F. Seal of George Evelyn of Nutfield (1641-1699). Mounted in metal. Monogram, intertwined G.E. Second half 17th cent. Attached to card, labelled by William John Evelyn.
O. Ground plan with key in pencil and ink of several rooms, including a library, dining-rooms, drawing-room, bedchamber, etc., [at Wotton?]; 18th cent., endorsed in the hand of William John Evelyn, `apparently Plan of part of Wotton House by Sir John Evelyn Bart’. With scale bar. 480 x 365mm.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXXVI. ‘Curieuses recherches de La France’; circa (but before) 1643. French. Small pocket-book, comprising a brief survey of the French government and establishment in the reign of Louis XIII. Transcribed in a French hand. Some passages are underlined or marked in the margin...
WILLIAM AND BENJAMIN GONSON. 78168-78171. EVELYN PAPERS. Vols. I-IV. Papers of William Gonson (d. 1545) and Benjamin Gonson the elder (d. 1577), relating to the Navy, with some family and estate papers; 1535-1577. Partly Latin. William Gonson was succeeded in the office of Treasurer of the Navy by his son Benjamin (called the elder to distinguish him from his own son Benjamin, d. 1600, Clerk of the Ships). Gonson’s naval accounts for 1544-1545 are in Add. MS 7968, while versions of th...
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Benjamin Gonson, Treasurer of the Navy: Accounts as Treasurer, family and estate papers: 1551-1577.
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXXXI (ff. iv + 203). Letters from Evelyn to various correspondents, 1644-1679. Copies; second half 17th cent. With some 19th cent. pencilled marks in the margin. Divided into three sections: 1. ff. 1-3. [Epistolarum Liber Primus], containing copies of letters in Latin,...
EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CXLI (ff. 209). Letters from John, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, 1676-1677, his wife, Christian, Lady Berkeley, 1676-1685 (with one draft reply from Evelyn), and one letter from their eldest son Charles, afterwards 2nd Baron Berkeley, 1677 (f. 171); 1675-1685. A few of Ber...
D. Songbook; [circa mid 17th cent.?]. French and Italian, in two different hands. Imperfect; a portion has been cut from the first leaf. It was presumably made and used in Paris while John Evelyn lived in the Browne household after his marriage, since it has the following list of names on the...
A. [John Evelyn]: `A Rude draght of Wotton Garden before my Bro: alterd it & as it was 1640: South'; 1640. Pen and ink drawing of the south facade of the house from the vantage point of a mount of trees where the grotto was afterwards made. Including `chamber window to the roome wher I was...
L. [John Evelyn]: `Plot of the Lower garden at Wotton for Walle fruit'; 170-? (last figure of the date indistinct). Pen and ink sketch, showing the house from the south in elevation and the garden layout in plan, with a table of measurements and a note of scale in the top left hand corner. On ...