Volume 1

Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S. : to which is subjoined the private correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon and Sir Richard Browne / edited from the original mss. at Wotton by William Bray.

  • Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S. : to which is subjoined the private correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon and Sir Richard Browne / edited from the original mss. at Wotton by William Bray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    AVelbeck, the house of the Marquis of Newcastle, seated in a bottom in a park, and environed with woods, a noble yet melancholy seat. The palace is a handsome and stately building. Next to AVorksop Abbey, almost demolished; the church has a double flat tower entire, and a pretty gate. The manor belongs to the Earl of Arundel, and has to it a fair house at the foot of a hill in a park that affords a delicate prospect. Tickel, a town and castle, has a very noble prospect. All these in Nottinghamshire. 16tli August. AVe arrived at Doncaster, where we lay this night; it is a large fair town, famous for great wax-lights, and good stockings. 17th. Passed through Pontefract; the castle, famous for many sieges both of late and ancient times, and the death of that unhappy King murdered in it (Richard II.), was now demolishing by the Rebels ; it stands on a mount, and makes a goodly show at a distance. The Queen has a house here, and there are many fair seats near it, especially Mr. Pierrepont’s, built at the foot of a hill out of the castle ruins. AVe all alighted in the highway to drink at a crystal spring, which they call Robin Hood’s AVell; near it, is a stone chair, and an iron ladle to drink out of, chained to the seat. AVe rode to Tadcaster, at the side of which we have prospect of the Archbishop’s Palace (which is a noble seat), and in sight of divers other gentlemen’s fair houses. This tract is a goodly, fertile, well-watered and wooded country, abound- ing with pasture and plenty of provisions. To York, the second city of England, fairly walled, of a circular form, watered by the brave river Ouse, bearing vessels of considerable burthen on it; over it is a stone bridge emulating that of London, and built on; the middle arch is larger than any I have seen in England, with a wharf of hewn stone, which makes the river appear very neat. But most remarkable and worthy seeing is St. Peter’s Cathedral, which of all the great churches in England had been best preserved1 from the fury of the sacrilegious, by ) composition with the Rebels when they took the city, during 1 the many incursions of Scotch and others. It is a most entire magnificent piece of Gothic architecture. The screen before the choir is of stone carved with flowers, running 1 To Fairfax belongs this praise.