[G] It is difficult to decide whether these personal traditions are
accurate or not. By the College records it appears that 'Ralph Kettell,
Hertfordshire, aged _sixteen_, was elected scholar of Trinity 16 June
1579.' But he _may_ have been in residence earlier. He was elected
fellow May 30, 1583; and admitted _third_ president Feb. 12, 1598/9. He
died in July, 1643.
[H] Laurence Saintloe was B.A. from Exeter College Nov. 14, 1623:
probably of the Saintlowes of Wiltshire.
[I] In College halls, till modern increase of numbers brought in more
tables to block the floor, there were only the high table on the daïs,
and side-tables along the walls of the body of the hall. The inner
seats for these were often part of the wainscotting, and in any case
there would be no passage behind them.
[J] John Lydall, scholar of Trinity College, June 4, 1640: Aubrey's
particular friend, died Oct. 12, 1657 (Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_,
i. 229). Aubrey often refers to him in his letters, generally with some
expression of deep sorrow.
[K] John Hoskins of Rampisham, Dorset, elected Scholar of Trinity, May
28, 1635, aged 16; Fellow June 4, 1640.
[L] John Douch, matric. at Trin. July 5, 1639, aged 16: afterwards
rector of Stalbridge, Dorset.
[M] John Fanshawe of Dagenham, Essex, matric. at Trin. Coll. Feb. 9,
1637/8, aged 18.
[N] Henry Slymaker, of Oxford city, aged 18, elected Scholar of Trin.
May 26, 1592; Fellow June 13, 1598.
[O] It would be interesting to know when the 'bidding prayer' became
a form, as it now is, and ceased to be composed for the occasion. See
a notice of this prayer being habitually used to express personal
opinions in 1637, in Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, ii. 238.
=Ludolph van Keulen= (1554?-1610).
[91]Ludolphus van Ceulin was first, by profession, a fencing-master;
but becomeing deafe, he betooke himselfe to the studie of the
mathematiques wherin he became famous.
He wrote a learned booke, printed at ... in 4to of the proportion
of the diameter of a circle to the peripherie: before which is his
picture, and round about it in the compartiment are swords and bucklers
and holberts, etc.,--weapons: the reason wherof I understood not till
Dʳ. John Pell gave the aforesaid account, who had it from Sir Francis
Godolphin, who had been his scholar as to fencing and boarded in his
house.
He dyed at Leyden anno ..., aetat. 56, as I remember (vide); and on
his monument, according to his last will, is engraved the proportion
abovesayd, which is....
=Richard Kitson.=
[92]My lodging is at the George Inne in Little Drury lane, very
early or late, or at other times at Mr. Samuell Eyres his chamber
at Lincolne's Inne or at Mr. John Hancock's chamber in the Middle
Temple--Ric. Kitson.
Direct your letter in the country to me at my house in Amesbury neere
Salisbury, Wiltes.