(or Shier-lane), under his owne hand, a Visitation of Cheshire, a
most curious piece, which Sir Wm. Dugdale wish't me to see; and he
told me that at York, at some ordinary house (I thinke a house of
entertainment) he sawe such an elaborate piece of Yorkshire. But
severall counties he surveyd, and that with great exactnes, but after
his death they were all scattered abroad, and fell into ignorant hands.
He lies interred neer Mr. Foxe's monument (who wrote the
_Martyrologie_) in St. Giles' Cripplegate Chancell, but I could not
find any inscription concerning him. ☞ Quaere the register when he was
buried. 'Twas Mr. John Gibbons[992], Blewmantle, told me he was buried
here. I thinke Mr. Glover was Blewmantle.
=Jonathan Goddard= (1617-1674/5).
[993]Jonathan Godard, M.D., borne at Greenwich (or Rochester, where his
father commonly lived; but, to my best remembrance, he told me at the
former). His father was a ship-carpenter.
He was of Magdalen hall, Oxon. He was one of the College of Physitians,
in London; Warden of Merton College, Oxon, _durante perduellione_;
physitian to Oliver Cromwell, Protector; went with him into Ireland.
Quaere if not also sent to him into Scotland, when he was so
dangerously ill there of a kind of calenture or high fever, which made
him mad that he pistolled one or two of his commanders that came to
visit him in his delirious rage.
Collegii Greshamensis Praelector[994] medicinae; where he lived, and
had his laboratory[995] for Chymistrie. He was an admirable Chymist.
He had three or fower medicines wherwith he did all his cures: a great
ingredient was _Radix Serpentaria_.--From Mr. Mich. Weekes, who looked
to his stills.
He intended to have left his library and papers to the Royall Societie,
had he made his will, and had not dyed so suddainly[996]. So that his
bookes (a good collection) are fallen into the hands of[997] a sister's
son, a scholar in Caius Coll. Camb. But his papers are in the hands
of Sir John Bankes, Reg. Soc. Socius. There were his lectures at
Chirurgions' hall; and two manuscripts in 4to, thicke volumnes, readie
for the presse, one was a kind of Pharmacopœaia (his nephew has this).
'Tis possible his rare universall medicines aforesayd might be retrived
amongst his papers. My Lord Brounker has the recipe but will not impart
it.
He was fellowe of the Royall Societie, and a zealous member for the
improvement of naturall knowledge amongst them. They made him their
drudge, for when any curious experiment was to be donne they would
lay[998] the taske on him.
He loved wine and was most curious in his wines, was hospitable, but
dranke not to excesse, but it happened that comeing from his club at
the Crowne taverne in Bloomesbery, a foote, 11 at night, he fell downe
dead of an apoplexie in Cheapside, at Wood-street end, March 24, Anno
Domini 1674/5, aetat. 56. Sepult. in the church of Great St. Helen,
Londini.
=Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey= (1621-1678).
[999]Sir Edmund-Bury Godfrey was of Christ's Church in Oxon, and
chamber-fellowe to my cosen W<illiam> Morgan of Wells, in Peckwater, in
north-east angle.
He was afterwards of Grayes Inne, and chamber-fellow to my counsell,
Thomas Corbet, esq. I thinke Mr. Corbet told me he was called to the
barre. But by match, or &c. he concieved he should gaine more by
turning _woodmonger_.
The rest of his life and death is _lippis et tonsoribus notum_.
[Knighted[1000] for his great service done in London fire, 1666.]
=Thomas Goodwyn.=
[1001]... Goodwyn: he was borne in Norfolke: of the University of, I
beleeve, Cambridge.
He was ... of the court of Ludlowe (in which place Jack Butts was his
successor).
He maried first Barbara ... daughter of Sir W. Long, of Draycot-Cerne,
in Wilts: 2d, ... Brabazon, of ... Hereffordshire; obiit sine prole.
He was a generall scolar, and had a delicate witt; was a great
historian, and an excellent poet. He wrote, among other things, ...,
a Pastorall, acted at Ludlowe about 1637, an exquisite piece. _The
Journey into France_, crept in bishop Corbet's poems, was made by him,
by the same token it made him misse of the preferment of ... at court,
Mary the queen-mother remembring how he had abused her brother, the
king of France; which made him to accept of the place at Ludlowe, out
of the view of the world.
When he sat in court there, he was wont to have Thuanus, or Tacitus, or
etc. before him. He was as fine a gentleman as any in England, though
now forgott. Obiit, at or about Ludlowe, circiter ... (quaere Sir J. H.
and Sir James Long).
_The Journey into France_ was made by Mr. Thomas Goodwyn, of Ludlowe,
...; certaine.
=Thomas Gore= (1631/2-1684).
[1002]Genesis Thomae Gore armigeri by Charles Snell, esq.:--
'Tuesday, 20ᵐᵒ Martii 1631/2, 11ʰ 00´ P.M. tempus aestimatum geneseos
Thomae Gore, de Alderton <Wilts>, armigeri.'
_Note._
This Thomas Gore, a writer on heraldry, was a correspondent of Anthony
Wood: see Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, ii. 140, iv. 229. Aubrey
habitually, in his letters to Wood, refers contemptuously to him as
'the cuckold of Alderton.'
=Sir Arthur Gorges= (15..-1625).
[1003]'Sir Arthur Gorges[1004] was buried August the 22ᵗʰ 1661'--_ex
registro Chelsey_.
_In obitum illustrissimi viri Dⁱ. Arthuri Gorges, equitis aurati,
epicedium._
Te deflent nati, natae, celeberrima conjux;
Te dolet argutae magna caterva scholae.
At Lucanus[LXXIV.] ait se vivo non moriturum
Arthurum Gorges: transtulit ipse decus.
Aethereas cupiens Arthurus adire per auras
Et nonus ex ejus nomine natus adest.
[LXXIV.] transtulit Lucanum.
In the aisle of the Gorges, viz. south side of the church of Chelsey
on an altar monument made for his father or grandfather--'Dˢ. Arthur
Gorge, eq. aur., filius ejus natu maximus.'
=John Gower= (1327?-1408).
[1005]John Gower, esq., poet, has a very worshipfull monument in the
north side of the church of St. Saviour's Southwarke; an incumbent
figure: about his head is a chaplet of gold--
meriti, etc.--
and a silver collar of SSS about his neck.
Vide iterum, and also his booke.
=John Graunt= (1620-1674).
[1006]Captaine John Graunt (afterwards, major) was borne (ex MSᵗᵒ
patris sui) 24º die Aprilis, 1/2 an houre before eight a clock on a
Munday morning, the signe being in the 9 degree of Gemini that day at
12 a clock, Anno Domini 1620.
He was the sonne of Henry Graunt, who was borne 18 January 1592[1007],
being Tuesday, at night; et obiit 21 March, 1661/2, being Fryday,
between one and two in the morning; buryed in the vault in the new
vestrie in St. Michaels church in Cornhill. He was borne in ...,
Hantshire.
His son John was borne at the 7 Starres in Burchin Lane, London, in the
parish of St. Michael's Cornhill.
He wrote _Observations on the bills of mortality_ very ingeniosely
(but I beleeve, and partly know, that he had his hint from his
intimate and familiar friend Sir William Petty), to which he made some
_Additions_, since printed. And he intended, had he lived, to have
writt more on the subject.
He writt also some _Observations on the advance of excise_, not
printed: quaere his widowe for them.
To give him his due prayse, he was a very ingeniose and studious
person, and generally beloved, and rose early in the morning to his
study before shop-time. He understood Latin and French. He was a
pleasant facetious companion, and very hospitable.
He was bred-up (as the fashion then was) in the Puritan way; wrote
short-hand dextrously; and after many yeares constant hearing and
writing sermon-notes, he fell to buying and reading of the best
Socinian bookes, and for severall yeares continued of that opinion. At
last, about ..., he turned a Roman Catholique, of which religion he
dyed a great zealot.
He was free of the drapers' company, and by profession was a
haberdasher of small-wares. He had gone through all the offices[1008]
of the city so far as common-councell-man. Captain of the trayned-bands
severall yeares; major, 2 or 3 yeares.--He was a common councell man 2
yeares, and then putt out (as also of his military employment in the
trayned band) for his religion.
He was admitted a fellowe of the Royall Societie, anno 16.. (about
1663).
He broke[1009].... He dyed on Easter eve[1010] 1674; buryed on the
Wednesday in Easter-weeke in St. Dunstan's church in Fleet Strete under
the gallery about the middle (or more west) north side, anno aetatis
suae 54.
He had one son, a man, who dyed in Persia; one daughter, a nunne at ...
(I thinke, Gaunt). His widowe yet alive.
[1011]Major John Graunt dyed on Easter-eve 1674, and was buryed the
Wednesday followeing in St. Dunstan's church in Fleet street in the
body of the said church under the piewes towards the gallery on the
north side, i.e., under the piewes (_alias_ hoggsties) of the north
side of the middle aisle (what pitty 'tis so great an ornament of the
citty should be buryed so obscurely!), aetatis anno 54º.
Was borne in Burchin lane, at the 7 Starres, in St. Michael's Cornhill
parish, at which place he continued his trade till about 2 yeares since.
{1. Political}
His 'Observations on the bills of mortality {2. . . . . .}'
{3. . . . . .}
hath been printed more then once; and now very scarce.
He wrott some 'Observations on the advance of the excise,' not printed;
and intended to have writt more of the bills of mortality; and also
intended to have written something of religion.
He was by trade a haberdasher of small wares, but was free of the
drapers' company. A man generally beloved; a faythfull friend. Often
chosen for his prudence and justnes to be an arbitrator; and he was
a great peace-maker. He had an excellent working head, and was very
facetious and fluent in his conversation.
[1012]He had gonne thorough all the offices of the city so far as
common councill man. He was common councill man two yeares. Captaine of
the trayned band, severall yeares: major of it, two or three yeares,
and then layd downe trade and all other publique employment for his
religion, being a Roman Catholique.
Ex MSS. patris ejus:--'My son, John Graunt, was borne 24th day of April
halfe an howre before 8 a clock on a Monday morning anno Domini 1620.'
He was my honoured and worthy friend--cujus animae propitietur Deus,
Amen.
His death is lamented by all good men that had the happinesse to knowe
him; and a great number of ingeniose persons attended him to his grave.
Among others, with teares, was that ingeniose great virtuoso, Sir
William Petty, his old and intimate acquaintance, who was sometime a
student at Brase-nose College.
=Edward Greaves= (1608-1680).
[1013]Sir Edward Greaves, M.D., obiit Thursday November 11, 1680 in
Convent Garden; buried in the church there.
Scripsit _Morbus epidemicus, or the new desease_, 4to, stitch't,
printed at Oxford about 1643.
Port<avit> 'gules, an eagle displayed or, crowned argent.'
=... Gregory.=
[1014]... Gregorie, famous peruq-maker, buryed at St. Clement Danes
church dore west. Quaere inscription in rythme from baron[1015]
Gregory, baron of the exchequer.
Vide Cotgrave's french dictionary ubi peruqes are called Gregorians.
[1016]Peruques not commonly worne till 1660. Memorandum there was one
Gregorie in the Strand that was the first famous periwig-maker; and
they were then called Gregorians (mentioned in Cotgrave's Dictionarie
_in verbo_ perruque). He lies buried by the west church-dore of St.
Clements Danes, where he had an inscription which mentioned it. 'Twas
in verse and Sir William Gregorie (one of the Barons of the Exchequer)
read and told it me. Quaere of him + de hoc.
=Sir Thomas Gresham= (1519-1579).
[1017]Memorandum[EI]:--Mr. Shirman, the attorney, at Inneholders-hall,
hath a copie of Sir Thomas Gresham's will[EJ], which procure.
_Notes._
[EI] Aubrey in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 8, gives in trick the coats:--(_a_),
'argent, a chevron ermine between 3 mullets pierced sable: crest, a
grasshopper: motto, _Fortun amy_ [Sir Thomas Gresham, 1601]': and
(_b_), 'or, on a bend vert 3 bucks' heads caboshed argent.'
[EJ] Twice alluded to in MS. Aubr. 8, viz., (fol. 8) 'Copie out Sir
Thomas Gresham's will from Mr. Shirman'; (fol. 12) 'Sir Thomas Gresham,
knight: quaere copie of his will from Mr. Shirman, attornie.'
=Fulke Greville=, lord Brooke (1554-1628).
=Robert Greville=, lord Brooke (1607-1642/3).
[1018]Sir Fulke Greville, lord Brokes, adopted a parke-keeper's sonne
his heire, who (I thinke) had but one eie: vide de hoc in Dr. Heylen's
Historie of the church of England ... Vide Sir William Davenant's
life[1019] in part 1ˢᵗ <i.e. in MS. Aubr. 6>.
Poems, in folio, London, printed....
'The life[1020] of the renowned Sir Philip Sidney, with the true
Interest of England, as it then stood in relation to all Forrain
Princes: And particularly for suppressing the power of Spain, stated
by him. Written by Sir Fulke Grevil, knight, lord Brook, a servant to
Queen Elisabeth, and his companion and friend. London, printed for H.
Seile, over against St. Dunstan's church, in Fleet-street, M.DC.LII.'
Vide in Sir William Dugdale's _Warwickshire_ his noble castle[1021],
and monument with this inscription: 'Here lies the body of Sir Fulke
Grevile knight servant to Q. Eliz., counsellor to King James, and
friend to Sir Philip Sidney.'
<Robert Greville, second> lord Brookes, was maried to <Catherine
Russell> daughter of the earle of Bedford. He was killed at the siege
of Lichfield, March the 2d (St. Chad's day, to whom the Church is
dedicated) <1642/3> by a minister's sonne, borne deafe and dumbe, out
of the church. He was armed _cap à pied_; only his bever was open. I
was then at Trinity College in Oxon. and doe perfectly remember the
story.
The lord Brookes, that was killed at Lichfield, printed a booke about
Religion, a little before the civill warres, by the same token that
in[1022] <a> song on the Lords then, his <character> was:--'_Brook is a
foole in print_.'
=Peter Gunning= (1614-1684).
[1023]... Gunning, episcopus Eliensis;--his father was a minister
in the Wild of Kent; and 'tis thought he was borne there, scil. at
Brenchley.
=Edmund Gunter= (1581-1626).
[1024]Mr. Edmund Gunter[EK]:--for his birth, etc., see in _Antiq.
Oxon._ <by> A. Wood.
Captain Ralph Gretorex, mathematical instrument maker in London,
sayd that he was the first that brought mathematicall instruments to
perfection. His booke of the quadrant, sector, and crosse-staffe did
open men's understandings and made young men in love with that studie.
Before, the mathematical sciences were lock't up in the Greeke and
Latin tongues and so[1025] lay untoucht, kept safe in some libraries.
After Mr. Gunter published his booke, these sciences sprang up amain,
more and more to that height it is at now (1690).
When he was a student at Christ Church, it fell to his lott to preach
the Passion sermon, which some old divines that I knew did heare,
but they sayd that 'twas sayd of him then in the University that our
Saviour never suffered so much since his passion as in that sermon, it
was such a lamentable one--
Non omnia possumus omnes.
The world is much beholding to him for what he hath donne well.
Gunter is originally a Brecknockshire family, of Tregunter. They came
thither under the conduct of Sir Bernard Newmarch when he made the
conquest of that county (Camden).--'Aubrey, Gunter, Waldbeof, Havard,
Pichard' (which is falsely express'd in all Mr. Camden's bookes, scil.
Prichard, which is non-sense).
_Note._
[EK] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'sable, 3 gauntletts argent'; and
adds 'quaere if these gauntletts are dextre or sinistre?'
=John Guy= (15..-1628).
[1026]Memorandum:--... Guy, alderman of Bristoll, was the wisest man of
his time in that city. He was as their oracle and they chose him for
one of their representatives to sitt in Parliament.
'Twas he that brought in the <bill> for lowering of interest from ten
in the hundred to eight per centum.
=... Gwyn.=
[1027]Surlinesse and inurbanitie too common in England: chastise these
very severely[1028].
A better instance of a squeamish and disobligeing, slighting, insolent,
proud, fellow[1029], perhaps cant be found then in ... Gwin, the
earl of Oxford's[1030] secretary. No reason satisfies him, but he
overweenes, and cutts some sower faces that would turne the milke in a
faire ladie's breast.
=William Habington= (1605-1645).
[1031]William Habington, of Hindlip in Worcestershire, esq., maried
Luce, daughter of William <Herbert>, lord Powes, 1634, as by the
Worcestershire Visitation it appeares.
He was a very learned gentleman, author of a poem called Castara. He
wrote a live of one of the kings of England.
_Note._
Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'argent, on a bend gules 3 eagles
displayed, or; impaling, party per pale argent and gules 3 lions
rampant counterchanged, within a bordure gobony, or and ..., a crescent
for difference.'
=Sir Matthew Hale= (1609-1676).
[1032]_Judge Hale's accidents._
1609, natus, November 1ˢᵗ, in the evening, his father then being at his
prayers.
1612, death of his mother, April 23.
1614, his father dyed, moneth not known.
1625, went to Oxon to Magdalen Hall; vide A. Wood's _History of Oxon_
when matriculated.
1628, admitted of the society of Lincolne's Inne, November 8.
1636, this yeare called to the barre, quaere in what terme.
1640, maried the first time. He was a great cuckold.
1656, his second mariage to his servant mayd, Mary.
1660, made Lord Chief Baron.
1671, Lord Chiefe Justice of England, 18 May.
1676, Christmas day, he dyed.
[1033]Sir Matthew Hales, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was
borne at Alderley in com. Glouc., November 1ˢᵗ, 1609; christned the
5ᵗʰ. Quaere Mr. Edward Stephens horam, for he has it exactly. When his
mother fell in labour, his father was offering up his evening sacrifice.
[1034]That incomparable man for goodnes and universality of learning,
Sir Matthew Hales, Lord Chief Justice of England, hath writt the
description of Gloucestershire, an elaborate piece, and ready for the
presse. The transcripts of the Tower for it cost him 40 _li._
=John Hales= (1584-1656).
[1035]Mr. John Hales, ...[1036], was borne at Wells, I thinke I have
heard Mr. John Sloper say (vicar of Chalke; his mother was Mr. Hales's
sister, and he bred him at Eaton).
His father was a steward to the family of the Horners:--
Hopton, Horner, Smyth, and Thynne,
When abbots went out, they came in[1037].
Went to school, at Bath (as I take it). Fellow of Merton Colledge.
Assisted Sir Henry Savill in his edition of Chrysostome (_cum aliis_).
Afterwards fellow of Eaton College.
Went chaplain to Sir Dudley Carlton (ambassador to ...). I thinke was
at the Synod of Dort.
When the Court was at Windsor, the learned courtiers much delighted
<in> his company, and were wont to grace him with their company.
I have heard his nephew, Mr. Sloper, say, that he much loved to read
... Stephanus, who was a _familist_, I thinke that first wrote of that
sect of the Familie of Love: he was mightily taken with it, and was
wont to say that sometime or other those fine notions would take in the
world. He was one of the first Socinians in England, I thinke the first.
He was a generall scolar, and I beleeve a good poet: for Sir John
Suckling brings him into the Session of the Poets:
'Little Hales all the time did nothing but smile,
To see them, about nothing, keepe such a coile.'
He had a noble librarie of bookes, and those judicially chosen, which
cost him ... _li._ (quaere Mr. Sloper); and which he sold to Cornelius
Bee, bookeseller, in Little Britaine, (as I take it, for 1000 _li._)
which was his maintenance after he was ejected out of his fellowship at
Eaton College. He had then only reserved some few for his private use,
to wind-up his last dayes withall.
The ladie Salter (neer Eaton) was very kind to him after the
sequestration; he was very welcome to her ladyship, and spent much of
his time there. At Eaton he lodged (after his sequestration) at the
next house <to> the Christopher (inne), where I sawe him, a prettie
little man, sanguine, of a cheerfull countenance, very gentile, and
courteous; I was recieved by him with much humanity: he was in a kind
of violet-colourd cloath gowne, with buttons and loopes (he wore not a
black gowne), and was reading Thomas à Kempis; it was within a yeare
before he deceased. He loved Canarie; but moderately, to refresh his
spirits.
He had a bountifull mind. I remember in 1647, a little after the
Visitation[1038], when Thomas Mariett, esq., Mr. William Radford, and
Mr. Edward Wood (all of Trinity College) had a frolique from Oxon to
London, on foot, having never been there before, they happened to take
Windsore in their way, made their addresse to this good gentleman,
being then fellow. Mr. Edward Wood was the spookes-man, remonstrated
that they were Oxon scholars: he treated them well, and putt into Mr.
Wood's hands ten shillings.
He lies buried in the church yard at Eaton, under an altar monument of
black marble, erected at the sole chardge of Mr. ... Curwyn, with a too
long epitaph. He was no kiff or kin to him.
[1039]Mr. John Hales dyed at Mris Powney's house, a widow-woman, in
Eaton, opposite to the churchyard, adjoyning to the Christopher Inne
southwards. 'Tis the howse where I sawe him.
She is a very good woman and of a gratefull spirit. She told me that
when she was maried, Mr. Hales was very bountifull to them in helping
them[1040] to live in the world. She was very gratefull to him and
respectfull to him.
She told me that Mr. Hales was the common godfather there, and 'twas
pretty to see, as he walked to Windsor, how his godchildren asked him
blessing[1041]. When he was bursar, he still gave away all his groates
for the acquittances to his godchildren; and by that time he came to
Windsor bridge, he would have never a groate left.
This Mris Powney assures me that the poor were more relieveable, that
is to say, that he recieved more kindnesse from them than from the
rich. That that I putt downe of my lady Salter (sister to Brian Duppa,
bishop of Sarum), from his nephew <John> Sloper, vicar of Chalke, is
false[1042]. She had him to her house indeed, but 'twas to teach her
sonne, who was such a blockhead he could not read well.
Cornelius Bee bought his library for 700 _li._, which cost him not
lesse then 2,500 _li._ Mris Powney told me that she was much against
the sale of 'em, because she knew it was his life and joy.
He might have been restored to his fellowship again, but he would not
accept the offer. He was not at all covetous, and desired only to leave
x _li._ to bury him.
He bred-up our vicar, [Sloper[1043]], who, she told me, never sent him
a token; and he is angry with her, thinks he left her too much.
She is a woman primitively good, and deserves to be remembred. I wish I
had her Christian name. Her husband has an inscription on a gravestone
in Eaton College chapel towards the south wall.
She has a handsome darke old-fashioned howse. The hall, after the old
fashion, above the wainscot, painted cloath, with godly sentences
out of the Psalmes, etc., according to the pious custome of old
times; a convenient garden and orchard. She has been handsome: a good
understanding, and cleanlie.
=Joseph Hall= (1574-1656).
[1044]Joseph Hall, bishop of Exon, etc.: he was a keeper's son in
Norfolke (I thinke, neer Norwich).--From old Mr. Theophilus Woodenoth.
He wrote most of his fine discourses at Worcester, when he was deane
there.--From Mr. Francis Potter, who went to schole there.
Monsieur Balzac exceedingly admired him and often quotes him: vide
Balzac's _Apologie_.
=Edmund Halley= (1656-1741/2).
[1045]Mr. Edmund Hally, astronomer, born October 29, 1656, London--this
nativity I had from Mr. Hally himself.
[1046]Mr. Edmund Halley[1047], Artium Magister, the eldest son of
<Edmund> Halley, a soape-boyler, a wealthy citizen of the city of
London; of the Halleys, of Derbyshire, a good family.
He was born in Shoreditch parish, at a place called Haggerston, the
backside of Hogsdon.
At 9 yeares old, his father's apprentice taught him to write, and
arithmetique. He went to Paule's schoole to Dr. Gale: while he was
there he was very perfect in the Caelestiall Globes insomuch that I
heard Mr. Moxon (the globe-maker) say that if a star were misplaced in
the globe, he would presently find it.
At ... he studyed Geometry, and at 16 could make a dyall, and then, he
said, thought himselfe a brave fellow.