Chapter II: Part 2

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'As to the postscript of your letter, wherein I am desired to give an account of my academicall education, etc., know that in the yeare 1622, after I had been brought up to some learning in Paule's Schoole, London, I was admitted into St. John's Colledge, in Cambridge, where the president was my tutor; and after I had duely performed all that was required of me both in College and Schooles, I tooke my degree there of Master in Arts in the yeare 1629. And ten yeares after that, viz. in the yeare 1639, I was admitted _ad eundem gradum_ in the university of Oxford. In the yeare 1630, my Lord Keeper Coventrey gave <me> a little vicarage in Essex, called North Strobury; and in the yeare 1635 his good Lordship removed me to the place where I now am. This I concieve is all that is now enquired of me by you.--The Lord give me grace so to number my dayes that I may apply my heart better then I have yet donne to Spiritual Wisdome.

Good sir,
I am your true friend and servant,
EDWARD LANE.'

Sparsholt, Hants.
Novemb. 16, 1681.

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[P] In 1680 Lewis du Moulin published a pamphlet, 'Moral reflections upon the number of the elect, proving ... that ... probably not one in a million from Adam down to our time shall be saved.' Lane's answer appeared in the same year:--'Mercy triumphant: the kingdom of Christ enlarged beyond the narrow bounds which have been put to it by Dr. L. du Moulin....'

=Sir Henry Lee= (1530-1610/1).

=Sir Henry Lee= (15-- -1631).

[99]Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley in com. Oxon was a gentleman of a good estate, and a strong and valiant person.

He was raunger of Woodstocke parke, and (I have heard my old cosen Whitney say) would many times in his younger yeares walke at nights in the parke with his keepers.

Sir Gerard Fleetwood succeeded him in this place[X.]; as his nephew Sir William Fleetwood did him, and him the earl of Rochester.

[X.] J. S. on the heroicall epistles of Michael Drayton--'In Rosamund's time, one Vaughan.'

This Sir Henry Lee's nephew and heire (whom I remember very well; he often came to Sir John Danvers') was called _Whip-and-away_. The occasion of it was thus:--this old hero declining in his strength by age and so not being able to be a righter of his owne wronges as heretofore--

Labitur occiduae per iter declive senectae.
Subruit haec aevi demoliturque prioris
Robora. Fletque Milo senior cum spectat inanes
Illos, qui fuerant solidorum more tororum
Herculeis similes, fluidos pendere lacertos.

OVID. _Metamorp._ lib. xv, fab. 3 <l. 227>--

some person of quality had affronted him. So he spake to Sir Henry Lee his heire to lie in wayte for him about the Bell Inne in the Strand with halfe a dozen or more lustie fellowes at his back and as the partie passed along to give him a good blow with his cane and _whip and away_, the tall fellowes should finish the revenge. Whether 'twere nicety of conscience or cowardice, but Sir Henry the younger absolutely refused it. For which he was disinherited, and <Sir Henry the elder> setled his whole estate upon a keeper's sonne of Whitchwood-forest of his owne name, a one-eied young man, no kinne to him, from whom the earle of Lichfield[100] now is descended, as also the lady Norris and lady Wharton.

He was never maried, but kept woemen to reade to him when he was a bed. One of his readers was parson Jones[101] his wife of Wotton. I have heard her daughter (who had no more witt) glory what a brave reader her mother was and how Sir Harry's worship much delighted to heare her. But his dearest deare was Mris. Anne Vavasour. He erected a noble altar monument of marble (☞ see it) wheron his effigies in armour lay; at the feet was the effigies of his mistresse Mris. Anne Vavasour. Which occasioned these verses:--

Here lies good old knight Sir Harry,
Who loved well, but would not marry[102]....

Memorandum: some bishop did threaten to have this monument defaced (at least to remove Mris. A. Vavasour's effigies).

<_Pedigree of the Lees of Ditchley._>

[103](1) Old Sir Henry Lee[104] of Ditchley, com. Oxon.

(2) Sir Henry Lee, whom they called _Whip-and-away_, was cosen-german to the other Sir Henry; he dyed a batchelor, sine prole.

Old Sir Henry Lee, knight of the Garter, and was supposed brother of queen Elizabeth. He ordered that all his family should be christned _Harry's_.

This account I take from my lady Elizabeth viscountesse Purbec, the eldest daughter of Sir John Danvers, sister to the lady Anne Lee.

[108]One-eied Lee[109] _m._ <Anne> St. John _m._ <Henry>, lord Wilmot.
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| <John>, earl of Rochester.
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... _m._ <Sir Henry> Lee _m._ Anne Danvers
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earl of Litchfield[110]. +-----+--------+
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Lady Norris. Lady Wharton.

=William Lee= (15-- -1610).

[111]Mr. William Lee, A.M., was of Oxon[112] (I thinke, Magdalen Hall[Q]). He was the first inventor of the weaving of stockings by an engine of his contrivance. He was a Sussex man borne, or els lived there. He was a poor curate, and, observing how much paines his wife tooke in knitting a payre of stockings, he bought a stocking and a halfe, and observed the contrivance of the stitch, which he designed in his loome, which (though some of the appendent instruments of the engine be altered) keepes the same to this day. He went into France, and there dyed before his loome was made there. So the art was, not long since, in no part of the world but England. Oliver Protector made an act that it should be felonie to transport this engine. Vide Stowe's Chronicle and Baker's Chronicle, if any mention of it. This information I tooke from a weaver (by this engine) in Pear-poole lane, 1656. Sir John Hoskyns, Mr. Stafford Tyndale, and I, went purposely to see it.

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[Q] In MS. Aubr. 8. fol. 4, Anthony Wood notes:--'11 Nov. 1681:--"John Lee, Surrey, son of Thomas Lee, of London, gent., aet. 17, 1624" <matriculated at> "Aul. Magd."--this I set here because one Lee is mentioned in this book,--see page 18,' i.e. fol. 32 as above.

=William Lilly= (1601-1681).

[113]W. Lilly--<life> donne by himselfe penes Mr. Elias Ashmole.

[114]Mr. W. Lilly obiit at his house in Hersham, Thursday, June 9, and is to be buried at Walton chancel[115] this day, scil. June 10, 1681. He was borne on May day 1601[116]: had he lived till next May he had been full fourscore. He setled his estate at Hersham, 200 _li._ per annum, on ... Whitlock, esqre, sonne of the Lord Commissioner Whitlock[117] (who was his great patrone).

[118]Mr. William Lilly, astrologer: he wrote his owne life very largely, which Elias Ashmole, esq., hath. Memorandum he predicted the great comete which appeared in anno Domini[119] 168<0>, in his almanack 1677, which was the last that he wrote himselfe with his owne hands; for afterwards he fell blind. Memorandum, to bind up the almanack aforesayd with other 8vo pamphlets, for 'tis exceeding considerable.

[120]Ne oblivione contereretur urna
Gulielmi Lillii
astrologi peritissimi
qui fatis cessit
Vᵗᵒ Idus Junii anno Christi Juliano
MDCLXXXI
Hoc illi posuit amoris monumentum
Elias Ashmole,
armiger.

On a black marble (good marble; 7 _li._[121]) gravestone in the middle towards the north wall of Walton-on-Thames <church>.

Quaere--he wrote his own life which Mr. Ashmole hath and is dedicated to him.

=Franciscus Linus.=

[122]Father Franciscus Linus, i.e. Hall, was borne in London--which captain Robert Pugh, è Societate Jesus, assured me, who was his great acquaintance.

He was of the Societie of Jesus and lived most at Liège, where he dyed....

He writt a learned discourse, _de coloribus_, which Sir Kenelm Digby quotes with much praise in his philosophie.

He printed a discourse of dialling in 4to, Latin, and made the Jesuits College there the finest dialls in the world, which are described in that booke. The like dialls he made (which resemble something a ... of candlesticks) in the garden at Whitehall, which were one night, anno Dni. 167- (4[123], as I take it), broken all to pieces (for they were of glasse spheres) by the earl of Rochester, lord Buckhurst, Fleetwood Shephard, etc., comeing in from their revells. 'What!' said the earl of Rochester, 'doest thou stand here to ... time?' Dash they fell to worke. Ther was a watchman alwayes stood there to secure it.

He wrote a piece of philosophy in Latin in 8vo, called....

He had great skill in the optiques, and was an excellent philosopher and mathematician, and a person of exceeding suavity, goodnes, and piety, insomuch that I have heard father Manners, è Soc. Jes., say that he deserved canonisation.

Memorandum--he writ a little tract, about halfe a sheet or not much more, of Transubstantiation, proveing it metaphysically and by naturall reason--which I have seen.

[124]Franciscus Linus (Hall), Jesuite, at Leige. He told me he was born in London; see more in my memorandums of him to Mr. Anthony Wood.

Sir Kenelme Digby, in his booke of bodies, in the chapter of colours, speakes with a very great respect of Mr. ... Hall.

He writ and published a prety little booke in 8vo (or lesse) of natural philosophy--quaere nomen.

=Sir Matthew Lister= (1564-1656).

[125]Sir Matthew Lister was born at Thornton in Craven in Yorkshire. His nephew Martin Lister, M.D., R.S.S.[126], from whose mouth I have this information, tells me he was of Oriel College in Oxon; he thinkes he was a fellowe.

He built that stately house at Ampthill in Bedfordshire (now the earle of Alesbury's). He sent for the architects from Italie.

He died at Burwell neer Lowth in Lincolnshire about 1656 or 1657, aged 92 yeares.

He was physitian to queen Anne (queen of king James). See the list of the names of the physitians before _the London dispensatorie_; as I remember, he was then president of the Physitians' College at London.

He printed nothing that Dr. Martin Lister knowes of (Sir Matthew Lister bred him up).

[127]Mr. <Edmund> Wyld sayes Sir Matthew Lister built the house for Mary, countesse of Pembroke. He was her surveyour, and managed her estate[128]. The seat at Ampthill is now in the possession of the earl of Alesbury, whose grandfather (the earl of Elgin) bought it of the countesse of Pembroke.--That he was president of the Physitians College appeares by the dedication of the London dispensatory to him, being then president.

=Evans Lloyd.=

[129]1582: Almanack, supputated specially for the elevation and meridian of London but may generally serve for all England--by Evans Lloyd, student in Astronomie.

'Tis dedicated 'To the right honourable Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellour of England, and one of her majestie's most honourable privy councell.' He concludes thus:--'Your honour's most humble and dutifull, Evans Lloyd, late student in Oriall Colledge in Oxford.'

=Martin Lluelyn= (1616-1681/2).

[130]Martin Lluellyn was borne on Thursday the 12 of December 1616, a quarter befor 11 of clock in the night, the moon newly entred into Capricorn and near the full in Gemini. He was the seventh son, without any daughter between. He was christned on the 22 day of December at Litle St. Bartholomeu's church near Smithfeild, London: buried in the left chancel of Wicombe church near the wall.

Our faith and duty, pure without allay,
As our Apollo we our kings obey,
To both implicit homag allways pay.
When the God moves we seldom reasoning stand,
But feareless march wherere he does command.
And thus we treat all mortall majesty
And never put the saucy question, Why?

[131]He lies interred in the middle of the north aisle of the chancell, towards the step or elevation, of Chipping Wickham in the county of Bucks, under a fair black marble gravestone.

=Sir James Long= (1613-1658/9).

[132]Sir James Long, baronet:--I should now be both orator and soldier to give this honoured friend of mine, 'a gentleman absolute[133] in all numbers,' his due character.

Only son of Sir W. L.; borne at South Wraxhall in Wilts. Westminster scholar; of Magd. coll. Oxon; Fisher there. Went to France. Maried anno ... D.[134] Leech, a most elegant beautie and witt, daughter of Sir E. L., 25 aetat. In the civill warres, colonel of horse in Sir Fr. Dodington's brigade. Good sword-man; horseman; admirable extempore orator pro harangue; great memorie; great historian and romanceer; great falkoner and for horsemanship; for insects; exceeding curious and searching long since, in naturall things.

Oliver, Protector, hawking at Hownselowe heath, discoursing with him, fell in love with his company, and commanded him to weare his sword, and to meete him a hawkeing, which made the strict cavaliers look on him with an evill eye.

Scripsit 'History and Causes of the Civill Warre,' or 'Reflections' (quaere); 'Examination of witches at Malmesburie.'

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MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 187, is a coloured sketch by Aubrey of Sir James Long of Draycot and himself hawking; fol. 189 is Aubrey's pencil drawing for it.

=Richard Lovelace= (1618-1658).

[135]Richard Lovelace[R], esq.: he was a most beautifull gentleman.

Geminum, seu lumina, sydus,
Et dignos Baccho digitos, et Apolline crines,
Impubesque genas, et eburnea colla, decusque
Oris, et in niveo mistum candore ruborem.

OVID. _Metamorph._[136] fab. 5 (Echo), lib. III.

Obiit in a cellar in Long Acre, a little before the restauration of his majestie. Mr. Edmund Wyld, etc. have made collections for him, and given him money.

One of the handsomst men of England. He was of ... in Kent, 500 _li._ per annum and + (quaere E. W.).

He was an extraordinary handsome man, but prowd. He wrote a poem called _Lucasta_[XI.], 8vo, printed London by Thomas Harper to be sold at the Gun in Ivy lane, 1649[137].

[XI.] Lucasta, Posthumous Poems of Richard Lovelace, esq., with verses of severall of his friends on him: 8vo.

He was of Glocester hall[138], as I have been told.

He had two younger brothers, viz. colonel Francis Lovelace, and another brother <William> that died at Carmarthen (prout per poema).

George Petty, haberdasher, in Fleet Street, carried xx_s._ to him every Monday morning from Sir ... Many and Charles Cotton, esq., for ... (quaere quot) moneths, but was never repayd[S].

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[R] In MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 5, is the note:--'Let me see colonel Lovelace's life to insert some verses;' i.e. Aubrey asks back from Anthony Wood MS. Aubr. 8, to insert 'some verses.' This seems not to have been done, unless they be those quoted from Ovid.

[S] The meaning seems to be that these two commissioned Petty to pay Lovelace a weekly allowance, but never re-paid him. Is 'Sir ... Many' Sir John Mennis? George Petty was a distant connexion of Anthony Wood: Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, i. 35.

=Cyprian Lucar.=

[139]Mr. Cyprian Lucar[T] published a very profitable treatise in 4to for young beginners in the Mathematicks, intituled

'Lucar solace, divided into fower bookes, which in part are collected out of diverse authors in diverse languages, and in part devised by Cyprian Lucar, gentleman. Imprinted at London by Richard Field anno Domini 1590.'

It is dedicated 'to the right worshipfull his brother-in-law Maister William Roe, esquier, and alderman of the honorable citie of London.' This dedicatory epistle is a well writ and close stile. He expresseth himselfe short and cleare and to have been a publick-spirited and a good man as well as learned and ingenious. He dates it 'From my house in London the 1 day of May in the yeare of the creation of the world 5552, and in the yeare of our redemption 1590.'

The contents of the four bookes of Lucar Solace:--

'The first book containeth definitions of divers words and terms, names and lengthes of divers English measures, the true difference between an acar of land measured with a pearch of 12 foot, 18 foot, 20 foote, or 24 foote in length, and an acar of land measured with a pearch of 16 foot and an halfe foote in length, names and types of divers geometrical instruments, names and dwelling places of workmen which can make and doe sell such instruments, meanes to discerne whether or no the edge of a ruler is right, and infallible instructions by which an ingenious reader may readily measure upon any smooth table, drummes head, stoole or other superficies measurable lengths, bredthes, heights, and depthes, apply known lengthes, bredthes, heights, and depthes to many good purposes, know recorded heighthes, lengthes, and bredthes of some famous monuments in Sarum, in Westminster and in the honorable citie of London, know the antiquitie of the sayd citie of London, draw the true plat of any place, make a fit scale for any platt or mappe, reduce many plats into one fair mappe, reduce a mappe from a bigge forme to a lesse forme, and from a lesse forme to a bigge forme, and learne to know the commodities and discommodities of places.

[140]'The second book sheweth how an ingenuous person may measure a right-lined distance between any two places described in a mappe, how he may measure the circuite and superficiall content of any described peece of land, how he may find the centre of any polygonon equiangle figure, how he may find the center of any circle, how he may make by a part of the circumference the whole circumference agreeing unto that part, how he may bring any right lined figure into triangles and how he may know what number of angles in a right-lined figure are equall to any certain number of right angles.

'The third book instructeth the reader to make any triangle, square, or long-square, to erect a plumbe line upon any part or point of a line, to divide any circle into divers numbers of equall parts, to make any polygonon equiangle figure, to make an egge-forme figure, to know when a figure is inscribed within another figure or circumscribed about another figure, to inscribe certain rightlined figures within certain other rightlined figures, to circumscribe certain rightlined figures about certain other rightlined figures, to divide a right line into so many equall parts as he will, to tell whether a thing seen afar off doth stand still, goe from him, or come towards him, to draw a line equall to any assigned arch-line or to the whole circumference of any assigned circle or to any assigned part of a circle, to draw a circular line equall to any assigned right line, to separate, lay out, and inclose within a long square, one, two or three acars of land by diverse waies from any peece of ground adjoyning, to change a figure of one forme into an equall figure of another appointed forme, to make a right line angle equall to a right line angle given, to draw a parallel to a right line given, and to cube any assigned sphere.

'The fourth booke teacheth the reader to know fruitfull barren and minerall grounds, growthes ages and solid contents of trees, and where a good air is. It doth also teach the reader to build for the preservation of health, to make a tunnell of a chimney so as no smoak shall annoy him in his house, to fell timber and make sound boords for buildings, to sink a well in due time and in a place where water may be found, and to know whether a new found spring of water will drie up in a hot and dry summer; also it sheweth how water in a shallow well is more wholesome than water in a deep well, how every well ought to be uncovered[141]and often times drawn drie, how the use of water is necessary, how divers sorts of water have divers qualities, how there are divers meanes to trie among many sorts of water which water is best, how great store of water may be thrown out of a new-devised squerte upon any fired house or other thing, how water may be brought in pipes or in gutters within the ground to any appointed sesterne, how the depth of any sea may be found, how the force of running waters which weare away land may be broken; how wet grounds and bogges may be drained, and how by the art taught in these 4 bookes the ingenuous reader may devise new workes, strange engins and instruments not only for private pleasure but also for sundry purposes in the common-wealth.'

Memorandum:--in the XXIII chapter of the third booke of Lucar Solace, in the beginning of the chapter, he quotes the 67 chapter of his booke ☞ intituled Lucar appendix, which I never saw.

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[T] Aubrey gives in trick the coat, '..., a chevron between 3 trefoils slipped ..., a crescent for difference,' and then scores it out, adding 'this is Roe's coate.' Then he has given as Lucar's coat:--'..., a chevron between 3 nags' heads erased bridled ...; quartering, ... a fess nebulé, in chief a lion's head erased between 2 mascles, in base a mascle.' He adds that the motto is 'In spe,' and 'the crest is a lure for a hawke held in one's hand.'--Cyprian Lucar, of London, adm. probationer of New College, Dec. 20, 1561, and adm. Fellow July 25, 1563, vacated his fellowship in 1565.--Mark Lucar, probably his brother, of St. Botolph's parish, London, was admitted prob. of New Coll., Aug. 16, 1570; Fellow March 30, 1572, resigned 1575; and took B.A. on May 24, 1574.

=Henry Lyte= (1529(?)-1607).

[142]I will enquire at Lyte's-Cary when Henry Lyte[143], esq., dyed.--He translated Dodantus' _Herball_, and writt a little pamphlet, which I have, called '_The light of Britaine_, being a short summary of the old English history,' dedicated to queen Elizabeth.

He began the genealogy of king James, derived from Brute; which his eldest son Thomas Lyte, of Lyte's-Cary aforesaid, finished, and presented to king James. It is most rarely donne and exquisitly limmed by a limmer--all the kings' pictures, etc. King James, after it had hung some time at Whitehal, ordered him to have it[144]again and to gett <it> ingraved, which was donne. Mr. Humble of Pope's-head alley had the plates before the fire: I hope they are not lost--it is most curiously donne, by Hole. It is as big as the greatest map of England that ever I sawe. Mr. Camden much admired, and at the foot writt 6 or 8 verses with his owne hand:--

Artificemne manum laudem celebremne labores,
Lyte, tuos: hi namque docent delectat at illa,

etc.--which I have forgott.

T. Lyte writt the best print hand that ever I yet sawe. The originall, which is now in the parlour at Lyte's-Cary, was writt with his hand, and limmed by a famous artist.

[145]They[146] both lye buried in a burying place belonging to them in the church at Charlton Makerell in Somersetshire.

[147]Henry Lyte lived to the age of 78, and was buried in the north aisle of the church of Charlton Makarell in Somersetshire anno 1607--which aisle belongs to Lyte's-Cary.

=Isaac Lyte= (1576/7-1659/60).

[148]Mr. Isaac Lyte, of Easton-Piers, my honoured grand-father, was born there March XIX, 1576; hora ignoratur. Baptizatus March XIX, 1576--ex registro.

Obiit Febr. 21, 1659, die Martis[149], circiter horam quartam mane.

Mris Israel Lyte, my honoured grandmother, died Febr. 24, 1661/2, inter horas 3 et 4 P.M.

=Sir John Mandeville.=

[150]☞ Captain Robert Pugh[151] assures me that Sir John Mandeville, the famous traveller, lyes buryed at Liege in Germany, with which note amend lib. B[152], where I thought he had been buryed at St. Alban's abbey church as Mr. Thomas Gore told me. But I thinke I remember something writt of him there in a table on a pillar or wall: but he was there borne (as in his life).

=Gervase Markham= (1568-1637).

[153]Mr. ... Markham: he wrote of husbandry and huswifry, 4to; of horsemanship, 4to; of the art of shooting with the long bow, 8vo; etc.--quaere.

He was a Nottinghamshire gentleman. His brother Sir Gryffin Markham was servant to the emperor ..., and did deserve well of him.

This ... Markham, the writer, dyed poor.--Old Jack Markham (late gentleman-usher to the queen) from whom I have these informations told me he hath given <him> many a crowne.

=William Marshall= (1606-16--).

[154]William Marshall, sculptor, natus Oct. 7, horâ 0 min. 23 P.M., 1606.--Conjunction of Mercury and Leo made him stammer.

=Sir Henry Martin= (1562-1641).

[155]Sir Henry Martin, LL.D., was borne at Stoke-Poges in the countie of Bucks; his father a copy-holder there of about 60 _li._ per annum. He was formerly a fellow of New Colledg, Oxon. He left his sonne 3000 _li._ per annum.

[156]H. Martyn.--his father <Sir Henry> has a handsome monument at Becket in Berks which he purchased of Sir ... Essex.

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Henry Martyn, of the parish of 'S. Michael in Basingeshall,' London, was adm. probationer of New College, Aug. 19, 1580, and Fellow July 6, 1582; vacated his fellowship in 1595. He was Judge of the Admiralty, Dean of the Arches, and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Aubrey (MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12ᵛ) gives for his coat, 'argent, 2 bars gules, each charged with 3 besants.'

=Henry Martin= (1602-1680).

[157]Henry Martin, esq., son and heir of Sir Henry Martin, knight, Judge of the Arches, was borne at <Oxford>.

Henry, the son, was of the university of <Oxford[158]>; travelled France, but never Italie. His father found out a rich wife for him, whom he married something unwillingly. He was a great lover of pretty girles, to whom he was so liberall that he spent the greatest part of his estate.

When he had found out a maried woman[159] that he liked (and he had his emissaries, male and female, to looke out) he would contrive such or such a good bargain, 20 or 30 _li._ per annum under rent, to have her neer him. He lived from his wife a long time. If I am not mistaken shee was sometime distempered by his unkindnesse to her.

King Charles I had complaint against him for his wenching. It happened that Henry was in Hyde-parke one time when his majestie was there, goeing to see a race. The king espied him, and sayd aloud, 'Let that ugly rascall be gonne out of the parke, that whore-master, or els I will not see the sport.' So Henry went away patiently, _sed manebat alta mente repostum_. That sarcasme raysed the whole countie of Berks against him[160]: he[161] was as far from a Puritane as light from darknesse. Shortly after[162], (1641) he was chosen knight of the shire of that county, _nemine contradicente_, and proved a deadly enemy to the king.

He was a great and faithfull lover of his countrey, and never gott a farthing by the Parliament. He was of an incomparable witt for reparte's; not at all covetous; humble, not at all arrogant, as most of them were; a great cultor of justice, and did always in the house take the part of the oppressed.

Anno 1660 he was obnoxious for having been one of the late king's judges, and he was in very great danger to have suffred as the others did (he pleaded only the king's Act or Proclamation at Breda, which he shewd in his hand), but (as he was a witt himselfe) so the lord Falkland saved his life by witt, saying, 'Gentlemen, yee talke here of makeing a sacrifice; it was the old lawe[163], all sacrifices were to be without spott or blemish; and now you are going to make an old rotten rascall a sacrifice.' This witt tooke in the house, and saved his life.

He was first a prisoner at the Tower; then at Windsore (removed from thence because he was an eie-sore to his majestie etc.); from thence to Chepstowe, where he is now (1680). During his imprisonment his wife relieved him out of her joincture, but she dyed....

His stature was but midling; his habit moderate; his face not good. Sir Edward Baynton was wont to say that his company was incomparable, but that he would be drunke too soon.

His speeches in the house were not long, but wondrous poynant, pertinent, and witty. He was exceeding happy in apt instances. He alone haz sometimes turned the whole house. Makeing an invective speech one time against old Sir Henry Vane, when he had don with him, <he> said, _But for young Sir Harry Vane_----and so sate him downe. Severall cryed out--'What have you to say to young Sir Harry?' He rises up: _Why! if young Sir Harry lives to be old; he will be old Sir Harry!_ and so sate downe, and set[164] the house a laughing, as he oftentimes did.--Oliver Cromwell once in the house called him, jestingly or scoffingly, '_Sir_ Harry Martin.' H. M. rises and bowes, 'I thanke _your majestie_, I alwayes thought when you were _king_, that I should be knighted.'--A godly member made a motion to have all profane and unsanctified persons expelled the Houses. H. M. stood up and moved that all the fooles might be putt out likewise, and then there would be a thin house.--He was wont to sleep much in the house (at least dog-sleepe): alderman Atkins made a motion that such scandalous members as slept and minded not the businesse of the house, should be putt-out. H. M. starts up--'Mr. Speaker, a motion has been to turne out the _Nodders_; I desire the _Noddees_ may also be turnd out.'--H. M. sayd that he had 'seen the Scripture fulfilld--Thou hast exalted the humble and meeke; thou hast filled the emptie with ... things, and the rich hast thou sent emptie away.'--See a pretty speech of his in print about the comeing in of the Scotts to assist and direct us.

[165]Henry Martyn made the motion in the house to call the _addressers_ to account (viz. those that addressed to Richard Cromwell, Protector, to stand by him with their lives and fortunes), and that all the addressers that were of it (of the house) might be turnd[166] out as enemies to the commonwealth of England and betrayers of their trust to bring in government by a single person. Had not Dick Cromwell sneak't away, then it is certaine that the Rump would have cutt-off his head, as I am well assurd from a deare friend[167] of mine.

Memorandum that Dr. <John> Wilkins (who[168] maried his[169] aunt) was very instrumentall in perswading persons of quality and corporations to addresse: but what did it signifie?

Henry Martin, esq.; 'you[170] have already made your little less.'

His short lettre to his cosen Stonehouse of [Radley[171]] by Abingdon that 'if his majestie should take advice of his gunsmiths and powder-men he would never have peace'--from Sir John Lenthall: as also of his draweing the remonstrance of the Parliament when 'twas formed a commonwealth--within five or six lines of the beginning he sayes 'restored to it's auncient goverment[172] of a _commonwealth_.' When 'twas read Sir Henry Vane stood up and repremanded and 'wondred at his impudence to affirme such a notorious lye.' H. M., standing up, meekely replied that 'there was a text had much troubled his spirit for severall dayes and nights of the man that was blind from his mother's womb[173] whose sight was restored[174] at last,' i.e. was restored to the sight which he should have had.

[175]Insert the song of

'Oliver came to the House like a spright' etc.

Obiit at Chepstowe, a prisoner, September ... (about the middle) anno Domini 1680.

He was very hospitable and exceeding popular in Berks, the whole countie.

Memorandum when his study was searcht they found lettres[XII.] to his concubine, which was printed 4to. There is witt and good nature in them.

[XII.] H. Martin, esq., his letters in 4to to his miss, printed[176] anno <1685>, but 'tis not to his disgrace: evidence of reall naturall witt and bôn naturel.--MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11.

Becket in the parish of Shrineham, his chiefe seate: in the Vale of White-horse: now major Wildman's.

=Richard Martin= (1570-1618).

[177]Richard Martin[U] was borne....

Insert here his picture[V] which I sent to Mr. A. Wood[W].

He was of the ancient familie of the Martins of Athelminston in the countie of Dorset, a very faire seate. The name was lost about 50 yeares since by a daughter and heire, who was maried to ... Bruen, who had a daughter and heire maried to Sir Ralph Banks, who sold it to Sir Robert Long (1668). In the church are severall noble monuments. Their crest is an ape; men use to say 'a Martin ape.'

(In queen Elizabeth's time, one Penry of Wales wrote a booke[XIII.] called _Martin Marprelate_, on which there was this epigram:--

Martin the ape, the drunke, and the mad,
The three Martins are whose workes we have had.
If a fourth Martin comes after Martins so evill,
He can be no man, he must be a devill.)

[XIII.] He was hanged for it. He was kin to my great-grandfather.

He was a very handsome man, a gracefull speaker, facetious, and well-beloved. I thinke he dyed of a merry symposiaque.

He was recorder but a moneth before his death[178].

These verses were written on his Bible:--

_Ad has reliquias illustrissimi amicissimique
Richardi Martini, Recordatoris
Londinens., qui fato concessit
ultº Octob. 1618._

Tu liber aeternae complectens verba salutis,
Pignus amicitiae moestitiaeque liber,
Fac me Martini memorem dum vivo sepulti,
Fac memorem mortis, fac memoremque Dei.

J. HOSKYNS.

He is buried in the north side of the Temple church, where is a faire monument of him kneeling, with this inscription, made by his friend serjeant Hoskyns:--

SALVE LECTOR.

Martinus jacet hic; si nescis, caetera quaere.
Interea tumuli sis memor ipse tui.

VALE JURISCONSULTE.

Accedat totum precibus, quodcumque recedit
Litibus, aeternum sic tibi tempus erit.

[179]_Richard Martin[180], recorder of London._

Ben Johnson dedicates his comoedie called the Poetaster to him:--

'A thankefull man owes a courtesie ever, the unthankefull but when he needes. For whose innocence, as for the author's, you were once a noble and timely undertaker to the greatest justice of this kingdome.'

Died of a symposiaque excesse with his fellow-witts[X]. Was not recorder above a quarter of a yeare: quaere Sir <John> Hoskins.

_Notes._

FOOTNOTES:

[U] Aubrey gives in trick his coat:--'..., two bars gules;' and adds 'the crest is an ape.'

[V] This engraved portrait is now found in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 17. Anthony Wood has written at the top, 'Richard Martin, recorder of London, 1618.' On the back is a note by Aubrey:--'This picture Mr. John Hoskyns (now Sir John Hoskins, knight and baronet) gave me; grandsonne to John Hoskyns, Martyn's friend.'

At the top of the picture is engraved 'Anno Dni 1620'; and round the picture, 'Richardus Martinus, oraculum Londinense.' There are also the following dedication and verses:--

'Viro illustri Lionello Cranfeildio, equiti aurato, Apothecae augustae (Guardarobam magnam vulgus vocat) et pupillorum magistro majestatique, Britannicae e sanctioribus consiliis, Richardum (heu fata) Martinum, Chr. Brocus, Jo. Hoskinnius, et Hugo (heu iterum!) Hollandus, obsequii et amoris triumviratu nexi, Amico Amicum Amici, junctis manubus votisque sacrant.

Princeps amorum, principum necnon amor,
Legumque lingua, Lexque dicendi magis,
Anglorum alumnus, praeco Virginiae ac parens,
Generosus ortu, moribus nec degener,
Invictus animi, corporis formâ decens,
Oriens cadente sole sol, ortu cadens,
Magnae urbis Os, Orbis minoris corculum,
Bono suorum natus, extinctus suo,
Cunctisque cognitus, nec ignotus sibi,
Hollandi amicus, nemini hostis, ni malis,
Virtutis (heu) Martinus hic compendium.
Hugo Hollandus Simon Passaeus sculpsit.
flevit aureumque
aere os exprimi
curavit.'

[W] Anthony Wood has written at the top of fol. 96 of the MS., 'see in Trin. Coll.'; i.e. in his own _Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon._ (1674), lib. II. pag. 296. Also, on a slip attached here, Wood notes:--

'Mr. Isaac of Exeter hath told me that Richard Martin, recorder of London, was son of Richard Martin, merchant, of Exeter: see G. 1. So this last Richard Martin, borne in Somerset, cannot be he; and he that was borne in Devonshire

(lib. matric. P, p. 496 <Broadgates Hall>;--Dec. 10, 1585, Rich. Martin, Devon., generosae conditionis filius, aet. 15)

is too soone.'

For the reference 'G. 1.' see Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, iv. 232, 233; and for 'lib. Matric. P,' see _ibid._, 136.

[X] An echo of a symposium in which this Richard Martin and other 'jolly companions' took part lingers in a copy of Macaronic verses by John Hoskyns (see i. 416). I give them here from the copy on fol. 185ᵛ of an old common-place book in Lincoln College Library. Falconer Madan, Esq., Fellow of Brasenose, has another old copy, with an English version, which by his kindness I am able to add. The title of it in the Lincoln MS. is--

'_Convivium philosophicum_: tentum in clauso Termini Sᵗⁱ. Michaëlis in crastino[181] festi Sᵗⁱ. Egidii in campis, authore Rodolpho Calsabro, Aeneacensi.'

But in Mr. Madan's MS. it is headed,

'Mr. Hoskins, his Convivium Philosophicum,'

and this attribution of authorship is repeated at the end of the piece.

The _Convivium_ itself must have taken place between 1608 (Tom Coryat's European tour) and 1612 (Henry, Prince of Wales, died November 6).

Quilibet si sit contentus Whosoever is contented Ut statutus stet conventus That a number be convented Sicut nos promisimus; Enough but not too many; Signum _Mitrae_ erit locus, The _Miter_ is the place decreed, Erit cibus, erit jocus, For witty jests and cleanly feed, Optimatatissimus. The betterest of any.

Veniet, sed lente currens, There will come, though scarcely current, Christoferus vocatus _Torrens_[182] Christopherus surnamèd _Torrent_[182], Et Johannes _Factus_[183], And John yclepèd _Made_[183], _Gruicampus_[184] et Arthurus, And Arthur _Meadow-pigmies'-foe_[184], Ante coenam non pransurus, To sup, his dinner will foregoe, Veniet primo exactus. Will come as soon as bade.

Robertus _Equorum amicus_[185], Sir Robert _Horse-lover_[185] the while _Ne vile aestimet_[186] Henricus Ne let Sir Henry _count it vile_[186] Dignabitur adesse, Will come with gentle speed; _Cuniculus_que _quercianus_[187], And _Rabbit-tree-where-acorn-grows_[187], _Caligula_[188] occurret Janus And John surnamèd _Little-hose_[188] Si modo sit necesse. Will come if there be need.

Et Richardus _Guasta-stannum_[189] And Richard _Pewter-waster_[189] best Et Henricus _Bonum-annum_[190] And Henry _Twelve-month-good_[190] at least Et Johannes _Occidens_[191] And John _Hesperian_[191] true Et si quis desideretur If any be desiderated Protinus amercietur He shal bee amerciated Pro defaulto fourty-pence. Forty-pence in issue.

Hugo _Inferior-Germanus_[192], Hugh the _Inferior-Germayne_[192], Nec indoctus nec profanus Not yet unlearned nor prophane Ignatius _architectus_[193]. Inego _Ionicke-piller_[193]. Sed jocus, nisi invitatus But yet the number is not ri<gh>ted; Veniet illuc _Coriatus_[194], If _Coriate_[194] bee not invited, Erit imperfectus. The jeast will want a tiller.

Nam facete super illum, For wittily on him, they say, Sicut malleus in anvillum, As hammers on an anvil play, Unusquisque ludet. Each man his jeast may breake. Coriatus cum potavit, When Coriate is fudled well, Lingua regnum peragrabit His tongue begins to talke pel-mel, Nec illum quicquam pudet. He shameth nought to speake.

Puer fuit expers artis A boy he was devoid of skill Et cum fabis et cum fartis With white-pots and oaten-cakes at will Somersetizatus. Somersetizated. Vir cum Scotis et cum Anglis And is a man with Scots and Angles Et cum scarfis et cum spanglis With silken scarfes and with spangles Est accommodatus. Fitly accommodated.

Si Londinum, Are you in love with London citty? Si Latinum, Or else with Venice? he will fitt ye; Amas, te amabit. You have his heart to prize it. Sive Graecum, Or love you Greeke--of tongues <the> chiefe, Ille tecum Or love you Latin? hee'le in briefe Sir Edward Ratcliffabit, Sir Edward Ratcliffize itt.

Hic orator aratores, This orator of Odcombe towne Studens meliorare mores, Meaning to civilize the clowne, Ubi congregavit, To parlé 'gan to call Rusticos et Corydones, The rusticks and the Coridons, Fatuos et moriones, The naturalls and morions, Dis-coxcombiavit. And dis-coxcombde them all.

Ultra littus, ultra mare, To pass the sea, to pass the shore, Per Europam Fleetstreetare, And Fleet-street is all Europe o're, Res periculosa. A thing periculous. Idem calceus hunc revexit, And yet one paire of shoes, they say, Eadem camisia texit, And shirt did serve him all the way, Res pediculosa. A thing pediculous.

Quisquis hunc ecavilat, Whoso him exouthenizth, Garretando squabberizat, Garretating swaberizeth, Et pro hac injuria And for this injurie Disrespectus ambulabit, He shall walk as disrespected, Cum bonis sociis non coenabit Of good fellows still neglected, In urbe vel in curia. In city and in curie.

Hic in stolidum elatus, To a fool thus elevated, Ut mountebankus hic effatus, Mountebanke-like thus hee prated, Haranguizans bene. Harringuizing rowndly. Quisquis hic vult esse prudens, Whosoe will be counted prudent, Adsit, nihil aliud studens, Let him be no other student Quam potare plene. But to drinke profoundly.

Quicquid agis, quicquid dicis, Whatsoever you speak or doe Jocundando cum amicis, With your friends, in jocund row, Eris fortunatus. It cannot be misdeemed. Hunc secundum rectum stampum, For he that lives not ramp and scramp, Qui non vivit rampum scrampum According to the swaggering stampe, Nemo est beatus. Can never be esteemed.

Rex religionem curat, The king religion doth out-bear, Populus legianciam jurat, The people doe allegiance sweare, Cives foenerantur; Citizens usurize it. Miles et mercator clamant, The soldiers and the merchants feare, Puer<i> et puellae amant, The boyes and girles do love their paire, Foeminae moechantur. And women cuculize it.

Princeps nescit otiari, Prince Henry cannot idly liven, Cupiens materiam dari Desiring matter to be given Propriae virtuti. To prove his valour good. Carolus, imago patris, And Charles, the image of his father, Imitatur acta fratris, Doth imitate his eldest brother, Praelucens juventuti. And leades the noble blood.

Cancellarius[195] juvat multos, The Chancellour[195] relieveth many, Prudentes juvat, juvat stultos, As well the wyse as fooles, or any Humillime supplicantes. In humble-wise complayninge. Thesaurarius[196] juvat summos; The Treasurer[196] doth help the rich, Sed quoniam non habet nummos, And cannot satisfy the stitch Invident mendicantes. Of mendicants disdayninge.

Northamptonius[197], nunquam satis Northampton[197], seeking many wayes Literis et literatis Learning and learned men to rayse, Juvandis, delectatur. Is still negotiated. Et Suffolcius[198], severe And Suffolke[198], seeking, in good sorte, Regis familiam coercere The king his household to supporte, Quaerens, defatigatur. Is still defatigated.

Proceres aedificant, The noblemen do edifye, Episcopi sanctificant, The bishops they do sanctifie, Clerus concionatur; The cleargie preach and pray: Generosi terras vendunt, And gentlemen their lands doe sell, Et, dum rustici contendunt, And, while the clownes strive for the shell, Juridicus lucratur. The fish is lawyers' prey.

Unusquisque sic facessit, Thus every man is busy still, Cor nullius conquiescit, Each one practising his skill, Nemo habet satis. None hath enough of gayne. Solus Coriatus sapit, But Coriate liveth by his witts, Nihil perdit quicquid capit, He looseth nothinge that he getts, Nec stultescit gratis. Nor playes the fool in vayne.

--per Johannem Hoskins[199], --per Johannem Reinolds[200], Socium London. Coll. Novi, Oxon.

=Andrew Marvel= (1620-1678).

[201]Mr. Andrew Marvell: his father was minister of ... (I thinke, Hull: quaere) ..., he was borne.

He had good grammar-education: and was after sent to ..., in Cambridge.

In the time of Oliver the Protector he was Latin Secretarie. He was a great master of the Latin tongue; an excellent poet in Latin or English: for Latin verses there was no man could come into competition with him. The verses called _The Advice to the Painter_ were of his making.

His native towne of Hull loved him so well that they elected him for their representative in Parliament, and gave him an honourable pension to maintaine him.

He was of a middling stature, pretty strong sett, roundish faced, cherry cheek't, hazell eie, browne haire. He was in his conversation very modest, and of very few words[202]: and though he loved wine he would never drinke hard in company, and was[XIV.] wont to say that, _he would not play the good-fellow in any man's company in whose hands he would not trust his life_.

[XIV.] He was wont to say that he would not drinke high or freely with any man with whom he would not intrust his life.

He kept bottles of wine at his lodgeing, and many times he would drinke liberally by himselfe to refresh his spirits, and exalt his muse. I remember I have been told (Mr. Haake and Dr. Pell) that the learned ... (an High-German) was wont to keep bottells of good Rhenish-wine in his studie, and when he had spent his spirits he would drinke a good rummer of it.

James Harrington, esq. (autor _Oceanae_), was his intimate friend. John Pell, D.D., was one of his acquaintance. He had not a generall acquaintance.

He wrote _The Rehersall transprosed_, against Samuel Parker, D.D.; _Mr. Smirke_, (stich't, 4to, about 8 sheets); _The naked Trueth_.

Obiit Londini, Aug. 18. 1678; and is buried in St. Giles church in-the-fields about the middle (quaere iterum) of the south aisle. Some suspect that he was poysoned by the Jesuites, but I cannot be positive.

I remember I heard him say that the earle of Rochester[203] was the only man in England that had the true veine of satyre.

He[204] lies interred under the pewes in the south side of Saint Giles' church in-the-fields, under the window wherein is painted in glasse a red lyon, (it was given by the inneholder of the Red Lyon Inne in Holborne) and is the ... window from the east. This account I had from the sexton that made his grave.

=Philip Massinger= (1584?-1639/40).

[205]My brother Tom searcht the register of Wilton from the beginning and talk't with old men. Philip Massinger was not buried there; but his wife dyed at Cardiffe in Wales, to whom the earl of Pembroke payd an annuity.

[206]This day I searched the register of St. Saviour's, Southwark, by the playhouse then there, vulgo St. Mary's Overy's; and find Philip Massinger buryed March 18th, 1639. I am enformed at the place where he dyed, which was by the Bankes side neer the then playhouse, that he was buryed about the middle of the Bullhead-churchyard--i.e. that churchyard (for there are four) which is next the Bullhead taverne, from whence it has its denomination. He dyed about the 66th yeare of his age: went to bed well, and dyed suddenly--but not of the plague.

=Thomas May= (1595-1650).

[207]He stood candidate for[208] the laurell after B. Jonson; but Sir William Davenant caried it--

manet alta mente repostum,

perhaps.

A great acquaintance of Tom Chaloner. Would, when _inter pocula_, speake slightingly of the Trinity.

Shammed[209].

_Amicus_: Sir Richard Fanshawe. Mr. <Emanuel> Decretz heard (was present at) the debate at their parting before Sir Richard went to the king, where both camps were most rigorously banded[210].

Clap. Came of his death after drinking with his chin tyed with his cap (being fatt); suffocated.

Quaere Anthony Wood pro epitaph[211], etc.

Lord Chief Justice <John> Vaughan, _amicus_--verses.

<_Scripsit._>

_The Heire._

Quaere Mr. <John> Dreyden, if not another <play.>
_Lucan_, and _Supplementum_.
_Translation of Georgiques_, 16mo.
_Historie of Civill War_ and _Epitome_.

His translation of Lucan's excellent poeme made him in love with the republique, which tang[212] stuck by him.

In the _Session of Poets_ by Sir John Suckling:--

'There was Lucan's translator too.'

[213]Thomas May, esq., a handsome man, debaucht _ad omnia_; lodged in the little[214]by Canon-rowe, as you goe through the alley. Translated Virgil's Georgiques. Writt:--Breviary of the historie of the Parliament of England (London, 1650; reprinted 1680, 8vo.); History of the victorious Edward IIId., in English verse, by Charles I's speciall command (8vo, 1639); and also Henry İİd., in English verse, both in 8vo.

[215]As to Tom May, Mr. Edmund Wyld told me that he was acquainted with him when he was young, and then he was as other young men of this towne are, scil. he said he was debaucht _ad omnia_: but doe not by any meanes take notice of it--for we have all been young. But Mr. Marvel in his poems upon Tom May's death falls very severe upon him.

He was choaked by tyeing his cap.

That of Lucan is true, scil., that it made him incline[216] to a republic.

He was of the Sussex Mayes, as appeares by his coate of armes: but where borne or of what university I know not, and cannot enquire.

Dr. <Thomas> Triplet's monument is set up[217] where his stood. Thomas May's inscription was, after it was pulled downe, in St. Bennet's chapell, i.e. where the earl of Middlesex's monument is: but perhaps now converted to some use.

[218]By[219] Camden:--

Quem Anglicana respublica
habuit vindicem,
ornamentum literaria,
secli sui vatum celeberrimus,
deliciae futuri,
Lucanus alter plus-quam Romanus,
historicus fidus,
equitis aurati filius primogenitus,
Thomas Maius
H. S. E.
Qui paternis titulis claritatis suae
specimen usque adeo superaddidit
ut a supremo Anglorum senatu
ad annales suos conscribendos
fuerit accitus.
Tandem, fide intemerata Parlamento
praestita, morte inopina
noctu correptus, diem
suum obiit
Id. Nov.
Anno[220] libertatis { humanae } restitutae { MDCL.
{ Angliae } { II.
Aetatis suae LV.
Hoc in honorem servi tam
bene meriti
Parlamentum Reipublicae Angl.
P. P.

Dr. Triplet's monument now stands in the place where this did.

This was a very fine monument of white marble. This inscription I had much adoe to find out, after severall enquiries severall yeares. It is putt upside downe in the chapell where the earle of Middlesex tombe is.

His coate is 'gules, a fess inter six billets or.'

=Nicholas Mercator= (1640-1686/7).

[221]Mr. Nicholas Mercator[Y]: his father was ... ... Philip Melancthon was his great-grandmother's brother.

He is of little stature, perfect; black haire, of a delicate moyst curle; darke[222] eie, but of great vivacity of spirit. He is of a soft temper, of great temperance (amat Venerem aliquantum): of a prodigious invention, and will be acquainted (familiarly) with nobody. His true German name is Nicolas Kauffman, i.e. chapman, i.e. Mercator.

The first booke he printed was his _Cosmographia_, at ..., where he uses his German name, 'qua sternitur fundamentum Trigonometriae sphericorum, Logarithmicae, Astronomiae sphaericae, Geographiae, Histiodromiae gnomonicae; a Nicola Kauffman, Holsato-Dantisc., Anno MDCLI.'

Nicolai Mercatoris _in Geometriam introductio brevis_ quâ magnitudinum ortus ex genuinis principiis et ortarum affectiones ex ipsa genesi derivantur, printed at London 1678, before a little booke of Euclid's Elements demonstrated after a new method.

_Astronomia_[Z], printed at London, 167-.

_Logarithmotechnia_; the first part printed with ... of Slusius, anno Domini, 166-: the second part of it, being 8 sheets 4to, lyes in the hands of Mr. Moyses Pitts and is a most admirable piece.

_Astrologia_: unprinted: in 4to, altogether after a new manner and on other principles.

_A treatise of musique_[AA], in 4to, inch + thick[223], unprinted.

Memorandum:--Mr. Nicholas Mercator made and presented to King Charles the 2ᵈ a clock ('twas of a foote diameter) which shewed the inequality of the sunn's motion from the apparent motion, which the king did understand by his informations, and did commend it, but he never had a penny of him for it.

Well! This curious clock was neglected, and somebody of the court happened to become master of it, who understood it not; he sold it to Mr. Knib, a watch-maker, who did not understand it neither, who sold it to Mr. Fromantle (that made it) for 5 _li._ who askes now (1683) for it 200 _li._

Anno 1682, mense Febr., Mr. N. Mercator left London; went with his family to Paris, being invited thither by Monseigneur Colbert.

Nicholas Mercator, Holsatus, mathematicus, obiit Parisiis, 4to Januarii 1686/7: he went to Paris (being invited thither by Monseigneur Colbert) the 30th of November, 1682:--from his son, David Mercator.

_Notes._

FOOTNOTES:

[Y] Aubrey gives, incompletely, a scheme of the nativity 'clarissimi viri N. Mercatoris, Holsati'; adding that in it 'Mars is in proximity to Mercury, but he has forgot on which side.'

[Z] On May 17, 1673, Aubrey had written to Anthony Wood (MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 208):--

'The learned (yet poore) Mr. Nicholas Mercator has a most elaborate piece, "Astronomiae compendium sphaerice et theorice, et hypotheses Ptolemaei, Tychonis, Copernici, Kepleri, Bullialdi, et Mercatoris."

It will be in 4to, two fingers thick; pret. 10_s._ Cambridge has subscribed for 50; London, as many more. If he could gett, at Oxon, 50 subscriptions more the printer would print it.... There are 70 schemes.'

[AA] A copy of this treatise is found as MS. Aubr. 25. It is in two parts:--(i) 55 pages, '_Musica_, autore N. Mercatore, Holsato, 1673,' on which Aubrey notes, 'the original copie was lost at Paris, Jo. Aubrey'; (ii) 19 pages, '_Musica_, autore N. Mercatore, Holsato, 1672,' with the note, 'sum Jo. Aubrii, R.S.S.'

=Christopher Merret= (1614/5-1695).

[224]Christopher Merret, M.D., of the College of Physicians, London, was borne in Winchcumbe in Gloucestershire, 1614, Feb. XVI about XI at night.

[225]Scripsit against the apothecaries, etc.

=Thomas Merry= (16-- -1682).

[226]Thomas Merry[XV.], esq., was born at ... in Leicestershire. His father or grandfather was one of the clarkes of the green-cloth.

[XV.] Thomas Mariet, esq. <is> his kinsman: vide Surrey papers[227].

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