and Hebrew: where, at the age of nineteen, he solved this useful
probleme in astronomie, never donne before, ☞ viz. 'from 3 distances
given from the sun, and angles between, to find the orbe' (mentioned
in the Philosophicall Transactions, Aug. or Sept. 1676, No. 115), for
which his name will be ever famous.
Anno Domini ... tooke his degree of Bacc. Art.; Anno Domini ... tooke
his degree of Master of Arts[1048].
Anno ... left Oxon, and lived at London with his father till <1676>;
at which time he gott leave, and a viaticum of his father, to goe
to the Island of _Sancta_ _Hellena_, purely upon the account of
advancement in Astronomy, to make the globe of the Southerne Hemisphere
right, which before was very erroneous, as being donne only after the
observations of ignorant seamen. There he stayed ... moneths. There
went over with him (amongst others) a woman ... yeares old, and her
husband ... old, who had no child in ... yeares; before he came from
the island, she was brought to bed of a child. At his returne, he
presented his Planisphere, with a short description, to his majesty who
was very well pleased with it; but received nothing but prayse.
I have often heard him say that if his majestie would be but only at
the chardge of sending out a ship, he would take the longitude and
latitude, right ascensions and declinations of ... southern fixed
starres.
Anno 1678, he added a spectacle-glasse to the shadowe-vane of the
lesser arch of the sea-quadrant (or back-staffe); which is of great
use, for that that spott of light will be manifest when you cannot see
any shadowe.
He went to Dantzick to visit Hevelius, Anno 167-.
December 1ˢᵗ, 1680, went to Paris.
[1049]Edmund Haley:--cardinall d'Estrée caressed him and sent him to
his brother the admirall with a lettre of recommendation.--He hath
contracted an acquaintance and friendship with all the eminentst
mathematicians of France and Italie, and holds a correspondence with
them.
He returned into England, Januarii 24º, 1681/2.
Quaere Mr. Partridge of his _Directio mortis_, scilicet about 35
aetatis.
[1050]<Quaere> Edmund Halley who cutts his schemes in wood? they are
well.
<David> Loggan informes me that one ... Edwards, the manciple of ...
College Oxon, doth cut in wood very well.
_Note._
In the earl of Macclesfield's library at Shirburne Castle, Oxon., are
several MSS. by Halley; among them a common-place book.
=Baldwin Hamey= (1600-1676).
[1051]In the midd aisle (or nave) of Chelsey church, a faire flat
marble grave-stone:--
The return of Baldwin Hamey, Dr. of Physick, on the 14 of May
being Whitsunday in the yeare of our Lord 1676 and in the 76th
yeare of his age.
Psalm 146, vers. 4.
His breath goeth, etc.
=William Harcourt= (1610-1679).
[1052]Father Harcourt--he told me that he was of the familie of Stanton
Harcourt, A.D. 1650. He was confessor, and afterwards co-executor, to
the lady Inglefield.
[1053]_Petrification of a kidney._ When father Harcourt suffered[1054]
at Tyburne, and his bowells, etc. throwne into the fire, a butcher's
boy standing by was resolved to have a piece of his kidney which
was broyling in the fire. He burn't his fingers much, but he got
it; and one ... Roydon, a brewer in Southwark, bought it, a kind of
Presbyterian. The wonder is, 'tis now absolutely petrified: I have seen
it. He much values it.
[1055]Mr. Roydon, brewer in Southwarke (opposite the Temple), haz the
piece of Father Harcourt's kidney which was snatcht out of the fire,
and now petrified and very hard. But 'twas not so hard when he first
had it. It being alwayes carried in the pocket hardened by degrees
better then by the fire--like an agate polished.
=Thomas Hariot= (1560-1621).
[1056]Mr. Thomas Hariot[EL]--from Dr. John Pell, March 31, 1680. Dr.
Pell knowes not what countreyman[1057] he was (but an Englishman he
was)--[There[1058] is a place in Kent called Harriot's-ham, now my
lord Wotton's[EM]; and in Wostershire in the parish of Droytwich is a
fine seat called Harriots, late the seate of Chiefe Baron Wyld.]
He thinkes he dyed about the time he (Dr. Pell) went to Cambridge. He
sayes my lord John Vaughan can enforme me, and haz a copie of his will:
which vide.
[1059]Mr. Thomas Hariot--Mr. Elias Ashmole thinkes he was a Lancashire
man: Mr. <John> Flamsted promised me to enquire of Mr. Townley.
[1060]☞ I very much desire to find his buriall: he was not buryed in
the Tower chapelle.
[1061]Mr. Thomas Harriot[1062]:--Memorandum:--Sir Robert Moray (from
Francis Stuart[1063]), declared at the Royal Society--'twas when the
comet[1064] appeared before the Dutch warre--that Sir Francis had heard
Mr. Harriot say that he had seen nine cometes, and had predicted seaven
of them, but did not tell them how. 'Tis very strange: excogitent
astronomi.
[1065]Mr. Hariot went with Sir Walter Ralegh into Virginia, and haz
writt the Description of Virginia, which is printed.
Dr. Pell tells me that he finds amongst his papers (which are now,
1684, in Dr. Busby's hands), an alphabet that he had contrived for the
American language, like Devills[1066].
He wrote a Description of Virginia, which is since printed in Mr.
Purchas's Pilgrims.
Vide Mr. Glanvill's Moderne Improvement of Usefull Knowledge, where he
makes mention of Mr. Thomas Harriot, pag. 33.
When <Henry Percy, ninth> earle of Northumberland, and Sir Walter
Ralegh were both prisoners in the Tower, they grew acquainted, and Sir
Walter Raleigh recommended Mr. Hariot to him, and the earle setled an
annuity of two hundred pounds a yeare on him for his life, which he
enjoyed. But to[1067] Hues[LXXV.] (who wrote _De Usu Globorum_) and to
Mr. Warner he gave an annuity but of sixty pounds per annum. These 3
were usually called the _earle of Northumberland's three Magi_. They
had a table at the earle's chardge, and the earle himselfe had them to
converse with, singly or together.
[LXXV.] Robert Hues was buried in Xt. Ch. Oxon.
He was a great acquaintance of Master ... Ailesbury, to whom Dr. Corbet
sent a letter in verse, Dec. 9, 1618, when the great blazing starre
appeared,--
'Now for the peace of God<s> and men advise,
(Thou that hast wherwithall to make us wise),
Thine owne rich studies and deepe Harriot's mine,
In which there is no drosse but all refine.'
<Vide> Dr. Corbet's poems.
The bishop of Sarum (Seth Ward) told me that one Mr. Haggar (a
countryman of his), a gentleman and good mathematician, was well
acquainted with Mr. Thomas Hariot, and was wont to say, that he did not
like (or valued not) the old storie of the Creation of the World. He
could not beleeve the old position; he would say _ex nihilo nihil fit_.
But sayd Mr. Haggar, a _nihilum_ killed him at last: for in the top of
his nose came a little red speck (exceeding small), which grew bigger
and bigger, and at last killed him. I suppose it was that which the
chirurgians call a _noli me tangere_.
[1068]Mr. Hariot dyed of an ulcer in his lippe or tongue--vide Dr.
Read's Chirurgery, where he mentions him as his patient, in the
treatise of ulcers (or cancers).
The Workes of Dr. Alexander Reade, printed, London, 1650; in the
treatise of Ulcers, p. 248. 'Cancrous ulcers (_ozana_) also seise on
this part. This griefe hastened the end of that famous mathematician
Mr. Hariot with whom I was acquainted but short time before his death;
whom at one time, together with Mr. Hughes (who wrote of the globes),
Mr. Warner, and Mr. Torporley, the noble earle of Northumberland, the
favourer of all good learning and Maecenas of learned men, maintained
while he was in the Tower, for their worth and various literature.'
He made a philosophicall theologie, wherin he castoff the Old
Testament, and then the New one would (consequently) have no
foundation. He was a Deist. His doctrine he taught to Sir Walter
Raleigh, Henry, earle of Northumberland, and some others. The divines
of those times look't on his manner of death as a judgement upon him
for nullifying the Scripture.
Ex Catalogo librorum impressorum bibl. Bodleianae in Academia
Oxoniensi, Oxon., MDCLXXIV:--
_Thomas Hariot_:--Historia Virginiae, cum iconibus, Lat. per C. C. A.
edita per Th. de Bry, _Franc._ 1590 (A. 8. 7. _Art_).
--Same in English, _Lond._ 1588 (E. 1. 25. _Art. Seld._).
_Thomas Hariotus_:--Artis analyticae praxis ad aequationes Algebraicas
resolvendas, _Lond._ 1631 (F. 2. 12. _Art. Seld._).
_Notes._
[EL] Aubrey gives the coat:--'per pale, ermine and ermines, 3 crescents
counterchanged [Hariot].'
[EM] Charles Henry Kirckhoven, created baron Wotton, Aug. 31, 1650;
created earl of Bellomont, Feb. 11, 1679/80.
=Sir Edward Harley= (1624-1700).
[1069]Sir Edward Harley, knight of the Bath, was borne at his castle
of Brampton Bryan in Herefordshire. He was of Magdalen Hall, Oxon;
was governor of Dunkirke for his majestie king Charles 2ᵈ, where he
then sounded that sea from Graveling to Newport--which notes he haz by
him--of great use to seamen because of the shelves.
=Sir Robert Harley= (1580-1656).
[1070]Old Sir Robert Harley translated all the Psalmes very well. He
was of Oriell College.
=Sir Robert Harley= (1626-1673).
[1071]Sir Robert Harley[1072], second sonne of Sir Robert Harley of
Brampton-Bryan, told me that he was borne the morning that my Lord
Chancellour Bacon dyed (9º Aprilis); sed quaere, et vide his picture if
'twas not the 6ᵗʰ.
He maried....
He dyed at Brampton-Brian 16 Nov. Sunday, 6ʰ A.M., anno Domini 1673.
=James Harrington= (1611/2-1677).
[1073]James Harrington, esq.--he was borne the first Fryday[1074]
in January Anno Domini 1611, near Northampton. Quaere Mr. Marvell's
epitaph on him.
[1075]James Harrington[EN], esq., borne the first Fryday in January
1611, neer Northampton; the son of [Sir[1076] Sapcote] Harrington of
... in the countie of ..., by ..., daughter of Sir ... Samuel[1077],
was borne at [Upton[1078]] (Sir ... Samuel's house in Northamptonshire)
anno....
He was a <gentleman> commoner of Trinity Colledge in Oxford. He
travelled France, Italie, and the Netherlands. His genius lay chiefly
towards the politiques and democraticall goverment.
He was much respected by the queen of Bohemia[EO], who was bred up by
the lord Harrington's lady, and she owned the kindnes of the family.
Anno 1647, if not 6, he was by order of Parliament made one of his
Majestie's Bedchamber, at Holmeby, &c. The king loved his company;
only he would not endure to heare of a Commonwealth: and Mr. Harington
passionately loved his majestie. Mr. Harrington and the king often
disputed about goverment. He was on the scaffold with the king when
he was beheaded; and I have at these meetings[1079] oftentimes heard
him speake of king Charles I with the greatest zeale and passion
imaginable, and that his death gave him so great griefe that he
contracted a disease by it; that never any thing did goe so neer to
him. Memorandum:--Mr. <Thomas> Herbert, the traveller, was th' other of
his Bedchamber by order of Parliament, and was also on the scaffold. He
gave them both there some watches: vide Speech.
He made severall essayes in Poetry, viz. love-verses, &c., and
translated ... booke of Virgill's Æn.; but his muse was rough, and
Mr. Henry Nevill, an ingeniose and well-bred gentleman, a member of
the House of Commons, and an excellent (but concealed) poet, was his
great familiar and confident friend, and disswaded him from tampering
in poetrie which he did _invitâ Minervâ_, and to improve his proper
talent, viz. Politicall Reflections.
Whereupon he writ his _Oceana_, printed London <1656>. Mr. T. Hobbes
was wont to say that Henry Nevill had a finger in that pye; and 'tis
like enough. That ingeniose tractat, together with his and H. Nevill's
smart discourses and inculcations, dayly at coffee-houses, made many
proselytes.
[Illustration]
In so much that, anno 1659, the beginning of Michaelmas-terme, he
had every night a meeting at the (then) Turke's head, in the New
Pallace-yard, where they take water, the next house to the staires,
at one Miles's, where was made purposely a large ovall-table, with a
passage in the middle for Miles to deliver his Coffee. About it sate
his disciples, and the virtuosi. The discourses in this kind were the
most ingeniose, and smart, that ever I heard, or expect to heare, and
ban<i>ed with great eagernesse: the arguments in the Parliament howse
were but flatt to it.
He now printed a little pamphlet (4to) called _Divers modells of
Popular Government_, printed by Daniel Jakeman; and then his partie
desired him to print another little pamphlet called _The Rota_, 4to.
Here[1080] we had (very formally) a _ballotting-box_, and balloted
how things should be caried, by way of tentamens. The room was every
evening[1081] full as it could be cramm'd. I cannot now recount the
whole number:--
Mr. Cyriack Skinner, an ingeniose young gentleman, scholar to John
Milton, was chaire-man. There was Mr. Henry Nevill; major John Wildman;
Mr. <Charles> Woo<l>seley, of ..., Staffordshire; Mr. <Roger> Coke,
grandson of Sir Edward; Sir[1082] William Poultney (chaireman);
[Sir[1082] John Hoskins; J<ames> Arderne[1083];] Mr. Maximilian Petty,
a very able man in these matters, and who had more then once turn'd the
councill-board of Oliver Cromwell, his kinsman; Mr. Michael Malett;
Mr. <Philip> Carteret, of Garnesey; <Francis> Cradoc, a merchant; Mr.
Henry Ford; major ... Venner; Mr. Edward Bagshaw; [Thomas Mariet,
esq.[1084];] <William> Croon, M.D.; _cum multis aliis_ now slipt out of
my memorie[LXXVI.].
[LXXVI.] Dr. Robert Wood[EP] was of the _Rota_.--MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11.
<Besides> which[1085] were, as auditors[1086], severall, e.g. the
earle[1087] Tirconnel; Sir John Penruddock; etc.; Mr. John Birkenhead;
as myselfe.
... Stafford, esq., as antagonists[1088].
Several officers[1089].
We many times adjourned to the Rhenish-wine howse. One time Mr.
Stafford and his gang came in, in drink, from the taverne[1090], and
affronted the Junto (Mr. Stafford tore their orders and minutes).
The soldiers offerd to kick them downe stayres, but Mr. Harrington's
moderation and persuasion hindred it.
The doctrine was very taking, and the more because, as to human
foresight, there was no possibility of the king's returne. But the
greatest part of the Parliament-men perfectly hated this designe of
_rotation by ballotting_; for they were cursed tyrants, and in love
with their power, and 'twas death to them, except 8 or 10, to admitt of
this way, for H. Nevill proposed it in the Howse, and made it out to
them, that except they embraced that modell of goverment they would be
ruind--_sed quos perdere vult Jupiter_ etc., _hos_, &c.
Pride of senators for life is insufferable; and they were able to
grind any one they owed ill will to to powder; they were hated by the
armie and their countrey they represented, and their name and memorie
stinkes--'twas worse then tyranny. Now this modell upon rotation
was:--that the third part of the Senate[1091] should rote out by ballot
every yeare, so that every ninth yeare the Howse would be wholly
alterd; no magistrate to continue above 3 yeares, and all to be chosen
by ballot, then which manner of choice, nothing can be invented more
faire and impartiall.
Well: this meeting continued Novemb., Dec., Jan., till Febr. 20 or 21;
and then, upon the unexpected turne upon generall Monke's comeing-in,
all these aierie modells vanished. Then 'twas not fitt, nay treason,
to have donne such; but I well remember, he[1092] severall times (at
the breaking-up) sayd, 'Well, the king will come in. Let him come-in,
and call a Parliament of the greatest Cavaliers in England, so they be
men of estates, and let them sett but 7 yeares, and they will all turn
Common-wealthe's men.'
He was wont to find fault with the constitution of our goverment,
that 'twas _by jumps_, and told a story of a cavaliero he sawe at the
Carnival in Italie, who rode on an excellent managed horse that with
a touch of his toe would jumpe quite round. One side of his habit was
Spanish, the other French; which sudden alteration of the same person
pleasantly surprized the spectators. 'Just so,' said he, ''tis with us.
When no Parliament, then absolute monarchie; when a Parliament, then it
runnes to Commonwealth.'
[1093]Anno Domini 1660, he was committed[1094] prisoner to the
Tower, where he was kept ...; then to Portsey castle. His durance in
these prisons (he being a gentleman of a high spirit and hot head)
was the procatractique cause of his deliration or madnesse; which
was not outragious, for he would discourse rationally enough and
be very facetious company, but he grew to have a phancy that[1095]
his perspiration turned to flies, and sometimes to bees--_ad cætera
sobrius_; and he had a timber _versatile_ built[1096] in Mr. Hart's
garden (opposite to St. James's parke) to try the experiment. He would
turne it to the sun, and sitt towards it; then he had his fox-tayles
there to chase away and massacre all the flies and bees that were to be
found there, and then shutt his chassees[1097]. Now this experiment was
only to be tryed in warme weather, and some flies would lye so close
in the cranies and the cloath (with which it was hung) that they would
not presently shew themselves. A quarter of an hower after perhaps, a
fly or two, or more, might be drawen-out of the lurking holes by the
warmeth; and then he would crye out, 'Doe not you see it apparently
that these come from me?' 'Twas the strangest sort of madnes that ever
I found in any one: talke of any thing els, his discourse would be very
ingeniose and pleasant.
Anno ... he married to his old sweet-heart Mris ... Dayrell[LXXVII.],
of ..., a comely and discreete ladie. The motto to his seale, which
was party per pale baron et femme Harrington and Dayrell was.... It
happening so, from some private reasons, that he could not enjoy his
deare in the flower and heate of his youth, he would never lye with
her, but loved and admired her dearly: for she was _vergentibus annis_
when he maried her, and had lost her sweetenesse.
[LXXVII.] His wife was ... Dayrell. Round about his seale, which was
party per pale baron and femme[1098], were these words, scil. _In
longum coiere faces_.
He was of a middling stature, well-trussed man, strong and thick,
well-sett, sanguine, quick-hott-fiery hazell eie, thick moyst curled
haire, as you may see by his picture. In his conversation very
friendly, and facetious, and hospitable.
For above twenty yeares before he died (except his imprisonment) he
lived in the Little-Ambry (a faire house on the left hand), which
lookes into the Deane's-yard in Westminster. In the upper story he had
a pretty gallery, which looked into the yard (over ... court) where he
commonly dined, and meditated, and tooke his tobacco.
His _amici_ were:--Henry Nevill, esq., who never forsooke him to his
dyeing day. Though[1099] a whole yeare before he died, his memorie
and discourse were taken away by a disease ('twas a[1100]sad sight to
see such a sample of mortality, in one whom I lately knew, a brisque,
lively cavaliero), this gentleman, whom I must never forget for his
constant friendship, payd his visits as duly and respectfully as when
his friend (J. H.) was in the prime of his understanding--a true friend.
----[LXXVIII.]Mr. Andrew Marvell, who made an epitaph for him, which
quaere.
[LXXVIII.] Mr. Andrew Marvell made a good epitaph for him, but <it>
would have given offence.
--His uncle, ... Samuel, esq.;
--his son, Mr. ... Samuel, an excellent architect, that has built
severall delicate howses (Sir Robert Henley's, Sir Thomas Grosvenor's
in Cheshire);
--Sir Thomas Dolman;
--Mr. Roger L'Estrange;
--Dr. John Pell;
--J. A.[1101]
He was wont to say that 'Right reason in contemplation is vertue
in action, _et vice versa_. _Vivere secundum naturam_ is to live
vertuously, the Divines will not have it so'; and that 'when the
Divines would have us be an inch above vertue, we fall an ell belowe
it.'
These verses he made, about anno ..., ....
[1102][_Upon[1103] the state of nature._
The state of nature never was so raw,
But oakes bore acornes and ther was a law
By which the spider and the silkeworme span;
Each creature had her birthright, and must man
Be illegitimate! have no child's parte!
If reason had no wit, how came in arte?
ingenium i.e. quoddam ingenitum.]
By Mr. James Harrington, esq., autor _Oceanae_, whose handwriting this
is.
[1104]Hic jacet | Jacobus Harrington, armiger | filius maximus
natu | Sapcotis Harrington de Rand | in comitatu Lincolniae,
equitis aurati | et Janae (matris ejus) filiae | Gulielmi
Samuel de Upton in | comitatu Northampton, militis | qui |
obiit septimo die Septembris | aetatis suae sexagesimo sexto
| anno Domini 1677. | Nec virtutis nec animi dotes | arrha
licet aeterni in animam amoris Dei | corruptione eximere queant
corpus | Gen. iii. 19 | Pulveris enim es et reverteris | in
pulverem |:--
author of the _Oceana_--he lyes buried in the chancell of St.
Margarite's Church at Westminster, the next grave to the illustrious
Sir Walter Raleigh, under the south side of the altar where the priest
stands.
[1105]☞ Pray remember to looke upon Mr. James Harrington's life: upon
my alterations there. It was a philosophicall or politicall club, where
gentlemen came at night to divert themselves with political discourse,
and to see the way of balloting. It began at Miles's coffee-house about
the middle of Michaelmas-terme, and was given over upon general Monke's
comeing-in.
Sir John Hoskyns, etc., deane Arderne[1106], etc., would not like to
have their names seen.
_Notes._
[EN] In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 98ᵛ, Aubrey gives the reference 'vide Anthony
Wood's _Hist. et Antiq. Oxon._,' and the coat '..., a fret ...'. In
MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 29ᵛ, he gives the coat for Harrington's marriage,
viz.:--'..., a fret ... [Harrington]; impaling, ..., a lion rampant
crown'd ... [D'ayrell].'
[EO] The princess Elizabeth, daughter of James I. Sir John Harington,
her tutor, was created (July 21, 1603) baron Harington of Exton. He
married Anne Kelway, and was grand-uncle to the author of _Oceana_.
[EP] Robert Wood, M.A. (Mert.) 1649, appointed Fellow of Linc. Coll.
by the Parliamentary Visitors, Sept. 19, and admitted Oct. 23, 1650;
ejected by the King's Commissioners, Aug. 18, 1660.
=Samuel Hartlib= (16..-1670).
In MS. Aubr. 22 (Aubrey's collection of Grammars) is a tract:--
'The true and ready way to learne the Latine tongue,' by Samuel
Hartlib, esq., Lond. 1654, with the inscription 'Jo. Aubrey, dedit S.
Hartlib, 1654.'
=William Harvey= (1578-1657).
[1107]William Harvey[EQ], M.D., natus at Folkestone in Kent:[1108]
borne at the house which is now the post-house, a faire stone-built
house, which he gave to Caius College in Cambridge, with some lands
there: vide his will. His brother Eliab would have given any money or
exchange for it, because 'twas his father's, and they all borne there;
but the Doctor (truly) thought his memory would better be preserved
this way, for his brother has left noble seates, and about 3000 _li._
per annum, at least.
[1109]Hemsted in Essex towards Audeley End: ibi sepultus Dr. Harvey.
[1110]Quaere Mr. <William> Marshall, the stone-cutter, for the
inscription in the church there.
[1111]Quaere Mr. Marshall in Fetterlane for the copie of the
inscription on his monument in Essex.
[1112]Dr. W. Harvey: <ask his> epitaph <from> Mr. Marshall.--Quaere
Anthony Wood if there is a MS. in bibl. Bodleiana that speakes of the
circulation of the bloud: Dr. <Luke> Ridgeley and Dr. Trowtbec can
enforme me from Meredith Lloyd.--Memorandum, Mr. Parker tells me
that Mr. <John> Oliver, the City surveyor, had his father Marshall's
inscriptions and papers; ergo vide there for the Doctor's inscription
and also for the inscription of Inigo Jones.
[1113]Dr. William Harvey--ex libro[ER] meo B.
Over Dr. Harvey's picture in the great parlour under the library at the
Physitians' College at Amen-corner (burnt):--