ley; and was one of the volunteers in Lord Lovelace's troop, when his Lordship secured Oxford for the Prince. In 1690, he purchased the place of chief clerk of the Treasury; but, in the next year, he was by some means removed from it by Mr. Guy, who succeeded in that office. In August, 1692, he was made one of the Commissioners of the Revenue in Ireland, from whence he returned to England in 1696, in very ill health, and died 24th March, 1698, in his father's lifetime. He married Martha, daughter and coheir of Richard Spencer, Esq., a Turkey merchant, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. The eldest son, and the eldest daughter, Martha-Mary, and youngest daughter, Jane, died infants. The surviving daughter, Elizabeth, married Simon Harcourt, Esq., son of the Lord Chancellor Harcourt. September 18th, 1705, the son John, who had succeeded his grandfather at Wotton, married Anne, daughter of Edward Boscawen, Esq., of the county of Cornwall; and by letters patent dated 30 July, 1713, was created a Baronet He inherited the virtue and the taste for learning, as well as the patrimony, of his ancestors; and lived at Wotton, universally loved and respected. He built a library there, forty-five feet long, fourteen wide, and as many high, for the reception of the large and curious collection of books made by his grandfather, father, and himself, and where they now remain. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, was long the first Commissioner of the Customs, and died 15th July, 1763, in the eighty-second year of his age. By his lady, who died before him, he had several children, and was succeeded by John, the eldest, who married Mary, daughter of Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, and died 11th June, 1767, in the 61st year of his age. He was Clerk of the Green Cloth to Frederick Prince of Wales, father of George III., and to that King when Prince of Wales, and after he came to the Crown. He represented the borough of Helston in several Parliaments, and to the time of his death. He had only one son, Frederick, who succeeded to the title and estate, and three daughters. Of the daughters, two died unmarried; the third, Augusta, married the Rev. Dr. Henry Jenkin, Rector of Wotton and Abinger; but she died without issue. Sir Frederick was in the army in the early part of his life; and was in Elliot's Light-Horse, when that regiment so highly distinguished themselves in the famous battle of Minden, in Germany, in 1759. He married Mary, daughter of William Turton, Esq., of Staffordshire, and, dying without issue in 1812, he left his estate to his Lady. She lived at Wotton, where she fully maintained the honour and great respect which had so long attended the family there. Her taste for botany was displayed in her garden and greenhouse, where she had a curious collection of exotic, as well as native shrubs and flowers. The library shared her attention. Besides making additions to it, she had a complete Catalogue arranged by Mr. Upcott, of the London Institution. This lady by her will returned the estate to the family, devising it to John Evelyn, Esq., descended from George Evelyn, the purchaser of the estate in 1579. The following are epitaphs to the memory of the writer of this Diary, and part of his family, interred in the Dormitory adjoining Wotton Church. For his Grandfather, who settled at Wotton, on an alabaster monument, written by Dr. Comber, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and afterwards Dean of Durham: VOL. I. D. O. M. S. Georgio Evelino, Arm. non minùs Vitæ et Morum exemplo, quàm dignitate conspicuo, quem plenum annis (inoffense vitæ decurso itinere, quale sibi optâverint Magni illi, qui inanem strepitum C tranquillitati posthabendum putârunt) rebus omnibus, Deo omnia benè vertente, Obiit 30 die Maii, An. Dom. 1603. On another alabaster monument, are the figures of a man and his wife kneeling, and five children; below is this inscription: Epitaphium verè generosi, et prænobilis Viri, D. Richardi Quem Pietas, Probitas, claris natalibus ortum, corporis statu vegeto, vicesimo die Decembris anno unicâ tantùm filiâ. Festinantes sequimur. On another monument, fixed to the same wall: То the precious memory of ELLEN EVELYN, the dearly beloved wife of Richard Evelyn, Esq., a rare example of Piety, Loyalty, Prudence, and Charity, leaving her name as a monument of her perfections, On a white marble, covering a tomb shaped like a coffin, raised about three feet above the floor, is inscribed: Here lies the Body That all is vanity which is not honest, born to him from his most On another former: Esq., of Adscomb in this County, survived him; the two others dying in the flower of their age, and all the Sons very young, except one named John, who deceased 24 March, 1698-9, in the 45 year of his age, leaving one son, John, and one daughter, Elizabeth. monument at the head of, and like the MARY EVELYN, the best Daughter, Wife, and Mother, the most accomplished of women, with whom she lived almost and survived not quite three, dying In the Church of St. Nicholas, Deptford, on the east wall, to the south of the altar, is a marble mural tablet, with the following inscription to the two children of Mr. Evelyn, whose early loss he has so feelingly lamented in his Diary: R. EVELYN, I. F. Quiescit hoc sub marmore, Patres quod optent, aut quod orbi lugeant; Lepore condit amplius; Morum venustas, quanta paucis contigit, Desideratur omnibus. Linguæ, Latina, Gallica, Quas imbibit cum lacte materno, tacent. |