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whole house, by an extraordinary invention of Sir 

 Samuel Morland. 



I went to Kew to visite Sir Hen. Capell, brother 

 to the late Earle of Essex ; but he being gone to 

 Cashioberry, after I had seene his garden and the 

 alterations therein, I return'd home. He had repair'd 

 his house, roof'd his hall with a kind of cupola, and 

 in a niche was an artificial fountaine ; but the roome 

 seems to me over melancholy, yet might be much 

 improv'd by having the walls well painted a fresca. 

 The two greene houses for oranges and mirtles com- 

 municating with the roomes below, are very well 

 contriv'd. There is a cupola made with pole-work 

 betweene two elmes at the end of a walk, which being 

 cover'd by plashing the trees to them, is very pretty : 

 for the rest there are too many fir trees in the garden. 



12 June, 1684. I went to advise and give direc- 

 tions about the building two streetes in Berkeley 

 Gardens, reserving the house and as much of the 

 garden as the breadth of the house. In the meane 

 time I could not but deplore that sweete place (by far 

 the most noble gardens, courts, and accommodations. 



