So great was the destruction done to the gardens, trees, and holly-hedges, that Wren was asked to report on the compensation suitable, and L162-7-0 were paid to Evelyn for damage to the house and garden.
Early in 1695 Evelyn accepted the offer of the Treasurership of Greenwich Hospital, then about to be rebuilt and endowed for the maintainence of decayed seamen, which was made to him by Lord Godolphin, who had been the husband of his former friend Miss Blagg.

During the days of Charles II.

some such transformation of the Palace had been under consideration, but it was the 30th June 1696 before Evelyn and Sir Christopher Wren 'laid the first stone of the intended foundation, precisely at 5 o'clock in the evening, after we had din'd together.' This appointment carried with it 'the salary of L200 per ann.

of which I have never yet receiv'd one penny of the tallies assign'd for it, now two years at Lady-day; my son-in-law Draper is my substitute.' When the new Commission for Greenwich Hospital was sealed in August 1703 Evelyn resigned his office of Treasurer in favour of Draper.
His brother George dying in October 1699, Evelyn then became the owner of Wotton, and looked to his grandson, the Oxford Student, to 'be the support of the Wotton family.' The lad had a bad attack of small-pox in the autumn of 1700, a malady that had caused many gaps in the family circle; but, coming safely through this illness, he was in July 1701, by the patronage of Lord Godolphin, made one of the Commissioners of the Prizes, with a salary of L500 a year, while he was still an undergraduate at Oxford.

And in January 1704 the same noble patron appointed him Treasurer of the Stamp Duties, with a salary of L300 a year.