On 29 March 1673 his father took him to see Peter Gunning, bishop of Chichester, who gave him instruction and advice 'before he received the Holy Sacrament.'
He returned home seriously ill, and died in Berkeley Street, London, 24 March 1699, in his father's lifetime.
[1] Evelyn translated the following works:[1] To the third edition of his father's Sylva (1678) Evelyn contributed some prefatory Greek hexameters, written at the age of fifteen; and in the last chapter the second book of his version of René Rapin's Hortorum Liber was reprinted.
'[1] Evelyn married, in 1679, Martha, daughter and coheiress of Richard Spenser, a Turkey merchant.
[1] The son John, born 1 March 1682, married, 18 September 1750, Anne, daughter of Edward Boscawen of Cornwall, was made a baronet 30 July 1713, built a library at the family seat of Wotton House, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and commissioner of customs, and died 18 July 1763.