[Foxhall, Faukeshall, or Vauxhall, a manor in Surrey, properly Fulke’s.  Hall, and so called from Fulke de Breaute, the notorious mercenary follower of King John.  The manor house was afterwards known as Copped or Copt Hall.  Sir Samuel Morland obtained a lease of the place, and King Charles made him Master of Mechanics, and here “he (Morland), anno 1667, built a fine room,” says Aubrey, “the inside all of looking-glass and fountains, very pleasant to behold.”  The gardens were formed about 1661, and originally called the “New Spring Gardens,” to distinguish them from the “Old Spring Gardens” at Charing Cross, but according to the present description by Pepys there was both an Old and a New Spring Garden at Vauxhall.  Balthazar Monconys, who visited England early in the reign of Charles ii., describes the ‘Jardins Printemps’ at Lambeth as having lawns and gravel walks, dividing squares of twenty or thirty yards enclosed with hedges of gooseberry trees, within which were planted roses.]

where I had not been a great while.  To the Old Spring Garden, and there walked long, and the wenches gathered pinks.  Here we staid, and seeing that we could not have anything to eat, but very dear, and with long stay, we went forth again without any notice taken of us, and so we might have done if we had had anything.  Thence to the New one, where I never was before, which much exceeds the other; and here we also walked, and the boy crept through the hedge and gathered abundance of roses, and, after a long walk, passed out of doors as we did in the other place, and here we had cakes and powdered beef—­[salt beef]—­and ale, and so home again by water with much pleasure.  This day, being the King’s birth-day, was very solemnly observed; and the more, for that the Queen this day comes to Hampton Court.  In the evening, bonfires were made, but nothing to the great number that was heretofore at the burning of the Rump.  So to bed.

30th.  This morning I made up my accounts, and find myself ‘de claro’ worth about L530, and no more, so little have I increased it since my last reckoning; but I confess I have laid out much money in clothes.  Upon a suddaine motion I took my wife, and Sarah and Will by water, with some victuals with us, as low as Gravesend, intending to have gone into the Hope to the Royal James, to have seen the ship and Mr. Shepley, but meeting Mr. Shepley in a hoy, bringing up my Lord’s things, she and I went on board, and sailed up with them as far as half-way tree, very glad to see Mr. Shepley.  Here we saw a little Turk and a negroe, which are intended for pages to the two young ladies.  Many birds and other pretty noveltys there was, but I was afeard of being louzy, and so took boat again, and got to London before them, all the way, coming and going, reading in the “Wallflower” with great pleasure.  So home, and thence to the Wardrobe, where Mr. Shepley was come with the things.  Here I staid talking with my Lady, who is preparing to go to-morrow to Hampton Court.  So home, and at ten o’clock at night Mr. Shepley came to sup with me.  So we had a dish of mackerell and pease, and so he bid us good night, going to lie on board the hoy, and I to bed.