[T] Aubrey gives in trick the coat, '..., a chevron between 3 trefoils
slipped ..., a crescent for difference,' and then scores it out, adding
'this is Roe's coate.' Then he has given as Lucar's coat:--'..., a
chevron between 3 nags' heads erased bridled ...; quartering, ...
a fess nebulé, in chief a lion's head erased between 2 mascles, in
base a mascle.' He adds that the motto is 'In spe,' and 'the crest is
a lure for a hawke held in one's hand.'--Cyprian Lucar, of London,
adm. probationer of New College, Dec. 20, 1561, and adm. Fellow July
25, 1563, vacated his fellowship in 1565.--Mark Lucar, probably his
brother, of St. Botolph's parish, London, was admitted prob. of New
Coll., Aug. 16, 1570; Fellow March 30, 1572, resigned 1575; and took
B.A. on May 24, 1574.
=Henry Lyte= (1529(?)-1607).
[142]I will enquire at Lyte's-Cary when Henry Lyte[143], esq.,
dyed.--He translated Dodantus' _Herball_, and writt a little pamphlet,
which I have, called '_The light of Britaine_, being a short summary of
the old English history,' dedicated to queen Elizabeth.
He began the genealogy of king James, derived from Brute; which his
eldest son Thomas Lyte, of Lyte's-Cary aforesaid, finished, and
presented to king James. It is most rarely donne and exquisitly limmed
by a limmer--all the kings' pictures, etc. King James, after it had
hung some time at Whitehal, ordered him to have it[144]again and to
gett <it> ingraved, which was donne. Mr. Humble of Pope's-head alley
had the plates before the fire: I hope they are not lost--it is most
curiously donne, by Hole. It is as big as the greatest map of England
that ever I sawe. Mr. Camden much admired, and at the foot writt 6 or 8
verses with his owne hand:--
Artificemne manum laudem celebremne labores,
Lyte, tuos: hi namque docent delectat at illa,
etc.--which I have forgott.
T. Lyte writt the best print hand that ever I yet sawe. The originall,
which is now in the parlour at Lyte's-Cary, was writt with his hand,
and limmed by a famous artist.
[145]They[146] both lye buried in a burying place belonging to them in
the church at Charlton Makerell in Somersetshire.
[147]Henry Lyte lived to the age of 78, and was buried in the north
aisle of the church of Charlton Makarell in Somersetshire anno
1607--which aisle belongs to Lyte's-Cary.
=Isaac Lyte= (1576/7-1659/60).
[148]Mr. Isaac Lyte, of Easton-Piers, my honoured grand-father, was
born there March XIX, 1576; hora ignoratur. Baptizatus March XIX,
1576--ex registro.
Obiit Febr. 21, 1659, die Martis[149], circiter horam quartam mane.
Mris Israel Lyte, my honoured grandmother, died Febr. 24, 1661/2, inter
horas 3 et 4 P.M.
=Sir John Mandeville.=
[150]☞ Captain Robert Pugh[151] assures me that Sir John Mandeville,
the famous traveller, lyes buryed at Liege in Germany, with which note
amend lib. B[152], where I thought he had been buryed at St. Alban's
abbey church as Mr. Thomas Gore told me. But I thinke I remember
something writt of him there in a table on a pillar or wall: but he was
there borne (as in his life).
=Gervase Markham= (1568-1637).
[153]Mr. ... Markham: he wrote of husbandry and huswifry, 4to; of
horsemanship, 4to; of the art of shooting with the long bow, 8vo;
etc.--quaere.
He was a Nottinghamshire gentleman. His brother Sir Gryffin Markham was
servant to the emperor ..., and did deserve well of him.
This ... Markham, the writer, dyed poor.--Old Jack Markham (late
gentleman-usher to the queen) from whom I have these informations told
me he hath given <him> many a crowne.
=William Marshall= (1606-16--).
[154]William Marshall, sculptor, natus Oct. 7, horâ 0 min. 23 P.M.,
1606.--Conjunction of Mercury and Leo made him stammer.
=Sir Henry Martin= (1562-1641).
[155]Sir Henry Martin, LL.D., was borne at Stoke-Poges in the countie
of Bucks; his father a copy-holder there of about 60 _li._ per annum.
He was formerly a fellow of New Colledg, Oxon. He left his sonne 3000
_li._ per annum.
[156]H. Martyn.--his father <Sir Henry> has a handsome monument at
Becket in Berks which he purchased of Sir ... Essex.
_Note._