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21st. To Nonsuch, to the Exchequer, by appointment and walked up
and down the house and park; and a fine place it hath heretofore
been, and a fine prospect about the house. A great; walk of an
elme and a walnutt set one after another in order. And all the
house on the outside filled with figures of stories, and good
painting of Rubens' or Holben's doing. And one great thing is,
that most of the house is covered, I mean the post, and quarters
in the walls, with lead, and gilded. I walked also into the
ruined garden.
22nd. At Blackwell. Here is observable what Johnson tells us,
that in digging the late Docke, they did 12 feet under ground
find perfect trees over-covered with earth. Nut trees, with the
branches and the very nuts upon them; some of whose nuts he
showed us. Their shells black with age, and their kernell, upon
opening, decayed, but their shell perfectly hard as ever. And a
yew tree, (upon which the very ivy was taken up whole about it,)
which upon cutting; with an addes we found to be rather harder
than the living tree usually is.


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