He sent his grace weekly intelligence of what passed in the
university[CB]. Sir William Davenant (poet laureat) told me that
notwithstanding this doctor's great reason, he was guiltie of the
detestable crime of treachery. Dr. Gill[CC], filius Dʳⁱˢ Gill
(schoolmaster of Paules schoole), and Chillingworth held weekely
intelligence one with another for some yeares, wherein they used to
nibble at states-matters. Dr. Gill in one of his letters calles King
James and his sonne, the old foole and the young one, which letter
Chillingworth communicates to W. Laud, A. B. Cant. The poore young Dr.
Gill was seised, and a terrible storme pointed towards him, which, by
the eloquent intercession and advocation of Edward, earle of Dorset,
together with the teares of the poore old Doctor his father, and
supplication on his knees to his majestie, were blowne-over. I am sorry
so great a witt should have such a naeve.
Absentem qui rodit amicum,
Qui non defendit alio culpante, solutos
Qui captat risus hominum famamque dicacis,
Fingere qui non visa potest, commissa tacere
Qui nequit: hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto.
HORAT. lib. I, sat. iv.
He was a little man, blackish haire, of a saturnine complexion.
The lord Falkland (vide <life of> lord Falkland) and he had such
extraordinary clear reasons, that they were wont to say at Oxon that if
the great Turke were to be converted by naturall reason, these two were
the persons to convert him.
He lies buried in the south side of the cloysters at Chichester,
where he dyed of the _morbus castrensis_ after the taking of Arundel
castle by the parliament: wherin he was very much blamed by the king's
soldiers for his advice in military affaires there, and they curst
_that little priest_ and imputed the losse of the castle to his advice.
In his sicknesse he was inhumanely treated by Dr. Cheynell[CD], who,
when he was to be buryed, threw his booke into the grave with him,
saying, 'Rott with the rotten; let the dead bury the dead.' Vide a
pamphlet of about 6 sheets writt by Dr. Cheynell (maliciously enough)
where he gives an account of his life.
This following inscription was made and set-up by Mr. Oliver
Whitby[CE], his fellowe-collegiate at Trinity College and now one of
the prebendarys of this church:
Virtuti sacrum.
Spe certissimae resurrectionis
Hic reducem expectat animam
GULIELMVS CHILLINGWORTH,
S. T. P.
Oxonii natus et educatus,
Collegii Sᵗᵃᵉ Trinitatis olim
Socius, Decus et Gloria.
Omni Literarum genere celeberrimus,
Ecclesiae Anglicanae adversus Romano-Catholicam
Propugnator invictissimus,
Ecclesiae Sarisburiensis Praecentor[XLIV.] dignissimus;
Sine Exequiis,
Furentis cujusdam Theologastri,
Doctoris Cheynell[XLV.],
Diris et maledictione sepultus:
Honoris et Amicitiae ergo,
Ab OLIVERO WHITBY,
Brevi hoc monimento,
Posterorum memoriae consecratus,
Anno Salutis,
1672.[646]
[XLIV.] This is a mistake; he was not Chantor of the Church, but
Chancellor of the Church of Sarum, whose office was antiently to read
a lecture in Latin, quarterly, in the pulpit in the library, either in
Theologie or the Canon Lawe. Since the Reformation 'twas commuted into
preaching on the Holy-dayes. He never swore to all the points of the
Church of England.
[XLV.] Minister of Petworth.
My tutor, W. Browne[CF], haz told me, that Dr. Chillingworth studied
not much, but when he did, he did much in a little time. He much
delighted in Sextus Empeiricus. He did walke much in the College grove,
and there contemplate, and meet with some _cod's-head_ or other, and
dispute with him and baffle him. He thus prepared himselfe before-hand.
He would alwayes be disputing; so would my tutor. I thinke it was
an epidemick evill of that time, which I think now is growne out of
fashion, as unmannerly and boyish. He was the readiest and nimblest
disputant of his time in the university, perhaps none haz equalled him
since.
I have heard Mr. Thomas Hobbes, Malmesb. (who knew him), say, _that he
was like a lusty fighting fellow that did drive his enimies before him,
but would often give his owne party smart[647] back-blowes_.
When Doctor Kettle, (the president of Trin. Coll. Oxon.) dyed[CG],
which was in anno <1643> Dr. Chillingworth was competitor for the
presidentship, with Dr. Hannibal Potter and Dr. Roberts. Dr. Han.
Potter had been formerly chaplain to the bishop of Winton, who was so
much Dr. Potter's friend, that though (as Will Hawes haz told me) Dr.
Potter was not lawfully elected, upon referring themselves to their
visitor (bishop of Winton), the bishop (Curle) ordered Dr. Potter
possession; and let the fellowes gett him out if they could. This was
shortly after the lord Falkland was slaine, who had he lived, Dr.
Chillingworth assured Will Hawes, no man should have carried it against
him: and that he was so extremely discomposed and wept bitterly for the
losse of his deare friend, yet notwithstanding he doubted not to have
an astergance[CH] for it.
_Notes._
[CA] William Chillingworth was elected Scholar of Trinity June 2, 1618
(then of St. Martin's parish, Oxon, aged 19), and Fellow, June 10, 1628.
[CB] For another instance of reports sent to Laud (who was Chancellor
of Oxford 1630-41) about Oxford matters, see Clark's Wood's _Life and
Times_, ii. 238.
[CC] Alexander Gill matr. at Trinity College, June 26, 1612, was Clerk
at Wadham College, April 20, 1613, but rejoined Trinity and from thence
took his D.D., March 9, 1636/7. He was usher to his father in St.
Paul's School 1621-28, being removed for the offence here related.
[CD] Francis Cheynell, a native of Oxford (like Chillingworth), Fellow
of Merton 1629, D.D. July 24, 1649.
[CE] Oliver Whitby, matr. at Trinity, Oct. 15, 1619; Archdeacon of
Chichester, Dec. 23, 1672.
[CF] William Browne, of Blandford St. Mary, Dorset, aged 16, elected
Scholar of Trinity May 28, 1635, M.A. March 18, 1641/2.
[CG] Anthony Wood, in a marginal note, objects--'This cannot be: Dr.
Kettle died after Chillingworth.' But Wood is wrong. Kettell died
in July 1643; Chillingworth in January, 1643/4; Potter was admitted
President August 8, 1643.
[CH] 'Astergance,' apparently an Aubrey form for 'abstergence,' i.e.
consolation. The meaning perhaps is:--although Chillingworth was
grieved for Falkland's (or Kettell's) death, he had looked for the
consolation of being promoted to the Presidentship of his College.
=John Clavell= (1601-1642).
[648]John Clavell, the famous thiefe, borne May 11, 1601, 11ʰ 30´ P.M.
=John Cleveland= (1613-1658).
[649]John Cleveland was borne at ... (quaere Mr. Nayler) in
Warwickshire. He was a fellow of St. John's Colledge in Cambridge,
where he was more taken notice of for his being an eminent disputant,
then a good poet. Being turned out of his fellowship for a malignant
he came to Oxford, where the king's army was, and was much caressed by
them. He went thence to the garrison at Newark upon Trent, where upon
some occasion of drawing of articles, or some writing, he would needs
add a short conclusion, viz. 'and hereunto we annex our lives, as a
labell to our trust.' After the king was beaten out of the field, he
came to London, and retired in Grayes Inne. He, and Sam. Butler, &c.
of Grayes Inne, had[650] a clubb every night. He was a comely plump
man, good curled haire, darke browne. Dyed of the scurvy, and lies
buried in St. Andrew's church, in Holborne, anno Domini 165. (quaere
Mr. Nayler[651], of ...).
=George Clifford=, earl of Cumberland (1558-1605).
[652]HENRY, earl of _m._ Anne, daughter of William,
Cumberland; obiit | lord Dacres of Gillesland.
12 Eliz. <1570>. |
+------------------+--------------------+
| |
GEORGE, earl of _m._ Marg<aret> FRANCIS, earl _m._ Grisold,
Cumberland; | daughter <of of Cumberland, | daughter of
obiit 3 Jacobi | Francis, earl obiit 1641. | Thomas Hughes
<1605>. | of Bedford>. | of Uxbridge,
| | esq.
| |
(1) Richard, _m._ ANNE, _m._ (2) Philip, earl HENRY, earl _m._ Frances,
earl of | daughter of Pembroke and of Cumberland, | daughter
Dorset | and heir. Montgomery. obiit 1643. | of Robert
| Henry, earl of | Cecill,
| Cumberland, was a poet. His | earl of
| daughter (the countesse of | Sarum.
| Corke and Burlington) hath |
| severall[653] copies of his |
+---------+------------+ making. +-------------+
| | |
MARGARET, _m._ John, ISABELL _m._ James, ELIZABETH _m._ Richard <Boyle>,
| earl of earl of | earl of Cork and
| Thanet. Northampton. | Burlington.
+------+-------------------------+--------+ +---+---+
| | | | |
Nicholas, earl _m._ Elizabeth, John, Richard,
of Thanet, my daughter of obiit now
honoured lord; Richard, earl sine earle.
obiit November of Corke and prole.
27, 1679, sans Burlington.
issue.
[XLVI.]This George, earl of Cumberland, built the greatest fleet of
shipping that ever any subject did. He had a vast estate, and could
then ride in his owne lands from Yorkeshire to Westmorland. He had ...
castles.
[XLVI.] _From Elizabeth, countesse of Thanet._
The best account of his expedition with his fleet to America is to be
found in Purchas's _Pilgrim_. He tooke from the Spaniards to the value
of seaven or 8 hundred thousand poundes. When he returned with this
riche cargo (the richest without doubt that ever subject brought), the
queene's councell (where he had some that envyed him--
_Virtutis comes Invidia_)
layed their heads together and concluded 'twas too much for a subject
to have, and confiscated it all to the queen, even shippes and all,
and to make restauration to the Spaniard, that he was forced to sell
fifteene thousand pounds per annum. My lady Thanet told me she sawe the
accounts in writing. The armada of the Argonautes was but a trifle to
this.
As I take it, Sir Walter Ralegh went this brave voyage with his
lordship; and Mr. Edmund Wright, the excellent navigator; and, not
unlikely, Mr. Harriot too.
This was the breaking of that ancient and noble family; but Robert,
earl of Salisbury (who was the chiefest enemie) afterwards maried his
daughter, as above, as he might well be touch't in conscience, to make
some recompence after he had donne so much mischiefe.
That he was an acquaintance of Sir Walter Raleigh, I remember by this
token, that Sir James Long told me that one time he came to Draycot
with Sir Walter Raleigh from Bathe, and, hunting a buck in the parke
there, his horse made a false step in a conie-borough and threw him and
brake the kennell-bone of his shoulder.
=Henry Clifford=, earl of Cumberland (1591-1643).
[654]From the pedigree of the earles of Cumberland[CI] in the hands of
Elizabeth, countesse of Thanet, daughter of the earle of Burlington and
Corke.
George, <third> earl of Cumberland, had seaven[XLVII.] castles in the
north. He was buryed with his ancestors at Skippon Castle. Obiit about
the beginning of King James's raigne.
[XLVII.] Quaere quot castella[655].
Vide epistle to George, earl of Cumberland, before the _History of the
Massacre_.
Henry, <fifth> earl of Cumberland, was a poet; the countesse of
Corke and Burlington haz still his verses. He was of Christ Church,
Oxon[CJ]. Nicholas, earl of Thanet, was wont to say that the mare of
Fountaines-abbey did dash, meaning that since they gott that estate
(given to the church) they did never thrive but still declined.
=Henry, lord Clifford=, first earl of Cumberland,
obiit 34 Henry VIII <1542>; sepult. in ecclesia
Skippon. Knight of the Garter.
|
Henry, lord Clifford, second earle _m._ Anne, daughter of William, lord
of Cumberland, obiit 12 Eliz., 8 | Dacres of Gillesland, his second
Januarii 1570 <i.e. 69/70>. He | wife. She died in Skipton Castle
was knight of the most noble order | in July 1581, and was buryed in
of the Garter, and lord of | the vault of that Church.
Westmorland and Vesse. Buried in |
Skippon Church. |
+-------------------------------+-----+
| |
1. George, third _m._ Margaret, 2. Francis, _m._ Mris Grizell Hughes
earl of Cumberland, | daughter erearl of | of Uxbridge, widow
knight of the | of Francis, Cumberland. | to Thomas[656]
Garter, that made | earl of | Nevill, lord
the famous | Bedford. | Abergavenny.
expedition to | |
America. Obiit | +------+
1605 in the Savoy | |
at London. Sepult. | |
in Skippon Church. | |
| |
Richard, _m._ Lady Anne _m._ Philip, Henry, lord _m._ Frances Cecill,
earle of | Clifford earl of Clifford; | only daughter of
Dorset. | (quaere Pembroke, last earl of | Robert, earl of
Obiit at | obiit). etc. Cumberland | Salisbury, Lord
Dorset | of that line. | High Treasurer.
house, | Obiit in | Obiit 14 Feb.
28 March, | Yorke, 1643. | 1643.
1624. | |
| +---+
| |
had issue only Elizabeth _maried_ Richard
two daughters. Clifford, (1635) Boyle,
borne in earle of
Skipton Corke and
Castle. 1613. Burlington.
[657]Henry, the last earle of Cumberland, was an ingeniose gentleman
for those times and a great acquaintance of the Lord Chancellor
Bacon's; and often writt to one another, which lettres the countesse
of Corke and Burlington, my lady Thanet's mother, daughter and heir of
that family, keepes as reliques; and a poeme in English that her father
wrott upon the Psalmes and many other subjects, and very well, but the
language being now something out of fashion, like Sir Philip Sydney's,
they will not print it.
_Notes._
[CI] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'checquy or and azure, a fess
gules [Clifford],' surmounted by an earl's coronet. Anthony Wood has a
note here:--'George, earl of Cumberland, A.M. 1592: A.B. Aed. Christi,
1608, quaere'--this latter degree belongs to Henry, fifth earl.
[CJ] Matric. Jan. 30, 1606/7: took B.A. Feb. 16, 1608/9.
=Sir Edward Coke= (1551/2-1633).
[658]Vide his life by ...: quaere his nephew or sonne[659] Roger Coke.
Sir Edward Coke[CK], knight, Lord Chiefe Justice of the King's Bench,
was borne at ... in Norfolke. I heard an old lawyer ( ... Dunstable) of
the Middle Temple, 1646, who was his country-man, say that he was borne
to 300 _li._ land per annum[CL], and I have heard some of his country
say again that he was borne but to 40 _li._ per annum. What shall one
beleeve?
Quaere Roger Coke of what house he was in Cambridge, or if ever at the
University.
Old John Tussell (that was my attorney) haz told me that he gott a
hundred thousand pounds in one yeare, viz. 1º Jacobi, being then
attorney-generall. His advice was that every man of estate (right or
wrong) should sue-out his pardon, which cost 5 _li._ which[660] was his
fee.
He left an estate of eleaven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John
Danvers[CM], who knew him, told me that when one told him his sonnes
would spend the estate faster then he gott it, he replyed 'they cannot
take more delight in spending of it then I did in the getting of it.'
He was chamber-fellow to the Lord Chiefe Baron Wyld's father (Serjeant
Wyld[CN]). He built the black buildings at the Inner Temple (now
burn't) which were above the walke toward the west end, called then
'Coke's buildings.'
After he was putt out of his place of Lord Chief Justice of the King's
Bench[661], to spite him, they made him sheriff of Buckinghamshire,
anno Dni ...; at which time he caused the sheriff's oath to be altered,
which till that time was, amongst other things, to enquire after and
apprehend all Lollards. He was also chosen, after he was displaced, a
burghesse to sitt in Parliament.
[XLVIII.]He was of wonderfull painstaking, as appeares by his writings.
He was short-sighted but never used spectacles to his dyeing day,
being then 83 yeares of age. He was a very handsome proper man and
of a curious complexion, as appeares by his picture at the Inner
Temple, which his grandson gave them about 1668, at length, in his
atturney-generall's fusted gowne, which the house haz turned into
judge's robes.
[XLVIII.] From Roger Coke.
He maried, his second wife, ..., the relickt of Sir ... Hatton, who was
with child when he maried her[662].--<from> <Elizabeth> lady Purbec;
vide B. Johnson's masque of the Gipsies.
He dyed at Stoke-poges in com. Bucks ... 1638[663] (quaere), but is
buryed at ... in Norfolk.
For his moralls, see _Sir W. Raleigh's Tryall_.
He shewed himselfe too clownish and bitter in his carriage to Sir
Walter Ralegh at his triall, where he sayes 'Thou traytor,' at every
word, and 'thou lyest like a traytor.' See it in Sir Walter Ralegh's
life, Lond. 1678, 8vo.
His rule:--
Sex horas somno, totidem des legibus aequis,
Quatuor orabis, des epulisque duas,
Quod reliquum est tempus sacris largire Camenis.
He playes[664] with his case as a cat would with a mouse, and be so
fulsomely pedantique that a school boy would nauseate it. But when he
comes to matter of lawe, all acknowledge him to be admirable. When Mr.
Cuff[665], secretary to the earle of Essex, was arraigned, he would
dispute with him in syllogismes, till at last one of his brethern said,
'Prithee, brother, leave off: thou doest dispute scurvily.' Cuff was a
smart man and a great scholar and baffeld him. Said Cooke
'Dominum cognoscite vestrum';
Cuff replied,'My lord, you leave out the former part of the verse[666],
which you should have repeated,
_Acteon_ ego sum'--
reflecting on his being a cuckold.
[667]The world expected from him a commentary on Littleton's Tenures;
and he left them his Common-place book, which is now so much made use
of.
Sir Edward Coke did envie[668] Sir Francis Bacon, and was wont to
undervalue his lawe: vide de hoc in the lord Bacon's lettres, where he
expostulates this thing with Sir Edward Coke, and tells him that he may
grow when that others doe stand at a stay.
Memorandum:--he was of Clifford's Inne before he was of the Inner
Temple, as the fashion then was first to be of an Inne of Chancery.
Memorandum:--when the play called _Ignoramus_ (made by one Ruggle of
Clare-hall) was acted with great applause before King James, they
dressed Sir Ignoramus like Chief Justice Coke and cutt his beard like
him and feigned his voyce. Mr. Peyton, our vicar of Chalke, was then a
scholar at Kings College and sawe it. This drollery did ducere in seria
mala: it sett all the lawyers against the clergie, and shortly upon
this Mr. Selden wrote of Tythes not jure divino.
_Notes._
[CK] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'..., 3 eagles displayed ...'
[CL] In MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 97ᵛ, Aubrey has this note:--'Sir Edward Coke,
Lord Chief Justice--when I was first of the Middle Temple, I heard an
old (80 <years old>) Norfolke gentleman of the <name of> Dunstable
affirme that Sir Edward Coke was borne but to 300 _li._ a yeare land.'
[CM] This story is repeated at the foot of the leaf:--'Sir John Danvers
told me that he had heard one say to him, reflecting on his great
scraping of wealth, that his sonnes would spend his estate faster then
he gott it. He replied, they cannot take more delight in the spending
of it then I did in the getting of it.'
[CN] George Wilde, Serjeant at Law, 1614; father of Sir John Wilde,
Chief Baron of the Exchequer, 1648.
=Jean Baptiste Colbert= (1619-1683).
[669]Monsieur ... Colbert was a merchant and an excellent accomptant,
i.e. for Debtor and Creditor. He is of Scotish extraction and that
obscure enough, his grandfather being a Scotish bag-piper to the Scotch
regiment.
Cardinal Mezarin found that his stables were very chardgeable to him,
and was imposed upon in accompts. He hearing of this merchant Colbert
to be a great master in this art, sends for him and desires him to make
inspection into his accounts and putt him into a better method to avoyd
being abused. Which he did, and that so well that he imployed him in
ordering the accounts of all his estate and found him so usefull that
he also made use of him to methodize and settle the accompts of the
king. This was his rise.--From Dr. John Pell.
=John Colet= (1466-1519).
[670]John Colet, D.D., deane of St. Paule's, London--vide Sir William
Dugdale's Historie of Paule's church. After the conflagration his
monument being broken, his coffin, which was lead, was full of a
liquour which conserved the body. Mr. Wyld and Ralph Greatorex tasted
it and 'twas of a kind of insipid tast, something of an ironish tast.
The body felt, to the probe of a stick which they thrust into a chinke,
like brawne. The coffin was of lead and layd in the wall about 2 foot
1/2 above the surface of the floore.
=Henry Coley= (1633-1695?).
[671]My friend Mr. Henry Coley was borne in Magdalen parish in the city
of Oxon, Octob. 18, 1633. His father was a joyner over against the
Theater.
He is a tayler in Graies Inne lane.
He hath published an ingeniose discourse called _Clavis Astrologiae_,
in English, 1669.
He is a man of admirable parts, and more to be expected from him every
day: and as good a natured man as can be. And comes by his learning
meerly by the strong impulse of his genius. He understands Latin and
French: yet never learned out his grammar.
[672]Henry Coley[CO] natus Oxon, neer Kettle-hall, Octob. 18, horâ 2.
15´ 4˝ P.M.--his father a joyner.
He was a woman's tayler: tooke to the love of astrologie, in which he
grew in a short time a good proficient; and in Mr. W. Lilly's later
time, when his sight grew dimme, was his amanuensis.
He hath great practise in astrologie, and teacheth mathematiques. He
hath published _Clavis Astrologiae_, 1675, a thick octavo, the second
edition, wherein he has compiled clearly the whole science out of the
best authors.
_Note._
[CO] Aubrey gives 'ab Astronomiâ Britannicâ,' Coley's nativity and the
'latitudo planetarum' at his birth, on the scheme
'Henry Coley, astrologer, born at Oxon, 1633, October 18, 2ʰ 15´ 4˝
P.M., latit. 51° 42´.'
=John Collins= (1624/5-1683).
[673]John Collins, accomptant, was borne at Wood-eaton neer Oxford,
March the 5th, 1624/5, about half an houre after 5 at night (Saturday
night): this I had from himselfe.
[674]John Collins obiit London, November 10, 1683.
[675]John Collins:--adde his sheet _Of interest_, and _Plea for Irish
cattle_: all the rest are set downe, but not when printed. And also his
_Historie of salt and fisherie_[676], 1682, printed by A. Godbid, 4to.
[677]John Collins, a learned mathematician, fellow of the Royal
Society: scripsit plurima: he was not an University man, but was first
prentice to <Thomas> Allam the booke-binder.
=Anthony Cooper=, earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1682/3).
[678]Anthony, earl of Shaftesbury:--Memoires relating the principall
passages of his life, in folio, stitcht, printed by Samuel Lee, 1681.
=Samuel Cooper= (1609-1672).
[679]Samuel Cowper, his majestie's alluminer and my honord friend,
obiit May ..., 1672: sepultus in Pancrace chancell, next grave to
father ... Symonds, e societate Jesu--their coffins touch. Aetat.
circiter 6--.
=Thomas Cooper= (1517?-1594).
[680]Thomas Cooper, Magdalenensis--vide Anthony Wood's _Antiq. Oxon._:
quaere if he was not schoolmaster at Winchester Colledge?
Dr. Edward Davenant told me that this learned man had a shrew to his
wife, who was irreconcileably angrie with him for sitting-up late at
night so, compileing[681] his Dictionarie, (_Thesaurus linguae Romanae
et Britannicae_, Londini, 1584; dedicated to Robert Dudley, earl of
Leicester, and Chancellor of Oxford). When he had halfe-donne it, she
had the opportunity to gett into his studie, tooke all his paines
out in her lap, and threw it into the fire, and burnt it. Well, for
all that, that good man had so great a zeale for the advancement of
learning, that he began it again, and went through with it to that
perfection that he hath left it to us, a most usefull worke. He was
afterwards made bishop of Winton.
He dyed <29 Apr. 1594>.
_In Thesaurum Thomae Cooper, Magdalenensis, hexasticon Richardi
Stephani._
Vilescat rutila dives Pactolus arena,
Hermus, et auriferi nobilis unda Tagi,
Vilescant Croesi gemmae Midaeque talenta,
Major apud Britones[XLIX.] eruta gaza patet:
Hoc, Wainflete, tuo gens Anglica debet alumno,
Qui vigili nobis tanta labore dedit.
[XLIX.] Verstegan deservedly blames him for that expression.
[682]Mr. Pulleyn[683] tells me that Cowper who wrot the Dictionary was
not bishop of Winton but of Lincoln: vide and mend it[684].
=Richard Corbet= (1583-1635).
[685]Epitaph on master Vincent Corbet, gardiner, father of the bishop:
B. J<onson's> _Underwoods_, p. 177.
[686]Richard Corbet, episcopus (ex last edition of his poemes, in
preface sc. p. 16) was made deane of Christ Church, 1620; bishop of
Oxon, 1628; bishop of Norwich, 1632. Vide Anthony Wood's _Antiq. Oxon._
[687]Richard Corbet[CP], D.D., was the son of Vincent Corbet--vide his
poem--
'better[688] known
By Poynter's name then by his owne
Here lies engaged till the day
Of raysing bones and quickning clay:
No wonder, reader, that he hath
Two sirnames in one epitaph,
For this one doth comprehend
All that both families could lend--
who was a gardner at Twicknam, as I have heard my old cosen Whitney
say. Vide in B. Johnson's _Underwoods_ an epitaph on this Vincent
Corbet, where he speakes of his nurseries etc., p. 177.