of his owne writing and composing and sung by his neighbours clad in
shepherds' weeds, whom he brought-up to musique.
He gave another entertayment in Cote-field to king James, with carters
singing, with whipps in their hands; and afterwards, a footeball play.
This parish would have challenged all England for musique, ringing, and
footeball play.
He was one of his Majestie's chaplaines. One sermon is among my
grandfather Lyte's old bookes in the country, at the funerall of <John>
Drew, esquire, called _Life's farewell_, printed....
=Nicholas Fiske= (15..-166..).
[932]Dr. ... Fisk[933], a physitian, practised physick and astrologie,
and had good practise in both, in Convent Garden, London. Mr. Gadbury
acknowledges in print to have had his greatest helpes in astrologicall
knowledge from him, and sayes that he was an able artist.
He wrote[934] and printed a treatise of the conjunction of Saturne and
Jupiter.
Obiit about 20 yeares since and buryed in Convent Garden.
=Thomas Flatman= (16..-1688).
[935]Mr. Thomas Flatman, quondam Novi Collegii socius, then a barrister
of the Inner Temple, an excellent painter and poet. The next terme his
poems will be in print.
[936]Mr. Thomas Flatman[EH] died at his house in Fleet street on
Thursday December <6th>, buried the 9th of that moneth, at St. Bride's,
neer the railes of the communion table, in the grave with his sonne, on
whom he layd a fair marble gravestone with an inscription and verses.
His father is living yet, at least 80, a clarke of the Chancery.
[937]Thomas Flatman, filius, natus 1673, Oct. 4, hora 18 P.M. This
native dyed of the small pox about Christmas (December) 1682.
_Note._
[EH] Anthony Wood detects an oversight:--'Why do you not set downe the
yeare?' Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 386ᵛ, says, 'Thomas Flatman
dyed in 1688, before Christmas.'
Thomas Flattman, of Red Cross street, Aldersgate, London, at Winchester
school from Michaelmas 1648, was admitted probationer of New College
(to an Arts fellowship) 11 Sept. 1654, and fellow in 1656; but resigned
in 1657, betaking himself to the study of Law.
=Sir William Fleetwood= (1535-1594).
[938]Sir Miles[939] Fleetwood, Recorder of London, was of the Middle
Temple; was Recorder of London, when King James came into England; made
his harangue to the City of London (ἀντανάκλασις), 'When I consider
your wealth I doe admire your wisdome, and when I consider your wisdome
I doe admire your wealth.' It was a two-handed rhetorication, but the
citizens tooke <it> in the best sense.
He was a very severe[940] hanger of highwaymen, so that the fraternity
were resolved to make an example of him[941]: which they executed in
this manner: They lay in wayte for him not far from Tyburne, as he was
to come from his house at ... in Bucks; had a halter in readinesse;
brought him under the gallowes, fastned the rope about his neck and
on the tree, his hands tied behind him (and servants bound), and then
left him to the mercy of his horse, which he called _Ball_. So he cryed
'Ho, Ball! Ho, Ball!' and it pleased God that his horse stood still,
till somebody came along, which was halfe a quarter of an hour or +. He
ordered that this horse should be kept as long as he would live, and it
was so--he lived till 1646:--from Mr. Thomas Bigge, of Wicham[942].
One day goeing on foote to Yield-hall, with his clarke behind him, he
was surprised in Cheapside with a sudden and violent looseness neer the
Standard. He[943] ... bade his man hide his face[943]....
His seate was at Missenden in the county of Bucks, where his
descendents still remaine.
He is buried at ... in com. Bucks.
=John Fletcher= (1579-1625).
[944]John Fletcher, invited to goe with a knight into Norfolke or
Suffolke in the plague-time 1625, stayd but to make himselfe a suite of
cloathes; fell sick of the plague, and dyed.
[945]Mr. John Fletcher, poet: in the great plague, 1625, a knight of
Norfolk (or Suffolke) invited him into the countrey. He stayed but to
make himselfe a suite of cloathes, and while it was makeing, fell sick
of the plague and dyed[946]. This I had (1668) from his tayler, who is
now a very old man, and clarke of St. Mary Overy's.
=John Florio= (1545?-1625).
[947]John Florio was borne in London in the beginning of king Edward
VI, his father and mother flying from the Valtolin ('tis about
Piedmont or Savoy) to London for religion: Waldenses.----The family is
originally of Siena, where the name is to this day.
King Edward dying, upon the persecution of queen Mary, they fled back
again into their owne countrey, where he was educated.
Afterwards he came into England, and was by king James made
'informator' to prince Henry for the Italian and French tongues, and
clarke to the closet to queen Anne.
Scripsit:--
First and second fruits, being two books of the instruction to learne
the Italian tongue:
Dictionary;
and translated Montagne's Essayes.
He dyed of the great plague at Fulham anno 1625.
=Sir Edward Ford= (1605-1670).
[948]Edward Ford[949], esquire, printed 5 or 6 sheetes in 4to--Mr.
Edmund Wyld haz it--
'A designe for bringing a river from Rickmansworth in Hartfordshire to
St. Gyles in the fields, the benefits of it declared and the objections
against it answered, by Edward Ford of Harting in Sussex, esq., London,
printed for John Clarke, 1641.' Memorandum that now (1681/2) London is
growne so populous and big that the new river of Middleton can serve
the pipes to private houses but twice a weeke, quod N. B.
I beleeve this was afterwards Sir Edward Ford, quondam a gentleman
commoner of Trinity College, Oxon: de quo vide in prima parte A. W.
Vide in my trunke of papers a printed sheet of his of....
['Twas[950] he built the high water-house over against Somerset howse,
pulled downe since the restauration because a nusance.]
[951]'Experimental proposalls how the king may have money to pay and
maintaine his fleetes with ease to the people, London may be re-built
and all proprietors satisfied, money be lent at 6 _li._ per cent on
pawnes, and the fishing trade sett-up; and all without strayning or
thwarting any of our lawes or customes,' by Sir Edward Forde, London,
printed by W. Godbid, 1666--a 4to pamphlet.
[952]Sir Edward Ford's body was brought over into England, and buried
at Harting Church in Sussex with his ancestors--obiit Sept. 3.
His brother tells me that this August he is 65 years old and that Sir
Edward was borne in Aprill and one yeare and a half older then he.
Sir Edward Ford first proposed his invention, the way of farthings for
this nation, and was opposed. He could not gett a patent here: prince
Rupert would have it, if he could. So then he went into Ireland and
dyed fortnight before he had effected the getting of his patent.
[953]Sir Edward Ford writt no books, but two or three pamphletts of a
sheet or so, which I have some where, and have informed you of. One was
an ingeniose proposall of a publique banke, as I remember, for the easy
raysing of money and to avoyd the griping usurers and to promote trade.
=Samuel Foster= (15..-1652).
[954]From Mr. Bayes, the watchmaker, his nephew:--Mr. Samuel Foster was
borne at Coventry (as I take it); he was sometime usher of the schoole
there. Was professor of ... at Gresham Colledge, London, ... yeares;
where, in his lodgeing, on the wall in his chamber, is, of his owne
hand draweing, the best diall I doe verily beleeve in the whole world.
Inter etc. it shewes you what a clock 'tis at Jerusalem, Gran Cairo,
etc. It is drawen very artificially. He dyed ... July 1652, buryed
at St. Peter's the Poor, in Broad-street, London. A neighbour of Mr.
Paschall's, neer Bridgewater, in Somerset, hath all his MSS.: which I
have seen, I thinke 1/2 foot thick in 4to.
=John Foxe= (1517-1587).
[955]Adjoyning[956] is this inscription[957] of John Fox.
Christo S. S.
Johanni Foxo, ecclesiae Anglicanae martyrologo fidelissimo,
antiquitatis historicae indagatori sagacissimo, Evangelicae
veritatis propugnatori acerrimo, thaumaturgo admirabili qui
martyres Marianos tanquam Phoenices ex cineribus redivivos
praestitit, patri suo omni pietatis officio in primis colendo,
Samuel Foxus, illius primogenitus, hoc monumentum posuit, non
sine lachrymis.
Obiit die xviii mensis April.
Anno Salutis 1587, jam
Septuagenarius.
Vita vitae mortalis est spes
vitae immortalis.
=Nicholas Fuller= (1557-1623/4).
[958]The 13th of February, 1623, Mr. Nicholas Fuller[959], rector of
Allington, was buried--ex registro.
=Thomas Fuller= (1608-1661).
[960]Thomas Fuller, D.D., borne at Orwincle[LXXIII.] in
Northamptonshire. His father was minister there, and maried ..., one
of the sisters of John Davenant, bishop of Sarum.--From Dr. Edward
Davenant.
[LXXIII.] J. Dreyden, poete, was borne here.
He was a boy of a pregnant witt, and when the bishop and his father
were discoursing, he would be by and hearken, and now and then putt in,
and sometimes beyond expectation, or his yeares.
He was of a middle stature; strong sett[961]; curled haire; a very
working head, in so much that, walking and meditating before dinner, he
would eate-up a penny loafe, not knowing that he did it. His naturall
memorie was very great, to which he had added the _art of memorie_: he
would repeate to you forwards and backwards all the signes from Ludgate
to Charing-crosse.
He was fellow of Sydney College in Cambridge, where he wrote his
_Divine Poemes_. He was first minister of Broad Windsor in Dorset, and
prebendary of the church of Sarum. He was sequestred, being a royalist,
and was afterwards minister of Waltham Abbey, and preacher of the
Savoy, where he died, and is buryed.
He was a pleasant facetious person, and a _bonus socius_.
Scripsit 'Holy Warre'; 'Holy State'; 'Pisgah Sight'; 'England's
Worthies'; severall Sermons, among others, a funerall sermon on Henry
Danvers, esq., the eldest son of Sir John Danvers, (and only <son> by
his second wife Dantesey), brother to Henry earl of Danby, preached at
Lavington in Wilts 1654: obiit 19º Novembr.
He was minister of Waltham Crosse in Essex, and also of the Savoy
in the Strand, where he dyed (and lies buryed) not long after the
restauracion of his majestie.
=Simon Furbisher= (1585-16..).
[962]Symon Furbisher, the famous jugler, natus 30 May, 1585, 9ʰ 30´ A.M.
=John Gadbury= (1627-1704).
[963]Mr. Gadbury the astrologer's father, a taylor, takes the measure
of a young lady for a gowne and clappes up a match.
_Note._
Anthony Wood in the _Ath. Oxon._ gives a more correct version of this
story. William Gadbury, a farmer, of Wheatley, co. Oxon, made a stolen
marriage with a daughter of Sir John Curson of Waterperry. Their son,
John Gadbury, was apprentice to an Oxford tailor, before he set up as
an astrologer.
The correspondence between Aubrey and Wood in MS. Wood F. 51, shows
that the publication of this story in Wood's _Athenae_ was, very
naturally, resented by Gadbury. Aubrey to Wood, Aug. 20, 1692, Gadbury
is 'extremely incens't against you: ... he sayes that you have printed
lyes concerning him.' Aubrey to Wood, Oct. 21, 1693, 'I shewed your
letter to Mr. Gadbury, wherin you tell him that what he desires
should be amended as to himselfe shall be donne in the Appendix,'
i.e. the third volume of the _Athenae_, on which Wood was then at
work, 'to be printed: but he huft and pish't, saying that your copies
are flown abroad and the scandalls are irrevocable and that he will
have a fling at you in print to vindicate himselfe.' Wood was blind
to the indiscretion he had committed: Wood to Aubrey, Nov. 1692, MS.
Ballard 14, fol. 153:--'I wonder at nothing more then that Mr. Gadbury
should take it amiss of those things that I say of him: for whereas
the generality of scholars did formerly take him to have been bred an
academian, because he was borne at Oxon, and so, consequently, not
to be much admird, now their eyes being opend and knowing that his
education hath been mechanical they esteem him a prodigie of parts and
therfore are much desirous that his picture may hang in the public
gallery at the schooles.'
=Thomas Gale= (1636-1702).
<MS. Aubr. 6, foll. 3, 4. This catalogue is not in Aubrey's hand:
perhaps it is Gale's autograph, sent to Aubrey in answer to a request
for a list of his books.>
_Libri editi curâ et operâ Tho. Gale._
Psalterium juxta exemplar Alexandrinum bibliothecae regiae: Graecè, 8vo.
Scriptores mythologici; Palaephatus, Cornutus, etc.: Graecè, 8vo.
Historiae poeticae scriptores; Apollodorus, Eratosthenes, etc.; Graecè,
8vo.
Rhetores antiqui; Demetrius, Phalereus, Tiberius, etc.: Graecè, 8vo.
Iamblichus Chalcidensis de mysteriis Aegyptiorum, etc.: Graecè, folio.
Johannes Eriugenan, cum notis: Lat., fol.
S. Maximi expositiones in S. Gregorium Nazianzenum: Graecè, fol.
Historiae Britannicae, Anglo-Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae, etc., scriptores
XX nunquam prius editi, 2ᵇᵘˢ voluminibus, ffol.
_Libri Graeci et Latini praelo parati._
Pentateuchus juxta exemplar Alexandrinum bibliothecae regiae, cum
notis, etc.: Graecè, fol.
Liber prophetae Isaiae juxta exemplar Alexandrinum: Graecè, cum
commentario, folio.
Basilii, Chrysostomi, Andreae Cretensis, aliorumque Graecorum patrum
Homiliae, nondum editae magno numero, Graecè, fol.
Iamblichus de vita Pythagorae et ejusdem ad philosophiam protreptici,
ex codicibus MSS. emendatus et nova versione donatus: 8vo.
Iamblichus de mathematica secundum Pythagoricos nunc primum ex MSS.
Codd. editus, cum versione Latina: 8vo.
Leonis imperatoris et Basilii cubicularii de re navali Graecorum
opuscula, nunc primum ex codd. Graecis eruta cum versione Latina:
accedit his Appendix eorum omnium locorum quae apud Graecos et Latinos
scriptores extant de re navali: 8vo.
Tertium et ultimum volumen Historicorum gentis Angliae ab Henrico IIIº
usque ad Henricum VIIᵘm nunquam hactenus editorum: fol.
Antonini Itinerarium per Britanniam, cum commentario in quo multa ad
chorographiam Britanniae explicandam adducuntur: 8vo.
Venerabilis Bedae Historia ecclesiastica, ad antiquissimos codices
emaculata et multis locis restituta: fol.
Matthaei Paris Historia, ad codices antiquos emendata et multis
repurgata erroribus, una cum copiosis notis et monumentis coaevis: fol.
Codex legum antiquarum gentis Anglicanae ab Ethelberto rege Cantii ad
Edvardum primum: in hac collectione continentur quam plurimae leges
Saxonicae et aliae nondum editae praeter eas quas Lambertus edidit: fol.
The History of Edward the 2d and of the troubles which happen'd in his
reigne, extracted out of the rolls of the Tower, together with those
rolls and other authentick evidences at large: ffol.
The Baronage of England in III parts: 1ˢᵗ, of its original; 2ᵈ, of its
continuance and alteration; 3ᵈ, of its rights and privilidges.
=William Gascoigne= (1612?-1644).
[964]There was a most gallant gentleman and excellent mathematician
that dyed[965] in the late warres, one Mr. Gascoigne, of good estate in
Yorkshire; to whom Sir Jonas Moore acknowledged to have received most
of his knowledge. He was bred up by the Jesuites. I thought to have
taken memoires of him; but deferring it, death took away Sir Jonas.
But I will sett downe what I remember.
[966]... Gascoigne, esq., of Middleton, neer Leeds, Yorkshire, was
killed at the battaile of Marston-moore, about the age of 24 or 25 at
most.
Mr. <Richard> Towneley, of Towneley, in Lancashire, esq., haz his
papers.--From Mr. Edmund Flamsted, who sayes he found out the way of
improveing telescopes before Des Cartes.
Mr. Edmund Flamsted tells me, Sept. 1682, that 'twas at Yorke fight he
was slaine.
=Henry Gellibrand= (1597-1637).
[967]Henry Gellibrand was borne in London. He was of Trinity Colledge
in Oxon (vide Anthony Wood's _Antiq. Oxon._). Dr. Potter and Dr.
<William> Hobbes knew him. Dr. Hannibal Potter was his tutor, and
preached his funeral sermon in London. They told me that he was good
for little a great while, till at last it happened accidentally, that
he heard a Geometrie[968] lecture. He was so taken with it, that
immediately he fell to studying it, and quickly made great progresse
in it. The fine diall over the Colledge Library is of his owne doeing.
Construxit Logarithmos Henrici Briggs, jussu Autoris τοῦ μακαρίτου,
1631. He was Astronomy Professor in Collegio Greshamensi, Lond.
Scripsit Trigonometriam. He being one time in the country, shewed the
tricks of drawing[969] what card you touched, which was by combination
with his confederate, who had a string that was tyed to his leg, and
the leg of the other, by which his confederate gave him notice by the
touch; but by this trick, he was reported to be a conjuror.
Vide _Canterbury's Doome_[970] about Protestant martyrs, <inserted in>
the Almanac; <and> that he kept conventicles in Gresham College.
=... Gerard.=
[971]One Mr. Gerard, of Castle Carey in Somerset, collected the
antiquities of that county, Dorset, and that of Devon: which I cannot
for my life retrive. His executor had them, whose estate was seized for
debt; and <they> utterly lost.
=Adrian Gilbert= (---- - ----).
[972]... Ralegh _m._ Katherine Champernon _m._ ... Gilbert
| |
Sir Walter Ralegh Adrian Gilbert,
chymist; sine prole.
This Adrian Gilbert was an excellent chymist, and a great favourite of
Mary, countesse of Pembroke, with whom he lived and was her operator.
He was a man of great parts, but the greatest buffoon in England; cared
not what he said to man or woman of what quality soever. Some curious
ladies of our country have rare receipts of his. 'Twas he that made the
curious wall about Rollington parke at Wilton.
[973]Mr. Elias Ashmole sayes that amongst his papers of John Dee or Dr.
<Richard> Napier he finds that one of them held great correspondence
with Adrian Gilbert. Quaere of him de hoc.
=Alexander Gill= (1567-1635).
=Alexander Gill= (1597-1642).
[974]Dr. Gill, the father, was a very ingeniose person, as may appeare
by his writings. Notwithstanding he had moodes and humours, as
particularly his whipping-fitts:--
As Paedants out of the schoole-boies breeches
doe clawe and curry their owne itches
_Hudibras_, part ... canto ...
This Dr. Gill whipped ... Duncomb, who was not long after a colonel of
dragoons at Edgehill-fight, taken pissing against the wall. He had his
sword by his side, but the boyes surprized him: somebody had throwen a
stone in at the windowe; and they seised on the first man they lighted
on.[975]I thinke his name was _Sir John D_. (Sir John Denham told me
the storie), and he would have cutt the doctor, but he never went
abroad but to church, and then his army went with him. He complained to
the councill, but it became ridicule, and so his revenge sank.
Dr. Triplet came to give his master a visit, and he whip't him. The Dr.
gott ... Pitcher, of Oxford, who had a strong[976] and a sweet base,
to sing this song under the schoole windowes, and gott a good guard to
secure him with swords, etc., and he was preserved from the _examen_
of the little myrmidons which issued-out to attach him; but he was so
frighted that he bes ... him selfe most fearfully.
In Paul's church-yard in London
There dwells a noble firker;
Take heed you that pass
Lest you tast of his lash
* * * * *
Still doth he cry
Take him up, take him up, Sir,
Untrusse with expedition.
Oh the birchen tool
That he winds i' th' school
Frights worse than an inquisition.
If that you chance to passe there,
As doth the man of blacking;
He insults like a puttock
O're the prey of the buttock
With a whip't a ... sends him packing.
Still doth he cry, etc.
For when this well truss't trounser
Into the school doth enter
With his napkin at his nose
And his orange stuft with cloves
On any ... he'l venter.
Still doth, etc.
A French-man voyd of English
Enquiring for Paul's steeple
His _Pardonnez-moy_
He counted a toy,
For he whip't him before all people.
Still doth he cry, etc.
A Welsh-man once was whip't there
Untill he did bes... him
His _Cuds-pluttera-nail_
Could not prevail
For he whip't the Cambro-Britan.
Still doth he cry, etc.
[977]A captain of the train'd-band;
Yclept[978] Cornelius Wallis;
He whip't him so sore
Both behind and before
He notch't his .... like tallyes.
Still doth he cry, etc.
For a piece of beef and turnip,
Neglected, with a cabbage,
He took up the pillion
Of his bouncing mayd Jillian;
And sowc't her like a baggage.
Still doth he cry, etc.
A porter came in rudely
And disturb'd the humming concord,
He took-up his frock
And he payd his nock
And sawc't him with his owne cord.
Still doth he cry, etc.
Gill upon Gill[979], or Gill's ... uncas'd, unstript, unbound.
'Sir,
Did _you_ me this epistle send,
Which is so vile and lewdly pen'd,
In which no line I can espie
Of sense or true orthographie?
So slovenly it goes,
In verse and prose,
For which I must pull down your hose.'
'O good sir!' then cry'd he,
'In private let it be,
And doe not sawce me openly.'
'Yes, sir, I'le sawce you openly
Before Sound[980] and the company;
And that none of thee may take heart
Though thou art a batchelour of Art,
Though thou hast payd thy fees
For thy degrees:
Yet I will make thy ... to sneeze.
And now I doe begin
To thresh it on thy skin
For now my hand is in, is in.
First, for the themes which thou me sent
Wherin much nonsense thou didst vent,
And for that barbarous piece of Greek
For which in Gartheus[981] thou didst seeke.
And for thy faults not few,
In tongue Hebrew,
For which a grove of birch is due.
Therfore me not beseech
To pardon now thy breech
For I will be thy ...-leech, ...-leech.
Next for the offense that thou didst give
When as in Trinity thou didst live,
And hadst thy ... in Wadham College mult
For bidding sing _Quicunque vult_[982]
And for thy blanketting[983]
And many such a thing
For which thy name in towne doth ring
And none deserves so ill
To heare as bad as Gill--
Thy name it is a proverb still,
Thou vented[984] hast such rascall geer.
Next thou a preacher were.
For which the French-men all cry Fie!
To heare such pulpitt-ribauldrie[985].
And sorry were to see
So worthy a degree
So ill bestowed on thee.
But glad am I to say
The Masters made the<e> stay
Till thou in quarto[986] didst them pray.
But now remaines the vilest thing,
The alehouse barking 'gainst the king
And all his brave and noble peeres;
For which thou ventredst for thy eares.
And if thou hadst thy right,
Cutt off they had been quite
And thou hadst been a rogue in sight.
But though thou mercy find
Yet I'le not be so kind
But I'le jerke thee behind, behind.'
=Joseph Glanville= (1636-1680).
[987]Joseph Glanville, D.D.:--vide his funerall sermon[988] in St.
Paul's church-yard at the signe of....
[989]Dr. Joseph Glanville, minister of Bathe, was taken ill at
Bridgewater, and returned home and dyed, Tuesday, November 9, 1680, and
lies interred in ... at Bath abbey.
He was author of _The zealous and impartiall Protestant_, 4to,
stitch't, printed by Henry Brome, London, 16<81>: his name is not to
it. Had he lived the Parliament would have questioned him for it.
=Owen Glendower= (1359(?)-1415).
[990]Quaere if you can find of what howse the famous Owen Glendower
was. He was of Lincolns Inne, and dyed obscurely (I know where) in this
county <Herefordshire>, keeping of sheepe.
... Skydmore of Kenchurch married his sister, and ... Vaughan of
Hergest was his kinsman; and these two mayntayned him secretly in the
ebbe of his fortune.
=Robert Glover= (1544-1588).
[991]The learned herald, Mr. ... Glover, was borne at ... in
Somersetshire; vide Fuller's 'Worthies' de hoc.
I have heard Sir Wm. Dugdale say, that though Mr. Camden had the name,
yet Mr. Glover was the best herald that did ever belong to the office.
He tooke a great deale of paines in searching the antiquities of
severall counties. He wrote a most delicate hand, and pourtrayed finely.