PAUL HENTZNER ^ 



as they may be turfed, and have Living Plants and Bushes set in 

 them, that the Birds may have more scope, and natural Nestling, 

 and that no foulness appear in the floor of the Aviary. So I have 

 made a Plat-form of a Princely Garden, partly by Precept, partly 

 by Drawing, not a Model, but some general Lines of it, and in 

 this I have spared for no Cost. 



But it is nothing for Great Princes, that for the most part taking 

 advice with Work-men, with no less Cost, set their things together, 

 and sometimes add Statua's and such things, for State and 

 Magnificence, but nothing to the true pleasure of a Garden. — 

 Essays : ' Of Garde?tsJ 



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Jurisconsult and Traveller: author of ^ Itinerariiim Germanue, Gallia , PAUL 



Italia:,' Nuremberg, i6i2. HENTZNER 



(155S-1623). 

 npHE first was Theobalds, belongmg to Lord Burleigh the 



* Treasurer : In the gallery was painted the genealogy of 



the Kings of England ; from this place one goes into the 



garden, encompassed with a ditch full of water, large enough 



for one to have the pleasure of going in a boat, and rowing 



between the shrubs ; here are great variety of trees and plants ; 



labyrinths made with a great deal of labour; a jet d'eau, with 



its bason of white marble ; and columns and pyramids of wood 



and other materials up and down the garden : After seeing 



these, we were led by the gardiner into the summer-house, 



in the lower part of which, built semi-circularly, are the twelve 



Roman emperors in white marble, and a table of touchstone; 



the upper part of it is set round with cisterns of lead, into which 



the water is conveyed through pipes, so that fish may be 



kept in them, and in summer time they are very convenient 



for bathing ; in another room for entertainment very near this, 



and joined to it by a little bridge, was an oval table of red 



marble. 



Whitehall. ' 



In a garden joining to this palace, there is a Jet d'eau, with 



