College of Arms.
_Jacob Bobart_ (Vol. viii., p. 37.).--I beg to supply the following
additional particulars relating to the Bobart family. In the
_Correspondence of Dr. Richardson_, edited by Mr. Dawson Turner, will
be found a letter from Bobart junior to the Doctor, with a reference to
two other letters. In pages 9, 10, and 11, a copious note respecting
the Bobart family, by the editor, is given. A short notice of Bobart
jun. also appears in the Memoirs of John Martyn, Professor of Botany at
Cambridge. The following epitaph on Bobart jun. is in Amherst's _Terræ
Filius_, 1726:
"Here lies Jacob Bobart,
Nail'd up in a cupboard."
In the preface to Mr. Nichols' work on _Autographs_, among other albums
noticed by him as being in the British Museum, is that of David Krieg,
with Jacob Bobart's autograph, and the following verses:
"VIRTUS SUA GLORIA.
Think that day lost whose descending sun,
Views from thy hand no noble action done.