[Q] In MS. Aubr. 8. fol. 4, Anthony Wood notes:--'11 Nov. 1681:--"John
Lee, Surrey, son of Thomas Lee, of London, gent., aet. 17, 1624"
<matriculated at> "Aul. Magd."--this I set here because one Lee is
mentioned in this book,--see page 18,' i.e. fol. 32 as above.
=William Lilly= (1601-1681).
[113]W. Lilly--<life> donne by himselfe penes Mr. Elias Ashmole.
[114]Mr. W. Lilly obiit at his house in Hersham, Thursday, June 9,
and is to be buried at Walton chancel[115] this day, scil. June 10,
1681. He was borne on May day 1601[116]: had he lived till next May he
had been full fourscore. He setled his estate at Hersham, 200 _li._
per annum, on ... Whitlock, esqre, sonne of the Lord Commissioner
Whitlock[117] (who was his great patrone).
[118]Mr. William Lilly, astrologer: he wrote his owne life very
largely, which Elias Ashmole, esq., hath. Memorandum he predicted the
great comete which appeared in anno Domini[119] 168<0>, in his almanack
1677, which was the last that he wrote himselfe with his owne hands;
for afterwards he fell blind. Memorandum, to bind up the almanack
aforesayd with other 8vo pamphlets, for 'tis exceeding considerable.
[120]Ne oblivione contereretur urna
Gulielmi Lillii
astrologi peritissimi
qui fatis cessit
Vᵗᵒ Idus Junii anno Christi Juliano
MDCLXXXI
Hoc illi posuit amoris monumentum
Elias Ashmole,
armiger.
On a black marble (good marble; 7 _li._[121]) gravestone in the middle
towards the north wall of Walton-on-Thames <church>.
Quaere--he wrote his own life which Mr. Ashmole hath and is dedicated
to him.
=Franciscus Linus.=
[122]Father Franciscus Linus, i.e. Hall, was borne in London--which
captain Robert Pugh, è Societate Jesus, assured me, who was his great
acquaintance.
He was of the Societie of Jesus and lived most at Liège, where he
dyed....
He writt a learned discourse, _de coloribus_, which Sir Kenelm Digby
quotes with much praise in his philosophie.
He printed a discourse of dialling in 4to, Latin, and made the Jesuits
College there the finest dialls in the world, which are described in
that booke. The like dialls he made (which resemble something a ... of
candlesticks) in the garden at Whitehall, which were one night, anno
Dni. 167- (4[123], as I take it), broken all to pieces (for they were
of glasse spheres) by the earl of Rochester, lord Buckhurst, Fleetwood
Shephard, etc., comeing in from their revells. 'What!' said the earl
of Rochester, 'doest thou stand here to ... time?' Dash they fell to
worke. Ther was a watchman alwayes stood there to secure it.
He wrote a piece of philosophy in Latin in 8vo, called....
He had great skill in the optiques, and was an excellent philosopher
and mathematician, and a person of exceeding suavity, goodnes, and
piety, insomuch that I have heard father Manners, è Soc. Jes., say that
he deserved canonisation.
Memorandum--he writ a little tract, about halfe a sheet or not much
more, of Transubstantiation, proveing it metaphysically and by naturall
reason--which I have seen.
[124]Franciscus Linus (Hall), Jesuite, at Leige. He told me he was born
in London; see more in my memorandums of him to Mr. Anthony Wood.
Sir Kenelme Digby, in his booke of bodies, in the chapter of colours,
speakes with a very great respect of Mr. ... Hall.
He writ and published a prety little booke in 8vo (or lesse) of
natural philosophy--quaere nomen.
=Sir Matthew Lister= (1564-1656).
[125]Sir Matthew Lister was born at Thornton in Craven in Yorkshire.
His nephew Martin Lister, M.D., R.S.S.[126], from whose mouth I have
this information, tells me he was of Oriel College in Oxon; he thinkes
he was a fellowe.
He built that stately house at Ampthill in Bedfordshire (now the earle
of Alesbury's). He sent for the architects from Italie.
He died at Burwell neer Lowth in Lincolnshire about 1656 or 1657, aged
92 yeares.
He was physitian to queen Anne (queen of king James). See the list of
the names of the physitians before _the London dispensatorie_; as I
remember, he was then president of the Physitians' College at London.
He printed nothing that Dr. Martin Lister knowes of (Sir Matthew Lister
bred him up).
[127]Mr. <Edmund> Wyld sayes Sir Matthew Lister built the house for
Mary, countesse of Pembroke. He was her surveyour, and managed her
estate[128]. The seat at Ampthill is now in the possession of the earl
of Alesbury, whose grandfather (the earl of Elgin) bought it of the
countesse of Pembroke.--That he was president of the Physitians College
appeares by the dedication of the London dispensatory to him, being
then president.
=Evans Lloyd.=
[129]1582: Almanack, supputated specially for the elevation and
meridian of London but may generally serve for all England--by Evans
Lloyd, student in Astronomie.
'Tis dedicated 'To the right honourable Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord
Chancellour of England, and one of her majestie's most honourable
privy councell.' He concludes thus:--'Your honour's most humble and
dutifull, Evans Lloyd, late student in Oriall Colledge in Oxford.'
=Martin Lluelyn= (1616-1681/2).
[130]Martin Lluellyn was borne on Thursday the 12 of December 1616,
a quarter befor 11 of clock in the night, the moon newly entred into
Capricorn and near the full in Gemini. He was the seventh son, without
any daughter between. He was christned on the 22 day of December at
Litle St. Bartholomeu's church near Smithfeild, London: buried in the
left chancel of Wicombe church near the wall.
Our faith and duty, pure without allay,
As our Apollo we our kings obey,
To both implicit homag allways pay.
When the God moves we seldom reasoning stand,
But feareless march wherere he does command.
And thus we treat all mortall majesty
And never put the saucy question, Why?
[131]He lies interred in the middle of the north aisle of the chancell,
towards the step or elevation, of Chipping Wickham in the county of
Bucks, under a fair black marble gravestone.
=Sir James Long= (1613-1658/9).
[132]Sir James Long, baronet:--I should now be both orator and soldier
to give this honoured friend of mine, 'a gentleman absolute[133] in all
numbers,' his due character.
Only son of Sir W. L.; borne at South Wraxhall in Wilts. Westminster
scholar; of Magd. coll. Oxon; Fisher there. Went to France. Maried
anno ... D.[134] Leech, a most elegant beautie and witt, daughter of
Sir E. L., 25 aetat. In the civill warres, colonel of horse in Sir
Fr. Dodington's brigade. Good sword-man; horseman; admirable extempore
orator pro harangue; great memorie; great historian and romanceer;
great falkoner and for horsemanship; for insects; exceeding curious and
searching long since, in naturall things.
Oliver, Protector, hawking at Hownselowe heath, discoursing with him,
fell in love with his company, and commanded him to weare his sword,
and to meete him a hawkeing, which made the strict cavaliers look on
him with an evill eye.
Scripsit 'History and Causes of the Civill Warre,' or 'Reflections'
(quaere); 'Examination of witches at Malmesburie.'
_Note._