112 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
Isaak Walton used to fish. Beddington (in Surrey), which 
belonged to Francis Carew, was described by Wurmsser von 
Vendenheyn, in 1610, as “ one of the most pleasant and 
ornamental gardens in England, with many beautiful streams.” 
At Theobalds and Hatfield there was water. At Hatfield 
the banks of the stream in what was called the dell were 
beautified with flower-beds, and sundry arbours and walks, 
which were connected with the vineyard on the opposite bank 
by ornamental bridges. The works were designed and carried 
out by Mountain Jennings, gardener to the first Earl of Salis¬ 
bury. A Frenchman, named Simon Sturtivant, planned some 
elaborate water-works, which were never executed owing to 
the Earl’s death in 1612, as also did Soloman de Caux. One 
jet d’eau, however, from a design of the latter, was made at 
a cost of £113, and consisted of a marble basin with a statue 
of Neptune ; 310 pounds of solder were used to cast the figure, 
which was probably gilded afterwards. 1 De Caux was the 
designer of the gardens at Wilton, for the Earl of Pembroke, 
where there were “ foure fountaynes with statues of marble in 
their midle,” and “ two Ponds with Fountaynes and two 
collumnes in the middle, casting water all their height, which 
causeth the moveing and turning of two crownes at the top of 
the same.” Besides this, the river passed through the garden, 
and was spanned by an ornamental bridge. The latter was 
removed later on, and the well-known work of Inigo Jones built 
in its place. 
The garden at Theobalds is also described by Hentzner in 
1591 : “ In the gallery was painted the genealogy of the kings 
of England ; from this place one goes into the garden, encom¬ 
passed with water, large enough for one to have the pleasure 
of going in a boat, and rowing between the shrubs ; here are 
a great variety of trees and plants, labyrinths made with a 
great deal of labour, a jet d’eau with its bason 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 truck-stone; the upper part of it is set 
From family MSS. belonging to the Marquess of Salisbury. 
