Temple, William; Sieveking, Albert Forbes: Upon the gardens of Epicurus: with other XVIIth century garden essays (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908)

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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
Verrio, 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