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 : D. O. M. S. Georgio Evelino, Arm. non minùs conspicuo, quem plenum annis (inoffensæ 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, Reddebant olim charum patriæq; suisq; Vertitur in cineres hâc Evelinus humo. Obiit Quinquagenarius corporis statu vegeto, vicesimo die Decembris anno Salutis humanæ 1640, Liberorum quinq. Pater, relictis quatuor superstitibus, tribus scil. filiis cum unicâ tantùm filiâ. Festinantes sequimur. On another monument, fixed to the same wall: To the precious memory of the dearly beloved wife of Richard Evelyn, Esq. George, John, Richard, Elizabeth, and Jane; the 22d of her marriage, and the 1635th of Man's Redemption, 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 of JOHN EVELYN, Esq. in several employments, of which that and usefull Works, fell asleep the 27 day of his age, in full hope of a glorious That all is vanity which is not honest, Of five Sons and three Daughters On another monument at the head of, and like the former: MARY EVELYN, the best Daughter, Wife, and Mother, the most accomplished of women, In the Church of St. Nicholas, Deptford, on the eastwall, 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, Unà quiescit quicquid est amabile, 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. Pietatis elementa hauserat. Libris inhæsit improbo labore Ut sola mors divelleret. Quod indoles, quod disciplina, quod labor Puer stupendus, qualis hic esset senex |