Warwickshire, went to schoole with him--he would say that he was a very
handsome man, but something apt to abuse, and a coward.
He was a student (vide Anthony Wood's _Antiq. Oxon._) of Christ-church
in Oxford. He was very facetious, and a good fellowe. One time he and
some of his acquaintance being merry at Fryar Bacon's study (where
was good liquor sold), they were drinking on the leads of the house,
and one of the scholars was asleepe, and had a paire of good silke
stockings on. Dr. Corbet (then M.A., if not B.D.) gott a paire of
cizers and cutt them full of little holes, but when the other awaked,
and percieved how and by whom he was abused, he did chastise him, and
made him pay for them.
After he was D. of Divinity, he sang ballads at the Crosse at Abingdon
on a market-day. He and some of his camerades were at the taverne by
the crosse,[L.] (which by the way was then the finest of England; I
remember it when I was a freshman: it was admirable curious Gothique
architecture, and fine figures in the niches: 'twas one of those
built by king ... for his queen: vide Chronicle). The ballad singer
complaynd, he had no custome, he could not putt-off his ballades. The
jolly Doctor putts-off his gowne, and putts-on the ballad singer's
leathern jacket, and being a handsome man, and had a rare full voice,
he presently vended a great many, and had a great audience.
[L.] 'Twas after the fashion of the crosse in High-street in Bristowe,
but more curious worke. Quaere if not marble?
After the death of Dr. <William Goodwyn>, he was made deane of
Christ-church (quaere if ever canon); vide[689] part iii, pag. 7b.
He had a good interest with great men, as you may find in his poems,
and with the then great favourite, the duke of Bucks; his excellent
witt was lettres of recommendation to him. I have forgott the story,
but at the same time that Dr. <Samuel> Fell thought to have carried it,
Dr. Corbet putt a pretty trick on <him> to lett him take a journey on
purpose to London for it, when he had already the graunt of it.
He preacht a sermon before the king at Woodstock (I suppose king James,
quaere) and no doubt with a very good grace; but it happened that he
was out, on which occasion there were made these verses:--
A reverend deane,
With his band[690] starch't cleane,
Did preach before the King;
In his band string was spied
A ring that was tied[CQ],
Was not that a pretty thing?
If then without doubt,
In his text he was out
. . . . . . next,
The ring without doubt
Was the thing putt him out,
For all that were there,
On my conscience, dare sweare,
That he handled it more than his text:--
vide the verses.
[691]His conversation[692] was extreme pleasant. Dr. Stubbins[CR]
was one of his cronies; he was a jolly fatt Dr. and a very good
house-keeper; parson of <Ambrosden> in Oxfordshire. As Dr. Corbet and
he were riding in Lob-lane, in wett weather, ('tis an extraordinary
deepe dirty lane) the coach fell; and Dr. Corbet sayd that Dr. Stubbins
was up to the elbowes in mud, he was up to the elbowes in Stubbins.
Anno Domini <1628> he was made bishop of Oxford, and I have heard that
he had an admirable, grave, and venerable aspect.
One time, as he was confirming, the country people pressing in to
see[693] the ceremonie, sayd he, '_Beare-off there, or I'le confirme
yee with my staffe_.' Another time being to lay his hand on the head
of a man very bald, he turns to his chaplaine (Lushington) and sayd,
'_Some dust, Lushington_,' (to keepe his hand from slipping). There was
a man with a great venerable beard; sayd the bishop, '_You, behind the
beard_.'
His chaplain, Dr. Lushington[CS], was a very learned and ingeniose
man, and they loved one another. The bishop sometimes would take the
key of the wine-cellar, and he and his chaplaine would goe and lock
themselves in and be merry. Then first he layes downe his episcopall
hat,--'_There lyes the Dr._' Then he putts of his gowne,--'_There lyes
the Bishop_.' Then 'twas,--'_Here's to thee, Corbet_,' and '_Here's to
thee, Lushington_.'--From Josias Howe, B.D., Trin. Coll. Oxon.
He built a pretty house (quaere) neer the cawsey beyond Friar Bacon's
studie.
He married[CT] ..., whom 'twas sayd he begott. She was a very
beautifull woman, and so was her mother. He had a son (I think Vincent)
that went to schoole at Westminster, with Ned Bagshawe; a very handsome
youth, but he is run out of all, and goes begging up and downe to
gentlemen.
He was made bishop of Norwich, Anno Domini <1632>. He dyed <28 July,
1635>. The last words he sayd were, '_Good night, Lushington_.' He lyes
buried in the upper end of the choire at Norwich, [on the south side of
the monument of bishop Herbert, the founder, under a faire gravestone
of free-stone, from whence the inscription[CU] and scutcheon of brasse
are stollen[694]].
His poems are pure naturall witt, delightfull and easie.
Quaere what he hath writt besides his poems: vide part iii, p.[695] 7b.
It appeares by his verses to Master Ailesbury[CV], Dec. 9, 1618, that
he had knowledge of analyticall learning, being so well acquainted with
him and the learned Mr. Thomas Harriot.
[696]I have not seen the date of his _Iter Boreale_; but it ends thus:--
We return'd, but just with so much ore,
As Rauleigh from his voyage, and no more.
[697]Memorandum:--his antagonist Dr. <Daniel> Price, the anniversarist,
was made deane of the church at Hereford. Dr. <William> Watts, canon of
that church, told me, 1656, that this deane was a mighty pontificall
proud man, and that one time when they went in procession about the
cathedrall church, he would not doe it the usually way in his surplice,
hood, etc., on foot, but rode on a mare, thus habited, with the
Common-Prayer booke in his hand, reading. A stone-horse happend to
breake loose[698] ... he would never ride in procession afterwards.
[699]In the cathedral church of Norwich, upper end of the choeur,
towards the steppes to the altar, in the middle is a little altar-tombe
of bishop Herbert the founder; south of which tombe is a faire
freestone gravestone of bishop Corbet, the inscription and shield of
brasse are stollen. Vide A. Wood's _Antiq. Oxon._ <His> son <is a>
fainiant.
_Notes._
[CP] Aubrey gives in colours the coat, 'or, a raven sable [Corbet],'
wreathed with laurel.
[CQ] An alternative reading is given:--
'A ring he espyed
In his band-string tyed.'
[CR] John Stubbinge, D.D., Ch. Ch., 1630: vicar of Ambrosden, co.
Oxon., 1635.
[CS] Thomas Lushington, D.D., Pembr., June 22, 1632, obiit Dec. 22,
1661. Notes of his life are found in Wood MS. F. 39, fol. 203ᵛ, 204,
259.
[CT] Alice, daughter of Leonard Hutton, sometime Student of Christ
Church, Canon of St. Paul's 1609-1632.
[CU] In MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 9, Aubrey has a note, 'bishop Richard Corbet:
vide memorandum 1671 in libro B pro reliquiis inscriptionis.' A copy
of what was still legible of the inscription is found in a letter from
Aubrey to Wood in Wood MS. F. 39.
[CV] Sir Thomas Aylesbury, 1576-1657, Master of the Requests. He had
been of Christ Church, Oxford.
=Tom Coryat= (1577-1617).
[700]Old major Cosh was quartered (Sept. 18, 1642) at his mother's
house at Shirburne in Dorsetshire; her name was Gertrude.
This was when Sherburne castle was besieged, and when the fight was
at Babell hills, between Sherburn and Yeovill: the first fight in the
civill warres that was considerable. But the first _brush_ was between
the earle of Northampton (father to Henry, the lord bishop of London)
and the lord Brooke, neer Banbury: which was the later end of July, or
the beginning of August, 1642. I[701] was sent for into the countrey
to my great griefe, and departed the 9th of Aug. 'Twas before I went
away, I beleeve in Aug. Quaere de hoc.
But to returne to T. Coryat: had he lived to returne into England, his
travells had been most estimable, for though he was not a wise man, he
wrote faithfully matter of fact.
=Abraham Cowley= (1618-1667).
[702]Mr. Abraham Cowley[CW]: he was borne in Fleet-street, London, neer
Chancery-lane; his father a grocer, at the signe of....
He was secretarie to the earle of St. Alban's (then lord Jermyn) at
Paris. When his majestie returned, the duke of Buckingham hearing
that at Chertsey was a good farme of about ... _li._ per annum,
belonging to the queene-mother, goes to the earl of St. Alban's and
the commissioners to[703] take a lease of it. They answered that 'twas
beneath his grace to take a lease of them. That was all one, he would
have it, payd for it, and had it, and freely and generously gave it to
his deare and ingeniose friend, Mr. Abraham Cowley, for whom purposely
he bought it.
He lies interred at Westminster Abbey, next to Sir Jeffrey Chaucer, N.,
where the duke of Bucks has putt a neate monument of white marble, viz.
a faire pedestall, wheron the inscription:--
Abrahamus Couleius,
Anglorum Pindarus, Flaccus, Maro,
Deliciae, Decus, Desiderium aevi sui,
Hic juxta situs est.
Aurea dum volitant latè tua scripta per orbem,
Et famâ aeternùm vivis, divine Poeta,
Hic placidâ jaceas requie; custodiat urnam
Cana Fides, vigilentque perenni lampade Musae;
Sit sacer iste locus. Nec quis temerarius ausit
Sacrilegâ turbare manu venerabile bustum.
Intacti maneant, maneant per secula, dulcis
Coulei cineres serventque immobile saxum.
Sic vovet,
Votumque suum apud posteros sacratum esse voluit, qui
viro incomparabili posuit sepulcrale marmor, GEORGIUS dux
BUCKINGHAMIAE.
Abraham Cowley excessit e vitâ anno aetatis suae 49; et,
honorificâ pompâ elatus ex Aedibus Buckinghamianis, viris[LI.]
illustribus omnium ordinum exequias celebrantibus, sepultus est
die 3 mensis Augusti anno Domini 1667.
[LI.] His grace the duke of Bucks held a tassell of the pall.
Above that a very faire urne, with a kind of ghirland of ivy about it.
The inscription was made by Dr. <Thomas> Spratt, his grace's
chapellane: the Latin verses were made, or mended, by Dr. <Thomas> Gale.
On his very noble gravestone, his scutcheon, and
Abrahamus Couleius
H. S. E.
1667.
Memorandum:--this George, duke of Bucks, came to the earl of St. Albans
and told him he would buy such a lease in Chertsey belonging to the
queen mother. Said the earle to him, 'that is beneath your grace, to
take a lease.' 'That is all one,' qd. he, 'I desire to have the favour
to buy it for my money.' He bought it, and then freely bestowed it on
his beloved Cowley: which ought not to be forgotten.
By Sir J. Denham:--
Had Cowley ne're spoke, nor Th.[704] Killigrew writt,
They'd both have made a <very> good witt.
--A. C. discoursed very ill and with hesitation.
He writ when a boy at Westminster ... poems and a comedy called _Love's
Riddle_, dedicated to Sir Kenelme Digby; printed, London, ..., 8vo.
[705]Abraham Cowley:--vide his will, scilicet, for his true and lasting
charity, that is, he settles his estate in such a manner that every
yeare so much is to be payd for the enlarging of poor prisoners cast
into gaole by cruel creditors for some debt. This I had from Mr.
Dunning of London, a scrivener, who is an acquaintance of Dr. Cowley's
brother. I doe thinke this memorable benefaction is not mentioned
in his life in print before his workes; and it is certainly the best
method of charity.
_Note._
[CW] Aubrey notes that he was of 'Cambridge,' and gives in trick the
coat:--'..., a lion rampant ..., within a bordure engrailed ...,'
wreathed in laurel.
=... Cradock.=
[706]Memorandum:--Mris Smyth[707] told me of one ... Cradock in the
west (where Mris Smyth's relations or birth) from a cratch dyed worth
10,000 _li._--Quaere de hoc, e.g. <at> Taunton or Warminster.
=William Croone= (1633-1684).
[708]... Croun, M.D., obiit Sunday Oct. 12, 1684, London; buried at St.
Mildred's in the Poultry. His funerall sermon is printed. He was fellow
of the Physitians' College and also Regiae Societatis Socius.
=... Curtin.=
[709]Madam Curtin, a good fortune of 3000 _li._, daughter to Sir
William Curtin, the great merchant, lately married her footman, who,
not long after marriage, beates her, getts her money, and ran away.
=Robert Dalzell=, earl of Carnwarth (15..-1654).
[710]'Twas the lord Kenwurth that sayd to the earl of Salisbury _Ken
you an ape, sir_,--from Elizabeth, countesse of Thanet.
_Note._
The Rev. H. E. D. Blakiston, of Trinity College, suggested to me the
transliteration of 'Kenwurth' to 'Carnwarth.' Robert Dalzell succeeded
as second earl of Carnwath in 1639, died 1654. He might be in conflict
about Scotch matters with William Cecil, second earl of Salisbury,
commissioner to treat with the Scots at Ripon, in 1640.
=Sir Charles Danvers= (1568-1600/1).
[711]Sir Charles Danvers was beheaded on Tower-hill with Robert, earle
of Essex, February the 6th, 1600[712]. I find in the register of
the Tower chapell only the sepulture of Robert, earl of Essex, that
yeare; wherfore I am induced to beleeve that his body was carryed
to Dantesey[CX] in Wilts to lye with his ancestors. Vide Stowe's
Chronicle, where is a full account of his and the earle's deportment at
their death on the scaffold.
With all their faylings, Wilts cannot shew two such[713] brothers.
His familiar acquaintance were ...[714], earl of Oxon; Sir Francis and
Sir Horace Vere; Sir Walter Ralegh, etc.--the heroes of those times.
Quaere my lady viscountesse Purbec and also the lord Norris for an
account of the behaviour and advice of Sir Charles Danvers in the
businesse of the earl of Essex, which advice had the earle followed he
had saved his life.
[715]Of Sir Charles Danvers, from my lady viscountesse Purbec:--Sir
Charles Danvers advised the earle of Essex, either to treat with the
queen--hostages ..., whom Sir Ferdinando Gorges did let goe; or to
make his way through the gate at Essex house, and then to hast away to
Highgate, and so to Northumberland (the earl of Northumberland maried
his mother's sister), and from thence to the king of Scots, and there
they might make their peace; if not, the queen was old and could not
live long. But the earle followed not his advice, and so they both lost
their heads on Tower-hill.
_Note._
[CX] In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46, Aubrey writes, in reference to burials at
Dantesey, 'quaere, if Sir Charles Danvers that was beheaded?--He was
buryed in the Tower chapell.' Aubrey's description of the burial-place
of the Danvers family (MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46), with the inscriptions,
is printed in J. E. Jackson's Aubrey's _Wiltshire Collections_, pp.
223-225; the pedigree of Danvers is there given at p. 216.
=Elizabeth Danvers.=
[716]His[CY] mother, an Italian, prodigious parts for a woman. I have
heard my father's mother say that she had Chaucer at her fingers' ends.
A great politician; great witt and spirit, but revengefull[717].
Knew how to manage her estate as well as any man; understood jewells as
well as any jeweller.
Very beautifull, but only short-sighted. To obtain pardons for her
sonnes[718] she maryed Sir Edmund Carey, cosen-german to queen
Elizabeth, but kept him to hard meate.
Smyth of Smythcotes--Naboth's vineyard--digitus Dei[CZ].
The _arcanum_--'traditio lampadis' in the family of Latimer[DA] of
poysoning king Henry 8--from my lady Purbec.
_Notes._
[CY] i.e. Henry, earl of Danby's. She was Elizabeth, daughter of John
Nevill, the last lord Latimer. 'An Italian' may mean that she knew that
language, among her other accomplishments. I can make nothing of a note
added by Aubrey here, which seems to read '... Cowley, crop-ear'd.'
[CZ] I do not know to what circumstance, in the history of the Danvers
family, Aubrey here applies 1 Kings xxi. 19.
[DA] Catherine Parr, last consort of Henry VIII, was widow of John, 3rd
lord Latimer; and step-mother of John, 4th lord Latimer, the father of
this Elizabeth Danvers, whose grand-daughter ('viscountess Purbeck')
was Aubrey's informant.
=Henry Danvers=, earl of Danby (1573-1644).
[719]Henry Danvers[DB], earl of Danby; vide his christning and
epitaph in libro[DC] A. in Dantesey church: vide <David> Lloyd's
_State-worthies_, 8vo, 1679.
Quaere my brother William, and J. Stokes, for the examination order of
the murther[DD] at Cosham in North Wilts. Old L. Shippon, Oxon,
'From Turke and Pope,' etc.
R. Wisdome was then lecturer and preacht that day, and Henry Long
expired[720] in his armes. My great-grandfather, R. Danvers, was in
some trouble about it, his horses and men being in that action. His
servants were hanged and so ... Long of Linets. Vide Degory Wheare's
Epistles and John Owen's Epigrams.
Physick Garden <at Oxford>: inscriptions there; inscription at Dantesey.
<He> gave to Sir Thomas Overbury _cloath_.
<He> perfected his Latin when a man by parson Oldham of Dodmerton.
<He was a> perfect master of the French; a historian; tall and spare;
temperate; sedate and solid; a very great favorite of prince Henry;
lived most at Cornbury; a great improver of his estate, to 11000 _li._
per annum at the least; sold the 7 Downes, and turned the[721] ⓐ into
lease; afterwards bought fee-simple neer Cirencester.
[722]Henry, earl of Danby, <was a> great oeconomist. All his servants
<were> sober and wise[723] in their respective places. <He> kept ...
gentlemen: <among them> colonel Legge[724] (governor of Portsmouth);
and his brother; Mr. Arthur Drake (brother of Sir ... Drake, baronet).
[725]Earl of Danby--he was page to Sir Philip Sydney--from my cozen
Elizabeth Villers: quaere +.
[726]Memorandum:--anno Domini, 16--, regno regis Caroli primi, Henry,
earle of Danby, built an almeshowse in this parish <Dantesey, co.
Wilts> for <six> poore people and[727] a schoole--quaere the salary[DE]
of both.
_Notes._
[DB] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'<gules>, a chevron between
3 mullets <or> [Danby]; quartering, <gules>, a saltire engrailed
<argent>, an annulet for difference [Nevill, lord Latimer],' surmounted
by an earl's coronet.
[DC] i.e. in MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46: see _supra_, p. 192. The epitaph
contains English verses by George Herbert.
[DD] Henry, brother of Sir Robert, Long was killed, possibly in
fair fight, by Sir Charles, brother of this Henry, Danvers: see the
_Archaeological Magazine_, i. 306. In consequence, the Danvers brothers
had to seek safety in France. In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 44ᵛ, Aubrey notes
'Sommerford magna--the assassination of Harry Long was contrived in
the parlour of the parsonage here. Mr. Atwood was then parson; he was
drown'd comeing home.'
Richard Atwood, M.A. Oxon, 1576: another instance of 'Digitus Dei.'
[DE] See Jackson's Aubrey's _Wiltshire Collections_, p. 228.
=Sir John Danvers= (15..-1594).
[728]Sir John Danvers, the father, <was> a most beautifull and good
and even-tempered person. His picture <is> yet extant--my cosen John
Danvers (his son[729]) haz it at ... Memorandum, George Herbert's
verses on the curtaine.
He was of a mild and peaceable nature, and his sonnes' sad
accident[730] brake his heart.
[731]By the same[732] (orator of the University of Cambridge), pinned
on the curtaine of the picture of old Sir John Danvers, who was both a
handsome and a good man:--
Passe not by: search and you may
Find a treasure worth your stay.
What makes a Danvers would you find?
In a faire bodie, a faire mind.
Sir John Danvers' earthly part
Here is copyed out by art:
But his heavenly and divine
In his progenie doth shine.
Had he only brought them forth,
Know that much had been his worth.
Ther's no monument to a sonne:
Reade him there[733], and I have donne.
=Sir John Danvers= (1588?-1655).
[734]Sir John Danvers:--His first wife was the lady <Magdalen> Herbert,
a widowe, mother of the lord Edward Herbert of Cherbery and George
Herbert, orator. By her he had no issue; she was old enough to have
been his mother. He maried her for love of her witt. The earl of
Danby[735] was greatly displeased with him for this dis-agreable match.
[736]Sir John, his sonne, was then[737] a child about six. An ingeniose
person, e.g. Chelsey house and garden, and Lavington garden[738].
A great friend of the king's partie and a patron to distressed and
cashiered cavaliers, e.g. captain Gunter, he served; Christopher
Gibbons (organist); captain Peters, etc.--Lord Bacon's friend. But
to revenge himselfe of his sister, the l<ady> Garg<rave> to[739]
ingratiate himself more with the P<rotector> to null his brother, earl
of Danby's, will, he, contrary to his owne naturall inclination, did
sitt in the high court of justice at the king's triall.
Dantesey (2500 _li._ per annum), not entailed, <was> forfeited and
given to the duke of Yorke.
His son, John, by his last wife (<Grace> Hughes), has 500 _li._ per
annum (old land) in Oxonshire, which was part of judge[740] Danvers'
estate tempore Edwardi IV, one of the judges with Litleton.
Henry, the eldest son of Sir John Danvers, dyed before his father,
and left his two sisters co-heires, viz. Elizabeth[741] <who> married
Robert Viliers (only son of viscount Purbec), and Anne, married to Sir
<Henry> Lee of Ditchley.
=The Danvers-Villiers family.=
<MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 97, gives 'eight coelestiall schemes[DF],
being the nativities of Robert Danvers, esq. (that is, Robert
Villers, son of the viscount Purbec[DG]), the lady Elizabeth
his wife, and their six children, vidᵗ. foure daughters and two
sonnes, diligently calculated according to art by the Tables
of Regiomontanus by W. C.' This paper supplies the following
dates:-->
[742]Robert Danvers[DH], esq., _m._ the lady Danvers[743], born
born 19 Oct., 1624, | Tuesday, 7 Aprill, 1629,
11ʰ 48´ P.M. | 5ʰ 26´ P.M.
Mris Frances Danvers, born Friday 12 July 1650, 0ʰ 16´ P.M.
Mris Elizabeth Danvers, born Monday 10 November 1651, 10ʰ 21´ P.M.
Mris Ann Danvers, born Sunday 23 October 1653, 5ʰ 10´ A.M.
Mris Mary Danvers, born Saturday 10 November 1655, 7ʰ 28´ A.M.
Mr. Robert Danvers, born Saturday 14 Martii 1656/7, 5ʰ 30´ A.M.
Mr. Edward Danvers, born Thursday 28 Martii 1661, 4ʰ 9´ A.M.
[744]Memorandum, 1676, July 19, P.M., about 6ʰ, my lord viscount
(Robert) Purbec, filius, was hurt in the neck by Mr. Fielding[DI] in
Fleet Street.
<Ask Elizabeth, viscountess Purbec> the year and day when her son, the
lord Purbec, was killed in a duel at Liege? Respondet: he was killed in
a duell at Liege about a year before the death of King Charles IIᵈ--I
thinke in the month of Aprill.
_Notes._
[DF] In MS. Aubr. 21, fol. 97ᵛ, is a note:--'These,' I suppose the
schemes given on the recto of the leaf, 'were done when he,' Robert
Danvers, 'was in Caersbrooke Castle, prisoner, in the Isle of Wight.'
[DG] In MS. Aubr. 23, on a slip at fol. 121ᵛ, is the note:--'Lord ...
Purbec,' i.e. John Villiers, created viscount Purbeck in 1619, 'natus
at Godbee, Sept. 6, 12ʰ P.M., 1591: melancholy. His mother saith he was
borne Sept. 6, Monday, 12ʰ P.M., 1591. Mris Toman writeth that it was
2ʰ 30´ P.M.'
[DH] Robert Wright (took the name of Danvers), son of Frances (daughter
of Sir Edward Coke; wife of John Villiers, of note 2) who eloped in
1621 with Sir Robert Howard. He styled himself 'viscount Purbeck'; died
1675.
[DI] Robert Fielding ('Beau' Fielding) afterwards married his widow,
Margaret, daughter of Ulick Burke, marquis of Clanricarde.
=Michael Dary= (16..-1679).
[745]Michaell Dary, mathematician, and a gunner of the Tower (by
profession, a tobacco-cutter), an admirable algebrician, was buryed
in the churchyard neer Bethlem on May-day 1679. With writing in the
frostie weather[746] his fingers rotted and gangraened. He was an old
man; I guesse about 66 +.
=Edward Davenant=, merchant (15..-16..).
[747]Edward Davenant, merchant: he lies buried behind the bishop's
stall at Sarum with this inscription[748]:--
Literas, lyceo, rerumque usus, emporio, etc.
[749]Memorandum:--Mr. <Edward> Davenant, merchant in London, eldest
brother of John Davenant, bishop of Sarum, broke (the seas being crosse
to him); but being a person of great estimation with the merchants,
they favoured him, and he went into Ireland. He did set up the trade of
pilchard fishing at Wythy Island[750] there, where he was a Justice of
Peace, and in 20 yeares he gott there about ten thousand pounds, payd
his debts, and left his family well. This account I had from my worthy
and intimate friend, Mr. John Davenant, grandsonne to him.
=Edward Davenant=, D.D. (16..-1679/80).