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name stands too high not to demand an honourable notice; 

 since they contributed, at an early period, by their garden 

 and museum, to raise a curiosity that was eminently useful to 

 the progress and improvement of natural history in general. 

 The reader may see a curious account of the remains of this 

 garden, drawn up in the year 1749, by the late Sir W. Wat- 

 son, and printed in vol. xlvi. of the Phil. Trans. The son 

 died in 1662. His widow erected a curious monument, in 

 memory of the family, in Lambeth church-yard, of which a 

 large account, and engravings from a drawing of it in the 

 Pepysian Library, at Cambridge, are given by the late 

 learned Dr. Ducarel, in vol. lxiii. of the Phil. Trans." 



Sir Henry Wotton, Provost of Eaton. His portrait is 

 given in Isaac Walton's Lives of Wotton, and others. It, of 

 course, accompanies Zouchs, and the other well-known 

 editions of Isaac Walton's Lives. In Evans's Illustrations to 

 Granger, is Sir H. Wotton, from the picture in the Bodleian 

 Library, engraved by Stow. In Sir Henry's Reflections on 

 Ancient and Modern Learning, is his chapter " On Ancient 

 and Modern Agriculture and Gardening." Cowley wrote an 

 elegy on him, which thus commences: — 



What shall we say since silent now is he, 



Who when he spoke, all tilings would silent bej 



Who had so many languages in store, 



That only Fame can speak of him with more. 



Isaac Walton published the " Reliquice Wottoniance, or, 

 Lives, Letters, Poems, &c. by Sir Henry Wotton," 12mo. 

 1654, with portraits of Wotton, Charles I., Earl of Essex, 

 and Buckingham. Sir E. Brydges printed at his private 

 press, at Lee Priory, Sir Henry's Characters of the Earl of 

 Essex and Buckingham. In the Reliquice, among many 

 curious and interesting articles, is preserved Sir Henry's de- 



