{"id":4702,"date":"2026-02-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:00:20","slug":"john-evelyns-death-27th-february-1706","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/john-evelyns-death-27th-february-1706\/","title":{"rendered":"John Evelyn Died February 27th 1706"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"709\" height=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2021-09-03-10.57.24.png\" alt=\"Portrait of John Evelyn holding a book\" class=\"wp-image-4706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2021-09-03-10.57.24.png 709w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2021-09-03-10.57.24-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 100vw, 709px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Portrait of John Evelyn by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/en:Godfrey_Kneller\">Godfrey Kneller<\/a> 1687 (Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John Evelyn is, with Pepys and Wren, one of the great figures of 17th Century London.&nbsp; Unlike Pepys, he was an avowed Royalist who hated Oliver Cromwell and all he stood for.&nbsp; He went into exile with his King and gives a great description of Paris (see below).&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"781\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"4708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_12-781x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_12-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_12-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_12-768x1007.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_12-1172x1536.jpg 1172w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_12-1563x2048.jpg 1563w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_12-scaled.jpg 1953w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"545\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"4707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_25-545x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_25-545x1024.jpg 545w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_25-160x300.jpg 160w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_25-768x1444.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_25-817x1536.jpg 817w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_25-1089x2048.jpg 1089w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/charles-2_25-scaled.jpg 1362w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Pepys, John Evelyn was a diarist and a writer. And they, like Wren, were alumni of the Royal Society, one of the great scientific societies. John Evelyn was a founding fellow. It was innovative in that it employed an experimenter. This was Robert Hooke &#8211; one of the great early Scientists, who also worked with Wren rebuilding London after the Great Fire. The Royal Society encouraged scientists to experiment, write up their observations, and submit their theories for peer review. This is the foundation of modern Science, and a bedrock of the Enlightenment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/311839-1344257544.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/311839-1344257544.jpg 747w, https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/311839-1344257544-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frontispiece of &#8216;the History of the Royal-Society of London by Thomas Sprat. John Evelyn was a founder member<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Evelyn the Writer.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>John Evelyn has a place in my history because, in the 1980&#8217;s I worked. with Paul Herbert, on a project to create an interactive history of London. It was financed by Warner Brothers, and in cooperation with the short-lived &#8216;BBC Interactive TV Unit&#8217;. One part of it was a Literary Tour of London. The first half of this Tour is the basis for my book &#8216;In Their Own Words&#8217; (To buy click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Their-Own-Words-Kevin-Flude\/dp\/190510877X\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.QWOM7wwCABMzhjQEl1roZoNjfV34pDT_KovKl74LUVGR2nRNQGo5-6sAbWsd9MOARWBkXQLCizw-Ct-STzWrwg.ZUzx_OvgKwpjJiKidRElfmZUGn9UiNi89GSRLCuWqrw&amp;qid=1733560752&amp;sr=8-1\">here<\/a>\u00a0) And this is where I came across John Evelyn using several of the quotations on this page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evelyn was a prolific traveller and a polymath. He wrote on the need to improve London&#8217;s architecture and air in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fumifugium\">Fumifugium<\/a><\/em> (or <em>The Inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoak of London Dissipated<\/em>). Here is an extract from his Furmifugium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;<em>That this Glorious and Antient City, which from Wood might be rendred Brick, and (like another Rome) from Brick made Stone and Marble; which commands the Proud Ocean to the Indies, and reaches to the farthest Antipo\u00addes, should wrap her stately head in Clowds of Smoake and Sulphur, so full of Stink and Dark\u00adnesse, I deplore with just Indignation. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>That the Buildings should be compos&#8217;d of such a Congestion of mishapen and extravagant Houses; That the  Streets should be so narrow and incommodious in the very Center, and busiest places of Intercourse: That there should be so ill and uneasie a form of Paving under foot, so troublesome and malicious a disposure of the Spouts and Gutters overhead, are particulars worthy of Reproof and Reforma\u00adtion; because it is hereby rendred a Labyrinth in its principal passages, and a continual Wet-day after the Storm is over. <\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he was an expert on trees. Author of: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sylva,_or_A_Discourse_of_Forest-Trees_and_the_Propagation_of_Timber\">Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees<\/a><\/em> (1664). He lived at Sayes Court in Depford near Greenwich, which he ill-advisedly rented to Peter the Great of Russia. Letting to Peter was a lot-like inviting a 1960s Rock Band to trash your mansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>John Evelyn the Exile<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a taste of Evelyn&#8217;s time as an Exile.  It is a short extract from a long entry on the splendid Palaces in and around Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>27th February, 1644. Accompanied with some English gentlemen, we took horse to see St. Germains-en-Laye, a stately country house of the King, some five leagues from Paris. By the way, we alighted at St. Cloud, where, on an eminence near the river, the Archbishop of Paris has a garden, for the house is not very considerable, rarely watered and furnished with fountains, statues,<a>[<\/a>and groves; the walks are very fair; the fountain of Laocoon is in a large square pool, throwing the water near forty feet high, and having about it a multitude of statues and basins, and is a surprising object. But nothing is more esteemed than the cascade falling from the great steps into the lowest and longest walk from the Mount Parnassus, which consists of a grotto, or shell-house, on the summit of the hill, wherein are divers waterworks and contrivances to wet the spectators; this is covered with a fair cupola, the walls painted with the Muses, and statues placed thick about it, whereof some are antique and good. In the upper walks are two perspectives, seeming to enlarge the alleys, and in this garden are many other ingenious contrivances. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/41218\/41218-h\/41218-h.htm\">John Evelyn&#8217;s Diary from https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>John Evelyn and the Restoration of Charles II<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This was Evelyn&#8217;s reaction when Charles II was restored to the throne in 1660, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 29th 1660:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This day came in his Majestie Charles the 2d to London after a sad, and long exile&#8230; this was also his birthday, and with a Triumph of above 20,000 horse and foote, brandishing their swords and shouting with unexpressable joy; the wayes strawed with flowers, the bells ringing, the streets hung with Tapisry, fountains running with wine: &#8216;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em> &#8216;The mayor, Aldermen, all the companies in their liveries, chaines of gold, banners, Lords and nobles, cloth of Silver, gold and velvet every body clad in, the windows and balconies all set with Ladys, Trumpetes, Musik, and myriads of people &#8230; All this without one drop of bloud &#8230;it was the Lords doing&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Evelyn&#8217;s opinion of Cromwell have a look at this post of mine: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/january-28th-31st-charles-i-martyrdom-get-back\/\">january-28th-31st-charles-i-martyrdom-get-back\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>On This Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1661<\/strong><em> &#8211; &#8216;Ash Wednesday. Preached before the King the Bishop of London (Dr. Sheldon) on Matthew xviii. 25, concerning charity and forgiveness.<\/em>&#8216;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Evelyn&#8217;s Diary Dr Sheldon, the Bishop of London mentioned above, went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury. He was a friend of Wren&#8217;s Father, and commissioned Wren to build the Sheldonian Theatre, in Oxford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1782 <\/strong>\u2013 OK! Let&#8217;s give up! The House of Commons votes against continuing the war with Revolutionary America.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1900<\/strong> \u2013 The Labour Party is founded. And today, the UK woke up to a by-election in a safe Labour seat won by the Greens (40%)  with Reform 2nd (29%) and the Labour Party third (26%)  Conservatives fourth (2%). So, clearly a progressive vote determined to beat Reform, Labour won about 50% of the vote last time, so a disaster for them.  Not a success for Reform, and bad result for the Conservatives.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1933<\/strong> &#8211; Reichstag burns down. Hitler uses it to suspend Civil Liberties, and attack the German Communist Party which was falsely blamed for the fire.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First Published 2024, republished 2025,  Making Lardy Cake moved to Fat Thursday and On This Day added 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Evelyn is, with Pepys and Wren, one of the great figures of 17th Century London.&nbsp; Unlike Pepys, he was an avowed Royalist who hated Oliver Cromwell and all he stood for.&nbsp; He went into exile with his King and gives a great description of Paris (see below).&nbsp; Like Pepys, John Evelyn was a diarist &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chr.org.uk\/anddidthosefeet\/john-evelyns-death-27th-february-1706\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Evelyn Died February 27th 1706&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[112,116,321,298,423,23,324,13,4,185,362,712,257,322],"tags":[198,50,136,1210,2425,21,1479,1474],"class_list":["post-4702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac-of-the-past","category-calendar","category-europe","category-farming-history","category-france","category-heritage","category-history","category-literary-history","category-london","category-nature","category-royal-history","category-science","category-stuarts","category-uk","tag-christopher-wren","tag-city-of-london","tag-civil-war","tag-cromwell","tag-joh-evelyn","tag-london","tag-paris","tag-royal-exchange"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Evelyn Died February 27th 1706 - And Did Those Feet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"John Evelyn one of London&#039;s great figures. 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