Jane Evelyn -1651

Jane Evelyn was born to Richard Evelyn of Wotton and Eleanor Stansfield.

On 27th January 1614 Richard Evelyn of Wotton [aged 27] and Eleanor Stansfield [aged 15] were married.

On 29th September 1635 Eleanor Stansfield [aged 36] died. On 3rd October 1635 she was buried at St John's Church, Wotton.

After 1638 William Glanville [aged 19] and Jane Evelyn were married.

John Evelyn's Diary. 9th July 1638. I went home to visit my friends, and, on the 26th, with my brother [aged 21] and sister to Lewes [Map], where we abode till the 31st; and thence to one Mr. Michael's, of Houghton, near Arundel [Map], where we were very well treated; and, on the 2d of August, to Portsmouth, Hampshire [Map], and thence, having surveyed the fortifications (a great rarity in that blessed halcyon time in England), we passed into the Isle of Wight [Map], to the house of my Baroness Richards, in a place called Yaverland; but were turned the following day to Chichester [Map], where, having viewed the city and fair cathedral [Map], we returned home.

On 24th December 1640 Richard Evelyn of Wotton [aged 53] died.

Before 10th September 1647 John Evelyn [aged 26] and Mary Browne [aged 12] were married by Bishop John Earle [aged 46] at Paris [Map]. She is first mentioned in his diary John Evelyn's Diary on 10th September 1647.

John Evelyn's Diary. 9th November 1647. My sister opened to me her marriage with Mr. Glanville [aged 29].

John Evelyn's Diary. 12th July 1649. It was about three in the afternoon, I took oars for Gravesend, Kent [Map]., accompanied by my cousin, Stephens, and sister, Glanville, who there supped with me and returned; whence I took post immediately to Dover, Kent [Map], where I arrived by nine in the morning; and, about eleven that night, went on board a barque guarded by a pinnace of eight guns; this being the first time the Packet-boat had obtained a convoy, having several times before been pillaged. We had a good passage, though chased for some hours by a pirate, but he dared not attack our frigate, and we then chased him till he got under the protection of the castle at Calais. It was a small privateer belonging to the Prince of Wales. I carried over with me my servant, Richard Hoare, an incomparable writer of several hands, whom I afterward preferred in the Prerogative Office, at the return of his Majesty. Lady Catherine Scott, daughter of the Earl of Norwich [aged 64], followed us in a shallop, with Mr. Arthur Slingsby [aged 26], who left England incognito. At the entrance of the town, the Lieutenant Governor, being on his horse with the guards, let us pass courteously. I visited Sir Richard Lloyd, an English gentleman, and walked in the church, where the ornament about the high altar of black marble is very fine, and there is a good picture of the Assumption. The citadel seems to be impregnable, and the whole country about it to be laid under water by sluices for many miles.

John Evelyn's Diary. 25th July 1650. I went by Epsom to Wotton, Surrey [Map], saluting Sir Robert Cook and my sister Glanville; the country was now much molested by soldiers, who took away gentlemen's horses for the service of the state, as then called.

Before 1651 Jane Evelyn died in childbirth.

John Evelyn's Diary. 2nd January 1652. News of my sister Glanville's death in childbed, which exceedingly affected me.

On 12th April 1702 William Glanville [aged 83] died.

John Evelyn's Diary. 12th April 1702. My brother-in-law [aged 83], Glanville, departed this life this morning after a long languishing illness, leaving a son by my sister, and two granddaughters. Our relation and friendship had been long and great. He was a man of excellent parts. He died in the 84th year of his age, and willed his body to be wrapped in lead and carried down to Greenwich, put on board a ship, and buried in the sea, between Dover and Calais, about the Goodwin sands; which was done on the Tuesday, or Wednesday after. This occasioned much discourse, he having no relation at all to the sea. He was a gentleman of an ancient family in Devonshire, and married my sister Jane. By his prudent parsimony he much improved his fortune. He had a place in the Alienation Office, and might have been an extraordinary man, had he cultivated his parts.