N PARKS ef GARDENS 



u..:i^K^ 



of founding a 



gh tradition also atti 



' i^eii Gwynn, who is saiu lu 



arles II. on their behalf. The King 



dation-stone, on the i2tKof March 1682, 



tiiding designed by Wren. John Evelyn, as 



r the Council of the Royal Society, had been 



......jited when the u^ep. was first mooted, and in 



January 1682 he n his Diary a talk on the 



subject with vho asked for Evelyn's 



assist:;! " ' "t. 



So i ! 



arran^, 



chirurgec 



o^ 



from i .nds occupied 



some twenty-six acri. survey made in 1702 shows 



how this space was divided. The largest part, lying 

 to the north 

 as " Biirt-nn'^ 



-^ *!,., T^T ^.. 



w known 

 '1 ground 



' is wha' •- 

 ' as a ^ 



f Ics near, and 'a cricket 



g ide of nue down 



t) '' ' chestnuts," 



\v . >yal Avenue " 



is aving, it is said, 



intCH' m. This part, 



called ' '^s,*' occupied 



JDA^'HZOH A32JHHD »JI ZHJ^AHD H0^TO*PAarff^ 



plots betwce ladrarij^ s and canals, nearly 



three acres; the "garden on the east, now the gover- 



