. Maria della Botonda, L 249
Sta. Maria della Vittoria, Rome, i. 169
Sta. Maria di Loreto, view of, i. 253
Sta. Maria in Navicul&, i. 244
Sta. Maria Maggiore, Rome, L 171 and
n. ; at Naples, 224
Sta. Maria Nuova, Rome, i 175
Sta. Maria Scala del Cielo, Rome, i. 218
Sta. Maria Schola Grseca, L 242
Sta. Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, 1. 253
St. Mark, at Rome, i. 258 ; at Venice,
Piazza, 289 ; Church, 290 ; Tower,
295 ; Reliquary, 292 ; Lion of, 294
St. Martial, Church of, at Avignon, i. 122
St. Martin, Church, etc., at Tours, i.
110 ; at Naples, 225 and n. ; Church
and Library, London, iii. 58, 123 and
n., 125, 169, 212, 214, 218, 246, 288,
293, 298, 346 ; man flees for sanctuary
to, 219
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, ii 59
andn., 357, iii. 110 ; Overseers* Books^
dted, ii. 278 n,
St. Martin's Lane, London, ii. 186,
iU. 123 n.
Bt. Martino, Rome, i. 247
St. Mary-le-Bow Church, iii 293, 294
St. Mary's, Oxford, i 14, 18 and n.,
ii 75, 76, 216, 297, 300 ; Rome, i.
201 ; Beverley, ii. 91 ; Antwerp, i 51
St. Maurice, Switzerland, i 343 ; Cathe-
dral at Vleune, i 121
JSt. Michael, altar-piece of, at St Peter's,
Rome, i 183 ; Island and Church of,
Venice, i 308
St Michael, Crooked Lane, London, £L
137 n.
St Michael in Bosco, Bologna, i. 282,
283
St Nicholas, Amsterdam, i 39 ; Venice,
309 ; Deptford, ii 63 and n., 100 m.,
iii 155 and n. ; view ol^ ii. 181
St Nicholas, Fort of, Marseilles, i 124
and n,
St Nicholas in Carcere, i 246
St Nizier, Church of, Lyons, i 120
St Ouen, Church of, Bouen, i 93 and n.
St Paul, Port of, Bome, i 244
St Paul's Cathedral (Old), London,
King's statue at thrown down, ii 12 ;
surveyed for repairs, 250 and n., 251
and n. ; destruction ot by fire, 252,
264, 257 ; view of, ii 260
St Paul's Cathedral (Kew), London,
iii 41, 68, 123, 312, 368 ; first service
in (1697), 332
St. Paul's, Church of, near Borne, i 212 ;
Venice, 304
St Paul's School, London, iii 320
St. Peter's, at Bome, piazza before,
i 179 ; description of^ 181-6 ; chapels
in, 183-4 and n. ; high altar, 183 and
n. ; ecclesiastical members o^ 186 ;
crypt 202 ; dimensions, 283 ; service
on Good Friday and Easter Day, 258-9
St Peter's, Ostend, i 58 ; Geneva, 349 ;
at Paul's Wharf, London, ii 10 ;
Cathedral and Well at York, ii 90
and n., 91 and n.
St Petronius, Bologna, 1. 280
St. Pietro dell' Arena, i 129 and n., 134
St Pietro in Vincoli, Bome, i 161,
194 and n.
St Prassede, Bome, i 173 and n,
St. Priv^ foimtain at, i 116
St Pudentiana, Bome, i 173 and n.
SS. Bocco e Martino, i 252
St Boche, Venice, i. 304
St. Buth, General, slain at Aghrim, iii
288 and n.
St Sabina, Bome, i 243
St Saviour, at Aiz, i 123
St Sebastian, at Bome, i 192, 245;
clifi^ at Lyons, 119
Sta. Spirito, at Florence, i 141 ; Venice,
305
St Stephen's, at Bourges, i 117 and n, ;
Pisa, 136 ; Paris, ii. 20
St Susanna, Church of, at Bome, i 169
St. Sylvia, Bome, i 192 and n.
St Symphorien-de-Lay, village of, i 119
and n.
St Thomas's Church, Southwark, i 1 n. ;
Hospital, ii 219, iii 225
GENERAL INDEX
461
St. Tommaso degli Ingleai, Borne, i 246
St. VenantiiiB, Rome, L 187
St. Victor, Church and relic of, Marseilles,
1125
St Vincent's Tower, Naples, i. 228;
Bock, Bristol, ii. 74 and n.
St. Zachary, Venice, I 304
Saintsbnry, Prol, Caroline Poets, ii
286 n.
Sala del Conclave, I 206
Saladine, Mons., of Geneva, L 846, 849,
350
Saliflbary, Cathedral, iL 81 ; Plain and
City, 82-3, 232 n. ; Stonehenge, 88
Salisbury, Earls of, their palace at Hat-
field, i. 61 and n. ; Lord (1689),
alluded to, iiL 266 and n.
Salliut, Caius Crispus, his Viridarium
and gardens, i 165 and n., 169
Salmasius's D^enaio, iL 207
Salomon, Castle of, Vienne, L 121 n.
Salt-houses (Salinse), at Borne, L 242
and n.
Saltpetre, Commission for regulating
fEurming, etc, ol^ iL 247, 248
Salt-Petre, Hietory of, Sir K. Digby, ii.
171
Salt water, rivulet oj^ at Pistoia, L 272
Saludadors of Spain, impostures of, iiL
176 and n.
Salutation, picture and chapel of the, at
Florence, L 278
Salvatico, physician at Padua, L 812,
817
Salviati, Francisco Bossi (II Salviati),
works of, L 155, 247
Salvioti, Gioeeppe, picture by, L 206 n.
Samaria, head of Woman of, L 212
Samaritan fountain at Paris, L 70 and n.,
ii. 26
Samuel, Mr., architect, ii. 810
San Bernardo, mountain of^ i 884
Sancroft, Dr. William, Archbishop of
Canterbury, iiL 120, 189 and n., 191,
204 and n., 207, 209, 236, 246, 266,
818; sermon by, iL 241; a Commis-
sioner for repair of Old St Paul's , 250 ; a
Commissioner for Ecclesiastical Affairs,
iiL 208 ; reftises to sit, 210 ; sent to the
Tower, 233 ; tried and acquitted,
234 ; refuses to sit with Papists at
a Council, 248 ; charged with dis-
loyalty, 244 ; required to publish a
declaration of abhorrence of the in-
vasion, 245 ; meeting of Bishops at
Lambeth, 249; Evelyn's letter to,
241 and n,, 250; protests against
accetsion of Willisjn and Mary, 257,
259 ; reftises to come to Parliament,
260 ; Evelyn's conversations with,
261, 268, 285 ; suspended, 268 ;
deprived, 284, 286
Sanctuary, man enters St. Martin's
Church for, iiL 219
Sandalwood, use by dyers, iL 854
and n.
Sanders, Captain, iiL 317
Sanderson, Dr. Bobert, Bishop of Lincoln^
sermon by, iL 142 and n. ; portrait
293 n.
Sanderson, Sir William, iL 187, 892
and n.
Sandford, Francis, Lancaster Herald,
iiL 159 n.
Sands, travellings account o^ iii. 8, 9
Sandwich, Edward Montagu, Lieut. -
AdmirsX Earl of, ii. 281 and n., 282,
234, 288, 807, 328; at Madrid,
292 ; President of Commission of
Trade, 323 ; death at Battle of Sole
Bay, 846 ; Ids courage, 847; character,
ib. ; ftineral, 349 ; charges against,
287 ; presents Evelyn with a Sem-
brador, 292 ; portrait, ii. 847
Sandwich, town of, iL 222
Sandys, Bev. Mr., iiL 346
Sangallo's lantern at St. Maria di Loreto,
view of^ L 253
Sansovino, Jacopo^ sculpture, etc., by,
L 248, 251, 293, 295, 800 ; Piazza of
St Mark by, 290 ; his burial-place,
ib. and n.
Santa Clara, Fra de, miracle related by,
iii. 177
Santo Spirito, Church of, Florence, L 141
Sapienza, at Siena, L 146 ; at Bome, 252
Sarrazin, Jacques, painter and sculptor,
of Paris, L 79 and n.
Sarto, Del (Andrea Vannucchi), paintings
by, L 91, 142, 278 and »., 274, 275,
ii. 182 ; burial-place, L 278
Satires (Horace), dted, iii. 98 and n.
Saturn, eclipse of, etc. (1661), ii. 168
Saumeurs, Mons., iL 17
Saumur, Paul de, ii. 40 n,
Saundus (sandalwood I), use ol^ by
dyers, iL 354 and n.
Savage, engraving by, iii. 336 n.
SavUe, Sir George (Marquis of Halifax),
son of Sir Henry, ii. 194 and n,
Savile, Sir Henry, iL 194 and n.
Saville, Countess of Monte Feltre, iii.
108
Saville, Mr. Henry, Vice-Chamberlain,
iL 306, iiL 147
Savona, town, cape, and passage of, L 128
Savoy, persecuted Protestants of, col-
lections for, iL 102, iiL 270
462
GENERAL INDEX
Savoy, Dake of^ his penecution of Pro-
testants, iU. 204, 206, 26S, 270, 276 ;
remits his cruelties, 277
Savoy, Hospital, sick and wounded
lodged at, iL 229, 250 ; French Chnrch
of the, iL 116 and «., 805 ; Chapel,
196, iii. 98
Saze-Qotha, Dnke of, iii. 210
Sayes Couit, Deptford, Evelyn's house,
iL 8 and n., 7, 52, 62, 65, ilL 92 ;
garden at, IrUroduction, xxzvi and n.,
iL 65 and n. ; church services at, 68, 69,
70, 72, 99 ; design for a mole for
ships in grounds at, il. 105, 188 ;
damaged by storms, iL 184 and 9i.,
185, iiL 867 ; visited by Charles XL,
iL 202 ; trees planted, 209, 220 ;
Evelyn leaves it, iiL 809 ; let to
Admiral Benbow, 827 ; Peter the
Great at, 834, 885, 886 ; let to Lord
Carmarthen, 855 ; Crown survey and
lease, iL 155 and n., 159, 167, 170,
202, 887 and n. ; burglary at, iL
201 ; later history, IrUroduclum,
Ixiii n.
Says, manufacture of, at Colchester, ii.
118 and n.
Scala, Sancta, at Rome, L 187-8 and n.
Scaliger, Joseph Justus, burial-place, L
41 ; alluded to, iiL 96
Scaliger, Julius Caesar, statue of, L 822
and n. ; his eulogy of Verona, ib.
Scaligerl, Princes of Verona, monument
of, L 321 and n,
Scaramuccio, Italian, performance at
WhitehaU, iL 385
Scarburgh, Dr. Sir Charles, ii. 68 and n.,
306 ; Ubrary, iiL 815
Scarica I'Asino, L 279
Scawen, Sir William, M.P. for Surrey,
iii. 370 71.
Scheldt, notice of the, L 58
Schomberg, Armand Frederick, Duke of,
Marshal, uL 267 and n., 271 ; death,
278
Schools, various notices of, abroad, L 41,
42, 51, 74, 215, 806
Schools, various notices of, in England,
ii. 11, 120 and n., 78. See University
Schotti (or Schott), Caspar, a scholar of
Father Eircher, L 168 and n.
Sohryver, or Scriverius, Peter, L 31 n,
Scipio, Afticanus, statue of, 1. 116
Sclater, Edward, curate of Putney, iiL
208 and n,
Sconvelt, Nicholas, famous for his lutes,
L 284
Soomfvl Lady, performance of, U. 158
and n.
Soot, M^or, iL 145
Scot, regicide, executed, IL 158
Scotland, Rebellion in (1679), iiL 30 ;
(1685), 163 and n., 166 ; Excise and
Customs given to James II., 161 ;
Uberty of Mass refused in (1686), 205 ;
liberty of conscience declared (1687),
215 ; action of the Bishops of, at the
time of the Revolution (1689), 250 ;
disturbances in (1689), 259 ; declares
for William aud Mary, 263 ; Crowu
offered on conditions, 265 ; Episco-
pacy voted down, 268 ; Presbyterian
tyranny, 275 ; scarcity in (1696),
881 ; colony in Daiien, a book about
it, burned, 846 ; Parliament votes
against, 847
Scotland Yard, WhitehaU, ii. 186
Soott, John, engraving by, L 1
Scott, Sir Thomas, and his seat, Scott's
Hall, iL 208 and n.
Scott, Lady Catherine (daughter of Earl
of Norwich), iL 15 and n., 28
Scottish Colonel at Milan, L 881
Scottish troops in France, iL 27 ; Parlia-
ment against their settling in Darien,
846 n.
Scotus de la Marca, painting by, iL
195
Scribes in St Innocent's Churchyard,
L 101
Scriptures, notices of ancient copies of
the, L 141, 209, 350, ii. 77, 103
Scroop, Adrian, regicide, executed, iL
153
Scroope, Lady, iiL 115
Sorope, Sir Andrew, ii. 201
Scudamore, Mr., ii. 14, 66
Sculptors, in Rome, L 267 ; in Florence,
277
ScuLptwra^ etc., by Evelyn (1662), iL
188 n., iii. 376, 381 ; Introduction^
xlv ; TiUe-page, ii. 189
Sculptures. See Statues
Sea, destruction by, in Holland, L 27
Sea-coal, project of charring, iL 115
and n.
Sebastian, St., painting of, L 51, 255 ;
mosaic, at Rome, 194 and n. ; relic of.
202 ; sepulchre, 245 ; place of beat-
ing of, 252
Seccombe, Mr. Thomas, Twelve Bad Men
(1894), cited, iu. 161 n., 266 n.
Second sight, instance of, iiL 177
Sedan, the town, i. 44 and n.
Sedan chairs introduced into England,
L 239 and n.
Sedgemoor, Battle of (1685), iii. 167
Sedley, Sir Charles, iL 858, ilL 196 n. ;
GENERAL INDEX
468
hiB daughter Catherine, ConnteHS of
Dorchester, ib, and «»., iiL 196 and n.
Sedum a/riforeseens, iii. 72
Selden, John, his Titles qf Honour, U.
103 ; executor ol^ 279 ; Marmora
ArtrndellianOt i 807 n.
Seleniscope, ii 67 and n.
Self-denying Act, contest about, iiL 299
Sembrador, broojpht out of Si>ain, ii. 292
Sempronius, Mons, i 387 and n.
Senatin, Mons., of Paris, ii. 88
Senate, or State House, at Amsterdam,
L 85 ; at Antwerp, 51 ; at Brescia,
828 ; at Brussels, 54 ; at Delft, 88 ;
at Geneva, 848 ; at Lucca, 270 ; at
Siena, 145 ; at Venice, 294
Sensitive Plant, at Oxford, ii 79 and n.,
171
Septalla, Signor, collection of; I 880
Septizonium, Rome, i. 244
Septuagint Scriptures, noticed, ii 108
Sermon in blank verse, ii. 225 ; an hour
and a half long, iii 44 ; read i^om
notes, 28 ; old-fashioned sermon, 105
Sermonea, i 828
Sermoneta, Da (Girolamo Siciolante),
painting by, i 192
Servants, custom of making them intoxi-
cated, ii 81, 295 ; mysterious marks
on arm of a servant maid, 812 ; struggle
with a jealous youth, 884
Seven Dials, London, building of, iii 812
and n.
Seventeenth Centwry Studies (1897), Mr.
K Qosse, ii 286 n.
Severus, Septimius, Emperor of Rome,
arch of, i 157 ; baths, 242
S^vign^ Mme. de, iii 249 n.
Sewers, Ck>nmiis8ion of, ii 186, iii. 192
Sextons, remarkable instance of longevity
in, ii. 91
Seymour, Mr., ii 102 ; impeaches Earl
of Clarendon, ii 284 ; speech on
elections (1685), iii 168, 164
Seymour, Mr. Conyers (son of Sir
Edward), killed in a duel, iii 841
Seymour, Frauds, Lord, his house, ii 78
and n.
Seymour, Sir Edward, iii 808 ; notice
of, 358
Sfondrato, Cardinal Francisco, church
built by, i 241
'S Hertogenbosch, or 'S Bosch (Bois-le-
Duc), i 45
Shadwell's comedy. The Sullen Lovers,
iii 147 n.
Shaen, Sir James, ii 889
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper,
Earl of, ii 292, 860 n., 861 ; President
of Council for Plantations, 850, 858 ;
anecdote of Lord Clifford related by,
868 ; crafty conduct of, iii 108, 104
Shakespeare, William, illustrations from
his plays, i 82 «., 295 »,, 886 n.
Sharp, Mr. Samuel, surgeon, ii 851 n.
Sharp, Dr. John (afterwards Archbishop
of York), noticed, iii. 206 n. ; sus-
pended for preaching against Roman-
ists, 206, 209 ; sermon before the
Commons (1689), 255 ; other sermons
by, 307, 325
Shaw, Sir John, house at Eltham, ii 211
and n.
Sheen, Abbey of; iii 18 and n. ; Sir
Charles Littleton's house at, 229
Sheep, a remarkable, ii 70
Sheere, Mr. Duncomb's house at, iii 2
Sheemess, arsenal at, ii 246 ; fortified,
275 and n., 342 ; curiosities dug up
at, 289
Sheldon, Dr. Gilbert, Archbishop of
Cant^bury, ii 159 n. ; theatre, etc.,
at Oxford, built by, 216, 297 ; aUuded
to, 165, 186 n., 204, 205, 225, 285 ;
sermon by, 159; monument, iii 852
and n,
Sheldon, Mr. (nephew of Archbishop),
his house, iii. 17
Sheldon, Mr. Edward, iii 805
Sheldon, Ralph, collection of medals,
iii 182
Sherard, Lord, ii 808
Sheriffs of Counties, their retinue, i 10
Sherlock, Dr. William, iii. 192 and n.
Sherwin, Mr., trial with Sir Walter
Clarges, iii 350
Sherwood Forest, notice of, ii 89
Sherwood (or Sherrard) Street, Picca-
dilly, M. Foubert's Academy in, iii
72 n.
Ship of 96 guns built by Cromwell, ii.
101
Shipbuilding, art of, iii 79 ; plans for
improving, i 26, ii 178, 875
Ship-money, tax of, i 27 and n., iii. 822
Ships, captured (1665), ii 282 ; curious
models of, i 40 ; at Venice, 802 ; de-
stroyed in war, etc., ii 225, 244, 245 ;
one with two keels, 178, 875
Shipwreck, wonderful story of a, i. 129
Shirley, James, his Young Admiral, ii
197 ».
Shirley, Mrs^ ii 188
Shish, Jonas, vessel built by, ii 286;
account o^ 287 and n., iii. 47 and n.
Shish, John, vessel built by, iii 95
and n.
Shoes, various fkshions of, ii 804
464
GENERAL INDEX
Shooter's Hill, mineral waters at, ill. 842
and n.
Shore, Sir Bartholomew, iiL 147 n.
Short, Dr., consulted by Charles XL, iii
313
Shotover, Sir Timothy Tyrell's house at,
il 215, 380
Shrewsbury, Duke oi, a Commissioner
for Greenwich Hospital, iii 317 ; his
subscription, 329 n. ; retires firom Lord
Chamberlainship, 350 ; his office at
Whitehall burned, 334 n.
Shrewsbury, Charles Talbot, Earl of, iii.
37, 304 n.
Shrewsbury, Anna Maria, Countess of^
iL 336 and n,
Siam, Embassy from, iii. 180
Sibbald, Sir Robert, iii. 206 and n.
Sibylla of Cumss, i. 235
Sibylla Tiburtina, Temple of, I 265
Siciliano, Jacomo, painting by, L 169
Sicily, earthquake in (1693), iii. 301
Sick and Wounded, and Prlsonen of War,
Commissioners appointed, ii. 218 ;
their seal, etc., 219 ; proceedings of
the Commissioners, »&., 220, 338 ;
Evelyn renders his account respecting,
iii. 228, 231
Sidney, Algernon, apprehended, iii. 101
and n. ; beheaded, 118 ; character, 104,
118 ; alluded to, 117
Sidney, Lady Dorothy (Waller's Sachar-
issa), ii 61 and n.
Sidney, Henry, Lord, Goyemor in Ireland,
iii 281 ; noticed, t6., n. ; Secretary of
State, 283; Master of Ordnance,
304
Sidney, Sir Philip, ii. 61 ; portrait,
293 n.; Crown permit to travel abroad,
JntrodttctioTij zxzii and n.
Sidney, Colonel Robert, alleged &ther of
the Duke of Monmouth, iii 171 and n.
Sidney College, Cambridge, ii 96
Siena, account of^ i 145 ; towers of, 145 ;
courts of, 145 ; University, 146 ;
Church and Cathedral, 147, 269;
Hospital, 148 ; St. Francis's Church,
etc., 148
Siena, Baltazzar di, arch by, i. 146
Sights-man at Rome, i 154 and n.
Silk stockings, engine for weaving, ii 167,
168 n.
SWetoorm, History of t?ie, by Malpighi,
ii 295
Silver bedsteads, i 132 ; services, 143 ;
bells, 40 ; cross, 225 ; shrine, 242 and
n. ; lamps, 145 ; tables, 132 and n,
Silvestre, Israel, i 82 n. ; engravings by,
88, 119, 165, 167, 258, 289
Simon, Thomas, medal engraver, etc, ii
67 and n.
Simony, charge of, iii 331 and n.
Simplon, Mount, i. 837 and n., 341
Simpson, Mr., agate cup in his possession,
ii 100
Singers in Rome, i 267
Sion, Earl of Northumberland's aeal|
ii. 232 and n.
Sion, Switzerhmd, i. 840, 343
Sirani, Isabella, painter, i 282 and n.
Sissac, Marquis de, losses at play, ii
393
SiztuB IV., Pope, his statue, i 186
Siztus v., Pope, horses on Monte
Cavallo repaired by, i 167 and n. ;
aqueduct, 169 ; chapel, 171 ; Constan-
tine's pillar re - erected by, 189 ;
Vatican partly built by, 205 ; destroys
the Septizonium, 244 ; Augustine
obelisk set up by, 179, 251 and n. ;
statue of St. Peter on Tnyan's column,
254
Skates, introduction o^ into England, ii
198 n.
Skinners' Company, ii. 228 n.
Skippon, Sir Philip, his account of
Wotton's early talents, iii 81 n«
Sky, remarkable appearance in (1643),
i 62
Slaning, Sir Nicholas, marriage, ii. 196
Slaves at Marseilles, i 124-5 ; at L^-
horn, 138
Slayer, Dr., chemical ezpeiiment by,
iii 193
Slingsby, Mr., Master of the Mint, ii 194;
Commissioner for repair of Old St.
Paul's, 250 ; house at Burrow Green,
809 and n. ; Secretary to Council for
Trade, 824 ; a lover of music, 378, iii
40 ; alluded to, ii 197, 393, iii 15, S7,
132 ; decayed circumstances, 227
Slingsby, Sir Arthur, goes to Paris, ii 15;
his lottery, 211 ; character, 212 ;
Governor of Portsmouth, iii 180 and n.
Sloane, Sir Hans, Secretary and later
President of Royal Society, account oi^
iii 284 n. ; his collection, iii 218 a.,
284 and n. ; alluded to, 337
Small-poz, ravages of, and deaths from
(1646), i 844, 345 ; (1660), ii 156 ;
(1683), iii 119 ; (1685), 153, 169,
173, 176; (1694), 310, 813, 814;
(1700), 351, 353 ; (1702), 862; (1708).
864 ; (1704), 369
Smith, Professor G. Gregory, his Pepys*
Diary, cited, Introdudion, zlviii ; iii
29 n., 279 n.
Smith, Mr. (Commissioner of Treasaiy)^
GENERAL INDEX
465
subBcription to Greenwich Hospital,
ill. 329 n.
Smith, John, Speaker of the Honse of
CommonB, iii 871 and ft.
Smith, Sir Jeremiah, bravery o^ ii 858
and n.
Smith, Sir T., portrait, ii. 298 n.
Smith's Dietionary qf Antiquities, cited,
i. 170 «.
Bmithfield, woman burned in (1662), ii
56
Smyrna, earthquake at, iii. 240
Smyrna Fleet, attack on (1672), ii. 840,
347, 863, iii. 51
Smyth's JaailoT^s Word -Book, cited, i.
59 n.
Smythe, Robert, ii. 61 and n,
SniUce, Virginian rattle-snake, it 124
Snape, Andrew, King's £urier, father of
"Dt, Snape, ilL 95 and n.
Snatt, Edward, schoolmaster at South-
over, i. 8 and n. ; his son a non-Jnring
clergyman, iii. 825 and n.
Snows in the Alps, i. 885, 889
Snow-water, its effects in the Alps, i.
837 and n,
Snyders, paintings by, i. 87
Soames, Sir William, Ambassador to
Constantinople, iii. 175
Sobieski, John, King of Poland, relieves
Vienna (1688), ilL 112 and n.
Society for Pkx>pagating the Gk)spel, iiL
861 and n.
Soho Square, London, iii. 269
Soissons, Count de, iL 414
Solan geese, notice of; iL 224
Soldiers, spoliations of the Parliamentary,
ii 92 ; quartering oi^ in private houses,
iii. 172; frozen to death (1697),
882
Sole Bay, defeat of I>atch fleet at (1665),
iL 229 and ft. ; (1672), 846 and n.
Solitude^ Essajf on, by Sir George Mac-
kenzie, answered, Introduction, Iii, ii.
268 and n., 418, 420
Solomon, F^verbs of, exquisitely
written, iL 77 and n.
Solomon {King Salomon), a captured
Dutch ship, ii. 226 and n.
Somers, John, Lord, made' Lord Keeper,
iii. 801 and n. ; subscription to
Greenwich Hospital, 829 n. ; elected
President of the Royal Society, 887 ;
charge brought by Parliament against,
346 7u, 850 and n. ; seals taken from
him, 350 ; his talents, ib, ; continued
Plresident of Royal Society, 354 ; trial
of, 357 ; Evelyn presents his Aeetaria
to^844
VOL. Ill
Somerset, Duke of, estate left to, iii. 870
and n.
Somerset, Lady Anne, iL 384 and n.
Somerset, Lord John, i. 247
Somerset, Thomas, Viscount, L 154
Somerset House, iL 136, 390, iiL 212 ;
representation of the Last Supper at,
iL 348 ; residence of Queen Catharine,
iii. 158 and n. ; view of, iL 155
Soranzi, J., monument of; at Venice, i.
291
Sorbieres, M. Samuel de, his account of
England, Introduction, xl and n.
Sorbonne, Paris, account of, L 73
South, Dr. Robert, ii. 207 and n., 298,
iiL 208 ; sermons by, iL 207, ilL 18
South Mailing, consecration of church at,
L 7 ; impropriation sold, iL 5
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, Earl
of, notice of; iL 112 and n, ; alluded
to, 208, 212, 223
Soathampton House, Chapel, iL 228, 809
Southcott, Sir John, iL 37
South-Battem France, Hare (1890),
cited, L 123 n.
Southey, his writings cited, L 28 n,, 51
n., 63 91.; reviews the Diary, Prtfacct
viii, Intnxiuction, bdx
Southover, Sussex, free school at, L 8
South wark, Fair at, ii. 161 and n., iii.
298 ; Bear Garden, iL 807 and n. ;
fire at, iiL 268
Southwell, Sir Robert, President, etc, of
Royal Society, ii. 378 n., iiL 282,
305, 887 ; his lecture on Water, iL
879 ; Envoy to Brandenburg, iiL 47
Soutman, Peter, engraving by, L 328 n.
Sovereign, ship-of-war, bidlt, i. 26 n.
Spa Wells ('< Sadler's Wells"), lU. 206
and n.
Spada, Cardinal, palace of, L 247
Spain, King Charles IIL, visit to England,
iiL 867 and n.
Spain, Queen o^ catafalco of, L 248
Spain and Portogal, arbitration between,
ii. 242
Spalding, Lincolnshire, iL 890, 396
Spanheim, Ezekiel, ii. 386 and n,
Spanish Ajnbassador at Venice, L 816 ; in
England, i. 6, iL 151, 231 ; encounter
with French Ambassador in London
(1661), iL 173, 411-17, iiL 381 ; his
house pillaged, iiL 247 and n,
Spanish costume, a bugbear in Paris,
L 74 and n. ; described, 134 and n. ;
affected at Naples, 239
Spanish galleon, weighed up near His-
paniola, iiL 222 ; taken at Vigo, 362
and n.
2h
466
GENERAL INDEX
Spanish puiport^ fonn o^ L 819
Sparrow, BUbop Anthony, sermon by,
ti. 856 and n.
Spartacos, L 228
Speed, John, his map of Surrey, ii. 288 n.
Spelkoan, Mr. (grandson of Sir Henry),
ii. 156
Spencer, Charles, younger son of Earl of
Sunderland (afterwards Earl), ill 288
and M., 871
Spencer, Colonel, IL 150
£^>enoer, Lady Ann, maniage, iii. 227 ;
alluded to, 288
Spencer, Lord (son of Earl of Sunderland),
intended marriage of^ iiL 68 and tu ;
character, i&., 288 and n. ; alluded to,
ii. 87, ilL 281, 815 ; marriage, 814,
868 ; library, 839 and n.
Spencer, Martha, married Evelyn's son,
iii 42 and n., 43
Spencer, Mr., ii. 62 and n., 112, 801
Spencer, Robert, ii. 880
Spenser, Edward, portrait, it 298 fu
Speroni, Sperone, monument o^ i. 805
and n.
Spinario, The, statue at Rome, i 160
and n.
Spin-house at Amsterdam, i 85
Spinola, Marquis, river cut by, L 58 ;
gardens, 188
Spinoza, Ammadvenions upon^ by
Evelyn, iu. 880
Sjpleen, Green's, quoted, Introductiotit
zxxvi n.
Sponsalia, the Roman, painting of, 1. 199
Sports of Geneva, Switzerland, L 848, 849
Spragge, Admiral Sir Edward, it 840
Sprat, Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Rochester,
Introduction^ xl and n^ iL 300 and n^
418, 420, iii. 210 and n. ; his preach-
ing, 884, iii. 41, 58, 94, 159 ; Dean of
Chapel Royal, 196 ; Dean of West-
minster, 119 ; Commissioner for
Ecclesiastical Aifairs, 208 ; resigns,
289 ; his form of prayer on the Prince's
birth, 284
Spring Gardens, Whitehall, ii 12, 71
and n., 80 n,, 131 ; New Spring-
Garden, at Lambeth, 171 and n.
Springs near Tours, i. 113
Spye Park, Sir Edward Baynton's seat,
. iL 81
Squerryes, at Westerfaam, Kent, ii 69
and n., 183 and n,
Staflford, P., Superior of English Jesuits,
i 246
Stafford, William Howard, Viscount, ii.
807 and ra. ; antipathy to roses, 808 ;
committed for Popish Plot, iii 26 and I
«., 29 ; trial, iii 59-65 and n. ; be-
haviour at his trial, 64, 65 ; beheaded,
66
Staffordshirt^ Naiwral Hittory of^ Dr.
Plot's, ii 881
Stag, remains of a gigantic, i 110 and it.
Stairrawe, at Chambord, i 107 and n. ; at
Amboise, 109, 110 ». ; Scala Sancta,
187 ; in the Vatican, 205 ; at WUton,
ii 82 ; New Hall, 115 ; Euston Hall,
332 ; CUveden, iii 36 ; Ashtead, 126
Staley, WiUiam, executed (1678), iii. 26
and n.
Stendiah, Dr., iii 174
StandiftcJd, John and Eleanor, grand-
parents of Evelyn, i 8, 5, 7, ii 32
Standsfleld, Eleanor, mother of Evelyn.
See Evelyn
Stanhope, Charles, Lord (1650X iL 24
and n., 31
Stanhope, Dr. George, discourses o^ iii
307 and ^, 821
Stanhope, Lady, ii. 892
Stanhope, Mr., Gentieman Usher, iL
309
Stanley, Colonel, fire at Whitehall began
at his lodgings, iii 384 n.
Stanley, Mr., ii 141 and «.; killed in a
duel, iii 199
Stapleton, Colonel, Goveroor of St.
Christopher's, ii 344
Stapleton, Sir Robert, translator of
Juvenal, ii 72 and n.
Star-Chamber, meetings in, ii 248, 251,
280, 344
Stationers' Company, their loss in the
Great Fire (1666), ii 257
Statuee and sculptures, notices of variona.
Delft, i 33 ; Leyden, 48 ; Brussels,
55 ; Ghent, 57 ; Paris, 70, 72, 76 and
n., 79 ; Tuileries, 80 ; St. Cloud, 81 ;
St Germain, 84 ; Fontainebleau, 90
and n. ; Orleans, 105 ; Blois, 107-8 ;
Richelieu, etc., 116 ; St Michael, 128 ;
Genoa, 132 ; Pisa, 136-7 ; Legboni,
138 ; Florence, 139, 141 and ik, 143-
144 ; Siena, 146 ; Rome, 155, 157-
160, 164, 166-9, 171, 173, 177. 182,
184-7, 192, 194, 198-200, 210-14,
242-50, 261, 264, 270; Florence,
272-6 ; Bologna, 281 ; Ferrara, 285 ;
Venice, 292-8, 808 ; Mantua, 307 ;
Verona, 822 ; Milan, 825-6 ; speaking
statues, ii 80 and n. ; Guy of War-
wick, 86 ; Colchester, 113 ; Dr.
Harvey, 194 ; Nonsuch House, 289
and n. ; Whitehall Chapel, iii 218
Stawell, Sir Edwaid, ii 87
Steele's Funeral (1701), dted, iii. 81 m.
GENERAL INDEX
467
Steenwyck, Henry, paintings by, i. 54,
86, iL 7, 8, 9, 71
Steeples, ascent of, recommended, i 100
ra. ; of Old St. Paul's, ii. 251 and n.
Steinman Steinman, G., Memoir of Lady
Castlemaine, ii 286 n.
Stephen, King of England, his tomb, ii.
84 and n,
Stephen, St, relic of; L 298
Stephen, Sir Leslie, IntrcduUvmj Iziz
Stephens, Mr., ii. 880
Stephens, Mr., cousin of Iivelyn, ii. 14,
66, 116
Stephens, William, sermon on 80th
January, ili. 847 and n.
Stem, John, iiL 78 n.
Sterne, Dr. Bichurd, Archbishop of York,
ilL 296 and n.
Stewart, Dr., Dean of St Paul's, ii. 87
and n., 88, 44 n. ; death, 46
Stewart, Fxances Teresa, Duchess of
Richmond and Lennox, ii« 869 »., ilL
15 n.
Stidolph, Lady, iiL 14
Stidolph, Sir F., house at Mickleham
(Norbury Park), ii. 104 and n.
Stillingfleet, Dr. Edward, Bishop of
Worcester, iii. 48, 280, 298 ; library,
889
Stockings, engine for weaving silk, ii
167, 168 n.
Stokes, William, dancing- and ranlting-
master, book by, i 17 and n,
Stokes, Dr. David, ii. 98 and n., 289
Stokes, Dr., ii. 114
Stone, operation for the, ii. 22, 296, 804,
874 and n.
Stone, Sir Robert, i. 81
Stondienge, description of, ii 88
Stonehouse, Lady, ili 48, 296
Stonehouse, Sir John, iii 42, 48
StoneSf Diaoowne on^ by Evelyn, iii 876
and ft.
Stoope, Mons., speech of, ii. 147
Storey, Edward, of Storey's Gate, London,
ii. 226 ».
Storms (1652), ii 60 ; (1658), 131, 184 ;
(1662), 185 ; (1671), 828 ; (1686), iii
205 ; (1687), 221, 225 ; (1689), 267 ;
(1690), 269 ; (1691), 289 ; (1692),
296; (1694), 805; (1697), 882;
(1701), 854 ; (1708), 866
Stoves, of St Germain, i 281 ; in
Germany, ii 106
Strada, Famianos, notice of, i 198 and fu
Strada del Gorso, i 249, 250
Strada Nova, at Genoa, i 188 and n.
Strada Pontiflcia, i 248
Strada Romana, at Siena, i 147
Stradling, Dr. George, ii 206, 898 and»-
Stradling, Sir William, i 81
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of,
trial and execution, i 22 and n., 28 ;
alluded to, 17, iii 60, 61, 66 ; print
of his execution, i 28
Strafford, William, Lord, son of the pre-
ceding^ ii. 87 and n.
Straw, for brick-making, iii 58
Strawberry HUl, painting at, ii. 171 n.
Streater, Robert, paintings by, ii 211,
851 and n., iii 87, 86; tormented
with the stone, 874 and n. ; notice of,
211 n.
Streets, etc, of London, Commission for
regulating, etc., ii. 186, 187, 185, 190,
208
Strickland, Sir Thomas, ii 828 and n.
Stringfellow, Mr., minister of Trinity
Chapel, iii. 287, 288, 806, 312 ; dis-
missed, 846
Strong, Frederick, his Catalogue cited,
PritfaMf viii and n.
Strood, Sir Nicholas, ii. 218
Stroode, Col., Lieutenant of Dover Castle,
ii 222, 229 «».
Stuart, James, Francis Edward, the " Old
Pretender," birth of, iii 288 and n.
Stuart, Lady Catharine, ii 869 n,
Sturbridge Fair, ii 96 and n.
Subsidy to Charles XL, Commission
about the, ii 822
Subterranean rivers, i 846
Suburbs of Paris, i 70, 71
Sudarium of St Veronica, i 184, 257,
258
Suffolk, etc., Murray's Handbook, cited,
ii 810 tk, 886 n.
Suffolk, Countess of (1674), ii. 874
Suffolk, Thomas Howard, Earl of, ii 97,
iii. 270
Suffolk House, near Charing Cross, ii 97
and n., 188 ; Suffolk Street, 887 and n.
Suicide, an amorous servant attempts, ii
384 ; numerous cases of, ili. 306
Suidas, ancient MS. of, iii 339
SuU&n Lcn&n, The, Shadwell's comedy,
iii. 147 n.
Sulphur, manu&ctory of, i 282
Sun, eclipse of (1652), ii 55 ; (1699),
iii 342 ; (1664), transit of Mercury,
U. 216
Sunday, observance of, ii 10 n., 28
Sunderland, Earl of; his widow (1652),
ii 61 and n.
Sunderland (Lady Ann Spencer), Countess
of, alluded to, ii 830 and n., 852, 888,
889, iii. 27, 88, 89, 48, 107, 156, 159,
211, 212, 286, 242, 267, 284, 826;
468
GENERAL INDEX
matoh for her son propoaed hj, 68 ;
her character, 287, 238; letter to,
Introduction, ZTiii n.
Sanderland, Lord, Ambassador to Spain
(1671), iL 829 and n., and Fruioe
(1672), 352 ; his seat at Althorp, 882
and n., iiL ^7.; Vorsterman's view of
it, iii. 12 ; Secretary of SUte, ib. ;
conduct respecting Lord Ossory, 49 ;
sunk by gaming, 68 ; President of the
Council, 192, 199 ; Commissioner for
Ecclesiastical Affairs, 209 ; Knight of
the Garter, 221 ; marriage of his
daughter, 227 ; renounces Protestant-
ism, 238 and n. ; the seals taken away
from, 242, 248 and n, ; pardoned,
242 n. ; flight to Holland, 247 and m.,
249 ; his return, 284 ; library, 815 ;
entertains William UL, 821 ; ob-
noxious to the people, ib. ; alluded to,
iii. 87, 97, 186, 176* 887
Supper, Paschal, represented in waxwork,
iL 343 ; of Leonardo da Vinci, i 827
Surinam, English prisoners at, iL 871,
872
Surrey, separate Sheriff given to, L 2, 10 ;
address to the Parliament (1648), iL
5 ; to the King (1681), iii. 69 ; con-
tested election for (1685), 158 ; (1697),
882 ; particulars of, furnished by
Evelyn for Camden's BrUannia^ iiL
816 and n. ; Evelyn's Courts in, 859
Surrey, Aubrey's account of, cited, ii.
276 n., iiL 382
Surrey, Murray's Handbook, cited, L
846 n., U. 281 n.
Surrey, History </ (Brayley), referred to,
L 8 n., 10 n., 11 n., iL 59 n.
Surrey, Sistary qf (Manning and Bray),
referred to, iL 215 n., iiL 72 n., 185
n., 226 n., 268 n., 800 n.
Sussex, separate Sheriff given to, L 2, 10 ;
address to the King, ii. 147
Sussex, Countess of, daughter of Charles
n., iL 894 and n., iii. 77
Sussex, Earl of, ii. 162
Sussex, Thomas Ratcliffe, Earl of {temp.
Queen Elizabeth), iL 114
Sutton, Sir Edward, iL 291
Sutton, founder of the Charter House,
London, ii. 120 n,
Sutton in Shere, Mr. Hussey's house, ii.
815 and n.
Swallowfield, Berkshire, iiL 185 and n.,
186
Swallowjield and its Oumers (1901), Lady
Russell, referred to, iiL 185 n.
Swallows, or hollows underground, L
846 n.
Swearing, deolantion against, set forth*
iiL 348
Sweate, Dr., Dean of the Arches, iL 205,
206
Sweden, Christina, Queen of, iiL 57 and
n. ; climate ot ib.
Swedish Ambcutador, NamUive qf tehai
passed at the landing qf, Evelyn,' ii.
175 and n., iiL 881 ; andienoe fof
(1668), ii. 286
Swiss Guards of France, iL 40, 41
Swift, Dean, Windsor Prophecy (1711),
cited, iii. 74 n.
Switzerland, travelling in, L 336 ; vexa-
tious adventure in, 838 ; snow in the
mountains of, 389 ; fertility of; 840 ;
the Rhone and Rhine, ib., 346 ;
chamois goats, 341 ; Martigny, 342 ;
persons, manners and language of the
Swiss, ib. ; St. Maurice, 348 ; Lake of
Geneva, 844 ; Sports of the Oampua
Martins, 848 ; Protestants flee to, iiL
270
Sydenham, medicinal spring st, iL 384
and n.
Sydserff, Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Gallo-
way, sermon by, iL 25 and n., 44 ».
Sylwi, or a Discourse qf Forest Trees,
by Evelyn, iL 195, 208 and »., iiL
876, 881 ; title, 195 »., iL 209 ; second
edition, iL 308 ; third edition, iiL 377 ;
other editions, 881 ; thanked for it by
Charles IL, IL 208 ; alluded to, Intro-
duction, xlv, Ixiii, Ixx, iL 197, 275
and Ik, iiL 95 n., 266
Sylvius, iEneas, L 146, 148
Sylvius, Sir Gabriel and Lady, iL 266,
297 n., iiL 11 and n., 95 ; his mission
to Denmark, 165
Symonds' Sidney, cited. Introduction^
xxxii
Synagogue at Amsterdam, L 84. Sse
Jews
Syon House, Isleworth, iL 232 and ».,
iiL 298 and n.
Tabema Meritoria of the Romans^ L 201
Tables, silver, L 182 and n.
TabuloB Bvdiniance, L 815, iL 64, 284,
Introduction, xxviii
Tacking of Bills to Money Bill, contest
between Lords and Commons, iiL 349
Tadcaster, noticed, iL 90
Tain, L 121
Talbot, Sir GUbert, Master of the Jewel
House, ii. 192 ; alluded to^ 852
Talbot, Sherrington, killed in a duel, iiL
168
Talbot, Sir John, iiL 168
GENERAL INDEX
469
Tangiers, giyen to the English (1661), ii
179 ; expedition to, iiL 49 and n.,
127 ; Peace at, 76
Tapeetry at Hampton Conrt, iL 187 ; at
Ducheas of Portsmouth's, iii 114 ; at
Milan, I 826
Tar, use of, for embalming, iiL 81 n.
Tarare, notice of, L 119
Targoni, Pomp., altar by, at Rome, L 191
and n.
Tatham, John, pageants by, IL 176 n.,
192 n.
TaOer, The, cited, iiL 145 n.
Tanrisco, sculptor, L 155
Tax money, robbery of (1692), iiL
298
Taxes during the Commonwealth, IL 105,
152; names of taxpayers read in
church, iii. 318
Taxus, or Deadly Yew, L 270
Taylor, Miss I. A., Life <tf HewrieUa
Maria, cited, L 118 n,
Taylor, Bishop Jeremy, Evelyn's spiritual
adviser, ii. 101 ; his work on Original
Sin, ii. 104; disputes ¥rith M. le Frano,
110, 111 ; his Cases qf Conscience,
120 and n. ; sermons by, iL 70 and n»,
101, 180; letter to Evelyn on the
death of his son Richard, 397 ; various
allusions to, ii. 110, 121, 122, 130, iiL
44 and n.. Introduction, xxxviii and n.
Taylor, Captain, case against Lord
Mordaunt, iL 265 and n,
Taylour, Charles, account of the finding
of St. Edward's Cross, iiL 178 n., 873
Teignmouth, French troops landed at,
iU. 279 and n.
Tempest, The, cited, L 886 n.
Tempesta, Antonio, work of, L 187
Temple, Mr., iiL 828
Temple, Mrs., iiL 230 and n.
Temple, Lady Purbeck, trial with her
nephew, Mr. Temple, iiL 828 ; her
funeral and property, 847-8
Temple, Sir Purbeck, iiL 818, 848;
death, 820
Temple, Sir WiUiam, his house at Sheen,
iiL 18 and n., 280 ; alluded to, ib», 76
Temple Bar, human quarters set up at,
iiL 324 ; Proclamation of James IL at,
iiL 144
Temple Church, iiL 838
Temple, Inner, revels at, L 60
Temple, Middle, Evelyn admitted, L 18 ;
fint residence at, 19 ; his son John
admitted, iL 844; revels at, 285;
feast at, 302; riotous Christmas, iiL
338
Temple, Marais de, at Paris, L 76
Teneriflfe, Peak of, relation of the, by
Evelyn, iL 160
TeniBon, Dr. Thomas, Archbishop of
Canterbury, Vicar of St Martin's, iiL
59 and n. ; character, 94 ; library
founded by, 128 and n,, 124, 169, 288 ;
sermons by, 94, 125, 146, 157, 159,
201, 240, 246 ; sick of the small-pox,
124 ; present at execution of Duke of
Monmouth, 170; hints at landing of
Prince of Orange, 286 ; chapel in Con-
duit Street opened by, 287 and n» ;
Bishop of Lincoln, 292 ; a Trustee for
the Boyle Lecture, ib, and n. ; on the
author of Whole Duty of Man, 296 ;
tabernacle near Golden Square set
up by, 800 and n. ; Archbishop of
Canterbury, 813 ; a Commissioner for
Greenwich Hospital, 317 ; visit of Mr.
Evelyn at Lambeth, 318 ; subscrip-
tion to Greenwich Hospital, 829 n. ;
opinion respecting proceedings against
Bishop WaUon, 331 ; alluded to, iiL
169, 219, 291, 301, 812, 820, 821,
826, 389, 346, 369
Tennyson, Lord, his Aylme/s Field
quoted. Introduction, xx
Terence, MS. of; L 209 and n.
Tergemina, Rome, L 244
Terra, by Evelyn, ilL 876, 882
Terra di Lavoro, i. 221
Terracina, formerly Anxur, i. 219
Terrasso, Marco, lapidary, L 318
Terrella, notice of a, iL 102 and n.
Tesoro di San Marco, Venice, L 292
Test, Sacramental, ii. 357 and n, ;
doubts respecting taking it, ilL 26 ;
remarks on Test, iii. 208 ; trial of Sir
Edward Hales for not taking the, 201
n. ; resignations of office in consequence
o^ iL 859 and n., iiL 216 ; James IL
requires dispensations for Popish
Officers, iii. 191 ; dispensed with, 208,
205, 215, 220 and n. ; opposition to
abolition of the, 232
Testaceus, Mons, at Rome, L 248 and n,
Testament, New, Latin MS., iiL 316
Testament, Paraphrase and Annotations
on the New (1635), Hammond, iiL 149
and n,
Teviot, Earl of; iL 208, iiL 195 ; suicide
of. iii. 310
Teviotdale, Lord, iii. 38
Texel, great storm in (1697), iiL 882
Thames, river, frozen over, iL 8, iii. 119,
185, 314 ; triumphant pageant on, iL
192-3 ; fog on the, 817 ; design of
wharfing £rom the Temple to the
Tower, 268, 269 ; Dutch fleet in, 278,
470
GENERAL INDEX
274 ; Frost-ftdr upon, lit 120 and n.,
121, 122; view of; 121; flreworki
on, 181 ; whales in, it 181, iiL 889 ;
crosMd on foot (1681), 221
Thanet, Island of, noticed, ii 846
Thea root, contortions of, iii. 276
Theatre, marionettes, i 86 and n. ;
cnrioos model of one, ib, ; MaroeUns,
at Rome, 161 ; at Vicenza, 819 and n.
Themistocles, quoted, i. 6 and n.
Theobalds Palace in Hertfordshire, i.
62 and «.
Theodoras, St, column at Venice, i. 294
andfk
Thetford, town, iii. 8 ; Fiddlers of, iL
836 n.
Thicknes, or Thickens, James. See
Thicknesse
Thicknesse, James, of Balliol College, i.
14 and n. ; trarels with him, 68, 116,
810
Thistlethwait, Dr., sermon by, ii« 852
ThiBtleworth, seat of Sir Olepesbj Crew,
iL 4
Thomas, Mr., Commissioner for Oreen-
wioh Hospital, iii. 829 n.
Thomas, St., finger of, i. 256
Thomas, Dr. William, Bishop of Wor-
cester, iii 260 and n.
Thomond, Lord, house at Newmarket, ii
811 and n.
Thoresby, his Diary quoted, i 42 n., iii
218, 859 n.
Thome's Envirtms qf London, cited, iii
17 n., 95 n.
Thonihill, Mr., ii. 105
^orpe, seat of the regicide St John, ii
98 and n.
Thou, President BVan^ois Auguste de, ii.
24
Three Impostors, ffiitory qf the (1669),
by Evelyn, ii 290 n., 294 and n,
Thrisco, Mr., ii. 141
Thurland, Sir Edward, ii 288 and n.,
888, Introductiony zxzii n.
Thnmheuser, a German chemist, i
148
Thynne, Mr., iii. 192
Thynne, Thomas, his marriage, iii 78,
76 ; murder of, ib. «., 81 ; monument
in Westminster Abbey, ib.
Thyreander, a dramatic piece, by Evelyn,
iii 880, Introduction, zlviii n.
Tibaldi palace designed by, i 826
Tickhill, ii. 89 and n.
Tiger, baited by dogs, iU. 888
Tilbury Port, i 25, ii 842
Tillotson, Dr. John, sermons by, ii 291,
iii. 25, 158, 212, 258 ; Archbishop of '
Canterbury, 284, 286 ; death, 818 ;
allnaioBS to, ii 800, iii 290
Timet, The, cited, i 276 n.
TintorettOi n (Giaoomo Robusti), paint-
ings by, i 294 and n., 804, ii 62, iiL
825
Tippett, Sir John, iii. 178
Tippin, Mr., serm<m by, iii 808
Tithe Ale, ii 98
Titian (Tidano Vecelli da Cadore), paint-
ings by, i 54, 87, 142, 199, 241, 274,
275, 288, 804 and n., ii 182 and ik,
iii 27, 55, 186, 825 ; tomb of, 804
TiOes of ffonomr, by Selden, ii 108
Titus, triumphal arch o^ i 174 ; baths
and statues fh>m, 194, 211 ; drawings
of his Amphitheatre, ii 26
Titus, Colonel Silius, author of KiUimg
no Murder, U. 295 and n^ 824, iii 61,
285
TivoU, i 268
Toledo, Peter di, i 281 ; palace of, 238
Toleration, universal declaration of
(1672), ii 841 and n. ; Act (1689),
iii 265 and n.
Tombs, Mr., his garden, ii 71
Tomkins, C, drawing by, iii 72 n.
Tomson, Jesuit, ii 210
Tomson, M., a merchant of Genoa, i ISO
Tonge, Dr. Israel, Popish conspiracy
discovered by him, iii 28 ; his Jentitt'
Morals, ib. ; account ot,ib. n.
Tonnage and Poundage, Act oC ii 149
Tooke, Benjamin, Introduction, Ii n.
Torbay, landing of Prince of Orange at,
iii 245 and n., 269
Toro Famese, i 155 and n.
Torre d'Asinello, account of, i 280;
dimensions, 288
Torre del Greco, i 228 and n.
Torre della Pallada, Brescia, i 328
Torricellian experiment at Philosophic
Club, u. 157
Torrington, Arthur Herbert, Earl of,
imprisonment of (1690X iii 279 ;
account of, ib, n.
Torrinieri, noticed, i 149
Torso of Amphion and Dirce, i 155 and «.
Tortore, the punishment of, ii 88
Tory party referred to, iii. 250
Totes, in Normandy, notice oi^ i 94
Touchris, Johannes de, i 152
Touchstone, or basanite, statue of, at
Rome, i 177 and n.
Toumon, castle and college at, i 121
and n.
Tours, dty of, i 110-11 and «., 114
Tower of London, leather guns at, i 64 ;
during the Great Fire, ii. 256 ; attempt
GENERAL INDEX
471
to steal the Crown Jewels at the,
822 and n. ; Assay-masters at, iii 14 ;
the seven Bishops confined in the, iii
288, 284, 285
Townsend, Marquis, seat of^ near Here-
ford, i. 62 n. ; created a Baron, iL
162
Toynbee, Mrs. Paget, WalpoU*8 LetUra
dted, i. 149
Tracts against Dissenters, Papists, and
Fanatics, iii 148, 160
Trade and Foreign Plantations, Conncilof;
ii 118, 319, 323, 824, 826, 887, 888,
889, 344, 849, 850, 858, 854, 859,
860, 865, 871, 872 ; offices of, ii 826,
827, Introduction, Ut n.
TradeSf History qf, projected by Evelyn,
iii. 878
Tradescant, John, Mnseum and fiunily o^
ii 124 and fk, iii. 15
Tngan, Column of, at Rome, i. 254 ; view
of Piazza, 258
Trapp, Dr. Joseph, epigram by, iii 840
TrwodSj various cited, G. Burnet (1685-
1686),i 209n.,884n. ; Eeysler (1760),
172 n., 190 ft., 192 n. ; Wright's,
227 n. ; Arthur Toung (1792), 122
n. See Forreine Travell (Howell) and
Reresby, Sir John
Travels in France (1698), Dr. Martin
Lister, cited, L 85 n.
Travers, Mr., King's Surveyor, iii 817
Tre Fontane, Church of; at Rome, i 218
and «.
Treacle, its manufacture, ii. 140
Trean, a merchant, his pictures, ii 8
Treby, Sir George (Lord Chief Justice),
iii 61 and n., 118; subscription to
Greenwich Hospital, 829 n. ; death,
854
Tree, in the centre of France, I. 117
Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, Bishop of Bristol,
iii 282; sent to the Tower, 288;
acquitted, 284 ; sermon by, 862
Trenohard, Mr., apprehended for a plot,
iii 101 ; enlarged, 118
Trenchard, Sir John, Seoretary of State,
iii 801 ; account of, ib. n.
Tres Tabemfe, i 217 ; etching of, iii 8S8
Tresoro di San Marco, i 292
Trevel3ran, Mr. G. M., England under
the Stuarts (1908), cited, iii 26 n.,
60 n., 189 n., 190 n.
Trevor, Sir John, ii 824 and n. ; sub-
scription to Greenwich Hospital, iii
880 n.
Tribuna, a splendid cabinet so called,
i 142
Trinita de' Monte, at Rome, i 260
Trinity, Platonists' MSS. oonoeroing the,
iii 820
Trinity Chapel, Conduit Street, iii 287
n., 806, 812, 846, 847 ; ^t sermon
in, 287 ; first christening in, 291
Trinity College, Cambridge, ii 96
Trinity House, ii. 184, 879, iii 90, 178
n. ; great dinners at, ii 226, 826 and
9k, 856, iii. 178 ; Corporation o^ re-
assembles after the Plague, ii 246 and
n. ; feast to Mr. and Mrs. Evelyn on
their passing a fine, 828 ; their alms-
houses, ib, and n. ; Evelyn becomes a
Younger Brother, 855 ; his son ap-
pointed also, 857 ; their charter, iU.
172 and n. ; account of a meeting, 178
TrinUy House (1896), Barrett, cited,
iii 173 n.
Triplet, Thomas, ii 112
Triumphal arches in Rome, i 196
Troilus and Chressida, dted, i 82 n.
TroUop, Mrs., marriage of, iii 56
Trout, excellent in the Rhone, i 844 ;
at Hungerford, ii 75 and n. ; spearing
of, 88
Truffles, earth-nuts, i. 121
Trumball, Sir William, subscribes to
Greenwich Hospital, iii. 829 n.
Tudor, Mr., Quinquina introduced by,
iii 818
Tufton, Sir Joseph, ii 102
Tuileries, Paris, i 78
Tuke, Geoige, marriage, ii 111 ; alluded
to, 121, 187, 152, 199 and n., 200
and n,
Tuke, Lady, U. 856, 868, iii 124, 154,
159
Tuke, Sir Brian, portrait, iii. 18 and «.)
Tuke, Sir Charles (son of Sir Samuel),
birth, ii. 828 ; death and oharacter of,
iii 280
Tuke, Colonel Sir Samuel, notice of, ii 18
and n., 145 ; harangue on behalf of
the Papists, 147 and «., 855 ; sent to
break the marriage of the Duke to the
Queen-Mother, 162 ; sent to Paris on
the death of Cardinal Mazarin, 160
and n. ; his marriage, 210, 288 ;
christening of his son, 828; death,
888 and n. ; alluded to, 208 ; play
by, 199 n., 200 n.
Tullianum, Rome, i 161
TulliolA, daughter of Cicero, i 219
Tally, Dr. George, suspended, iii 206
and n.
TuU^s Offices, an early printed book,
iii 889
Tun, huge one, i 112 and «.
Tunbridge Free School, ii 228
472
GENERAL INDEX
Tanbridge Wellf, it 60; beanties oi;
172
Tmrbervillfl^ Edward, evidenoe agaJnrt
ViMonnt Stafford, iiL 61 and «.
Turk, christened at Rome, L 258
Turk, rope dancer so called, ii. 123 and n.
Turkey, fleet destroyed, iii 806 ; Am-
bassadors to (1692), iii. 298 and n.
Turks, costly equipments of; iii. 188,
184 ; conqnesto of (1688), iii. 106
Tomer, Dr. Francis, Bishop of Ely, iii
159 «. ; Dean of Windsor, 98 and n. ;
sermon by, when Bishop of Bochester,
125 ; other sermons, 181, 159, 198 ;
petition against Declaration of Liberty
of Conscience, 232 n. ; sent to the
Tower, 288 ; tried and acquitted, 28i ;
at a meeting respecting the Succession
(1688), 249 ; searched for, 282 and
n. ; deprired, 284 ; at Bishop White's
funeral, 335 ; alluded to, U. 888, iii. 124
Turner, Dr. Thomas (brother of Bishop
of Ely), sermon by, iii. 195 and n.
Turner, Mr., a Ariend of Mr. Slingsby,
ii. 809
Turner, Sir Edward, Lord Chief Baion,
ii. 871 and n.
Tumham Green, Sir John Chardin's
house at, iii. 370
Turquoise, a remarkable one, i. 148
Tuscany, Duke o^ sells wine at his
palace, L 140
Tuscany, Prince of, visit to Royal Society,
ii 296
Tusser, T., quoted, IiUroductionf ziz andn.
Tvfelve Bad ifen (1894), Mr. T. Seccombe,
cited, iii 161 n,, 266 n.
Twickenham Park, Lord Berkeley's seat,
ii. 389 and n.
Twisden, Sir Roger, ii 286
Tyburn, executions at, Ui 101 n., 106,
282, 288 n., 825 ; Oates whipped at,
161, 164
T]rpography, invention of, i 48
TyranmUf or the Mode (1661), by Evelyn,
ii. 180 and n., iii 876, 881, IfUro-
duetion, xliv ; anecdote relative to,
ii. 262 and n.
Tyrconnel, Richard Talbot, Earl of,
powers given to, in Ireland, iii 205 and
n. ; appointed Lord-Lieutenant, 215
and n. ; Ireland endangered by his
army, 256, 260 ; driven out by
WillUm, 281 ; aUuded to, 211, 278
Tyrell, Sir Timothy, and Mr., ii. 50;
marriage of, 215 ; house at Shotover,
i&., 880
Tyson, Dr. Edward, anatomist, iii 109
and9».
Ubaldo^ Arehb&Bhop, i 186 n,
Udine, John of; i 205 ik
Ulmarini, Count, lus garden, i 820
and n.
Umbrellas, i 125 and fk
Union, a fine sort of pearl, i 250
University, Aix, i 128 ; Bourgee, 116
Leyden, 41 ; Orleans, 105-6 and n.
Oxford, visits to, i 858,ii75, 215, S80
Cambridge, ii 94; Padua, i 806
Paris, 71 ; Siena, 146 ; Valence, 121
Rome, 252
University College, Oxford, repair of,
ii 382
Unufrio, Cardinal, i 248
Upoott, Mr. Wm., iu. 881, Introduetum,
xxxix n, ; his connecticm with the
publication of the Diary, Pt^om,
vii, viii
Uphill, Bfrs., actress, ii 268 n.
Upman, Mr., ii 393
Upnor Castle, fortified, ii 274, 349 ^
Uppingham, Rutland, notice of, ii 87
Urban, Duke of, library of, i 209 snd a.
Urban VIIL, Maffeo Barberini, Pope,
public works of, i 188, 206, 250;
monument, 217 ; statue, 217 ; slluded
to, 211
Ursinos, Fulvius, museum o^ i 155
Ussher, Dr. James, ArchbiBhop of
Armagh, sermons by, ii 10, 11, 12,
54 and 9». ; conversation with Eralyn,
108 ; his daughter, 215 ; propbecj
o^ alluded to, iii 191 ; life azui
Letters, 202
Utrecht, notice of town o^ i 29
Uvedale, Dr. Robert, his garden, it
89191.
Vachery Water, Surrey, ii 121 n.
Vacuum experiments, ii 185
Vaga, Plerino del, paintings by, L 91, ii
27 ; burial-place, i 250
Valence, city of; i 121
Valentia, Viscount, created Earl of
Anglesea, ii 162
Valentia -on -Rhone, Bishop oi, pnisei
Louis XIV. for persecuting Fkoteetaoti,
iii. 190 and n.
Valesins (or Walsh), Peter, a priest, iiL
196 and n.
Valeea Tragedy and other StudU»{lW)^
Mr. Andrew Lang, cited, iii 25 »>
Vambre, near Paris, ii 23
Van der Borcht, Hendrik, his portrait of
Evelyn, i 28 and m., 25 and a.;
notice of, 28 n.
Van Tromp, Admiral Martin Happcrb,
ii 266
GENERAL INDEX
478
Vanbeok, Aogastina Barbazni a hairy
woman, ii. 123 and n,
Vanbrugh, Sir John, iii 318 and ».
Vanderdall, painting by, i. 36
Vander Douse, Mr., iii. 96
Vandervoort, Mr., of Venice, his bookfl,
i. 816
Vandyck, Sir Anthony, paintings by,
iL 71, 182, 896 and n., ui. 27, 185
and n., 186, 230, 808, 825; fnll-
length portrait ot^ it 896
Vane, Sir Harry, confined in Cariabrooke
Castle, ii. 116 and »., iii. 285 and n.
Vane, Sir Henry, jnn., a Priyy Cooncillor,
iiL 235 ; alluded to, 804
Vanni, Francisco, picture by, L 242
Vanni, Cartins, i. 191
' Varennes, Tillage o^ L 118 and n.
Vasari, Giorgio, paintings by, L 247, 274,
275
Vase, remarkable one at St. Denis, i. 67
and n.
Vatican, ceremony of conferring Cardi-
nal's hat, L 178 ; description oi^ 205,
257 ; library, 208 ; ceremonies at,
257
Vancluse, notice of^ L 128
Vaadois, persecuted Protestants of the,
iiL 264, 270 ; restored to their country,
277 ; received by German Princes, 888
Vaughan, John, Lord Chief Justice, iL
279 and n.
Vaulting -Master, The, or The Art qf
VauUing, by W. Stokes (1652), L 17 ».
Vauzhall, Sir Samuel Morland's house
at, iiL 71 and n. ; Gardens, iL 171 n.;
glassworks at, 895 ».
Veau, M. de, his academy at Paris, L
102 and n.
Vegetation qf Plants, Discourse of the.
Sir K. Digby, u. 171 and n.
Veins, Arteries, and Nenres, Tables of,
L 815 and fiw, iL 11 ; lent to CoUege of
Physicians, ii. 64; presented to the
Boyal Society, 284 and n.
Velletri, town o^ L 217
Venddme, Philippe de, Duke of, a
brother of, iiL 98 and n,
Venddme, Palace ot, Paris, L 102
Venetian Ambassador, entry into London,
ii. 290, iiL 825 ; alluded to, iL 802,
816 ; entertained by James IL (1685),
ilL 198, 194
Venice, description of, L 286-817 ; the
bagnios, ib, ; origin of Venice, 287 ;
marriage of the Adriatic, 287 ;
gondolas, ib, ; Rialto, 288 ; Fondaco
dei Tedeschi, 288; Exchange, 288,
298 ; the Bnoentaur, 802 ; Merceria,
289 ; Piaoa of St. Mark and Clock
oyer the Arch, ib. ; Church of St.
Mark, 290; Beliquary, 292; Senate
Hall, etc, 298 ; Mint, 295 ; Tower of
St. Mark, ib. ; dress, etc., of citizens,
295 ; the Opera, 298 ; the Arsenal,
801 ; execution, 808 ; churches, 804 ;
islands, 805 ; glass manu&ctory, 808 ;
Signer Rugini's collection, 811 ; the
Carnival, 818 ; operas, etc., 814 ; the
Ghetto, 316; lapidaries, 818; policy
of Venice with respect to Vicenza,
320 ; gondola sent from, to Charles II.,
iL 187 ; consulate of; 354
Venipont, John, Campanile at Pisa built
by, L 186
Venn, Dr. John, iii. 888 n.
Venus, statues of, L 200 and n., 275 ;
Temple of, 236, 254
Venus of Correggio, iiL 804
Venuti, Marcello, paintings by, L 258
Verneuil, Henri, Due de, iL 280, 281
and n.
Vemey, Mr., a cousin of Eveljrn, iii. 127
Vernon, Mr., Secretary of State, iiL 850
Verona, description of, i. 821 ; amphi-
theatre, ib. ; remains of former magni-
ficence, 822 ; Count Giusti's villa, ib. ;
Bcaliger's pnuses of^ ib.
Veronese, P. See Cagliari
Veronica, St, altar, L 184 ; her
Sudarium, ib, and n. , 204 ; handker-
chief, 257
Verrio, Ajitonio, iii. 87 ; his garden, 48,
209 ; ftesco painting by, at Euston,
iL 382 ; at Windsor, iiL 14, 35 and «. ;
at Cassiobury, 45 ; Chiswick, 96, 97
and n., 174 ; Montague House, 114 ;
Ashtead, 126 ; WhitehaU, 213 ; char-
acter of his paintings, 97 ; settied at
St. James's, 209
Verrochio, Ajidrea, statue by, L 804
Verulam, FranoiB Bacon, Lord, ii. 210
Veslingius, Dr. John, of Padua, L 807
and n., 812, 315, ii. 284 and n,
Vespasianus, Titus, Temple of Peace
built by, L 156 ; amphitheatre of; 175 ;
sepulchre, 244
V^une, tower at P^riguenz, L 126 and n.
Vesuvius, Mount, L 226 ; eruption of
(1696), iU. 824 ; views of; etched by
Evelyn, L 227, 229, iii. 888
Via Felix, at Rome, L 170
Via Pia, at Rome, L 170
Vic, Sir Henry de, BngUsh agent at
Brussels, L 56 and n., iL 172, 270
Vicentino, painting by, L 294 and n.
Vicenza, account ot, L 818; Hall of
Justice, Theatre, 819 ; Piazza, Pftlaces,
474
GENERAL INDEX
etc., tft. ; Count Ulmariiii's gvdBn,
820 ; policy of Venioa witli nspeet to,
tb,
VieniiA, fi«g8 of; nSaed (1688X iiL 106,
111 and fi., 183 mnd «*
Vimine, aooonnt of, L 120 ami n.
View qf aU Rdigums in the WaHd
(1652), Alex. Boea, ti. 65 and n.
Vignola, Oiaoomi, Btfood da, architect,
i 162 ; his worka, 269 and n.
Vigo^ captQXtt of gaUeona at (1702X iii-
862 and n.
VilU Franca, notice of; i 127
Villefh)w, in Flanders, i. 58
ViUiera, Owrge{190Z), Lady Burgbdere,
cited, iL 836 n., 895 n.
Villiers, Lord Francis, slain, iL 5 and n.
Villiera Street, Charing Cross, iii 116
Vincennes, Bois de, L 78 and «.
Vincent, Sir Francis, iii 285
Vinci, Leonaido da, paintings by, L 87,
01, 142, 282, 826, 828, ii. 182, 896 ;
hlB "Coen& Domini'* at MiUn, L 827
and n. ; death, 828
Vlner, Sir George, his carving by Gibbons,
iL 820
Viner, Sir Robert, banker, iiL 80 and n.
Vineyards, varions notices ot L 65, 110,
118, 124, 222, iL 71, 105
Viol d'Amore, a musical instrument,
iii. 40
Violins, first nsed in church service, iL
199
Virgil, his GamlllA, i. 218 and n. ; his
sepulchre, 229 and n.
VirgUius JBvangeliaxns, by Alexander
R088,iL 65
Virgilius Maro, PubL, ancient MSS. of;
L 209 ; his tomb» 229
Virgin Queen, by Dryden, ii. 269 and n.
Virginian rattle-snake, iL 124
ViBse, Mons., concert at his house, iL 81
Vita Peireakii, P. Gassendi, ii. 120
and n.
Vitellesoo, Hippolito, his sUtues, L 198
Viterbo, account of, L 152
Vitruvius, statue of; L 822 ; MS. of; iU.
19
Volary at Fontainebleau, L 90
Volponet or the Foac, a play, ii. 196 and n.
Volterra, Daniele de, paintings by, L 247,
250
Volterra, F. da, church built by, L 251
Volumes, ancient form of making, L 209
Vorstermans, Johannes, painting by, iii.
12
Vossius, Isaac, iL 855 and «., 886, 890
Voyage en Provence (ChapeUe and
Bachaumont), cited, ii. 40 n.
Voyage qf Half (Laasali). See Maly,
Vogageqf
Vogagmr, Gmde (1775), dtad, L 152 «.
Vrati, Colonel Christopher, aaBaaaiii of
Mr. niynne, iiL 78 «* ; exeented, 81
andn.
Vulcan, Court ot, L 282 and ». ; Temple
o(;2S8
Wade, Oapt., executed after a oofort-
martial, iiL 868 and «.
Wadham College, Oxford, iL 79
Waggons drawn by dogs, L 57
Wainsfoid, Mr., iL 32
Wake, Dr. William (Archbishop of
Canterbury), iiL 857 ; sermons by, iiL
214 and «., 219
Wakeman, Sir Geoi^ his trial (1679),
iiL 82 and n., 88. 159
Waldegrave, Sir Henry, created a peer,
iiL 198 and n.
Waldenses, destruction of; iiL 263
Waldrond, Dr., iL 343
Wale9, James, Prince oi, son of Jamea
n., birth of; iiL 233, 234 ; his norae,
239 ; James II. calls conndl to testify
his birth, 248; sent to Portamoath
with treasure, 247 and n. ; taken to
Dunkirk, ib, ; prayers for, omitted in
church service, 249 ; portrait of, 294
Walker, Sir Edward, Garter King of
Arms, notice of, iL 194, 864 n, ;
anecdote of Lord Clifford, 864
Walker, Dr. George (of Londonderry),
death of, iiL 278 ; notice of; t&, «.
Walker, Dr. Obadiah, tutor to Mr. Hill-
yard's sons, iL 9, 47; thanks
Bvelyn for procuring Arundeliaa
Marbles, 282 ; letter on that subject,
288 ; University College repaired by,
882; Master of University College,
iiL 208 ; perverted several young
gentlemen, ib. ; licence to print Popish
books refbsed, ib., 204 ; arreeted, iiL
266 n. ; his Treatise on Medals,
Iniroductionf Ixi and n. ; alluded to,
iL 881, iiL 208, 249
Walker, Robert, portrait of Evelyn by,
ii. 5 and n. ; alluded to, iL 29
Wall, John, account of, L 78
Waller, Sir Hardress, his daughter, iL
375 and n.
Waller, Mr., accomplishments, iiL 808
Waller, Mr. Edmund, L 817 and n., 318,
352, iL 2, 20, 118 «. ; chUd of, iL 31,
88 ; return to England, 49 and n. ; a
Commissioner of Trade, 824
Waller, Sir William, at Portsmouth,
L 61
GENERAL INDEX
475
Wallgrave, Dr., a raro IntoniBt, it 878,
ill 124, 186
WaUingford House, WhitehaU, ii. 277
and n.
WalliB, Dr. John, mathematidan, ii 168
and n., 216, 299
Walls of Genoa, L 184
Walpole, Horace, at Radicoftmi, L 149
ft. ; his AneedoUs qfPaiintingt- referred
to, 807 n. ; his CcUalogueqfJBnffravers,
cited, ill. 888 n.
WalpoU*$ Letter$t Mrs. Paget Toynbee,
(1908X cited, L 149
Walsh (or Valesins), Peter, a priest, iii.
196 and n.
Walsingham, Sir Francis, portrait, iL
298 n.
Walter, Sir William, iii. 69
Walter, Mrs. Lucy, ii 894. See Barlow
Walton, Brian, Bishop of Chester, his
BiUia Polyghtta, iL 64 and n.
Walton, Izaak, his Angler^ cited, L 286 n.
Walton Heath, Roman antiquities found
on, ii. 186 n.
Wanstead House, Sir Josiah Child's, iii.
98 and n.
War, prisoners of. Treaty for exchanging,
iL 228 ; expense ot 229
War. See Dutch War
Ward, Ber. J., his Diary^ oited, iL
80 n.
Ward, Sir Patience, subscription to
Greenwich Hospital, iiL 880 n.
Ward, Dr. Seth, afterwards Bishop of
Salisbury, IL 76 and n., 874 and n.,
iiL 98
Ward, Lord Chief Baron, subscription
to Greenwich Hospital, iiL 880 n.
Ward, Mrs., solicits an Order of
Jesuitesses, L 267
Wanner, Mr., L 17
Warley Magna, Essex, Manor of, iL 11,
105
Warner, — officiated at touching for the
CTil (1688), iiL 246
Warren, Dr., sermon by, ilL 212
Warrington, Lord, death of (1698), iii.
806
Warton's Life qf Dr. Baihuird, dted, L
164 71.
Warwick, Guy, Earl of, relics of, ii. 86
and n. ; grot, chapel, etc., ib. and n.
Warwick, Charles Bich, Earl of (1661),
U. 162
Warwick, Sir Philip, notice of, iL 160
and n., 206, 207, 208, 884
Warwick, castle and town of, iL 86
Warwickshire, Address to Charles II.
(1660), iL 147
Wase, Christopher, account of, iL 60
and n. ; recommended by Evelyn, 66,
296
Water Stratford, Bucks, iiL 809 n.
Water Works and Fountains, notices of
rarious, Amsterdam, L 87; Bois-le-
Due, 46 ; Villefrow, 68 ; Wotton, 62 ;
Paris, 70, 76, 91, 101 and n., iL 26 ;
St Cloud, L 81, iL 18 ; Bueil, i. 82-8,
ii. 18 ; St. Germain, i. 84 ; Count de
Liancourt*s gardens, 86 ; Fontainebleau,
90 and n. ; Essonnes, 91 ; St Priv^
116; Valence, 122; Genoa, 181-2;
Florence, 140, 144 ; Siena, 146 ;
Viterbo, 168 ; Borne, 166, 167, 161,
164, 168, 170, 177, 179 and n., 211,
218, 216, 247, 262, 264, 266 ; Labulla,
226 ; Pratolino, 278 and n, ; Bologna,
281; Padua, 299; Wells, etc, in
England, ti. 86, 90, 91, iii. 842 and n. ;
Cambridge, ii. 96 ; Hampton Court,
188, iiL 267 ; BusheU's Wells, ii. 216 ;
Shotover, ib. ; Sydenham, 884 ; New
River, iiL 206 and n. ; Sadler's Wells,
ib. ; Chelsea, iiL 828
Watson, Dr. Thomas, Bishop of St.
David's, iii. 881 and n. ; deprived for
simony, ib., 842
Watteville, or BateviUe, Baron de,
Spanish Ambassador, iL 178 and n.,
411-17
Watts, Mr., Keeper of Apothecaries'
Gardens, iL 178
Way-wiser, description of that instru-
ment, ii. 80 and n., 122 and n.
Weathercocks, fixed on trees, iL 843
Webb, — , his paintings, iL 8
Webbe, John, architect, iL 176 and n.
Weese-house, at Amsterdam, L 36
Welbeck, Marquis of Newcastle's seat,
ti. 89
Weld House. Su Wild House
Wells. See Water Works, etc.
Welsh, resemblance of Breton language
to, U. 380
Wens, of the inhabitants of the Alps, L
336, 846
Wentworth, Lord (1649), iL 17, 60
Wentworth, Lord (1668), iL 208 and n.
Wentworth, Lady Henrietta Maria, iii.
170 and n.
Wentworth, Peter, Dean of Armagh, L
17 and «.
Wesley, John, his Jowmal cited, iu.
848 ».
Wessell, Mr., of Banstead, M.P., iti.
869 n.
West Clandon, Surrey, seat at, ii. 816
and n.
476
GENERAL INDEX
Wert Dean, Wilts, descent of the Evelyns
of, Pedigru, L Ixziii
West, pardon granted to, iii 195
West Horsley, Snirey, seat at, iL 234
and n.
West Indies, Committee to examine laws
of colonies in the, iL 858
Westerham, estate at, ii 69 and «.
Westminster, medical garden at, iL 188 ;
painted chamber at, iL 7 and ». ;
snicide of BaUifT of, iii. 870
Westminster Abbey, ordination in, iL
151 ; coronation of Charles XL, 165 ;
his obscure bnrial in, iiL 146 and n. ;
coronation of William and Mary, 260 ;
trophies in, L 84 and n. ; bnrial of
Cowley in, ii. 277
WestmiiuBter Hall, banqnet in, ilL 261 ;
trials in, iL 61, ilL 60 and «., 159,
160, 219, 284 ; SUr-chamber, iL 248
Westminster School, ezerciaes of boys at,
iL 169
Westmoreland, Lord, death o^ iii. 806
Weston, Elizabeth Joan, a learned lady,
ii. 298 n,
Weston, Mr., his election for Surrey, ilL
859 and n,
Wetherbom, Dr., physician, iL 148
Weybridge, Duke of Norfolk's house at,
iii. 16 and n., 226
Whale taken near Greenwich, IL 181,
iiL 889
Wballey, Colonel, iL 126
Wharton, Lord, ii. 816
Wharton, Sir G^rge, mathematician,
ii. 247 and n.
Wharton House, Nottinghamshire, ii. 88
Wheatley and Cunningham's London^
cited, ii. 7 n., 116 n., 226 n.
Wheatley, Mr. Henry B., F.S.A., his
Samud Pepyt (1880) cited, iiL 851
n. , and Ms Life of Evelyn, Pr^oux, viii
Wheeler, Sir Charles, Governor of St.
Christopher and Leeward Islands, iL
828 ; his removal recommended, 887 ;
an executor of Viscountess Mordaunt,
m. 41
Wheeler, Paul, musician, iL 109
Wheler, Sir Geoige, iiL 119 and n., 120 ;
account of him, 212
Whigs, use of name in 1685, iii. 160
Whispering Gallery, at Gloucester, ii. 84
Whistler, Dr. Daniel, iL 389 and n., iii.
89, 98, 94
Whitbread, Thomas, Jesuit, executed,
iiL 80 and n.
White, Bishop, recommends Dr. Coein
to Charles I., iL 48
White, G., engraver, iii. 79 n.
White, Robert, engraver, iiL 75 «»
White, Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Peter-
borough, sermon by, iiL 201 and la. ;
petitions against Declaration of Libertj
of Conscience, 282 ; sent to the Tower,
288 ; tried and acquitted, 284 ; at a
meeting of Bishops, on the Bevolntioii
(1688), 249 ; ftminl, 885
White, Thomas, philosopher, of Paris,
iL 86 and n.
White, Mr., nephew of the preoedin^
iL 886 and n.
Wliitehall, occupied by the Rebels, iL 4,
28 ; affray at, 5 ; Rebel ooundl at, 7 ;
state of, in 1656, 108 ; goods piUaged
from, restored, 147 ; French comedy
at, 180 ; paintings at, 195 ; design for
rebuilding, 217 ; ball and play at tlie
theatre, 819 ; lottery in Banquetiiig
House, 211 ; celebration of St Geoif^e's
Day (1667), 269 ; fireworks at, 291 ;
Italian scaramuccio at, 385 ; Charles
II. 's library at, iiL 54, 71 ; reception
of Ambassadors in Banqueting House,
74, 75 ; closed at time of Rye Hoosa
Plot, 105 ; service on Easter Day
(1684), 125 ; gambling at, 186, 145 ;
Popish oratory at, 148 ; new chapel,
etc., at (1685), 185 ; new chapel for
Popish services, 218 and tu; Qneoi's
apartments at, 215 ; panic at, 239 ;
Dutch guards at, 248 ; sale of pictures
at, 808; Council Chamber at, for
Committee for Trade, etc., ii. 826, 827,
IfUroduetion, liv n. ; fire at (1691),
283 and n. ; burned down (1698), 334
and n. ; Duchess of Portsmouth's
apartments at, ii. 885 and n., iii. 77,
118 ; Fisher's Plan of, iL 217 ; view
of Banqueting-House, 161
Whitehall Gardens, office of Board of
Trade in, Introduetion^ liv n.
Whitehall Gate, Proclamation of accession
of James IL, iii. 144
Whitelocke, Bulstrode, ii. 55 and n. ; his
MemoriaU qf English Affairs, cited,
45 n.
Whitfield, Sir Ralph, L 68
Whitgift, Archbishop, monument, iiL 852
Whitsuntide, neglect ot ii. 72
Whittie, Mr., Surgeon to the King, hia
sister, iiL 56
WhoU Duty qf Man, Dr. Chaplin sup-
posed to be the author, iiL 296 and n,
Wibum, Sir John, Governor of Bombay,
ill. 159
Widow, The, a lewd play, iL 188 and «.
Wight, Isle of, iii. 180 ; Treaty o^ iL 7
Wilbraham, Mr., iiL 96
GENERAL INDEX
477
Wild, Dr^ Bishop of Londondeny, ser-
mons by, IL 101, 107, 116, 185;
sccoant of him, 101 n, ; referred to,
117, 141
WildOaUant, The, a comedy, ii. 201
and'fk
Wild House, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Spanish
Ambassador's house, ill. 67 and n.
Wilde, Sir William, Becorder, ii 871
and n.
Wilkins, Dr. John, Bishop of Chester,
U. 76 and ik, 108, 109, 110, 111,
208, 233, iiL 877; his mechanical
genius, ii 70 ; consecrated Bishop of
Chester, 291
Willemstad, notice of, i. 47
William I., King of England, tomb oi^
at Caen, L 95 and n.
William III., his landing reported, iii.
286, 289, 244 and n. ; manifesto of,
244, 245 ; landing of, 245 and n.,
269 ; his forces increase, 246 ; his
progress to London, 248 ; James II.
invites him to St. James's, id. ; pro-
ceedings thereupon, ib., 249 ; Con-
vention votes the Crown to him and
the Princess, 251, 255 ; his reserved
disposition, 249, 260 ; morose temper,
254 ; Prince and Princess declared
King and Queen, 255 ; proclaimed,
256 ; their conduct on their accession,
256, 257 ; opposition to his accession,
257, 258 ; coronation, 260, 261 ; his
birthday and anniversary of landing at
Torbay, 269 ; resolves to go in person
to Ireland, 270, 271 ; sets out, 276 ;
buys Kensington of Lord Nottingham,
272 and n. ; his victory at the Boyne,
278 ; returns to England, 280 ; em-
barks for Holland, 801 ; progress in
the North, 820 ; cold reception at
Oxford, ib, ; fireworks on his return,
321 ; entertained at AJthorp, ib. ; con-
spiracy to assassinate, 822 and n. ;
subscription to Qreenwlch Hospital,
829 n,; entry into London, 382;
assists Dampier in his vojrages, 336 ;
falls from Ids horse, 859 ; Ids death,
860 ; allusions to, 825
William of Innsbruck, L 270 n.
Williams, Dr. John, Bishop of Chichester,
iii 814 and 71., 821
Williams, Dr. John, Archbishop of York,
ii. 94 and n., 95
Williamson, Sir Joseph, account o^ ii.
220 n., 266 »., 868 ; alluded to, 220,
816, 887, 888, iii 89 ; President of
Royal Society, iH. 12
Williamson, Mr., ii 276, 295
Willoughby, Lord, of Parham, ii 188
and n. ; Governor of Barbadoes, 189,
844 and n.
Willughby, Francis, iii. 200 n.
Wilmot, Henry Lord, account of, ii. 16
and n, ; referred to, 48
Wilson, Mr., killed in a duel, iU. 807,
808
Wilson's Wonderful Cf/iaracten, cited,
ii 38 n.
Wilton, seat of the Earl of Pembroke,
ii 82 and n. ; fire at, iii 870
Wimbledon, Earl of Bristol's house and
library at, U. 184 and n., iii. 12, 18
Winch, Sir Humphry, ii. 220, iii 30 ;
Commissioner for Trade, ii 220 n.,
324, 358
Winchelsea, ruins of, ii 57 and ».
Winchelsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of,
ii 106, 147 and n., 802; seat at
Burley on the Hill, ii 88 and n.
Winchester, Bishop (1685), miracles re-
lated by, iU. 177
Winchester, notice o^ i 61 ; Royal
palace built at, iii 112 and »., 178,
179 and ». ; Cathedral of, 179 and n.
Winchester, Marchioness of, iii. 60 and n.
Wind, tempestuous (1658), ii 134 ;
(1662), 184; (1690), iu. 269; (1699),
888 ; (1703), 866
Windham, Mr., ii. 201
Windham, Mr. Justice, iii 84 n.
Windsor, Lonl, ii 316
Windsor Castle and Chapei notice of,
ii 72, iii 96, 174, 208; Charles L's
burial-place, ib. ; oifering of Knights
o^ ii. 314 ; improvements by Prince
Rupert, ib. ; installation at, 325 ;
statue erected, iii 48 ; improvements
and repairs, ii. 814, iii 14, 97 ; paint-
ings at, 85, 96, 97, 174; alluded
to, 36, 48, 296; court at, 18; St.
George's Hall, 96, 174 ; Chapel, 296
Windsor Park, trees planted, ii 815
Windsor Prophecy, Swift (1711), iii
74 n.
Wine, of Orleans, i 105 ; Dutch Bishop
killed by, 152 and n. ; at Capraroll^
268 ; at Bologna, 288 ; at Padua, 812
Winnington, Sir Francis, iii. 61
Winstanley, Henry, waterworks by, iii.
828 and n. ; built the Eddystone
Lighthouse, ib.
Winstanley, engraving by, ii 184 n.
Winter, Sir John, project of charring
sea-coal, ii 115 and n.
Winter, wet and cattle plague in (1648),
U. 7; severity of (1658), 131;
(1667), 269 ; (1688-4), iii 120, 121 ;
478
GENERAL INDEX
paper on the effects of the winter of
1688-4, m. 125 and n.
Wirtemborg, Prince of (1646), i. 815
Wise, Henry, his house at Brompton
Park, iU. 808 «., 858
Witches, increase of^ in New England,
iii SOOandTi.
Withers, an ingenious shipwright, li 858
Woldiogham dioreh and parish, iiL 10
and n.
Wolley, Rev. Dr., iL 44 n., 48
Wolsey, Cardinal Thomas, iL 78, iii. 4 ;
his borial-place, ii 87 and n. ; birth-
place, 114 ; portrait, 208 n.
Wolves in France, L 108 and n.
Woman, one who had had twenty-five
husbands, i 40 ; monoment to one
who had 865 children at one birth,
44 ; hairy, ii 128 and n. ; gigantic,
02, 294 ; marks on the arm of one,
812 ; restoration to life of one who
had been hanged, 875 and n. ; burned
at Smithfield, 55
Women in Venice, dresses of; i. 296-7 ;
painting of £M:es of, iL 72, ilL 108
Wonderful Characters^ Wilson's, referred
to, IL 88 n.
Wonderful Museum (1805X Kirby, cited,
ii. 808 n.
Wood, Anthony &, his Athencs Oxoni-
etises, L 1 54 n.
Wood, E. J., his Cfuiriosities qf docks
and Watches^ cited, iL 154 n.
Wood, Sir Henry, his marriage, ii. 46
Woodcote, Surrey, descent of the Evelyns
o^ Pedigree, L Izziii ; referred to, iL 63
and n., 198, 805
Woodstock Palace, destruction of, iL 214
Woodward, Josiah, his AeedwrU of
Societies for R^fifrtnation of Manners
in London (1744), ilL 845 n.
Woodyer, Mr. H., L 4 n.
Woolnoth, W., engraving of Wotton
Church, L 7
Woolwich, battery erected at, ii. 274
Worcester, Henry Somerset, Marquis of,
ii. 807 and n.
Worcester, battle of; iL 42, 118
Worcester, notice o^ iL 85
Worcester House, Strand, iL 156 and n.
Woicester Park, iL 289 and n.
Works of Gray, cited, L 67 »i.
Works of Sir T. Browne, cited, L 186 n.,
168 n.
Worksop Abbey, notice of, iL 89
Worsley, Dr., on Plantations, iL 888 ;
death of, 865
Wotton, Charles Henry Kirkhoven, first
Baron, project of draining, iL 811
and n. ; his house at Hampatead, 392
and n»
Wotton, Sir Heniy, his Blemenls qf
ArehiUavre, iiL 882; his Beliqmia
WoUonunuB, cited, L 278; portnut»
iL 298 ft.
Wotton, Bev. Henry, aooomt of, iiL
81 «.
Wotton, William (son of Bev. Henry),
iiL 81 ; his talents when a child, t5.
and «., 251 ik ; sermon by, 811
Wotton, Suirey, church porch, L 6 and
n. ; Sacrament neglected, iiL 810 ;
views of church, L 7, iiL 348
Wotton, Surrey, dormitory at, L 18 m^,
21 fk ; view at, iiL 873
Wotton, Surrey, mansion of the Evelyn
fiunily, L 1, iL 160 ». ; described, L
8-5, 6 ». ; improvements, 5 «., 62, iL 64
and «., iii. 860 ; hospitality of Geoiige
Evelyn, 225, 888 ; descent of the
Evelyns of, Pedigres, L Ixziii ; earth-
quake at, iii. 298 ; Evelyn removes
to, 809, 851 ; Dr. Bohun pzesented to
living, 855; M8S. of Evelyn theie,
878 ; HoHus siccus at, L 807 m. ;
views o^ 1, iL 69, iii. 888; map of, L 3
Wotton parish, extent oi; L 8 n.
Wray, Captain, afterwards Sir William,
L 818, 823, 882, 887, 888, 860. (At
p. xxviii of Introduction he is «m-
ftised by an error with his iather. Sir
Christopher Wray.)
Wren, Sir Christopher, his early talents^
ii. 77 and »., 80 ; theatre at Oxfoid
designed by him, 216, 297 ; a Com-
missioner for repdr of Old St. Fanl's,
250 ; verses by, 875 n. ; Ashmolean
Museum built by, iii. 15 n. ; christen-
ing of his son, 30 ; St Paul's, monu-
ment and fifty churches building by,
68, 84 n., 182 n, ; President of the
Boyal Society, 75 ; design for Chelsea
College, 88, and Archbishop Teni-
son's library, 128, 124 ; CommissioBer
for Greenwich Hospital, 817, 827;
lays foundation-stone oi^ 829 ; alluded
to, U. 216, 819, 820, 889, UL 12, 52,
112 n., 836 andfi. ; alters lCAniim|rton
Palace, iiL 272 «.
Wren, Dr. liatthew. Bishop of Ely,
ii. 118, 159 and n.
Wren, Matthew, son of Bishop of Ely,
iL 118 and n., 220
Wrestlers, ancient statues o^ L 200
and«.
Wrestling match before His Majesty
(1667), iL 268
Wright, Chief Justice, iiL 234
GENERAL INDEX
479
Wright, George, Clerk of the Oown, iii.
851 n.
Wright, Joseph Michael, notice of, ii.
187 and n., 195, 209 ; paintings by,
860 and n.
Wright» Sir Nathan, Lord Keeper, notice
of^ iii 851 and n.
Wright, TraveUj i. 227 n,
Wright and Bartlett's Essex, cited, ii
189 n.
Wriothealey, Thomas, Earl of South-
ampton, daughter of, iii 114 ti.
Wyche, Sir Cyril, President of Royal
Society, iii. 117 ; married a niece of
Evelyn's, %b. n., 295, 848 ; Lord
Justice in Ireland, 295 n., 804 ;
alluded to, 295 n.
Wyche, Lady, wife of Sir Cyril, and niece
of Evelyn, iii 295, 848, 844
Wyche, Sir Peter, iii. 848 and n,
Wyche, Bishop Richard de, tomb at
Lucca, i 271 and n.
Wye, Mr., Rector of Wotton, his death,
iii 855
Wythens, Sir Francis, iii 117, 268 n.
Xaverius, i 162
Yachts first used in England, ii. 172
Yarborough, Sir Thomas and Lady, iii.
102 and n,
TamunUhf a frigate, ii. 227 and n,
Yarmouth, Sir Robert Paston, Earl of,
ii 110 and «., 280
Yaverland, Isle of Wight, i 17
Yew Tree, deadly species of the, i 270 ;
large one, ii 204 and n. ; on planting
it, Druids' Grove, ii 104 and n.
York, City and Minster, ii 90 ; declares
for Prince of Orange (1688), iii 246
York, Frederick, Duke of, pays the fine
at Oakham, ii 88
York, Duchess of, ii 184, 866 and n.,
iii. 88, 84, 211
York, James, Duke of. See James
York House, Strand, ii 106 and n. ; re-
presentation of the Last Supper at, 848
Young, Arthur, his Travels, etc., cited,
i 122 ft.
Young Admiral, a play, ii 197 and n.
Young, Captain, capture by, ii 118 ;
death and character of, iii. 804
Yvelin, or Evelin, William, physician, ii
806 and n.
Zaocara (Daniele ?), painting by, i 250
Zacharias, or Zachary, of G^oa, anecdote
of his ihipwreck, i 129
ZeaLcmd, a captured vessel, ii 282
Zecca, or Mint at Venice, i. 295
Zenno, Signer, Venetian Ambassador,
iii 198 ; alluded to, 194
Zeno, monument o^ at Venice, i 291
Zinnar tree, quality of^ iii 109
Zinzendorp) Count de, iii 96
Zitelle, procession of, at Rome, i 208,
258, 257
Zuccaro, Frederico, paintings by, i 155,
207 n., 269
Zuccaro, Taddeo, painting by, i 207 n. ;
burial-place, 250
Zulestein, Mons., ii 817
Zulichem, Christian Huyghens van, ii.
161 and n., 168
Zulichem, Constantine Huyghens, Sei-
gneur de, father of above, ii. 212
and n., 218, 826
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