The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 1 of 2)

by John Evelyn

[80] A Roman Catholic.

[81] "Parallel between Ancient and Modern Architecture, originally written in French, by Roland Freart, Sieur de Chambray," and translated by Evelyn. See his "Miscellaneous Writings."

Transcriber's Note

Page headers in the original text indicated the location of the author. I have converted these to sidenotes. When the location did not change over several pages, only one sidenote was used.

Footnotes have been moved to the end of the book.

Inconsistencies have been retained in spelling, hyphenation, punctuation, and grammar, except where indicated in the list below:

• [Comma removed after "King" on Page xxii]
• [Comma removed after "ARTIBUS" and word was moved to the start of following line on Page 17]
• ["extrordinary" changed to "extraordinary" on Page 22]
• [Period changed to comma after "considerable" on Page 50]
• [Colon changed to semicolon after "good" on Page 57]
• ["Cum-anno" changed to "Cum anno" on Page 60]
• ["ceörcuit" changed to "coërcuit" on Page 60]
• [Period added after "capital" on Page 66]
• [Comma changed to a period added after "head" on Page 68]
• [Comma added after "churches" on Page 70]
• [Period added after "Paris" on Page 73]
• [Period changed to a colon after after "vetustiss" on Page 98]
• ["qu" changed to "qui" on Page 99]
• ["suffiently" changed to "sufficiently" on Page 100]
• ["theorboes" changed to "theorbos" on Page 107]
• ["hicerigi" changed to "hic erigi" on Page 112]
• ["d Arpino" changed to "d'Arpino" on Page 119]
• ["Mosiac" changed to "Mosaic" on Page 123]
• ["Sextns" changed to "Sextus" on Page 124]
• ["S.P. Q.R.D.D." changed to "S.P.Q.R.D.D." on Page 124]
• ["tune" changed to "tunc" on Page 124]
• ["Mosiac" changed to "Mosaic" on Page 132]
• ["viz." changed to "viz" on Page 138]
• [Period added after "grosse" on Page 138]
• [Semicolon added after "Cybel" on Page 140]
• ["Scipio'o" changed to "Scipio's" on Page 140]
• ["forman" changed to "formam" on Page 144]
• [Quote added before "Inclyta" on Page 146]
• ["cinceres" changed to "cineres" on Page 153]
• [Colon changed to a semicolon after "brass" on Page 161]
• [Round bracket added after "excepted" on Page 164]
• ["Lanframe" changed to "Lanfranc" on Page 166]
• [Comma changed to a period after "VIII" on Page 167]
• ["sinking" changed to "stinking" on Page 178]
• ["suphurous" changed to "sulphurous" on Page 178]
• [Comma added after "Pegasus" on Page 178]
• ["gread" changed to "great" on Page 179]
• [Colon changed to semicolon after "mummy" on Page 182]
• [Period changed to comma after "ordnance" on Page 187]
• [Comma changed to a semicolon after "marble" on Page 200]
• [Period added after "October" on Page 212]
• ["thought" changed to "taught" on Page 213]
• [Extra "to" removed on Page 214]
• [Extra "of" removed on Page 217]
• ["Poti" changed to "Pot." on Page 223]
• [Comma added after "August" on Page 243]
• ["father s" changed to "father's" on Page 251]
• ["Cecelia's" changed to "Cecilia's" on Page 259]
• ["Musician's" changed to "Musicians" on Page 259]
• [Extra "the" removed on Page 264]
• ["captan" changed to "captain" on Page 265]
• ["taffet" changed to "taffeta" on Page 265]
• ["Febur's" changed to "Febure's" on Page 269]
• ["Cromwells" changed to "Cromwell's" on Page 274]
• ["Condè's" changed to "Condé's" on Page 275]
• [Period added after "1653" on Page 281]
• [Period added after "1653" on Page 281]
• [Duplicate "the" removed on Page 284]
• [Comma changed to a period after "Mr" on Page 284]
• ["delighful" changed to "delightful" on Page 285]
• ["Pophams" changed to "Popham's" on Page 285]
• ["June" changed to "July" on Page 287]
• ["June" changed to "July" on Page 287]
• [Comma added after "music" on Page 287]
• ["MSS." changed to "MS." on Page 288]
• ["meantine" changed to "meantime" on Page 290]
• [Period added after "prospect" on Page 296]
• [Comma added after "December" on Page 302]
• [Comma changed to a period after "it" on Page 308]
• ["indiffierently" changed to "indifferently" on Page 314]
• ["January" changed to "February" on Page 314]
• ["January" changed to "February" on Page 315]
• ["deperate" changed to "desperate" on Page 317]
• [Period added after "1657" on Page 317]
• [Period added after "country" on Page 317]
• ["commisioners" changed to "commissioners" on Page 326]
• [Comma added after "November" on Page 328]
• ["1650" changed to "1660" on Page 336]
• [Period added after "Crisp" on Page 356]
• [Comma changed to a period after "modern" on Page 356]
• [Period added after "St" on Page 360]
• [Extra "the" removed on Page 362]
• [Comma changed to a period after "St" on Page 364]
• [Period added after "Sylva" on Page 365]
• ["October" changed to "November" on Page 366]
• [Period added after "Worcester" on Page 366]
• [Period added after "St" on Page 366]
• [Comma changed to a period after "1664" on Page 376]
• ["againt" changed to "against" on Page 378]