22 INTRODUCTION. 



'' One Master Gutteridge drew for himselfe 

 a giant standing in a gutter, and looking over 

 the ridge of a house, which could not chuse 

 but make Gutteridge'' 



The same author says " A churchwarden of 

 Saint Martins in the Fields, I remember 

 when I was in that parish, to expresse Saint 

 Martins in the Fields, caused to be engraven 

 a martin (a bird like a swallow) sitting upon 

 a molehill betweene two trees, which was 

 Saint Martins in the Fields. It is there yet 

 to be scene upon the communion cup." 



The celebrated Le Notre, who planted the 

 gardens of Versailles, Saint Cloud, the Tuille- 

 ries, the Champs Elysees, and several other 

 royal pleasure grounds, was rewarded by a 

 patent of nobility, by Louis the Fourteenth, 

 on which occasion he chose for his arms a 

 cabbage, with a spade and a rake for sup- 

 porters ; alleging that he owed so many ob- 

 ligations to gardening, that he would not 



