2So JOHN EVELYN 



thanks for all his mercifull preservations and forbear- 

 ance, begging pardon for my sinns and unworthinesse, 

 and his blessing and mercy on me the yeare entering, 

 I went with my Lady Fox to survey her building, 

 and give some directions for the garden at Chiswick ; 

 the architect is Mr. May ; somewhat heavy and thick 

 and not so well understood ; the garden much too 

 narrow, the place without water, neere an highway, 

 and neere another greate house of my Lord Burlington, 

 little land about it, so that I wonder at the expence ; 

 but women will have their will. 



I went to Windsor, dining by the way at Chesewick 

 (Chiswick), at Sir Stephen Fox's, where I found Sir 

 Robert Howard (that universal pretender), and Signor 

 Verrip, who brought his draught and designs for the 

 painting of the staire-case of Sir Stephen's new house. 

 . . . There was now the terrace brought almost round the 

 old Castle ; the grass made cleane, even, and curiously 

 turf 'd ; the avenues to the new park, and other walkes, 

 planted with elmes and limes, and a pretty canal, and 

 receptacle for fowle ; nor lesse observable and famous is 

 the throwing so huge a quantity of excellent water to 

 the enormous height of the Castle, for the use of the 



