184 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
accause que la fleur a Ressemblance au Ranonculle et dement 
fort large la douzaine Reuient a trente liures cy .. .. 030// 
jtam vne douzaine de gros ognons de jacinthe double auecque 
vne douzaine de jonq’uille jaune le tout Reuient a vingt liures 
cy .. .. .. .. .. .. 020// 
Somme totalle du presant Memoire ce Monte a quatorze 
cent quatre vingts sept liures cy .. .. 1487 ll 
This present Bill comes to jn english Money one 
hundred and fifteene pound .. .. .. 115^ 
[.Endorsed Molet y e GardhT. 
Although Adrian May rightly drew attention to the exorbi¬ 
tant charges in the above account, he does not seem to have 
always been as particular in settling just claims, for on De¬ 
cember 16, 1663, there was a petition from “ the labourers who 
have worked in the Royal Gardens, under Mr. Mollet, to the 
King for payment of wages. They have worked 31 weeks and 
received nothing.” 1 
Andrew Mollett is the one of the family here referred to, 
and he was the most important. He is really Andre Mollet, 
and was the brother of Noel, and son and pupil of Claude 
Mollet, chief gardener both to Henry IV. and Louis XIII., 
who had died about 1613. A work by Claude, entitled 
Theatre des Plans et Jardinages , was published by his 
sons in 1652. The plates in this work are signed by Noel, 
Jacques, and Andre Mollet. 2 Andre himself was the author of 
a work entitled Le Jar din de Plaisir, published in Stockholm 
in 1651. 3 He gives a portrait of his father on the engraved 
title, and describes himself as “ Maitre des Jardins de la reine 
de Suede ” (the celebrated and eccentric Queen Christina). 
Later on, after he had been established in St. James's Park, 
he published another book with the same title in English, The 
Garden of Pleasure , 4 containing designs for gardens, and dedi- 
1 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1663-1664, p. 357. 
2 Brunet, Manuel du Libraire, 1862. There were other editions—1663 
and 1678. 
3 There is a copy of this book in the British Museum (said by Brunet 
to be rare). 
4 I only know of one copy of this book, which is at Lyme Park, in 
the possession of Lord Newton, and from which the extracts quoted 
here have been made. 
