The John Bargrave Collection

while work was being undertaken on his estate at Enstone, just north of Oxford, stone-cutters had exposed a rock of unusual shape. Bushell decided to build some curious and splendid waterworks around it and laid down pipes and cisterns for this purpose. There were fountains that played organ tunes and bird-songs while others produced artificial thunder and lightning. He added a banqueting house and a garden laid out with fruit trees and entertained the King and Queen there, who thought it all enormous fun. To mark the occasion the Queen presented him with an Egyptian mummy which he put on display. Evelyn noted it on a later visit when he seemed rather shocked to find Bushell in 'a Grott where he lay in an hamac like an Indian' (176).