DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN.

I WAS borne at Wotton, in the county of Surrey, 31st Oct. 1620, after my Father had been married about 7 yeares,1 and my mother had borne him two daughters and one sonn, viz. Eliza 28th Nov. 1614; Jane 16 Feb. 1616; George 18 June, 1617. They had another sonn after me, Richard, born 4th Dec'. 1622.

My Father, named Richard, was of a sanguine complexion, mixed with a dash of choler: his haire inclining to light, which tho' exceeding thick became hoary by that time he was 30 yeares of age; it was somewhat curled towards the extremity; his beard, which he wore a little picked, as the mode was, of a brownish colour, and so continued to the last, save that it was somewhat mingled with grey haires about his cheekes: which, with his countenance, was cleare, and fresh colour'd, his eyes quick and piercing, an ample fore-head, manly aspect; low of stature, but very strong. He was for his life so exact and

1 He was married at St. Thomas's Church, Southwark, 27th Jan. 1613.