estate about it, during my father-in-law's residence in France. On the 15th, I again occupied my own chambers in the Middle Temple.

9th November. My sister opened to me her marriage with Mr. Glanville.1

1647-8: 14th January. From London I went to Wotton, to see my young nephew; and thence to Baynards [in Ewhurst], to visit my brother Richard.

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5th February. Saw a tragi-comedy acted in the Cock-pit, after there had been none of these diversions for many years during the war.

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28th. I went with my noble friend, Sir William Ducie (afterwards Lord Downe), to Thistleworth, where we dined with Sir Clepesby Crew, and afterwards to see the rare miniatures of Peter Oliver," and rounds of plaster, and then the curious flowers of Mr. Barill's garden, who has some good metals and pictures. Sir Clepesby has fine Indian hangings, and a very good chimney-piece of water-colours, by Brueghel, which I bought for him.

26th April. There was a great uproar in London that the rebel army quartering at Whitehall would plunder the City, on which there was published a Proclamation for all to stand on their guard.

1 [Jane Evelyn, who married William Glanville of Devon.] 2 Richard Evelyn's house (see post, under 5th May, 1657).] 3 The son of Sir Robert Ducie, the wealthy Lord Mayor, created a baronet by Charles in 1629; his only return for about £80,000 which Charles I. had borrowed from him. Sir William was made one of the Knights of the Bath, and created Viscount Downe at the coronation of Charles II. Dying without issue, his estates descended to the only daughter of his younger brother, whose son was Lord Ducie in 1720, and from him descended the present Earl of Ducie.

4 [Whose "Nuptiall Song" was written by Herrick.]

5 [Peter Oliver, 1601-60, son of Isaac Oliver, and even more famous as a miniature painter. He also copied the great masters in little (see post, under 1st November, 1660, and 11th May, 1661).]

4th May. Came up the Essex petitioners for an agreement betwixt his Majesty and the rebels. The 16th, the Surrey men addressed the Parliament for the same; of which some of them were slain and murdered by Cromwell's guards, in the New Palace Yard. I now sold the impropriation of South Malling,' near Lewes, in Sussex, to Mr. Kemp and Alcock, for £3000.

30th. There was a rising now in Kent, my Lord of Norwich being at the head of them. Their first rendezvous was in Broome-field, next my house at Sayes Court, whence they went to Maidstone, and so to Colchester, where was that memorable siege.'

27th June. I purchased the manor of Hurcott, in Worcestershire, of my brother George, for £3300. 1st July. I sate for my picture, in which there is a Death's head, to Mr. Walker, that excellent painter.3

10th. News was brought me of my Lord Francis Villiers being slain by the rebels near Kingston.*

16th August. I went to Woodcote (in Epsom) to the wedding of my brother Richard, who

1 [See ante, vol. i. p. 8.]

2 [The Kentish men were defeated by Fairfax, 1st June. A party of them, under the Earl of Norwich (see ante, vol. i. p. 30), tried to enter London, but were foiled by Skippon. They then (12th June) occupied Colchester, which eventually surrendered to Fairfax, 27th August.]

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It was

[Robert Walker, d. 1658?" Cromwell's portrait painter." His portrait, by himself, is in the Public Dining-Room at Hampton Court. The likeness of Evelyn mentioned in the text is now in the picture-gallery at Wotton House. exhibited at South Kensington in 1866. Another portrait of Evelyn by Walker, formerly in the possession of Mr. Watson Taylor, is engraved by W. H. Worthington in vol. v. (1828) of Dallaway's edition of Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, p. 171. See frontispiece to this volume, and post, under 6th August, 1650.]

[Younger brother of the Duke of Buckingham, 1628-48. Clarendon speaks of his "rare beauty" (Hist. Rebellion, 1888, iv. 385).]

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married the daughter and co-heir of Esquire Minn, lately deceased; by which he had a great estate both in land and money on the death of a brother. The coach in which the bride and bridegroom were, was overturned in coming home; but no harm was done.

28th August. To London from Sayes Court, and saw the celebrated follies of Bartholomew Fair.

16th September. Came my lately married brother Richard and his wife, to visit me, when I showed them Greenwich, and her Majesty's Palace, now possessed by the rebels.

28th. I went to Albury, to visit the Countess of Arundel, and returned to Wotton.

31st October. I went to see my manor of Preston Beckhelvyn, and the Cliffhouse.

29th November. Myself, with Mr. Thomas Offley, and Lady Gerrard, christened my Niece Mary, eldest daughter of my brother George Evelyn, by my Lady Cotton, his second wife. I presented my Niece a piece of Plate which cost me £18, and caused this inscription to be set on it:

In memoriam facti :

Anno clɔ Ix. xlix. Cal. Decem. VIII. Virginum castiss: Xtianorum innocentiss: Nept: suavis: Mariæ, Johan: Evelynus Avunculus et Susceptor Vasculum hoc cum Epigraphe L. M. Q. D.

Ave Maria Gratiâ sis plena; Dominus tecum.

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2nd December. This day I sold my manor of Hurcott for £3400 to one Mr. Bridges."

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13th. The Parliament now sat up the whole

[George Minn, or Mynne, of Woodcote. The bride's Christian name was Elizabeth.]

2 [Probably the widow of Thomas, second Earl of Arundel (see ante, vol. i. p. 317).]

3 [Thomas Offley, Groom-Porter. Lady Cotton was daughter of Sir Robert Offley, of Dalby, in Leicestershire.]

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[Ante, p. 5.]

night, and endeavoured to have concluded the Isle of Wight Treaty; but were surprised by the rebel army; the Members dispersed, and great confusion everywhere in expectation of what would be next.

17th December. I heard an Italian sermon, in Mercers' Chapel,' one Dr. Middleton, an acquaintance of mine, preaching.

18th. I got privately into the council of the rebel army, at Whitehall, where I heard horrid villainies.

This was a most exceeding wet year, neither frost nor snow all the winter for more than six days in all. Cattle died everywhere of a murrain.

1648-9: 1st January. I had a lodging and some books at my father-in-law's house, Sayes Court.2

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2nd. I went to see my old friend and fellowtraveller, Mr. Henshaw, who had two rare pieces of Steenwyck's perspective.

17th. To London. I heard the rebel, Peters, incite the rebel powers met in the Painted Chamber,* to destroy his Majesty; and saw that arch-traitor, Bradshaw, who not long after condemned him.

19th. I returned home, passing an extraordinary danger of being drowned by our wherries falling foul in the night on another vessel then at anchor, shooting the bridge at three-quarters' ebb, for which His mercy God Almighty be praised.

21st. Was published my translation of Liberty

3 [See ante, vol. i. p. 135.]

1 [Burned in the fire of 1666.] 2 See ante, p. 3.] 4 The Painted Chamber, or St. Edward's Chamber, was in the old Palace of the Kings at Westminster. "Here were held ... the private sittings of the High Court of Justice, for bringing Charles I. to a public trial in Westminster Hall; here the deathwarrant of the King was signed by Cromwell, Dick Ingoldsby, and the rest of the regicides; and here the body of the unfortunate King rested till it was removed to Windsor" (Wheatley and Cunningham's London, 1891, iii. 4).]

and Servitude, for the preface of which I was severely threatened.1

22nd January. I went through a course of chemistry, at Sayes Court. Now was the Thames frozen over, and horrid tempests of wind.

The villainy of the rebels proceeding now so far as to try, condemn, and murder our excellent King on the 30th of this month, struck me with such horror, that I kept the day of his martyrdom a fast, and would not be present at that execrable wickedness; receiving the sad account of it from my brother George, and Mr. Owen, who came to visit me this afternoon, and recounted all the circumstances.

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1st February. Now were Duke Hamilton, the Earl of Norwich, Lord Capel, etc., at their trial before the rebels' New Court of Injustice.*

15th. I went to see the collection of one Trean, a rich merchant, who had some good pictures, especially a rare perspective of Steenwyck; from thence, to other virtuosos.

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The painter, La Neve, has an Andromeda, but I think it a copy after Vandyck from Titian, for the original is in France. Webb, at the Exchange, has some rare things in miniature, of Brueghel's,

1 ["Of Liberty and Servitude. Translated out of the French into the English Tongue: and dedicated to Geo. Evelyn, Esquire [Evelyn's elder brother]. London, 1649, 12mo." The author was F. de La Mothe le Vayer, and the Dedication is dated "Paris, March 25, 1647." În a pencil note in Evelyn's own copy he says, "I was like to be call'd in question by the Rebells for this booke, being published a few days before his Majesty's decollation." It is reprinted in the Miscellaneous Writings, 1825, 1-38.] [See ante, p. 3.] 3 [Richard Owen of Eltham, 1606-83, ejected for royalism, 1643 (see post, under 18th March, 1649).]

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[The Court sat from 10th Feb. to 6th March (see post, p. 10).] 5 Probably the artist mentioned by Walpole as Cornelius Neve, who drew a portrait of Ashmole. [There was a group of himself and his wife and children at Petworth.]