[_Clarissimo fortissimoque Thomae Morgano, equiti aurato, imperatorum
hujus aetatis facile principi._
Quae non in terris sensit gens bellica quantus
Dux sit Morganus, compede, strage, fugâ?
Ashleus, Austriacus, Condaeus, Monkus et ipse,
Lesleiusque aquilas erubuêre tuas.
Fairfaxus, Glencarnus, famaque Middletoni,
Hopton jure prior sed tibi Marte minor.
Victrices culpas delemus, vidimus ex quo
Erecta auspiciis sceptra Britanna tuis,
Et Carolum regnis reducem et Monkum modo fultum
Auxiliis fusum Lamberitumque tuis.
Inclytus Arthurus tibi conterranneus olim,
Herôe Arthuro credimus esse satum.
<by> ... Jones[358], B.D.]
[359]Sir Thomas Morgan:--Sir John Lenthall told me that at the taking
of Dunkyrke, Marshall Turenne, and, I thinke, Cardinall Mezarine too,
had a great mind to see this famous warrior. They gave him a visitt,
and wheras they thought to have found an Achillean or gigantique
person, they sawe a little man, not many degrees[360] above a
dwarfe[361], sitting in a hutt of turves, with his fellowe soldiers,
smoaking a pipe about 3 inches (or neer so) long, with a green
hatt-case on. He spake with a very exile tone, and did cry-out to the
soldiers, when angry with them, 'Sirrah, I'le cleave your skull!' as if
the wordes had been prolated by an eunuch.
He was of meane parentage in Monmouthshire. He went over to the
Lowe-Countrie warres about 16, being recommended by some friend of his
to some commander there, who, when he read the letter, sayd, 'What! has
my cosen ... recommended a _rattoon_ to me?' at which he tooke pett,
and seek't his fortune (as a soldier) in Saxon Weymar.
He spake Welch, English, French, High Dutch, and Lowe Dutch, but never
a one well. He seated himself at Cheuston, in Herefordshire.
[362]Sir Thomas Morgan: quaere Dr.[363] Jones.--Quaere Mr. Howe at
Peter Griffiths', in Yorke buildings, neer the staires: he was his
secretary and haz his memoires.--Quaere Mr. Jones for a copie of
Sir Thomas Morgan's epitaph.--He lies buried in St. Martyn's church
<in-the>-fields, London: quaere if his tombe is erected. Obiit about
1679.
[364]Thomas Morgan:--vide Mr. Howe at Mr. Griffyn's howse in York
buildings, below Mi. Kent, next house but one or two to the water: he
was his secretary and has his memoires. Quaere Mr. Jones for the copie
of his epitaph. He lies interred in St. Martin's church: quaere if his
tombe is erected. Obiit about 1679.
=William Morgan= (1622-16--).
[365]Mariana Morgan, ... daughter of major Morgan of Wells, was borne
there, New Yeare's Eve's eve, XX yeares since next New Yeare's Eve,
about 5 or 6 a clock P.M. She is a swidging lustie woman.
[366]William Morgan, first son of captain William Morgan, was borne at
Wells, the 6th of November, Saterday morning, something before day.
When he dyed he was 22 and as much as from the time of his birth. He
dyed last Xtmas, viz. 1674, the Fryday after XII day[367]. Memorandum
in 1670 he was very like to dye of a feaver. Anno ..., he maried (I
think not much above a yeare before his death). Anno ... he dyed.
[368]Thomas Morgan, second sonne, natus ibidem, September 14, 1657
(about midnight, his mother thinkes). He was idle and unfortunate, and
dyed 167-. Seemed to have Saturne much his enemie.
_Note._