The librarie.- Here was a noble librarie of bookes, choicely collected in the time of Mary Countesse of Pembroke.  I remember there were a great many Italian bookes; all their poets; and bookes of politic and historic.  Here was Dame Julian Barnes of Hunting, Hawking, and Heraldry, in English verses, printed temp.  Edward the Fourth. (Philip, third earle, gave Dame Julian Barnes to Capt.  Edw.  Saintlo of Dorsetshire.) A translation of the whole book of Psalmes, in English verse, by Sir Philip Sydney, writt curiously, and bound in crimson velvet and gilt; it is now lost.  Here was a Latin poëme, a manuscript, writt in Julius Cæsar’s time. [See ante, p. 60.] Henry Earle of Pembroke was a great lover of heraldrie, and collected curious manuscripts of it, that I have seen and perused; e. g. the coates of armes and short histories of the English nobility, and bookes of genealogies; all well painted and writt.  ’Twas Henry that did sett up all the glasse scutchions about the house:  quære if he did not build it?  Now all these bookes are sold and dispersed as the pictures.

The ARMORIE.  The armory is a very long roome, which I guesse to have been a dorture heretofore.  Before the civill warres, I remember, it was very full.  The collection was not onely great, but the manner of obtaining it was much greater; which was by a victory at the battle of St. Quintin’s, where William the first Earle of Pembroke was generall, Sir George Penruddock, of Compton Chamberlain, was Major Generall, and William Aubrey, LL.D. my great-grandfather, was Judge Advocat.  There were armes, sc. the spoile, for sixteen thousand men, horse and foot.  (From the Right Honourable Thomas Earle of Pembroke.)

Desire my brother William Aubrey to gett a copy of the inventory of it.  Before the late civill warres here were musketts and pikes for .. . hundred men; lances for tilting; complete armour for horsemen; for pikemen, &c.  The rich gilt and engraved armour of Henry viii.  The like rich armour of King Edward vi.  In the late warres much of the armes was imbecill’d.

Wilton garden:  by Solomon de Caus. [See also in a subsequent page, Chap.  IV.  Of gardens.] “This garden, within the inclosure of the new wall, is a thousand foot long, and about four hundred in breadth; divided in its length into three long squares or parallellograms, the first of which divisions, next the building, hath four platts embroydered; in the midst of which are four fountaines, with statues of marble in their middle; and on the sides of those platts are the platts of flowers; and beyond them is a little terrass raised, for the more advantage of beholding those platts.  In the second division are two groves or woods, cutt with divers walkes, and through those groves passeth the river Nader, having of breadth in this place 44 foote, upon which is built the bridge, of the breadth of the great walke:  and in the middest of the