Add MS 78613

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCCXLVI. Miscellaneous papers; 1642-1653. Including items concerning John Evelyn’s renovation of the house and creation of the garden.

1. Letter from Sir Richard Browne to Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State concerning the possible sale of Sayes Court; 1642. Copy.

2. Survey of the manor of Sayes Court by commissioners for the sale of royal manors and lands; Dec. 1649-Jan. 1650. Copy.

3. Promise by Charles II to grant Sayes Court to Sir Richard Browne to compensate him for arrears in his expenses and allowances; 19 Sept. 1649. With confirmation; 8 Nov. 1652. Both signed, with seals en placard.

4. Order by the commissioners for the sale of fee farm rents; Sept. 1650. Copy.

5. List by Sir Richard Browne of the `Names of some of the Rebell Purchasers of Sayes Court'; [1650s]. Autograph.

6. `Particular’ by Sir Richard Browne of the rents of Sayes Court; 15 March 1652. Autograph.

7. List of reparations at Sayes Court to be carried out for William Pretyman and Evelyn by Richard Shellman, carpenter; 1 April 1652.

8. Agreement and bond between Evelyn and Matthew Blissett, gardener, for the supply of trees for the orchard at Sayes Court; Jan. 1652/3.

9. Bond of Evelyn and Pretyman to William Joburne of Deptford, 7 Nov. 1653. Purchased separately from John Wilson, 21 Sept. 1999.

10. Agreement between Evelyn and William Staples, bricklayer, for the building of the brewhouse and wash-house chimnies at Sayes Court; 20 Dec. 1653.

11. Bonds by George Goreham and William Staples for the performance of agreements about building at Sayes Court; 1656.

12. Lists of mottoes compiled by Evelyn for the renovated Sayes Court, under the headings `Aviary', `Villa', `Garden', `Bees', `Elaboratory', `Dials', `House'; [1650s?], but later marked by him for inclusion in the appropriate chapters of the `Elysium Britannicum'. Mostly Latin; a few Greek. For the `quaint mottoes’ incorporated into the house and garden at Sayes Court, see Roger North, Lives of the Norths, ed. A. Jessopp (1890), I, p. 375.

13. Assignment of property at Sayes Court from James Stephens of Lincoln's Inn and William Pretyman, to Sir Edward Abney and John Wilkinson; [aft. 1653]. Copies. Imperfect; wanting leaves at the end.