April ii.
I quit my lodgings at Rotterdam, and remove to the Hague. The day following I visit the church of Launsdone where I found this inscription under two brass basins: Margareta, Hermani Comitis Henebergae uxor, filia Gulielmi Caesaris, anno MCCLXXVI 365 enixa est pueros etc. sicut in hac tabula ex vetustis tam manuscriptis, quam typis excusis, chronicis positum ac enarratum est. The same afternoon I pass on to Honstardyke, where I see the orangery four hundred and fifty yards long; the East India buffalo, male and female; the aviary, in which is a white peacock, the birds called lepelaars, and variety of foreign ducks and geese; the stable of foreign beasts, among which is the mamót of East India (like a stag, but with twisted horns) and a cassaware; the gardens, in which are several beautiful statues, particularly one of a gladiator; the house consisting of one intire quadrangle within two good galleries, the Queen’s japan cabinet, and the King’s well furnished with curious paintings.