Windsor Coach, Great Red Lion in Fleet Street and at the George at Fleet Bridge, 2s. 6d. to Slough at the George, and 3s. 6d. at the Red Lion; also at the White Hart by Charing Cross is the Reading Coach, 3s. 6d.

I came to Hengrave from London with Mr. Cowley1 and William Bedow on Tuesday the 7th of Nov 1654. I staid then in London just nine days, and was five days coming up to London from Haulton.

March 12th, 1654. I sold 6 oxen at Whitchurch for 221. 175. 6d.

March 31st, 1654. I paid Higinbotham for casting up clay at Willington and Bettisfield for 51,000 bricks at 2d. a thousand. Also I allowed out of his rent towards casting and turning the 20,000 at Mr. Canning's 13s. 4d.

April 7th, 1655. Young Fisher is to pay 5. for the rabbits (at Haulton), and to destroy 'em before the end of 1655.

April 12th, 1655. I sold a fat cow to Shrewsbury men for 4. Is. whereof they paid one shilling, and the other 4. they are to pay Trevor when they fetch the cow. The same day Whitchurch butchers paid me for an ox 51. 4s. 2d. which I received.

My cousin Frances Kynaston was contracted to Mr. Mainwaring the 23rd of August, 1656.

1 This was Cowley the poet; he was a great friend of the Hervey family. A book (Le Cuisinier François) which he gave to Lady Hanmer, and is so marked in her writing, is now in the library at Bettisfield.

2 His daughter Trevor, afterwards Lady Warner.

I gave Jack, when he went to Oxford the end of June 1656, 71. I sent him in September by George Smith 20%. to Oxford.

I gave Jack' a note of 225% and sent him to Paris. I paid his tailor's bill for making his black suit when he went to Oxford, 37. I gave him at Haulton in Janꞌ 1656 to go to Anglesea, 10l. I gave him a bay mare that cost 12/

The wooden frames of the lodgings ordinarily in Covent Garden are 4 inches broad and 3 thick, the lower lights are 37 inches high within the frame and 15 broad, the lights above the transum are 19 inches high; the frames are flat, not rounded, rebated on the outside for the glasses and casement to fall in and on the inside for wooden shutters of deal.

Books lent by me: "Leviathan" to my uncle Roger. First part of "The History of Charles 5th," in Spanish, to Mr. Morice of Isleworth,2

Tulipes sent to Sir J. Trevor, 1654: 1 Peruchot, I Admiral Enchuysen, I of my Angelicas, 1 Comisetta, I Omen, I of my best Dianas, all very good bearing rootes, sent by my wife from Haulton.

June 1655. Ld. Lambert. I sent him by Rose a very great mother root of Agate Hanmer.3

1 His son John, afterwards third baronet.

There is a portrait of this Mr. Morice, by Vandyck, at Eatington in Warwickshire, belonging to my friend Mr. Evelyn Philip Shirley.

3 This was a tulip grown at Bettisfield; its colours were gris de lin, crimson, and white. Rea speaks of it as one of the most beautiful of flowers; and Sir Thomas, much to his credit,

Lord Lambert hath the yellow jasmyn, the double striped pomegranate, many Narcissi of Constantinople and Algiers. Mr. Bodyngton, a merchant, furnishes Lord Lambert with these varieties.

Walker of St. James's has many Virginia plants. The locust tree, he saith, bears a tayle of white flowers: it comes from Virginia.

June 1656. Tulipes given to Ld. Lambert: Belle Isabelle, Belle Susanne, etc.

Tulipes then given Mrs. Thurloe: 2 Von Velzens, I Gen. Zugman, etc. Tulipes then given Mr. Hygens: I Peach Morillion, etc. etc.

In my last letter I wrote to Moryn (P. Moryn le Jeusne dit troisieme) I would give but 16 pistoles for the anemonies and ranunculus I sent for in my first letter. He asked 18 pistoles.

I thought once of extracting here some passages from a little volume of out-of-the-way biography, relating to one of Sir Thomas's children, mentioned on his monument, namely, his daughter Trevor, afterwards wife of Sir John Warner of Parham in Suffolk, who, with her husband and children, embraced the Roman Catholic religion and retired in the time of Charles II. into separate monasteries in Flanders; but the memoir,

did not keep it to himself, but gave it among his friends. Lord Lambert was the Parliamentary General.

which is addressed to Queen Mary of Modena by a Jesuit priest of the name of Nevile, one of the chaplains to the melancholy Court of St. Germain's, though it describes domestic scenes and incidents of interest in this house, is scarcely capable of being used apart from its original intention. One sentence I may quote from a letter she wrote to her father after her change: "I thought fit to send you these, but I beseech you to forget as soon as you have read them, and to forgive me, who am the cause of so much trouble to you." And no doubt they are domestic troubles rather than variations of creed, which, under similar circumstances, are wont to disturb families and country houses at this day. A portrait of Lady Warner remains at Bettisfield. She inherited or shared her father's love of flowers, and is mentioned with honour accordingly in Rea's Flora; an interesting book, since it gives the best account of the horticulture of that period. It also shows, by long lists of fruit-trees and plants which Sir Thomas Hanmer brought newly into England, how well he had employed his days of exile at Rouen and Angers. At the latter place his son William was born, as appears by the following ordinance :

AN ORDINANCE for the NATURALIZATION of WILLIAM HANMER Son of SIR THOMAS HANMER of Hanmer, in the county of Flint, Baronet.

Whereas Sir Thomas Hanmer of Hanmer, in the Countie of Flint, Baronet, and Dame Susan his wife, being about seven years sithence in the city of Angiers in the realm of France, they there had borne unto them William Hanmer their son: Be it ordained by his Highness the Lord Protector, by the advice of his counsell, that the said William Hanmer be naturalized English, and the said William Hanmer is hereby naturalized English and made capable to enjoy and perceive all the rights, liberties, franchises, privileges, and immunities of an English native, in as free and ample a manner as if the said William Hanmer had been borne in England, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.

HEN. SCOBELL,

Clerke of the Councell.

Passed 22nd August 1654.

SIR,

LETTER accompanying the ORDINANCE.

Inclosed you shall receive your Ordinance, which after much labor and attendance Mr. Scobell delivered me with his own hands, and his service to Sir John Trevor and yourself remembered. I have it but at this instant, and time gives me no more scope to deliver myself at present, save to inform you that by the next you