I was all this week to and fro at court about business.

16th June, 1660. The French, Italian, and Dutch Ministers came to make

their address to his Majesty, one Monsieur Stoope pronouncing the

harangue with great eloquence.

18th June, 1660. I proposed the embassy to Constantinople for Mr.

Henshaw; but my Lord Winchelsea struck in.

Goods that had been pillaged from Whitehall during the Rebellion were now

daily brought in, and restored upon proclamation; as plate, hangings,

pictures, etc.

22d June, 1660. The Warwickshire gentlemen (as did all the shires and

chief towns in all the three nations) presented their congratulatory

address. It was carried by my Lord Northampton.

30th June, 1660. The Sussex gentlemen presented their address, to which

was my hand. I went with it, and kissed his Majesty's hand, who was

pleased to own me more particularly by calling me his old acquaintance,

and speaking very graciously to me.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

3d July, 1660. I went to Hyde Park, where was his Majesty, and abundance

of gallantry.

4th July, 1660. I heard Sir Samuel Tuke harangue to the House of Lords,

in behalf of the Roman Catholics, and his account of the transaction at

Colchester in murdering Lord Capel, and the rest of those brave men, that

suffered in cold blood, after articles of rendition.

5th July, 1660. I saw his Majesty go with as much pomp and splendor as

any earthly prince could do to the great city feast, the first they had

invited him to since his return; but the exceeding rain which fell all

that day much eclipsed its lustres. This was at Guildhall, and there was

also all the Parliament men, both Lords and Commons. The streets were

adorned with pageants, at immense cost.

6th July, 1660. His Majesty began first to TOUCH FOR THE EVIL! according

to custom, thus: his Majesty sitting under his state in the banqueting

house, the chirurgeons cause the sick to be brought, or led, up to the

throne, where they kneeling, the King strokes their faces, or cheeks with

both his hands at once, at which instant a chaplain in his formalities

says, "He put his hands upon them, and he healed them." This is said to

every one in particular. When they have all been touched, they come up

again in the same order, and the other chaplain kneeling, and having

angel gold[63] strung on white ribbon on his arm, delivers them one by

one to his Majesty, who puts them about the necks of the touched as they

pass, while the first chaplain repeats, "That is the true light who came

into the world." Then follows, an Epistle (as at first a Gospel) with the

Liturgy, prayers for the sick, with some alteration; lastly the blessing;

and then the Lord Chamberlain and the Comptroller of the Household bring

a basin, ewer, and towel, for his Majesty to wash.

[Footnote 63: Pieces of money, so called from the figure of an angel

on them.]

The King received a congratulatory address from the city of Cologne, in

Germany, where he had been some time in his exile; his Majesty saying

they were the best people in the world, the most kind and worthy to him

that he ever met with. I recommended Monsieur Messary to be Judge

Advocate in Jersey, by the Vice-Chamberlain's mediation with the Earl of

St. Albans; and saluted my excellent and worthy noble friend, my Lord

Ossory, son to the Marquis of Ormond, after many years' absence returned

home.

8th July, 1660. Mr. Henchman preached on Ephes. v. 5, concerning

Christian circumspection. From henceforth, was the Liturgy publicly used

in our churches, whence it had been for so many years banished.

15th July, 1660. Came Sir George Carteret and lady to visit us: he was

now Treasurer of the Navy.

28th July, 1660. I heard his Majesty's speech in the Lords' House, on

passing the Bills of Tonnage and Poundage; restoration of my Lord Ormond

to his estate in Ireland; concerning the commission of sewers, and

continuance of the excise. In the afternoon I saluted my old friend, the

Archbishop of Armagh, formerly of Londonderry (Dr. Bramhall). He

presented several Irish divines to be promoted as Bishops in that

kingdom, most of the Bishops in the three kingdoms being now almost worn

out, and the Sees vacant.

31st July, 1660. I went to visit Sir Philip Warwick, now secretary to the

Lord Treasurer, at his house in North Cray.

19th August, 1660. Our vicar read the Thirty-nine Articles to the

congregation, the national assemblies beginning now to settle, and

wanting instruction.

23d August, 1660. Came Duke Hamilton, Lord Lothian, and several Scottish

Lords, to see my garden.

25th August, 1660. Colonel Spencer, colonel of a regiment of horse in our

county of Kent, sent to me, and intreated that I would take a commission

for a troop of horse, and that I would nominate my lieutenant and

ensigns; I thanked him for the honor intended me; but would by no means

undertake the trouble.

4th September, 1660. I was invited to an ordination by the Bishop of

Bangor, in Henry VII.'s chapel, Westminster, and afterward saw the

audience of an Envoyée from the Duke of Anjou, sent to compliment his

Majesty's return.

5th September, 1660. Came to visit and dine with me the Envoyée of the

King of Poland, and Resident of the King of Denmark, etc.

7th September, 1660. I went to Chelsea to visit Mr. Boyle, and see his

pneumatic engine perform divers experiments. Thence, to Kensington, to

visit Mr. Henshaw, returning home that evening.

13th September, 1660. I saw in Southwark, at St. Margaret's fair, monkeys

and apes dance, and do other feats of activity on the high rope; they

were gallantly clad _á la monde_, went upright, saluted the company,

bowing and pulling off their hats; they saluted one another with as good

a grace as if instructed by a dancing master; they turned heels over head

with a basket having eggs in it, without breaking any; also, with lighted

candles in their hands, and on their heads, without extinguishing them,

and with vessels of water without spilling a drop. I also saw an Italian

wench dance, and perform all the tricks on the high rope to admiration;

all the Court went to see her. Likewise, here was a man who took up a

piece of iron cannon of about 400lb. weight with the hair of his head

only.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

17th September, 1660. Went to London, to see the splendid entry of the

Prince de Ligne, Ambassador extraordinary from Spain; he was general of

the Spanish King's horse in Flanders, and was accompanied with divers

great persons from thence, and an innumerable retinue. His train

consisted of seventeen coaches, with six horses of his own, besides a

great number of English, etc. Greater bravery had I never seen. He was

received in the Banqueting House, in exceeding state, all the great

officers of Court attending.

23d September, 1660. In the midst of all this joy and jubilee, the Duke

of Gloucester died of the smallpox, in the prime of youth, and a prince

of extraordinary hopes.

27th September, 1660. The King received the merchant's addresses in his

closet, giving them assurances of his persisting to keep Jamaica,

choosing Sir Edward Massey Governor. In the afternoon, the Danish

Ambassador's condolences were presented, on the death of the Duke of

Gloucester. This evening, I saw the Princess Royal, mother to the Prince

of Orange, now come out of Holland in a fatal period.

6th October, 1660. I paid the great tax of poll money, levied for

disbanding the army, till now kept up. I paid as an Esquire £10, and one

shilling for every servant in my house.

7th October, 1660. There dined with me a French count, with Sir George

Tuke, who came to take leave of me, being sent over to the Queen-Mother,

to break the marriage of the Duke with the daughter of Chancellor Hyde.

The Queen would fain have undone it; but it seems matters were

reconciled, on great offers of the Chancellor's to befriend the Queen,

who was much in debt, and was now to have the settlement of her affairs

go through his hands.

11th October, 1660. The regicides who sat on the life of our late King,

were brought to trial in the Old Bailey, before a commission of oyer and

terminer.

14th October, 1660. Axtall, Carew, Clement, Hacker, Hewson, and Peters,

were executed.

17th October, 1660. Scot, Scroop, Cook, and Jones, suffered for reward of

their iniquities at Charing Cross, in sight of the place where they put

to death their natural prince, and in the presence of the King his son,

whom they also sought to kill. I saw not their execution, but met their

quarters, mangled, and cut, and reeking, as they were brought from the

gallows in baskets on the hurdle. Oh, the miraculous providence of God!

28th October, 1660. His Majesty went to meet the Queen-Mother.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

29th October, 1660. Going to London, my Lord Mayor's show stopped me in

Cheapside; one of the pageants represented a great wood, with the royal

oak, and history of his Majesty's miraculous escape at Boscobel.

31st October, 1660. Arrived now to my fortieth year, I rendered to

Almighty God my due and hearty thanks.

1st November, 1660. I went with some of my relations to Court, to show

them his Majesty's cabinet and closet of rarities; the rare miniatures of

Peter Oliver, after Raphael, Titian, and other masters, which I

infinitely esteem; also, that large piece of the Duchess of Lennox, done

in enamel, by Petitot, and a vast number of agates, onyxes, and

intaglios, especially a medallion of Cæsar, as broad as my hand;

likewise, rare cabinets of pietra-commessa, a landscape of needlework,

formerly presented by the Dutch to King Charles I. Here I saw a vast book

of maps, in a volume near four yards large; a curious ship model; and,

among the clocks, one that showed the rising and setting of the sun in

the zodiac; the sun represented by a face and rays of gold, upon an azure

sky, observing the diurnal and annual motion, rising and setting behind a

landscape of hills,--the work of our famous Fromantil,--and several other

rarities.

3d October, 1660. Arrived the Queen-Mother in England, whence she had

been banished for almost twenty years; together with her illustrious

daughter, the Princess Henrietta, divers princes and noblemen,

accompanying them.

15th October, 1660. I kissed the Queen-Mother's hand.

20th October, 1660. I dined at the Clerk Comptroller's of the Green

Cloth, being the first day of the re-establishment of the Court diet, and

settling of his Majesty's household.

23d October, 1660. Being this day in the bedchamber of the Princess

Henrietta, where were many great beauties and noblemen, I saluted divers

of my old friends and acquaintances abroad; his Majesty carrying my wife

to salute the Queen and Princess, and then led her into his closet, and

with his own hands showed her divers curiosities.

25th October, 1660. Dr. Rainbow preached before the King, on Luke ii. 14,

of the glory to be given God for all his mercies, especially for

restoring the Church and government; now the service was performed with

music, voices, etc., as formerly.

27th November, 1660. Came down the Clerk Comptroller [of the Green Cloth]

by the Lord Steward's appointment, to survey the land at Sayes Court, on

which I had pretense, and to make his report.

6th December, 1660. I waited on my brother and sister Evelyn to Court.

Now were presented to his Majesty those two rare pieces of drollery, or

rather a Dutch Kitchen, painted by Dowe, so finely as hardly to be

distinguished from enamel. I was also shown divers rich jewels and

crystal vases; the rare head of Jo. Bellino, Titian's master; Christ in

the Garden, by Hannibal Caracci; two incomparable heads, by Holbein; the

Queen-Mother in a miniature, almost as big as the life; an exquisite

piece of carving; two unicorn's horns, etc. This in the closet.

13th December, 1660. I presented my son, John, to the Queen-Mother, who

kissed him, talked with and made extraordinary much of him.

14th December, 1660. I visited my Lady Chancellor, the Marchioness of

Ormond, and Countess of Guildford, all of whom we had known abroad in

exile.

18th December, 1660. I carried Mr. Spellman, a most ingenious gentleman,

grandchild to the learned Sir Henry, to my Lord Mordaunt, to whom I had

recommended him as secretary.

21st December, 1660. This day died the Princess of Orange, of the

smallpox, which entirely altered the face and gallantry of the whole

Court.

22d December, 1660. The marriage of the Chancellor's daughter being now

newly owned, I went to see her, she being Sir Richard Browne's intimate

acquaintance when she waited on the Princess of Orange; she was now at

her father's, at Worcester House, in the Strand. We all kissed her hand,

as did also my Lord Chamberlain (Manchester) and Countess of

Northumberland. This was a strange change--can it succeed well?--I spent

the evening at St. James's, whither the Princess Henrietta was retired

during the fatal sickness of her sister, the Princess of Orange, now come

over to salute the King her brother. The Princess gave my wife an

extraordinary compliment and gracious acceptance, for the "Character"[64]

she had presented her the day before, and which was afterward printed.

[Footnote 64: "A Character of England," reprinted in Evelyn's

"Miscellaneous Writings," pp. 141-67.]

25th December, 1660. Preached at the Abbey, Dr. Earle, Clerk of his

Majesty's Closet, and my dear friend, now Dean of Westminster, on Luke

ii. 13, 14, condoling the breach made in the public joy by the lamented

death of the Princess.

30th December, 1660. I dined at Court with Mr. Crane, Clerk of the Green

Cloth.

31st December, 1660. I gave God thanks for his many signal mercies to

myself, church, and nation, this wonderful year.

2d January, 1661. The Queen-Mother, with the Princess Henrietta, began

her journey to Portsmouth, in order to her return into France.

5th January, 1661. I visited my Lord Chancellor Clarendon, with whom I

had been well acquainted abroad.

6th January, 1661. Dr. Allestree preached at the Abbey, after which four

Bishops were consecrated, Hereford, Norwich, ...

This night was suppressed a bloody insurrection of some FIFTH-MONARCHY

ENTHUSIASTS. Some of them were examined at the Council the next day; but

could say nothing to extenuate their madness and unwarrantable zeal.

I was now chosen (and nominated by his Majesty for one of the Council),

by suffrage of the rest of the members, a Fellow of the Philosophic

Society now meeting at Gresham College, where was an assembly of divers

learned gentlemen. This being the first meeting since the King's return;

but it had been begun some years before at Oxford, and was continued with

interruption here in London during the Rebellion.

There was another rising of the fanatics, in which some were slain.

16th January, 1661. I went to the Philosophic Club, where was examined

the Torricellian experiment. I presented my Circle of Mechanical Trades,

and had recommended to me the publishing what I had written of

Chalcography.

25th January, 1661. After divers years since I had seen any play, I went

to see acted "The Scornful Lady," at a new theater in Lincoln's-Inn

Fields.

30th January, 1661. Was the first solemn fast and day of humiliation to

deplore the sins which had so long provoked God against this afflicted

church and people, ordered by Parliament to be annually celebrated to

expiate the guilt of the execrable murder of the late King.

This day (Oh, the stupendous and inscrutable judgments of God!) were the

carcasses of those arch-rebels, Cromwell, Bradshawe (the judge who

condemned his Majesty), and Ireton (son-in-law to the Usurper), dragged

out of their superb tombs in Westminster among the Kings, to Tyburn, and

hanged on the gallows there from nine in the morning till six at night,

and then buried under that fatal and ignominious monument in a deep pit;

thousands of people who had seen them in all their pride being

spectators. Look back at October 22, 1658,[65] and be astonished! and

fear God and honor the King; but meddle not with them who are given to

change!

[Footnote 65: The entry in the "Diary" describing the Protector's

funeral.]

6th February, 1661. To London, to our Society, where I gave notice of the

visit of the Danish Ambassador-Extraordinary, and was ordered to return

him their acceptance of that honor, and to invite him the next meeting

day.

10th February, 1661. Dr. Baldero preached at Ely-house, on Matthew vi.

33, of seeking early the kingdom of God; after sermon, the Bishop (Dr.

Wren) gave us the blessing, very pontifically.

13th February, 1661. I conducted the Danish Ambassador to our meeting at

Gresham College, where were shown him various experiments in vacuo, and

other curiosities.

21st February, 1661. Prince Rupert first showed me how to grave in _mezzo

tinto_.

26th February, 1661. I went to Lord Mordaunt's, at Parson's Green.

27th February, 1661. Ash Wednesday. Preached before the King the Bishop

of London (Dr. Sheldon) on Matthew xviii. 25, concerning charity and

forgiveness.

8th March, 1661. I went to my Lord Chancellor's, and delivered to him the

state of my concernment at Sayes Court.

9th March, 1661. I went with that excellent person and philosopher, Sir

Robert Murray, to visit Mr. Boyle at Chelsea, and saw divers effects of

the eolipile for weighing air.

13th March, 1661. I went to Lambeth, with Sir R. Browne's pretense to the

Wardenship of Merton College, Oxford, to which, as having been about

forty years before a student of that house, he was elected by the votes

of every Fellow except one; but the statutes of the house being so that,

unless every Fellow agree, the election devolves to the Visitor, who is

the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Juxon), his Grace gave his nomination

to Sir T. Clayton, resident there, and the Physic Professor: for which I

was not at all displeased, because, though Sir Richard missed it by much

ingratitude and wrong of the Archbishop (Clayton being no Fellow), yet it

would have hindered Sir Richard from attending at Court to settle his

greater concerns, and so have prejudiced me, though he was much inclined

to have passed his time in a collegiate life, very unfit for him at that

time, for many reasons. So I took leave of his Grace, who was formerly

Lord Treasurer in the reign of Charles I.

This afternoon, Prince Rupert showed me, with his own hands, the new way

of graving, called _mezzo tinto_, which afterward, by his permission, I

published in my "History of Chalcography"; this set so many artists on

work, that they soon arrived to the perfection it is since come to,

emulating the tenderest miniatures.

Our Society now gave in my relation of the Peak of Teneriffe, in the

Great Canaries, to be added to more queries concerning divers natural

things reported of that island.

I returned home with my Cousin, Tuke, now going for France, as sent by

his Majesty to condole the death of that great Minister and politician,

Count Mazarine.

29th March, 1661. Dr. Heylin (author of the "Geography") preached at the

Abbey, on Cant. v. 25, concerning friendship and charity; he was, I

think, at this time quite dark, and so had been for some years.

31st March, 1661. This night, his Majesty promised to make my wife Lady

of the Jewels (a very honorable charge) to the future Queen (but which he

never performed).

1st April, 1661. I dined with that great mathematician and virtuoso,

Monsieur Zulichem, inventor of the pendule clock, and discoverer of the

phenomenon of Saturn's annulus: he was elected into our Society.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

19th April, 1661. To London, and saw the bathing and rest of the

ceremonies of the Knights of the Bath, preparatory to the coronation; it

was in the Painted Chamber, Westminster. I might have received this

honor; but declined it. The rest of the ceremony was in the chapel at

Whitehall, when their swords being laid on the altar, the Bishop

delivered them.

22d April, 1661. Was the splendid cavalcade of his Majesty from the Tower

of London to Whitehall, when I saw him in the Banqueting House create six

Earls, and as many Barons, viz:

Edward Lord Hyde, Lord Chancellor, Earl of Clarendon; supported by the

Earls of Northumberland and Sussex; the Earl of Bedford carried the cap

and coronet, the Earl of Warwick, the sword, the Earl of Newport, the

mantle.

Next, was Capel, created Earl of Essex.

Brudenell, Cardigan;

Valentia, Anglesea;

Greenvill, Bath; and

Howard, Earl of Carlisle.

The Barons were: Denzille Holles; Cornwallis; Booth; Townsend; Cooper;

Crew; who were led up by several Peers, with Garter and officers of arms

before them; when, after obedience on their several approaches to the

throne, their patents were presented by Garter King-at-Arms, which being

received by the Lord Chamberlain, and delivered to his Majesty, and by

him to the Secretary of State, were read, and then again delivered to his

Majesty, and by him to the several Lords created; they were then robed,

their coronets and collars put on by his Majesty, and they were placed in

rank on both sides of the state and throne; but the Barons put off their

caps and circles, and held them in their hands, the Earls keeping on

their coronets, as cousins to the King.

I spent the rest of the evening in seeing the several archtriumphals

built in the streets at several eminent places through which his Majesty

was next day to pass, some of which, though temporary, and to stand but

one year, were of good invention and architecture, with inscriptions.

23d April, 1661. Was the coronation of his Majesty Charles II. in the

Abbey-Church of Westminster; at all which ceremony I was present. The

King and his Nobility went to the Tower, I accompanying my Lord Viscount

Mordaunt part of the way; this was on Sunday, the 22d; but indeed his

Majesty went not till early this morning, and proceeded from thence to

Westminster in this order:

First went the Duke of York's Horse Guards. Messengers of the Chamber.

136 Esquires to the Knights of the Bath, each of whom had two, most

richly habited. The Knight Harbinger. Sergeant Porter. Sewers of the

Chamber. Quarter Waiters. Six Clerks of Chancery. Clerk of the Signet.

Clerk of the Privy Seal. Clerks of the Council, of the Parliament, and

of the Crown. Chaplains in ordinary having dignities, 10. King's

Advocates and Remembrancer. Council at Law. Masters of the Chancery.

Puisne Sergeants. King's Attorney and Solicitor. King's eldest Sergeant.

Secretaries of the French and Latin tongue. Gentlemen Ushers. Daily

Waiters, Sewers, Carvers, and Cupbearers in ordinary. Esquires of the

body, 4. Masters of standing offices, being no Counsellors, viz, of the

Tents, Revels, Ceremonies, Armory, Wardrobe, Ordnance, Requests.

Chamberlain of the Exchequer. Barons of the Exchequer. Judges. Lord

Chief-Baron. Lord Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas. Master of the Rolls.

Lord Chief-Justice of England. Trumpets. Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber.

Knights of the Bath, 68, in crimson robes, exceeding rich, and the

noblest show of the whole cavalcade, his Majesty excepted. Knight

Marshal. Treasurer of the Chamber. Master of the Jewels. Lords of the

Privy Council. Comptroller of the Household. Treasurer of the Household.

Trumpets. Sergeant Trumpet. Two Pursuivants at Arms. Barons. Two

Pursuivants at Arms. Viscounts. Two Heralds. Earls. Lord Chamberlain of

the Household. Two Heralds. Marquises. Dukes. Heralds Clarencieux and

Norroy. Lord Chancellor. Lord High Steward of England. Two persons

representing the Dukes of Normandy and Acquitaine, viz, Sir Richard

Fanshawe and Sir Herbert Price, in fantastic habits of the time.

Gentlemen Ushers. Garter. Lord Mayor of London. The Duke of York alone

(the rest by twos). Lord High Constable of England. Lord Great

Chamberlain of England. The sword borne by the Earl Marshal of England.

The KING, in royal robes and equipage. Afterward, followed equerries,

footmen, gentlemen pensioners. Master of the Horse, leading a horse

richly caparisoned. Vice-Chamberlain. Captain of the Pensioners. Captain

of the Guard. The Guard. The Horse Guard. The troop of Volunteers, with

many other officers and gentlemen.

This magnificent train on horseback, as rich as embroidery, velvet, cloth

of gold and silver, and jewels, could make them and their prancing

horses, proceeded through the streets strewed with flowers, houses hung

with rich tapestry, windows and balconies full of ladies; the London

militia lining the ways, and the several companies, with their banners

and loud music, ranked in their orders; the fountains running wine, bells

ringing, with speeches made at the several triumphal arches; at that of

the Temple Bar (near which I stood) the Lord Mayor was received by the

Bailiff of Westminster, who, in a scarlet robe, made a speech. Thence,

with joyful acclamations, his Majesty passed to Whitehall. Bonfires at

night.

The next day, being St. George's, he went by water to Westminster Abbey.

When his Majesty was entered, the Dean and Prebendaries brought all the

regalia, and delivered them to several noblemen to bear before the King,

who met them at the west door of the church, singing an anthem, to the

choir. Then, came the Peers, in their robes, and coronets in their hands,

till his Majesty was placed on a throne elevated before the altar.

Afterward, the Bishop of London (the Archbishop of Canterbury being sick)

went to every side of the throne to present the King to the people,

asking if they would have him for their King, and do him homage; at this,

they shouted four times "God save King Charles II!" Then, an anthem was

sung. His Majesty, attended by three Bishops, went up to the altar, and

he offered a pall and a pound of gold. Afterward, he sat down in another

chair during the sermon, which was preached by Dr. Morley, Bishop of

Worcester.

After sermon, the King took his oath before the altar to maintain the

religion, Magna Charta, and laws of the land. The hymn _Véni S. Sp._

followed, and then the Litany by two Bishops. Then the Archbishop of

Canterbury, present, but much indisposed and weak, said "Lift up your

hearts"; at which, the King rose up, and put off his robes and upper

garments, and was in a waistcoat so opened in divers places, that the

Archbishop might commodiously anoint him, first in the palms of his

hands, when an anthem was sung, and a prayer read; then, his breast and

between the shoulders, bending of both arms; and, lastly, on the crown of

the head, with apposite hymns and prayers at each anointing; this done,

the Dean closed and buttoned up the waistcoat. After which, was a coif

put on, and the cobbium, sindon or dalmatic, and over this a super-tunic

of cloth of gold, with buskins and sandals of the same, spurs, and the

sword; a prayer being first said over it by the Archbishop on the altar,

before it was girt on by the Lord Chamberlain. Then, the armill, mantle,

etc. Then, the Archbishop placed the crown imperial on the altar, prayed

over it, and set it on his Majesty's head, at which all the Peers put on

their coronets. Anthems, and rare music, with lutes, viols, trumpets,

organs, and voices, were then heard, and the Archbishop put a ring on his

Majesty's finger. The King next offered his sword on the altar, which

being redeemed, was drawn, and borne before him. Then, the Archbishop

delivered him the sceptre, with the dove in one hand, and, in the other,

the sceptre with the globe. The King kneeling, the Archbishop pronounced

the blessing. His Majesty then ascending again his royal throne, while

_Te Deum_ was singing, all the Peers did their homage, by every one

touching his crown. The Archbishop, and the rest of the Bishops, first

kissing the King; who received the Holy Sacrament, and so disrobed, yet

with the crown imperial on his head, and accompanied with all the

nobility in the former order, he went on foot upon blue cloth, which was

spread and reached from the west door of the Abbey to Westminster stairs,

when he took water in a triumphal barge to Whitehall where was

extraordinary feasting.

24th April, 1661. I presented his Majesty with his "Panegyric"[66] in the

Privy Chamber, which he was pleased to accept most graciously; I gave

copies to the Lord Chancellor, and most of the noblemen who came to me

for it. I dined at the Marquis of Ormond's where was a magnificent feast,

and many great persons.

[Footnote 66: A poem which Evelyn had composed on his Majesty's

Coronation; the 23d of April, 1661, being St. George's day.]

1st May, 1661. I went to Hyde Park to take the air, where was his Majesty

and an innumerable appearance of gallants and rich coaches, being now a

time of universal festivity and joy.

2d May, 1661. I had audience of my Lord Chancellor about my title to

Sayes Court.

3d May, 1661. I went to see the wonderful engine for weaving silk

stockings, said to have been the invention of an Oxford scholar forty

years since; and I returned by Fromantil's, the famous clockmaker, to see

some pendules, Monsieur Zulichem being with us.

This evening, I was with my Lord Brouncker, Sir Robert Murray, Sir

Patrick Neill, Monsieur Zulichem, and Bull (all of them of our Society,

and excellent mathematicians), to show his Majesty, who was present,

Saturn's annulus, as some thought, but as Zulichem affirmed with his

_balteus_ (as that learned gentleman had published), very near eclipsed

by the moon, near the Mons Porphyritis; also, Jupiter and satellites,

through his Majesty's great telescope, drawing thirty-five feet; on which

were divers discourses.

8th May, 1661. His Majesty rode in state, with his imperial crown on, and

all the peers in their robes, in great pomp to the Parliament now newly

chosen (the old one being dissolved); and, that evening, declared in

council his intention to marry the Infanta of Portugal.

9th May, 1661. At Sir Robert Murray's, where I met Dr. Wallis, Professor

of Geometry in Oxford, where was discourse of several mathematical

subjects.

11th May, 1661. My wife presented to his Majesty the Madonna she had

copied in miniature from P. Oliver's painting, after Raphael, which she

wrought with extraordinary pains and judgment. The King was infinitely

pleased with it, and caused it to be placed in his cabinet among his best

paintings.

13th May, 1661. I heard and saw such exercises at the election of

scholars at Westminster School to be sent to the University in Latin,

Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic, in themes and extemporary verses, as

wonderfully astonished me in such youths, with such readiness and wit,

some of them not above twelve or thirteen years of age. Pity it is, that

what they attain here so ripely, they either do not retain, or do not

improve more considerably when they come to be men, though many of them

do; and no less is to be blamed their odd pronouncing of Latin, so that

out of England none were able to understand, or endure it. The

examinants, or posers, were, Dr. Duport, Greek Professor at Cambridge;

Dr. Fell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford; Dr. Pierson; Dr. Allestree, Dean

of Westminster, and any that would.

14th May, 1661. His Majesty was pleased to discourse with me concerning

several particulars relating to our Society, and the planet Saturn, etc.,

as he sat at supper in the withdrawing-room to his bedchamber.

16th May, 1661. I dined with Mr. Garmus, the Resident from Hamburg, who

continued his feast near nine whole hours, according to the custom of his

country, though there was no great excess of drinking, no man being

obliged to take more than he liked.

22d May, 1661. The Scotch Covenant was burnt by the common hangman in

divers places in London. Oh, prodigious change!

29th May, 1661. This was the first anniversary appointed by act of

Parliament to be observed as a day of general thanksgiving for the

miraculous restoration of his Majesty: our vicar preaching on Psalm

cxviii. 24, requiring us to be thankful and rejoice, as indeed we had

cause.

4th June, 1661. Came Sir Charles Harbord, his Majesty's surveyor, to take

an account of what grounds I challenged at Sayes Court.

27th June, 1661. I saw the Portugal ambassador at dinner with his Majesty

in state, where was excellent music.

2d July, 1661. I went to see the New Spring-Garden, at Lambeth, a

prettily contrived plantation.

[Sidenote: DEPTFORD]

19th July, 1661. We tried our Diving-Bell, or engine, in the water dock

at Deptford, in which our curator continued half an hour under water; it

was made of cast lead, let down with a strong cable.

3d August, 1661. Came my Lord Hatton, Comptroller of his Majesty's

household to visit me.

9th August, 1661. I tried several experiments on the sensitive plant and

_humilis_, which contracted with the least touch of the sun through a

burning glass, though it rises and opens only when it shines on it.

I first saw the famous Queen Pine brought from Barbadoes, and presented

to his Majesty; but the first that were ever seen in England were those

sent to Cromwell four years since.

I dined at Mr. Palmer's in Gray's Inn, whose curiosity excelled in clocks

and pendules, especially one that had innumerable motions, and played

nine or ten tunes on the bells very finely, some of them set in parts:

which was very harmonious. It was wound up but once in a quarter. He had

also good telescopes and mathematical instruments, choice pictures, and

other curiosities. Thence, we went to that famous mountebank, Jo.

Punteus.

Sir Kenelm Digby presented every one of us his "Discourse of the

Vegetation of Plants"; and Mr. Henshaw, his "History of Saltpeter and

Gunpowder." I assisted him to procure his place of French Secretary to

the King, which he purchased of Sir Henry De Vic.

I went to that famous physician, Sir Fr. Prujean, who showed me his

laboratory, his workhouse for turning, and other mechanics; also many

excellent pictures, especially the Magdalen of Caracci; and some

incomparable _paysages_ done in distemper; he played to me likewise on

the _polythore_, an instrument having something of the harp, lute, and

theorbo; by none known in England, nor described by any author, nor used,

but by this skillful and learned Doctor.

15th August, 1661. I went to Tunbridge-Wells, my wife being there for the

benefit of her health. Walking about the solitudes, I greatly admired the

extravagant turnings, insinuations, and growth of certain birch trees

among the rocks.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

13th September, 1661. I presented my "_Fumifugium_"[67] dedicated to his

Majesty, who was pleased that I should publish it by his special

commands, being much gratified with it.

[Footnote 67: This pamphlet having become scarce, was in 1772

reprinted in 4to, and is now incorporated in Evelyn's "Miscellaneous

Writings."]

18th September, 1661. This day was read our petition to his Majesty for

his royal grant, authorizing our Society to meet as a corporation, with

several privileges.

An exceedingly sickly, wet autumn.

1st October, 1661. I sailed this morning with his Majesty in one of his

yachts (or pleasure boats), vessels not known among us till the Dutch

East India Company presented that curious piece to the King; being very

excellent sailing vessels. It was on a wager between his other new

pleasure boat, built frigate-like, and one of the Duke of York's; the

wager £100; the race from Greenwich to Gravesend and back. The King lost

it going, the wind being contrary, but saved stakes in returning. There

were divers noble persons and lords on board, his Majesty sometimes

steering himself. His barge and kitchen boat attended. I brake fast this

morning with the King at return in his smaller vessel, he being pleased

to take me and only four more, who were noblemen, with him; but dined in

his yacht, where we all ate together with his Majesty. In this passage he

was pleased to discourse to me about my book inveighing against the

nuisance of the smoke of London, and proposing expedients how, by

removing those particulars I mentioned, it might be reformed; commanding

me to prepare a Bill against the next session of Parliament, being, as he

said, resolved to have something done in it. Then he discoursed to me of

the improvement of gardens and buildings, now very rare in England

comparatively to other countries. He then commanded me to draw up the

matter of fact happening at the bloody encounter which then had newly

happened between the French and Spanish Ambassadors near the Tower,

contending for precedency, at the reception of the Swedish Ambassador;

giving me orders to consult Sir William Compton, Master of the Ordnance,

to inform me of what he knew of it, and with his favorite, Sir Charles

Berkeley, captain of the Duke's life guard, then present with his troop

and three foot companies; with some other reflections and instructions,

to be prepared with a declaration to take off the reports which went

about of his Majesty's partiality in the affairs, and of his officers'

and spectators' rudeness while the conflict lasted. So I came home that

night, and went next morning to London, where from the officers of the

Tower, Sir William Compton, Sir Charles Berkeley, and others who were

attending at this meeting of the Ambassadors three days before, having

collected what I could, I drew up a Narrative in vindication of his

Majesty, and the carriage of his officers and standers-by.

On Thursday his Majesty sent one of the pages of the back stairs for me

to wait on him with my papers, in his cabinet where was present only Sir

Henry Bennett (Privy-Purse), when beginning to read to his Majesty what I

had drawn up, by the time I had read half a page, came in Mr. Secretary

Morice with a large paper, desiring to speak with his Majesty, who told

him he was now very busy, and therefore ordered him to come again some

other time; the Secretary replied that what he had in his hand was of

extraordinary importance. So the King rose up, and, commanding me to

stay, went aside to a corner of the room with the Secretary; after a

while, the Secretary being dispatched, his Majesty returning to me at

the table, a letter was brought him from Madame out of France;[68] this

he read and then bid me proceed from where I left off. This I did till I

had ended all the narrative, to his Majesty's great satisfaction; and,

after I had inserted one or two more clauses, in which his Majesty

instructed me, commanded that it should that night be sent to the

posthouse, directed to the Lord Ambassador at Paris (the Earl of St.

Alban's), and then at leisure to prepare him a copy, which he would

publish. This I did, and immediately sent my papers to the Secretary of

State, with his Majesty's express command of dispatching them that night

for France. Before I went out of the King's closet, he called me back to

show me some ivory statues, and other curiosities that I had not seen

before.

[Footnote 68: Henrietta Maria.]

3d October, 1661. Next evening, being in the withdrawing-room adjoining

the bedchamber, his Majesty espying me came to me from a great crowd of

noblemen standing near the fire, and asked me if I had done; and told me

he feared it might be a little too sharp, on second thoughts, for he had

that morning spoken with the French Ambassador, who it seems had

palliated the matter, and was very tame; and therefore directed me where

I should soften a period or two, before it was published (as afterward it

was). This night also he spoke to me to give him a sight of what was

sent, and to bring it to him in his bedchamber; which I did, and received

it again from him at dinner, next day. By Saturday, having finished it

with all his Majesty's notes, the King being gone abroad, I sent the

papers to Sir Henry Bennett (Privy-Purse and a great favorite), and

slipped home, being myself much indisposed and harassed with going about,

and sitting up to write.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

19th October, 1661. I went to London to visit my Lord of Bristol, having

been with Sir John Denham (his Majesty's surveyor) to consult with him

about the placing of his palace at Greenwich, which I would have had

built between the river and the Queen's house, so as a large square cut

should have let in the Thames like a bay; but Sir John was for setting it

on piles at the very brink of the water, which I did not assent to; and

so came away, knowing Sir John to be a better poet than architect,

though he had Mr. Webb (Inigo Jones's man) to assist him.

29th October, 1661. I saw the Lord Mayor pass in his water triumph to

Westminster, being the first solemnity of this nature after twenty years.

2d November, 1661. Came Sir Henry Bennett, since Lord Arlington, to visit

me, and to acquaint me that his Majesty would do me the honor to come and

see my garden; but, it being then late, it was deferred.

3d November, 1661. One Mr. Breton preached his probation sermon at our

parish church, and indeed made a most excellent discourse on John i. 29,

of God's free grace to penitents, so that I could not but recommend him

to the patron.

10th November, 1661. In the afternoon, preached at the Abbey Dr. Basire,

that great traveler, or rather French Apostle, who had been planting the

Church of England in divers parts of the Levant and Asia. He showed that

the Church of England was, for purity of doctrine, substance, decency,

and beauty, the most perfect under Heaven; that England was the very land

of Goshen.

11th November, 1661. I was so idle as to go to see a play called "Love

and Honor." Dined at Arundel House; and that evening discoursed with his

Majesty about shipping, in which he was exceedingly skillful.

15th November, 1661. I dined with the Duke of Ormond, who told me there

were no moles in Ireland, nor any rats till of late, and that in but one

county; but it was a mistake that spiders would not live there, only they

were not poisonous. Also, that they frequently took salmon with dogs.

16th November, 1661. I presented my translation of "Naudæus concerning

Libraries" to my Lord Chancellor; but it was miserably false printed.

17th November, 1661. Dr. Creighton, a Scot, author of the "Florentine

Council," and a most eloquent man and admirable Grecian, preached on

Cant. vi. 13, celebrating the return and restoration of the Church and

King.

20th November, 1661. At the Royal Society, Sir William Petty proposed

divers things for the improvement of shipping; a versatile keel that

should be on hinges and concerning sheathing ships with thin lead.

24th November, 1661. This night his Majesty fell into discourse with me

concerning bees, etc.

26th November, 1661. I saw "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" played; but now

the old plays began to disgust this refined age, since his Majesty's

being so long abroad.

28th November, 1661. I dined at Chiffinch's house-warming, in St. James's

Park; he was his Majesty's closet-keeper, and had his new house full of

good pictures, etc. There dined with us Russell, Popish Bishop of Cape

Verd, who was sent out to negotiate his Majesty's match with the Infanta

of Portugal, after the Ambassador was returned.

29th November, 1661. I dined at the Countess of Peterborough's and went

that evening to Parson's Green with my Lord Mordaunt, with whom I stayed

that night.

1st December, 1661. I took leave of my Lord Peterborough, going now to

Tangier, which was to be delivered to the English on the match with

Portugal.

3d December, 1661. By universal suffrage of our philosophic assembly, an

order was made and registered that I should receive their public thanks

for the honorable mention I made of them by the name of Royal Society, in

my Epistle dedicatory to the Lord Chancellor, before my Traduction of

Naudæus. Too great an honor for a trifle.

4th December, 1661. I had much discourse with the Duke of York,

concerning strange cures he affirmed of a woman who swallowed a whole ear

of barley, which worked out at her side. I told him of the KNIFE

SWALLOWED[69] and the pins.

[Footnote 69: This refers to the Dutchman, _ante_, 28th August,

1641; and to an extraordinary case contained in a "Miraculous Cure

of the Prussian Swallow Knife, etc., by Dan Lakin, P. C." quarto,

London, 1642, with a woodcut representing the object of the cure and

the size of the knife.]

I took leave of the Bishop of Cape Verd, now going in the fleet to bring

over our new Queen.

7th December, 1661. I dined at Arundel House, the day when the great

contest in Parliament was concerning the restoring the Duke of Norfolk;

however, it was carried for him. I also presented my little trifle of

Sumptuary Laws, entitled "Tyrannus" [or "The Mode"].

14th December, 1661. I saw otter hunting with the King, and killed one.

16th December, 1661. I saw a French comedy acted at Whitehall.

20th December, 1661. The Bishop of Gloucester preached at the Abbey at

the funeral of the Bishop of Hereford, brother to the Duke of Albemarle.

It was a decent solemnity. There was a silver miter, with episcopal

robes, borne by the herald before the hearse, which was followed by the

Duke his brother, and all the bishops, with divers noblemen.

23d December, 1661. I heard an Italian play and sing to the guitar with

extraordinary skill before the Duke.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

1st January, 1661-62. I went to London, invited to the solemn foolery of

the Prince de la Grange, at Lincoln's-Inn, where came the King, Duke,

etc. It began with a grand masque, and a formal pleading before the mock

Princes, Grandees, Nobles, and Knights of the Sun. He had his Lord

Chancellor, Chamberlain, Treasurer, and other Royal Officers, gloriously

clad and attended. It ended in a magnificent banquet. One Mr. Lort was

the young spark who maintained the pageantry.

6th January, 1662. This evening, according to custom, his Majesty opened

the revels of that night by throwing the dice himself in the privy

chamber, where was a table set on purpose, and lost his £100. (The year

before he won £1,500.) The ladies also played very deep. I came away when

the Duke of Ormond had won about £1,000, and left them still at passage,

cards, etc. At other tables, both there and at the groom-porter's,

observing the wicked folly and monstrous excess of passion among some

losers; sorry am I that such a wretched custom as play to that excess

should be countenanced in a Court, which ought to be an example of virtue

to the rest of the kingdom.

9th January, 1662. I saw acted "The Third Part of the Siege of Rhodes."

In this acted the fair and famous comedian called Roxalana from the part

she performed; and I think it was the last, she being taken to be the

Earl of Oxford's MISS (as at this time they began to call lewd women). It

was in recitative music.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

10th January, 1662. Being called into his Majesty's closet when Mr.

Cooper, the rare limner, was crayoning of the King's face and head, to

make the stamps for the new milled money now contriving, I had the honor

to hold the candle while it was doing, he choosing the night and

candlelight for the better finding out the shadows. During this, his

Majesty discoursed with me on several things relating to painting and

graving.

11th January, 1662. I dined at Arundel House, where I heard excellent

music performed by the ablest masters, both French and English, on

theorbos, viols, organs, and voices, as an exercise against the coming of

the Queen, purposely composed for her chapel. Afterward, my Lord Aubigny

(her Majesty's Almoner to be) showed us his elegant lodging, and his

wheel-chair for ease and motion, with divers other curiosities;

especially a kind of artificial glass, or porcelain, adorned with

relievos of paste, hard and beautiful. Lord Aubigny (brother to the Duke

of Lennox) was a person of good sense, but wholly abandoned to ease and

effeminacy.

I received of Sir Peter Ball, the Queen's attorney, a draft of an Act

against the nuisance of the smoke of London, to be reformed by removing

several trades which are the cause of it, and endanger the health of the

King and his people. It was to have been offered to the Parliament, as

his Majesty commanded.

12th January, 1662. At St. James's chapel preached, or rather harangued,

the famous orator, Monsieur Morus, in French. There were present the

King, Duke, French Ambassador, Lord Aubigny, Earl of Bristol, and a world

of Roman Catholics, drawn thither to hear this eloquent Protestant.

15th January, 1662. There was a general fast through the whole nation,

and now celebrated in London, to avert God's heavy judgments on this

land. Great rain had fallen without any frost, or seasonable cold, not

only in England, but in Sweden, and the most northern parts, being here

near as warm as at midsummer in some years.

This solemn fast was held for the House of Commons at St. Margaret's. Dr.

Reeves, Dean of Windsor, preached on Joshua vii. 12, showing how the

neglect of exacting justice on offenders (by which he insinuated such of

the old King's murderers as were yet reprieved and in the Tower) was a

main cause of God's punishing a land. He brought in that of the

Gibeonites, as well as Achan and others, concluding with an eulogy of the

Parliament for their loyalty in restoring the Bishops and Clergy, and

vindicating the Church from sacrilege.

16th January, 1662. Having notice of the Duke of York's intention to

visit my poor habitation and garden this day, I returned, when he was

pleased to do me that honor of his own accord, and to stay some time

viewing such things as I had to entertain his curiosity. Afterward he

caused me to dine with him at the Treasurer of the Navy's house, and to

sit with him covered at the same table. There were his Highness, the Duke

of Ormond, and several Lords. Then they viewed some of my grounds about a

project for a receptacle for ships to be moored in, which was laid aside

as a fancy of Sir Nicholas Crisp. After this, I accompanied the Duke to

an East India vessel that lay at Blackwall, where we had entertainment of

several curiosities. Among other spirituous drinks, as punch, etc., they

gave us Canary that had been carried to and brought from the Indies,

which was indeed incomparably good. I returned to London with his

Highness. This night was acted before his Majesty "The Widow," a lewd

play.

18th January, 1662. I came home to be private a little, not at all

affecting the life and hurry of Court.

24th January, 1662. His Majesty entertained me with his intentions of

building his Palace of Greenwich, and quite demolishing the old one; on

which I declared my thoughts.

25th January, 1662. I dined with the Trinity Company at their house, that

corporation being by charter fixed at Deptford.

3d February, 1662. I went to Chelsea, to see Sir Arthur Gorges' house.

11th February, 1662. I saw a comedy acted before the Duchess of York at

the Cockpit. The King was not at it.

17th February, 1662. I went with my Lord of Bristol to see his house at

Wimbledon, newly bought of the Queen-Mother, to help contrive the garden

after the modern. It is a delicious place for prospect and the thickets,

but the soil cold and weeping clay. Returned that evening with Sir Henry

Bennett.

This night was buried in Westminster Abbey the Queen of Bohemia, after

all her sorrows and afflictions being come to die in the arms of her

nephew, the King; also this night and the next day fell such a storm of

hail, thunder, and lightning, as never was seen the like in any man's

memory, especially the tempest of wind, being southwest, which subverted,

besides huge trees, many houses, innumerable chimneys (among others that

of my parlor at Sayes Court), and made such havoc at land and sea, that

several perished on both. Divers lamentable fires were also kindled at

this time; so exceedingly was God's hand against this ungrateful and

vicious nation and Court.

20th February, 1662. I returned home to repair my house, miserably

shattered by the late tempest.

24th March, 1662. I returned home with my whole family, which had been

most part of the winter, since October, at London, in lodgings near the

Abbey of Westminster.

6th April, 1662. Being of the Vestry, in the afternoon we ordered that

the communion-table should be set (as usual) altar-wise, with a decent

rail in front, as before the Rebellion.

17th April, 1662. The young Marquis of Argyle, whose turbulent father was

executed in Scotland, came to see my garden. He seemed a man of parts.

7th May, 1662. I waited on Prince Rupert to our Assembly where were tried

several experiments in Mr. Boyle's VACUUM. A man thrusting in his arm,

upon exhaustion of the air, had his flesh immediately swelled so as the

blood was near bursting the veins: he drawing it out, we found it all

speckled.

14th May, 1662. To London, being chosen one of the Commissioners for

reforming the buildings, ways, streets, and incumbrances, and regulating

the hackney coaches in the city of London, taking my oath before my Lord

Chancellor, and then went to his Majesty's Surveyor's office, in Scotland

Yard, about naming and establishing officers, adjourning till the 16th,

when I went to view how St. Martin's Lane might be made more passable

into the Strand. There were divers gentlemen of quality in this

commission.

25th May, 1662. I went this evening to London, in order to our journey

to Hampton Court, to see the Queen; who, having landed at Portsmouth, had

been married to the King a week before by the Bishop of London.

30th May, 1662. The Queen arrived with a train of Portuguese ladies in

their monstrous fardingales, or guard-infantes, their complexions

olivader[70] and sufficiently unagreeable. Her Majesty in the same habit,

her foretop long and turned aside very strangely. She was yet of the

handsomest countenance of all the rest, and, though low of stature,

prettily shaped, languishing and excellent eyes, her teeth wronging her

mouth by sticking a little too far out; for the rest, lovely enough.

[Footnote 70: Of a dark olive complexion. It has been noticed in

other accounts that Katharine of Braganza's Portuguese Ladies of

Honor, who came over with her, were uncommonly ill-favored, and

disagreeable in their appearance. See Faithorne's curious print of

the Queen in the costume here described.]

31st May, 1662. I saw the Queen at dinner; the Judges came to compliment

her arrival, and, after them, the Duke of Ormond brought me to kiss her

hand.

2d June, 1662. The Lord Mayor and Aldermen made their addresses to the

Queen, presenting her £1,000 in gold. Now saw I her Portuguese ladies,

and the Guardadamas, or mother of her maids,[71] and the old knight, a

lock of whose hair quite covered the rest of his bald pate, bound on by a

thread, very oddly. I saw the rich gondola sent to his Majesty from the

State of Venice; but it was not comparable for swiftness to our common

wherries, though managed by Venetians.

[Footnote 71: The Maids of Honor had a mother at least as early as

the reign of Elizabeth. The office is supposed to have been

abolished about the period of the Revolution of 1688.]

4th June, 1662. Went to visit the Earl of Bristol, at Wimbledon.

8th June, 1662. I saw her Majesty at supper privately in her bedchamber.

9th June, 1662. I heard the Queen's Portugal music, consisting of pipes,

harps, and very ill voices.

[Sidenote: HAMPTON COURT]

Hampton Court is as noble and uniform a pile, and as capacious as any

Gothic architecture can have made it. There is an incomparable furniture

in it, especially hangings designed by Raphael, very rich with gold; also

many rare pictures, especially the Cæsarean Triumphs of Andrea Mantegna,

formerly the Duke of Mantua's; of the tapestries, I believe the world can

show nothing nobler of the kind than the stories of Abraham and Tobit.

The gallery of horns is very particular for the vast beams of stags,

elks, antelopes, etc. The Queen's bed was an embroidery of silver on

crimson velvet, and cost £8,000, being a present made by the States of

Holland when his Majesty returned, and had formerly been given by them to

our King's sister, the Princess of Orange, and, being bought of her

again, was now presented to the King. The great looking-glass and toilet,

of beaten and massive gold, was given by the Queen-Mother. The Queen

brought over with her from Portugal such Indian cabinets as had never

before been seen here. The great hall is a most magnificent room. The

chapel roof excellently fretted and gilt. I was also curious to visit the

wardrobe and tents, and other furniture of state. The park, formerly a

flat and naked piece of ground, now planted with sweet rows of lime

trees; and the canal for water now near perfected; also the air-park. In

the garden is a rich and noble fountain, with Sirens, statues, etc., cast

in copper, by Fanelli; but no plenty of water. The cradle-work of horn

beam in the garden is, for the perplexed twining of the trees, very

observable. There is a parterre which they call Paradise, in which is a

pretty banqueting-house set over a cave, or cellar. All these gardens

might be exceedingly improved, as being too narrow for such a palace.

10th June, 1662. I returned to London, and presented my "History of

Chalcography" (dedicated to Mr. Boyle) to our Society.[72]

[Footnote 72: See Evelyn's "Miscellaneous Writings."]

19 June, 1662. I went to Albury, to visit Mr. Henry Howard, soon after he

had procured the Dukedom to be restored. This gentleman had now

compounded a debt of £200,000, contracted by his grandfather. I was much

obliged to that great virtuoso, and to this young gentleman, with whom I

stayed a fortnight.

2d July, 1662. We hunted and killed a buck in the park, Mr. Howard

inviting most of the gentlemen of the country near him.

3d July, 1662. My wife met me at Woodcot, whither Mr. Howard accompanied

me to see my son John, who had been much brought up among Mr. Howard's

children at Arundel House, till, for fear of their perverting him in the

Catholic religion, I was forced to take him home.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

8th July, 1662. To London, to take leave of the Duke and Duchess of

Ormond, going then into Ireland with an extraordinary retinue.

13th July, 1662. Spent some time with the Lord Chancellor, where I had

discourse with my Lord Willoughby, Governor of Barbadoes, concerning

divers particulars of that colony.

28th July, 1662. His Majesty going to sea to meet the Queen-Mother, now

coming again for England, met with such ill weather as greatly endangered

him. I went to Greenwich, to wait on the Queen, now landed.

30th July, 1662. To London, where was a meeting about Charitable Uses,

and particularly to inquire how the city had disposed of the revenues of

Gresham College, and why the salaries of the professors there were no

better improved. I was on this commission, with divers Bishops and Lords

of the Council; but little was the progress we could make.

31st July, 1662. I sat with the Commissioners about reforming buildings

and streets of London, and we ordered the paving of the way from St.

James's North, which was a quagmire, and also of the Haymarket about

Piqudillo [Piccadilly], and agreed upon instructions to be printed and

published for the better keeping the streets clean.

1st August, 1662. Mr. H. Howard, his brothers Charles, Edward, Bernard,

Philip,[73] now the Queen's Almoner (all brothers of the Duke of Norfolk,

still in Italy), came with a great train, and dined with me; Mr. H.

Howard leaving with me his eldest and youngest sons, Henry and Thomas,

for three or four days, my son, John, having been sometime bred up in

their father's house.

[Footnote 73: Since Cardinal at Rome. "Evelyn's Note."]

4th August, 1662. Came to see me the old Countess of Devonshire, with

that excellent and worthy person, my Lord her son, from Roehampton.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

5th August, 1662. To London, and next day to Hampton Court, about my

purchase, and took leave of Sir R. Fanshawe, now going Ambassador to

Portugal.

13th August, 1662. Our Charter being now passed under the broad Seal,

constituting us a corporation under the name of the Royal Society for the

improvement of natural knowledge by experiment, was this day read and was

all that was done this afternoon, being very large.

14th August, 1662. I sat on the commission for Charitable Uses, the Lord

Mayor and others of the Mercers' Company being summoned, to answer some

complaints of the Professors, grounded on a clause in the will of Sir

Thomas Gresham, the founder.

This afternoon, the Queen-Mother, with the Earl of St. Alban's and many

great ladies and persons, was pleased to honor my poor villa with her

presence, and to accept of a collation. She was exceedingly pleased, and

staid till very late in the evening.

15th August, 1662. Came my Lord Chancellor (the Earl of Clarendon) and

his lady, his purse and mace borne before him, to visit me. They were

likewise collationed with us, and were very merry. They had all been our

old acquaintance in exile, and indeed this great person had ever been my

friend. His son, Lord Cornbury, was here, too.

17th August, 1662. Being the Sunday when the Common Prayer Book, reformed

and ordered to be used for the future, was appointed to be read, and the

solemn League and Covenant to be abjured by all the incumbents of England

under penalty of losing their livings; our vicar read it this morning.

20th August, 1662. There were strong guards in the city this day,

apprehending some tumults, many of the Presbyterian ministers not

conforming. I dined with the Vice-Chamberlain, and then went to see the

Queen-Mother, who was pleased to give me many thanks for the

entertainment she received at my house, when she recounted to me many

observable stories of the sagacity of some dogs she formerly had.

21st August, 1662. I was admitted and then sworn one of the Council of

the Royal Society, being nominated in his Majesty's original grant to be

of this Council for the regulation of the Society, and making laws and

statutes conducible to its establishment and progress, for which we now

set apart every Wednesday morning till they were all finished. Lord

Viscount Brouncker (that excellent mathematician) was also by his

Majesty, our founder, nominated our first President. The King gave us the

arms of England to be borne in a canton in our arms, and sent us a mace

of silver gilt, of the same fashion and size as those carried before his

Majesty, to be borne before our president on meeting days. It was brought

by Sir Gilbert Talbot, master of his Majesty's jewel house.

22d August, 1662. I dined with my Lord Brouncker and Sir Robert Murray,

and then went to consult about a newly modeled ship at Lambeth, the

intention being to reduce that art to as certain a method as any other

part of architecture.

23d August, 1662. I was spectator of the most magnificent triumph that

ever floated on the Thames, considering the innumerable boats and

vessels, dressed and adorned with all imaginable pomp, but, above all,

the thrones, arches, pageants, and other representations, stately barges

of the Lord Mayor and companies, with various inventions, music, and

peals of ordnance both from the vessels and the shore, going to meet and

conduct the new Queen from Hampton Court to Whitehall, at the first time

of her coming to town. In my opinion, it far exceeded all the Venetian

Bucentoras, etc., on the Ascension, when they go to espouse the Adriatic.

His Majesty and the Queen came in an antique-shaped open vessel, covered

with a state, or canopy, of cloth of gold, made in form of a cupola,

supported with high Corinthian pillars, wreathed with flowers, festoons

and garlands. I was in our newly built vessel, sailing among them.

29th August, 1662. The Council and Fellows of the Royal Society went in a

body to Whitehall, to acknowledge his Majesty's royal grace in granting

our Charter, and vouchsafing to be himself our founder; when the

President made an eloquent speech, to which his Majesty gave a gracious

reply and we all kissed his hand. Next day we went in like manner with

our address to my Lord Chancellor, who had much promoted our patent: he

received us with extraordinary favor. In the evening I went to the

Queen-Mother's Court, and had much discourse with her.

1st September, 1662. Being invited by Lord Berkeley, I went to Durdans,

where dined his Majesty, the Queen, Duke, Duchess, Prince Rupert, Prince

Edward, and abundance of noblemen. I went, after dinner, to visit my

brother of Woodcot, my sister having been delivered of a son a little

before, but who had now been two days dead.

4th September, 1662. Commission for Charitable Uses, my Lord Mayor and

Aldermen being again summoned, and the improvements of Sir Thomas

Gresham's estate examined. There were present the Bishop of London, the

Lord Chief Justice, and the King's attorney.

6th September, 1662. Dined with me Sir Edward Walker, Garter

King-at-Arms, Mr. Slingsby, master of the Mint, and several others.

17th September, 1662. We now resolved that the Arms of the Society should

be a field argent, with a canton of the arms of England; the supporters

two talbots argent; crest, an eagle Or holding a shield with the like

arms of England, viz, three lions. The words "_Nullius in verbâ_." It was

presented to his Majesty for his approbation, and orders given to Garter

King-at-Arms to pass the diploma of their office for it.

20th September, 1662. I presented a petition to his Majesty about my own

concerns, and afterward accompanied him to Monsieur Febure his chemist

(and who had formerly been my master in Paris), to see his accurate

preparation for the composing Sir Walter Raleigh's rare cordial: he made

a learned discourse before his Majesty in French on each ingredient.

27th September, 1662. Came to visit me Sir George Saville, grandson to

the learned Sir Henry Saville, who published St. Chrysostom. Sir George

was a witty gentleman, if not a little too prompt and daring.

3d October, 1662. I was invited to the College of Physicians, where Dr.

Meret, a learned man and library-keeper, showed me the library, theater

for anatomy, and divers natural curiosities; the statue and epigram under

it of that renowned physician, Dr. Harvey, discoverer of the circulation

of the blood. There I saw Dr. Gilbert, Sir William Paddy's and other

pictures of men famous in their faculty.

Visited Mr. Wright, a Scotchman, who had lived long at Rome, and was

esteemed a good painter. The pictures of the Judges at Guildhall are of

his hand, and so are some pieces in Whitehall, as the roof in his

Majesty's old bedchamber, being Astræa, the St. Catherine, and a

chimney-piece in the Queen's privy chamber; but his best, in my opinion,

is Lacy, the famous Roscius or comedian, whom he has painted in three

dresses, as a gallant, a Presbyterian minister, and a Scotch highlander

in his plaid. It is in his Majesty's dining room at Windsor. He had at

his house an excellent collection, especially that small piece of

Correggio, Scotus of de la Marca, a design of Paulo; and, above all,

those ruins of Polydore, with some good agates and medals, especially a

Scipio, and a Cæsar's head of gold.

15th October, 1662. I this day delivered my "Discourse concerning Forest

Trees" to the Society, upon occasion of certain queries sent to us by the

Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy, being the first book that was

printed by order of the Society, and by their printer, since it was a

corporation.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

16th October, 1662. I saw "_Volpone_" acted at Court before their

Majesties.

21st October, 1662. To the Queen-Mother's Court, where her Majesty

related to us divers passages of her escapes during the Rebellion and

wars in England.

28th October, 1662. To Court in the evening where the Queen-Mother, the

Queen-Consort, and his Majesty being advertised of some disturbance,

forbore to go to the Lord Mayor's show and feast appointed next day, the

new Queen not having yet seen that triumph.

29th October, 1662. Was my Lord Mayor's show, with a number of sumptuous

pageants, speeches, and verses. I was standing in a house in Cheapside

against the place prepared for their Majesties. The Prince and heir of

Denmark was there, but not our King. There were also the maids of honor.

I went to Court this evening, and had much discourse with Dr. Basiers,

one of his Majesty's chaplains, the great traveler, who showed me the

syngraphs and original subscriptions of divers eastern patriarchs and

Asian churches to our confession.

4th November, 1662. I was invited to the wedding of the daughter of Sir

George Carteret (The Treasurer of the Navy and King's Vice-Chamberlain),

married to Sir Nicholas Slaning, Knight of the Bath, by the Bishop of

London, in the Savoy chapel; after which was an extraordinary feast.

5th November, 1662. The Council of the Royal Society met to amend the

Statutes, and dined together; afterward meeting at Gresham College, where

was a discourse suggested by me, concerning planting his Majesty's Forest

of Dean with oak, now so much exhausted of the choicest ship timber in

the world.

20th November, 1662. Dined with the Comptroller, Sir Hugh Pollard;

afterward saw "The Young Admiral" acted before the King.

21st November, 1662. Spent the evening at Court, Sir Kenelm Digby giving

me great thanks for my "Sylva."

[Sidenote: LONDON]

27th November, 1662. Went to London to see the entrance of the Russian

Ambassador, whom his Majesty ordered to be received with much state, the

Emperor not only having been kind to his Majesty in his distress, but

banishing all commerce with our nation during the Rebellion.

First, the city companies and trained bands were all in their stations:

his Majesty's army and guards in great order. His Excellency came in a

very rich coach, with some of his chief attendants; many of the rest on

horseback, clad in their vests, after the Eastern manner, rich furs,

caps, and carrying the presents, some carrying hawks, furs, teeth, bows,

etc. It was a very magnificent show.

I dined with the Master of the Mint, where was old Sir Ralph Freeman;[74]

passing my evening at the Queen-Mother's Court; at night, saw acted "The

Committee," a ridiculous play of Sir R. Howard, where the mimic, Lacy,

acted the Irish footman to admiration.

[Footnote 74: Of Betchworth, in Surrey.]

30th November, 1662. St. Andrew's day. Invited by the Dean of Westminster

to his consecration dinner and ceremony, on his being made Bishop of

Worcester. Dr. Bolton preached in the Abbey Church; then followed the

consecration by the Bishops of London, Chichester, Winchester, Salisbury,

etc. After this, was one of the most plentiful and magnificent dinners

that in my life I ever saw; it cost near £600 as I was informed. Here

were the judges, nobility, clergy, and gentlemen innumerable, this Bishop

being universally beloved for his sweet and gentle disposition. He was

author of those Characters which go under the name of Blount. He

translated his late Majesty's "Icon" into Latin, was Clerk of his Closet,

Chaplain, Dean of Westminster, and yet a most humble, meek, and cheerful

man, an excellent scholar, and rare preacher. I had the honor to be loved

by him. He married me at Paris, during his Majesty's and the Church's

exile. When I took leave of him, he brought me to the cloisters in his

episcopal habit. I then went to prayers at Whitehall, where I passed that

evening.

1st December, 1662. Having seen the strange and wonderful dexterity of

the sliders on the new canal in St. James's Park, performed before their

Majesties by divers gentlemen and others with skates, after the manner of

the Hollanders, with what swiftness they pass, how suddenly they stop in

full career upon the ice; I went home by water, but not without exceeding

difficulty, the Thames being frozen, great flakes of ice encompassing our

boat.

17th December, 1662, I saw acted before the King "The Law against

Lovers."[75]

[Footnote 75: By Sir William Davenant, a hotch-potch out of "Measure

for Measure" and "Much Ado about Nothing."]

21st December, 1662. One of his Majesty's chaplains preached; after

which, instead of the ancient, grave, and solemn wind music accompanying

the organ, was introduced a concert of twenty-four violins between every

pause, after the French fantastical light way, better suiting a tavern,

or playhouse, than a church. This was the first time of change, and now

we no more heard the cornet which gave life to the organ; that instrument

quite left off in which the English were so skillful. I dined at Mr.

Povey's, where I talked with Cromer, a great musician.

23d December, 1662. I went with Sir George Tuke, to hear the comedians

con and repeat his new comedy, "The Adventures of Five Hours," a play

whose plot was taken out of the famous Spanish poet, Calderon.

27th December, 1662. I visited Sir Theophilus Biddulph.

29th December, 1662. Saw the audience of the Muscovy Ambassador, which

was with extraordinary state, his retinue being numerous, all clad in

vests of several colors, with buskins, after the Eastern manner! their

caps of fur; tunics, richly embroidered with gold and pearls, made a

glorious show. The King being seated under a canopy in the Banqueting

House, the Secretary of the Embassy went before the Ambassador in a grave

march, holding up his master's letters of credence in a crimson taffeta

scarf before his forehead. The Ambassador then delivered it with a

profound reverence to the King, who gave it to our Secretary of State: it

was written in a long and lofty style. Then came in the presents, borne

by 165 of his retinue, consisting of mantles and other large pieces lined

with sable, black fox, and ermine; Persian carpets, the ground cloth of

gold and velvet; hawks, such as they said never came the like; horses

said to be Persian; bows and arrows, etc. These borne by so long a train

rendered it very extraordinary. Wind music played all the while in the

galleries above. This finished, the Ambassador was conveyed by the master

of the ceremonies to York House, where he was treated with a banquet,

which cost £200, as I was assured.

7th January, 1663. At night I saw the ball, in which his Majesty danced

with several great ladies.

8th January, 1663. I went to see my kinsman, Sir George Tuke's, comedy

acted at the Duke's theater, which took so universally, that it was acted

for some weeks every day, and it was believed it would be worth to the

comedians £400 or £500. The plot was incomparable; but the language stiff

and formal.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

10th January, 1663. I saw a ball again at Court, danced by the King, the

Duke, and ladies, in great pomp.

21st January, 1663. Dined at Mr. Treasurer's, of the Household, Sir

Charles Berkeley's, where were the Earl of Oxford, Lord Bellassis, Lord

Gerard, Sir Andrew Scrope, Sir William Coventry, Dr. Fraser, Mr. Windham,

and others.

5th February, 1663. I saw "The Wild Gallant," a comedy;[76] and was at

the great ball at Court, where his Majesty, the Queen, etc., danced.

[Footnote 76: By Dryden. It was unsuccessful on the first

representation, but was subsequently altered to the form in which it

now appears.]

6th February, 1663. Dined at my Lord Mayor's, Sir John Robinson,

Lieutenant of the Tower.

15th February, 1663. This night some villains broke into my house and

study below, and robbed me to the value of £60 in plate, money and

goods:--this being the third time I have been thus plundered.

26th March, 1663. I sat at the Commission of Sewers, where was a great

case pleaded by his Majesty's counsel; he having built a wall over a

water course, denied the jurisdiction of the Court. The verdict went for

the plaintiff.[77]

[Footnote 77: That is against the King.]

30th April, 1663. Came his Majesty to honor my poor villa with his

presence, viewing the gardens, and even every room of the house, and was

pleased to take a small refreshment. There were with him the Duke of

Richmond, Earl of St. Alban's, Lord Lauderdale, and several persons of

quality.

14th May, 1663. Dined with my Lord Mordaunt, and thence went to Barnes,

to visit my excellent and ingenious friend, Abraham Cowley.

17th May, 1663. I saluted the old Bishop of Durham, Dr. Cosin, to whom I

had been kind, and assisted in his exile; but which he little remembered

in his greatness.

29th May, 1663. Dr. Creighton preached his extravagant sermon at St.

Margaret's, before the House of Commons.

30th May, 1663. This morning was passed my lease of Sayes Court from the

Crown, for the finishing of which I had been obliged to make such

frequent journeys to London. I returned this evening, having seen the

Russian Ambassador take leave of their Majesties with great solemnity.

2d July, 1663. I saw the great Masque at Court, and lay that night at

Arundel House.

4th July, 1663. I saw his Majesty's Guards, being of horse and foot

4,000, led by the General, the Duke of Albemarle, in extraordinary

equipage and gallantry, consisting of gentlemen of quality and veteran

soldiers, excellently clad, mounted, and ordered, drawn up in battalia

before their Majesties in Hyde Park, where the old Earl of Cleveland

trailed a pike, and led the right-hand file in a foot company, commanded

by the Lord Wentworth, his son; a worthy spectacle and example, being

both of them old and valiant soldiers. This was to show the French

Ambassador, Monsieur Comminges; there being a great assembly of coaches,

etc., in the park.

7th July, 1663. Dined at the Comptroller's; after dinner we met at the

Commission about the streets, and to regulate hackney coaches, also to

make up our accounts to pass the Exchequer.

16th July, 1663. A most extraordinary wet and cold season.

Sir George Carteret, Treasurer of the Navy, had now married his daughter,

Caroline, to Sir Thomas Scott, of Scott's Hall, in Kent. This gentleman

was thought to be the son of Prince Rupert.

2d August, 1663. This evening I accompanied Mr. Treasurer and

Vice-Chamberlain Carteret to his lately married son-in-law's, Sir Thomas

Scott, to Scott's Hall. We took barge as far as Gravesend, and thence by

post to Rochester, whence in coach and six horses to Scott's Hall; a

right noble seat, uniformly built, with a handsome gallery. It stands in

a park well stored, the land fat and good. We were exceedingly feasted by

the young knight, and in his pretty chapel heard an excellent sermon by

his chaplain. In the afternoon, preached the learned Sir Norton

Knatchbull (who has a noble seat hard by, and a plantation of stately fir

trees). In the churchyard of the parish church I measured an overgrown

yew tree, that was eighteen of my paces in compass, out of some branches

of which, torn off by the winds, were sawed divers goodly planks.

10th August, 1663. We returned by Sir Norton's, whose house is likewise

in a park. This gentleman is a worthy person, and learned critic,

especially in Greek and Hebrew. Passing by Chatham, we saw his Majesty's

Royal Navy, and dined at Commissioner Pett's,[78] master-builder there,

who showed me his study and models, with other curiosities belonging to

his art. He is esteemed for the most skillful shipbuilder in the world.

He hath a pretty garden and banqueting house, pots, statues, cypresses,

resembling some villas about Rome. After a great feast we rode post to

Gravesend, and, sending the coach to London, came by barge home that

night.

[Footnote 78: A monument to him in Deptford Church bears a most

pompous inscription: "_Qui fuit patriæ decus, patriæ suæ magnum

munimentum_;" to the effect that he had not only restored our naval

affairs, but he invented that excellent and new ornament of the Navy

which we call Frigate, formidable to our enemies, to us most useful

and safe: he was to be esteemed, indeed, by this invention, the Noah

of his age, which, like another Ark, had snatched from shipwreck our

rights and our dominion of the seas.]

[Sidenote: LONDON]

18th August, 1663. To London, to see my Lord Chancellor, where I had

discourse with my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of

Winchester, who enjoined me to write to Dr. Pierce, President of Magdalen

College, Oxford, about a letter sent him by Dr. Goffe, a Romish

Oratorian, concerning an answer to Dean Cressy's late book.

20th August, 1663. I dined at the Comptroller's [of the Household] with

the Earl of Oxford and Mr. Ashburnham; it was said it should be the last

of the public diets, or tables, at Court, it being determined to put down

the old hospitality, at which was great murmuring, considering his

Majesty's vast revenue and the plenty of the nation. Hence, I went to sit

in a Committee, to consider about the regulation of the Mint at the

Tower; in which some small progress was made.

27th August, 1663. Dined at Sir Philip Warwick's, Secretary to my Lord

Treasurer, who showed me the accounts and other private matters relating

to the revenue. Thence, to the Commissioners of the Mint, particularly

about coinage, and bringing his Majesty's rate from fifteen to ten

shillings for every pound weight of gold.

31st August, 1663. I was invited to the translation of Dr. Sheldon,

Bishop of London, from that see to Canterbury, the ceremony performed at

Lambeth. First, went his Grace's mace bearer, steward, treasurer,

comptroller, all in their gowns, and with white staves; next, the bishops

in their habits, eight in number; Dr. Sweate, Dean of the Arches, Dr.

Exton, Judge of the Admiralty, Sir William Merick, Judge of the

Prerogative Court, with divers advocates in scarlet. After divine service

in the chapel, performed with music extraordinary, Dr. French and Dr.

Stradling (his Grace's chaplains) said prayers. The Archbishop in a

private room looking into the chapel, the bishops, who were

commissioners, went up to a table placed before the altar, and sat round

it in chairs. Then Dr. Chaworth presented the commission under the broad

seal to the Bishop of Winchester, and it was read by Dr. Sweate. After

which, the Vicar-General went to the vestry, and brought his Grace into

the chapel, his other officers marching before. He being presented to the

Commissioners, was seated in a great armchair at one end of the table,

when the definitive sentence was read by the Bishop of Winchester, and

subscribed by all the bishops, and proclamation was three times made at

the chapel door, which was then set open for any to enter, and give their

exceptions; if any they had. This done, we all went to dinner in the

great hall to a mighty feast. There were present all the nobility in

town, the Lord Mayor of London, Sheriffs, Duke of Albemarle, etc. My Lord

Archbishop did in particular most civilly welcome me. So going to visit

my Lady Needham, who lived at Lambeth, I went over to London.

10th September, 1663. I dined with Mr. Treasurer of the Navy, where,

sitting by Mr. Secretary Morice, we had much discourse about books and

authors, he being a learned man, and had a good collection.

24th October, 1663. Mr. Edward Phillips came to be my son's preceptor:

this gentleman was nephew to Milton, who wrote against Salmasius's

"_Defensio_"; but was not at all infected with his principles, though

brought up by him.

5th November, 1663. Dr. South, my Lord Chancellor's chaplain, preached at

Westminster Abbey an excellent discourse concerning obedience to

magistrates, against the pontificians and sectaries. I afterward dined at

Sir Philip Warwick's, where was much company.

6th November, 1663. To Court, to get Sir John Evelyn, of Godstone, off

from being Sheriff of Surrey.

30th November, 1663. Was the first anniversary of our Society for the

choice of new officers, according to the tenor of our patent and

institution. It being St. Andrew's day, who was our patron, each fellow

wore a St. Andrew's cross of ribbon on the crown of his hat. After the

election we dined together, his Majesty sending us venison.

16th December, 1663. To our Society, where Mr. P. Balle, our treasurer at

the late election, presented the Society with an iron chest, having three

locks, and in it £100 as a gift.

18th December, 1663. Dined with the gentlemen of his Majesty's bedchamber

at Whitehall.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

2d January, 1663-64. To Barn Elms, to see Abraham Cowley after his

sickness; and returned that evening to London.

4th February, 1664. Dined at Sir Philip Warwick's; thence, to Court,

where I had discourse with the King about an invention of glass-grenades,

and several other subjects.

5th February, 1664. I saw "The Indian Queen" acted, a tragedy well

written,[79] so beautiful with rich scenes as the like had never been

seen here, or haply (except rarely) elsewhere on a mercenary theater.

[Footnote 79: By Sir Robert Howard and Dryden.]

16th February, 1664. I presented my "Sylva" to the Society; and next day

to his Majesty, to whom it was dedicated; also to the Lord Treasurer and

the Lord Chancellor.

24th February, 1664. My Lord George Berkeley, of Durdans, and Sir Samuel

Tuke came to visit me. We went on board Sir William Petty's

double-bottomed vessel, and so to London.

26th February, 1664. Dined with my Lord Chancellor; and thence to Court,

where I had great thanks for my "Sylva," and long discourse with the King

of divers particulars.

2d March, 1664. Went to London to distribute some of my books among

friends.

4th March, 1664. Came to dine with me the Earl of Lauderdale, his

Majesty's great favorite, and Secretary of Scotland; the Earl of Teviot;

my Lord Viscount Brouncker, President of the Royal Society; Dr. Wilkins,

Dean of Ripon; Sir Robert Murray, and Mr. Hooke, Curator to the Society.

This spring I planted the Home field and West field about Sayes Court

with elms, being the same year that the elms were planted by his Majesty

in Greenwich Park.

9th March, 1664. I went to the Tower, to sit in commission about

regulating the Mint; and now it was that the fine new-milled coin, both

of white money and guineas, was established.

26th March, 1664. It pleased God to take away my son, Richard, now a

month old, yet without any sickness of danger perceivably, being to all

appearance a most likely child; we suspected much the nurse had overlain

him; to our extreme sorrow, being now again reduced to one: but God's

will be done.

29th March, 1664. After evening prayers, was my child buried near the

rest of his brothers--my very dear children.

27th April, 1664. Saw a facetious comedy, called "Love in a Tub"; and

supped at Mr. Secretary Bennett's.

3d May, 1664. Came the Earl of Kent, my kinsman, and his Lady, to visit

us.

5th May, 1664. Went with some company a journey of pleasure on the water,

in a barge, with music, and at Mortlake had a great banquet, returning

late. The occasion was, Sir Robert Carr now courting Mrs. Bennett, sister

to the Secretary of State.

6th May, 1664. Went to see Mr. Wright the painter's collection of rare

shells, etc.

8th June, 1664. To our Society, to which his Majesty had sent that

wonderful horn of the fish which struck a dangerous hole in the keel of a

ship in the India sea, which, being broken off with the violence of the

fish, and left in the timber, preserved it from foundering.

9th June, 1664. Sir Samuel Tuke[80] being this morning married to a lady,

kinswoman to my Lord Arundel of Wardour, by the Queen's Lord Almoner, L.

Aubigny in St. James's chapel, solemnized his wedding night at my house

with much company.

[Footnote 80: A Roman Catholic.]

22d June, 1664. One Tomson, a Jesuit, showed me such a collection of

rarities, sent from the Jesuits of Japan and China to their Order at

Paris, as a present to be reserved in their repository, but brought to

London by the East India ships for them, as in my life I had not seen.

The chief things were, rhinoceros's horns; glorious vests, wrought and

embroidered on cloth of gold, but with such lively colors, that for

splendor and vividness we have nothing in Europe that approaches it; a

girdle studded with agates and rubies of great value and size; knives, of

so keen an edge as one could not touch them, nor was the metal of our

color, but more pale and livid; fans, like those our ladies use, but much

larger, and with long handles curiously carved and filled with Chinese

characters; a sort of paper very broad, thin, and fine, like abortive

parchment, and exquisitely polished, of an amber yellow, exceedingly

glorious and pretty to look on, and seeming to be like that which my

Lord Verulam describes in his "_Nova Atlantis_"; several other sorts of

paper, some written, others printed; prints of landscapes, their idols,

saints, pagods, of most ugly serpentine monstrous and hideous shapes, to

which they paid devotion; pictures of men and countries, rarely painted

on a sort of gummed calico, transparent as glass; flowers, trees, beasts,

birds, etc., excellently wrought in a kind of sleeve silk, very natural;

divers drugs that our druggists and physicians could make nothing of,

especially one which the Jesuit called _Lac Tigridis_: it looked like a

fungus, but was weighty like metal, yet was a concretion, or coagulation,

of some other matter; several book MSS.; a grammar of the language

written in Spanish; with innumerable other rarities.

1st July, 1664. Went to see Mr. Povey's elegant house in Lincoln's-Inn

Fields, where the perspective in his court, painted by Streeter, is

indeed excellent, with the vases in imitation of porphyry, and fountains;

the inlaying of his closet; above all, his pretty cellar and ranging of

his wine bottles.

7th July, 1664. To Court, where I subscribed to Sir Arthur Slingsby's

lottery, a desperate debt owing me long since in Paris.

14th July, 1664. I went to take leave of the two Mr. Howards, now going

to Paris, and brought them as far as Bromley; thence to Eltham, to see

Sir John Shaw's new house, now building; the place is pleasant, if not

too wet, but the house not well contrived; especially the roof and rooms

too low pitched, and the kitchen where the cellars should be; the

orangery and aviary handsome, and a very large plantation about it.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

19th July, 1664. To London, to see the event of the lottery which his

Majesty had permitted Sir Arthur Slingsby to set up for one day in the

Banqueting House, at Whitehall; I gaining only a trifle, as well as did

the King, Queen-Consort, and Queen-Mother, for near thirty lots; which

was thought to be contrived very unhandsomely by the master of it, who

was, in truth, a mere shark.

21st July, 1664. I dined with my Lord Treasurer at Southampton House,

where his Lordship used me with singular humanity. I went in the

afternoon to Chelsea, to wait on the Duke of Ormond, and returned to

London.

28th July, 1664. Came to see me Monsieur Zuylichen, Secretary to the

Prince of Orange, an excellent Latin poet, a rare lutinist, with Monsieur

Oudart.

3d August, 1664. To London; a concert of excellent musicians, especially

one Mr. Berkenshaw, that rare artist, who invented a mathematical way of

composure very extraordinary, true as to the exact rules of art, but

without much harmony.

8th August, 1664. Came the sad and unexpected news of the death of Lady

Cotton, wife to my brother George, a most excellent lady.

9th August, 1664. Went with my brother Richard to Wotton, to visit and

comfort my disconsolate brother; and on the 13th saw my friend, Mr.

Charles Howard, at Dipden, near Dorking.

16th August, 1664. I went to see Sir William Ducie's house at Charlton;

which he purchased of my excellent friend, Sir Henry Newton, now nobly

furnished.

22d August, 1664. I went from London to Wotton, to assist at the funeral

of my sister-in-law, the Lady Cotton, buried in our dormitory there, she

being put up in lead. Dr. Owen made a profitable and pathetic discourse,

concluding with an eulogy of that virtuous, pious, and deserving lady. It

was a very solemn funeral, with about fifty mourners. I came back next

day with my wife to London.

2d September, 1664. Came Constantine Huygens, Signor de Zuylichen, Sir

Robert Morris, Mr. Oudart, Mr. Carew, and other friends, to spend the day

with us.

5th October, 1664. To our Society. There was brought a newly-invented

instrument of music, being a harpsichord with gut-strings, sounding like

a concert of viols with an organ, made vocal by a wheel, and a zone of

parchment that rubbed horizontally against the strings.

6th October, 1664. I heard the anniversary oration in praise of Dr.

Harvey, in the Anatomy Theatre in the College of Physicians; after which

I was invited by Dr. Alston, the President, to a magnificent feast.

7th October, 1664. I dined at Sir Nicholas Strood's, one of the Masters

of Chancery, in Great St. Bartholomew's; passing the evening at

Whitehall, with the Queen, etc.

8th October, 1664. Sir William Curtius, his Majesty's Resident in

Germany, came to visit me; he was a wise and learned gentleman, and, as

he told me, scholar to Henry Alstedius, the Encyclopedist.

15th October, 1664. Dined at the Lord Chancellor's, where was the Duke of

Ormond, Earl of Cork, and Bishop of Winchester. After dinner, my Lord

Chancellor and his lady carried me in their coach to see their palace

(for he now lived at Worcester-House in the Strand), building at the

upper end of St. James's street, and to project the garden. In the

evening, I presented him with my book on Architecture,[81] as before I

had done to his Majesty and the Queen-Mother. His lordship caused me to

stay with him in his bedchamber, discoursing of several matters very

late, even till he was going into his bed.

[Footnote 81: "Parallel between Ancient and Modern Architecture,

originally written in French, by Roland Freart, Sieur de Chambray,"

and translated by Evelyn. See his "Miscellaneous Writings."]

17th October, 1664. I went with my Lord Viscount Cornbury, to Cornbury,

in Oxfordshire, to assist him in the planting of the park, and bear him

company, with Mr. Belin and Mr. May, in a coach with six horses; dined at

Uxbridge, lay at Wycombe.

[Sidenote: OXFORD]

18th October, 1664. At Oxford. Went through Woodstock, where we beheld

the destruction of that royal seat and park by the late rebels, and

arrived that evening at Cornbury, a house lately built by the Earl of

Denbigh, in the middle of a sweet park, walled with a dry wall. The house

is of excellent freestone, abounding in that part, (a stone that is fine,

but never sweats, or casts any damp); it is of ample dimensions, has

goodly cellars, the paving of the hall admirable for its close laying. We

designed a handsome chapel that was yet wanting: as Mr. May had the

stables, which indeed are very fair, having set out the walks in the

parks and gardens. The lodge is a pretty solitude, and the ponds very

convenient; the park well stored.

20th October, 1664. Hence, to see the famous wells, natural and

artificial grots and fountains, called Bushell's Wells, at Enstone. This

Bushell had been Secretary to my Lord Verulam. It is an extraordinary

solitude. There he had two mummies; a grot where he lay in a hammock,

like an Indian. Hence, we went to Dichley, an ancient seat of the Lees,

now Sir Henry Lee's; it is a low ancient timber-house, with a pretty

bowling-green. My Lady gave us an extraordinary dinner. This gentleman's

mother was Countess of Rochester, who was also there, and Sir Walter St.

John. There were some pictures of their ancestors, not ill painted; the

great-grandfather had been Knight of the Garter; there was a picture of a

Pope, and our Savior's head. So we returned to Cornbury.

24th October, 1664. We dined at Sir Timothy Tyrill's at Shotover. This

gentleman married the daughter and heir of Dr. James Usher, Archbishop of

Armagh, that learned prelate. There is here in the grove a fountain of

the coldest water I ever felt, and very clear. His plantation of oaks and

other timber is very commendable. We went in the evening to Oxford, lay

at Dr. Hyde's, principal of Magdalen-Hall (related to the Lord

Chancellor), brother to the Lord Chief Justice and that Sir Henry Hyde,

who lost his head for his loyalty. We were handsomely entertained two

days. The Vice-Chancellor, who with Dr. Fell, Dean of Christ Church, the

learned Dr. Barlow, Warden of Queen's, and several heads of houses, came

to visit Lord Cornbury (his father being now Chancellor of the

University), and next day invited us all to dinner. I went to visit Mr.

Boyle (now here), whom I found with Dr. Wallis and Dr. Christopher Wren,

in the tower of the schools, with an inverted tube, or telescope,

observing the discus of the sun for the passing of Mercury that day

before it; but the latitude was so great that nothing appeared; so we

went to see the rarities in the library, where the keepers showed me my

name among the benefactors. They have a cabinet of some medals, and

pictures of the muscular parts of man's body. Thence, to the new theater,

now building at an exceeding and royal expense by the Lord Archbishop of

Canterbury [Sheldon], to keep the Acts in for the future, till now being

in St. Mary's Church. The foundation had been newly laid, and the whole

designed by that incomparable genius my worthy friend, Dr. Christopher

Wren, who showed me the model, not disdaining my advice in some

particulars. Thence, to see the picture on the wall over the altar of All

Souls, being the largest piece of fresco painting (or rather in imitation

of it, for it is in oil of turpentine) in England, not ill designed by

the hand of one Fuller; yet I fear it will not hold long. It seems too

full of nakeds for a chapel.

Thence, to New College, and the painting of Magdalen chapel, which is on

blue cloth in _chiar oscuro_, by one Greenborow, being a _Coena

Domini_, and a "Last Judgment" on the wall by Fuller, as in the other,

but somewhat varied.

Next to Wadham, and the Physic Garden, where were two large locust trees,

and as many platani (plane trees), and some rare plants under the culture

of old Bobart.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

26th October, 1664. We came back to Beaconsfield; next day to London,

where we dined at the Lord Chancellor's, with my Lord Bellasis.

27th October, 1664. Being casually in the privy gallery at Whitehall, his

Majesty gave me thanks before divers lords and noblemen for my book of

"Architecture," and again for my "_Sylva_" saying they were the best

designed and useful for the matter and subject, the best printed and

designed (meaning the _taille-douces_ of the Parallel of Architecture)

that he had seen. He then caused me to follow him alone to one of the

windows, and asked me if I had any paper about me unwritten, and a

crayon; I presented him with both, and then laying it on the

window-stool, he with his own hands designed to me the plot for the

future building of Whitehall, together with the rooms of state, and other

particulars. After this, he talked with me of several matters, asking my

advice, in which I find his Majesty had an extraordinary talent becoming

a magnificent prince.

The same day at Council, there being Commissioners to be made to take

care of such sick and wounded and prisoners of war, as might be expected

upon occasion of a succeeding war and action at sea, war being already

declared against the Hollanders, his Majesty was pleased to nominate me

to be one, with three other gentlemen, Parliament men, viz, Sir William

Doily, Knt. and Bart., Sir Thomas Clifford, and Bullein Rheymes, Esq.;

with a salary of £1,200 a year among us, besides extraordinaries for our

care and attention in time of station, each of us being appointed to a

particular district, mine falling out to be Kent and Sussex, with power

to constitute officers, physicians, chirurgeons, provost-marshals, and to

dispose of half of the hospitals through England. After the Council, we

kissed his Majesty's hand. At this Council I heard Mr. Solicitor Finch

plead most elegantly for the merchants trading to the Canaries, praying

for a new Charter.

29th October, 1664. Was the most magnificent triumph by water and land of

the Lord Mayor. I dined at Guildhall at the upper table, placed next to

Sir H. Bennett, Secretary of State, opposite to my Lord Chancellor and

the Duke of Buckingham, who sat between Monsieur Comminges, the French

Ambassador, Lord Treasurer, the Dukes of Ormond and Albemarle, Earl of

Manchester, Lord Chamberlain, and the rest of the great officers of

state. My Lord Mayor came twice up to us, first drinking in the golden

goblet his Majesty's health, then the French King's as a compliment to

the Ambassador; we returned my Lord Mayor's health, the trumpets and

drums sounding. The cheer was not to be imagined for the plenty and

rarity, with an infinite number of persons at the tables in that ample

hall. The feast was said to cost £1,000. I slipped away in the crowd, and

came home late.

31st October, 1664. I was this day 44 years of age; for which I returned

thanks to Almighty God, begging his merciful protection for the year to

come.

2d November, 1664. Her Majesty, the Queen-Mother, came across the gallery

in Whitehall to give me thanks for my book of "Architecture," which I had

presented to her, with a compliment that I did by no means deserve.

16th November, 1664. We chose our treasurer, clerks, and messengers, and

appointed our seal, which I ordered should be the good Samaritan, with

this motto, "_Fac similiter_." Painters' Hall was lent us to meet in. In

the great room were divers pictures, some reasonably good, that had been

given to the Company by several of the wardens and masters of the

Company.

23d November, 1664. Our statutes now finished, were read before a full

assembly of the Royal Society.

24th November, 1664. His Majesty was pleased to tell me what the

conference was with the Holland Ambassador, which, as after I found, was

the heads of the speech he made at the reconvention of the Parliament,

which now began.

2d December, 1664. We delivered the Privy Council's letters to the

Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital, in Southwark, that a moiety of the

house should be reserved for such sick and wounded as should from time to

time be sent from the fleet during the war. This being delivered at their

Court, the President and several Aldermen, Governors of that Hospital,

invited us to a great feast in Fishmongers' Hall.

[Sidenote: LONDON]

20th December, 1664. To London, our last sitting, taking order for our

personal visiting our several districts. I dined at Captain Cocke's (our

treasurer), with that most ingenious gentleman, Matthew Wren, son to the

Bishop of Ely, and Mr. Joseph Williamson, since Secretary of State.

22d December, 1664. I went to the launching of a new ship of two bottoms,

invented by Sir William Petty, on which were various opinions; his

Majesty being present, gave her the name of the "Experiment": so I

returned home, where I found Sir Humphry Winch, who spent the day with

me.

This year I planted the lower grove next the pond at Sayes Court. It was

now exceedingly cold, and a hard, long, frosty season, and the comet was

very visible.

28th December, 1664. Some of my poor neighbors dined with me, and others

of my tenants, according to my annual custom.

31st December, 1664. Set my affairs in order, gave God praise for His

mercies the past year, and prepared for the reception of the Holy

Sacrament, which I partook of the next day, after hearing our minister on

the 4th of Galatians, verses 4, 5, of the mystery of our Blessed Savior's

Incarnation.