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ascertained by a careful examination of the accounts of various 

 departments in the Record Office. 1 



Switzer, a well-known authority of the next generation, 

 writing in 1715, makes no allusion to the coming of Le Notre, 

 although he mentions Perrault, one of his pupils, 2 and the 

 visits of De la Quintinye. Only fifteen years after Le Notre' s 

 death Switzer did not know his name in connection with any 

 English garden, and Cook, the designer of one that was in later 

 times attributed to him, was " yet living." Le Notre was a 

 very conspicuous figure in his day, and in high favour at 

 the French Court, and intimate with most of the noblesse, 

 and his career can be followed very closely, owing to the 

 wealth of memoirs and letters at this period. There seems 



1 Historical Manuscripts Report. No reference to Le N6tre in any 

 index of any report issued up to 1909. 



Treasury Books and Papers : Warrant re horses : October 25, 1662, is 

 the only mention of Le Notre. 



Pell's Issue Rolls, Exchequer : Various payments to the Mollets, 

 but nothing about Le N6tre. Searched April 18, 1661, to April 18, 

 1663. 



Pell's Issue Books, Exchequer (indexed) : Searched from September 

 30, 1661, to April 18, 1663. Nothing. 



There is no grant to Le Notre (or Grillet) on the Patent Rolls. 

 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, Charles II., 1661-1662, 1663- 

 1664 : No reference to Le N6tre. 



State Papers, France, vol. cxvi. (1662) : Nothing. 

 Exchequer (King's Remembrancer) Miscellanea, No. 227, 1557- 

 1837 : Abstract of Officers and Appointments (under Offices), No. 228. 

 The same (under Names) . No reference to Le Notre in either. 



Thorpe's Exchequer Papers, No. 444 : This could not be searched, as 

 the years 1662-1669 are now missing. 



Docket Books, Signet Office : 1662-1663. Nothing. 

 Declared Accounts, Pipe Office : No reference in any of the fol- 

 lowing : 



Roll 3428, September 1st, 1661 ; June 10th, 1662 : Accounts of 



Sir William Boreman. Works in Greenwich Park. 

 Roll 3276, May 31st, 1662 ; June 1st, 1663 : Payments for work 



done at Hampton Court, Greenwich, etc. 

 Bundle 2434/87, June 1st, 1662 ; May 31st, 1663 : Same as the 



preceding. 

 Bundle 2477/264, April 30th, 1662 ; September 29th, 1664 : 

 Windsor. 



2 The Nobleman's . . . Recreation, 1715 ; also IchnograpMa Rustica, 

 by Stephen Switzer, 1718. 



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