The gallery of horns is

The

Abraham and Tobit. 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 £8000, 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. 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 hare-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 hornbeam 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 banquetinghouse set over a cave, or cellar. All these gardens might be exceedingly improved, as being too narrow for such a palace.

10th June. I returned to London, and presented my History of Chalcography (dedicated to Mr. Boyle) to our Society.1

19th. I went to Albury, to visit Mr. Henry

1 [Sculptura: or the History, and Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper . To which is annexed a new Manner of Engraving, or Mezzo Tinto, communicated by his Highness Prince Rupert to the Authour of this Treatise. London: 1662. See ante, p. 158, and Miscellaneous Writings, 1825, pp. 243-336.]

An ample enumeration of the most renowned Masters, and their Works. To which is annexed

A new manner of Engraving, or Mezzo Tinto, communicated by his Highness Prince Rupert to the Authour of this Treatife.

Implevi eum Spiritu Dei, Sapientia, & Intelligentia, Scientia in omni Opere, &c.

LONDON,

Printed by 7. C. for G. Beedle, and T. Collins, at the Middle. Temple Gate,and J. Crook in St. Pauls Church-yard.1662.

FACSIMILE OF THE TITLE-PAGE OF SCULPTURA," 1662

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.

2nd July. We hunted and killed a buck in the park, Mr. Howard inviting most of the gentlemen of the country near him.

3rd. My wife met me at Woodcote, whither Mr. Howard accompanied me to see my son John, who had been much brought up amongst 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.

8th. To London, to take leave of the Duke and Duchess of Ormonde, going then into Ireland with an extraordinary retinue.

13th. Spent some time with the Lord Chancellor, where I had discourse with my Lord Willoughby, Governor of Barbadoes, concerning divers particulars of that colony.

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28th. 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. 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. I sat with the

1 [See ante, vol. i. p. 312.] 3 [See ante, p. 133.]

Commissioners about

2 [See ante, vol. i. pp. 22, 307.]
4 She had left Paris, 25th July.]

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 Piccadilly,' and agreed upon instructions to be printed and published for the better keeping the streets clean.

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1st August. Mr. H. Howard, his brothers Charles, Edward, Bernard, Philip, 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.3

4th. Came to see me the old Countess of Devonshire, with that excellent and worthy person, my Lord her son, from Roehampton.

5th. To London, and next day to Hampton Court, about my purchase, and took leave of Sir R. Fanshawe, now going Ambassador to Portugal.

13th. 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. I sat on the commission for Charitable Uses, the Lord Mayor and others of the Mercers' Company being summoned, to answer some com

1 [Which Evelyn spells " Piqudillo."]

2 Since Cardinal at Rome.-Evelyn's Note. (See ante, vol. i. p. 317.) 3 [See ante, p. 189.]

4 Christiana Cavendish, Countess of Devonshire, d. 1675, an ardent Royalist and patron of the wits. She was the widow of William Cavendish, second Earl of Devonshire. Charles II. frequently visited her with the Queen-Mother and the Royal Family. There is a life of her by Thomas Pomfret, 1685.

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[See ante, p. 51. He was Ambassador to Portugal, 1662-63.]