EVOLUTION OF THE GARDEN 27 



Queen's gardens seem to have been overshadowed by 

 those of her subjects. One of the most celebrated 

 belonged to Lord Burleigh, and was known as Theo- 

 bald's. Paul Hentzner, a German traveler who 

 visited England in 1598, went to see this garden 

 the very day that Burleigh was buried. 



He described it as follows : 



"We left London in a coach in order to see the 

 remarkable places in its neighborhood. The first 

 was Theobald's, belonging 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 

 moat 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 labor, a jet 

 d'eau with its basin 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 gardener into the summer-house, in the lower 

 part of which, built semicircularly, 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 



