[AF] He was nephew of the preceding. He matriculated at Wadham in 1624;
was fellow of All Souls in 1628; and created M.D. in Nov. 1642.
[AG] On June 29, 1689: now in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 386ᵛ:--'Sir Richard
Napier was buried at Lynford, in Buckinghamshire: it was his manour,
which his sonne sold for 19,500 _li._'
[AH] This note is a postscript torn from a letter addressed, no doubt
to Anthony Wood, by 'your faithful friend, J. Aubrey.'
=Sir William Neale= (1610-1690/1).
[392]Sir William Neale, knight, skowt-master generall to king Charles
the first, died on the 24th of March last 1690/1, in Grayes Inne
lane, being 81 yeares old. He was buried, according to his desire,
in Convent-garden church, and lies at the west dore, first by the
christning pew. When he died, he was the oldest field-officer of king
Charles the first.
He was not lesse than 6 foot high: very beautifull in youth--I remember
him: and of great courage, but a great plunderer and cruell.
He lived in towne ever since the Plott, and that worthy generous
gentleman Edmund Wyld, esq., was much supporting to him. His mother and
Sir William were cosens german. But for these 5 yeares last past his
gowtes etc. emaciated him extremely; so that he did often put me in
mind of that of Ovid. Metamorph. <XV. 229>,
Fletque Milo senior cum spectat inanes
Illos, qui fuerant solidorum more tororum
Herculeis similes, fluidos pendere lacertos.
He died poenitent.
He was the grandsonne of ... Neale, esq., of Wollaston near
Northampton, who maried one of Sir Edmund Conquest's sisters,
of Houghton-Conquest, Bedfordshire. Sir Francis Clarke of
Houghton-Conquest aforesaid (father of Mr. Edmund Wyld's mother, a
daughter and heir) maried another sister of Sir Edmund Conquest.
Sir William maried major-generall Egerton's sister, by whom he had
issue William, a lusty stout fellow, of the guards, who died about the
abdication, and two daughters.
=Richard Neile= (1562-1640).
[393]The father of ... Neile, archbishop of Yorke, was a
tallow-chandler in Westminster--from old major Cosh.
=William Neile= (1637-1670).
[394]I have sent now to Sir Paul Neile, whose father was archbishop
of Yorke, for his sonne. Memorandum:--a better-natured man[395] never
lived: for his worth Dr. <John> Wallis can better characterise him than
I can.
[396]William Neile, esq., gentleman of the privy chamber in ordinary to
king Charles the 2nd, eldest son to Sir Paul Neile, eldest son to the
archbishop of Yorke, was borne at Bishops-thorpe (a house belonging to
the archbishops of Yorke) neer Yorke, December the seventh, 1637; and
dyed at his father's howse in White Waltham in Berkshire, August 24th,
1670, and is buried in White Waltham church. Enquire of Dr. Wallis of
his rare invention, which he has printed in one of his bookes: never
before found out by man.
=John Newton= (1622-1678).
[397]Dr. Newton, now parson of Rosse in Herefordshire, told me that he
was of Edmund hall: yet living; and lives-like, for when his stomach
is out of order, he cures himselfe by eating a piece of hott roast
beefe off the spitt.--[398]Dr. J. Newton:--he told me he was borne in
Bedfordshire, but would not tell me where.
[399]... Newton, D.D., minister of Ross, dyed there on Christmas day
1678, and buried in the chancell at Rosse neer the middle of the south
wall. He was against learning of Latin in a mathematicall school.
=John Norden= (1548-1625).
[400]John Norden--from Mr. Bagford, a good antiquary, Mr. Crump's
acquaintance.
He lived at Fulham, and (perhaps) died there.
He made mappes of Middlesex, Hartfortshire, Surrey, and Hampshire, and
also Cornwall; and he did not only make the mappes aforesaid but hath
writt[401] descriptions of them, which Mr. Bagford hath, in quarto. The
description of Cornwall (I thinke) was not printed; but Dr. Gale of
Paule's schoole hath it in manuscript, quod N.B.
He printed a booke called a Preparative to Speculum Britanniae, in 8vo;
item, his Travellers Guide, in 4to.
Mr. Morgan, the herald painter, gives us an account in his Armorie,
that he had, in his custodie, Kent, Essex, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight,
and Hants.
In the end of Mr. Gregorie's posthumous workes, he gives us an account
of the excellency of Mr. Norden's mappes, and Saxton's too.
His dialogues I have, in 4to, printed first, 1610; dedicated to
<Robert> Cecil, earle of Salisbury, whose servant he was, (I suppose)
steward or surveyor.
Sometime or other I will looke into the church at Fulham: he died ('tis
thought) in King James the first raigne.
Mr. Wood! pray add this to the rest of the lives.
=Roger North= (1585?-1652).
[402]Captain Roger North was brother to <Dudley, 3rd> lord North. He
was a great acquaintance of Sir Walter Ralegh's and accompanied him in
his voyages. He was with him at Guiana, and never heard that word[403]
but he would fall into a passion for the miscariage of that action.
He was a great algebrist, which was rare in those dayes; but he had the
acquaintance of his fellow-traveller Mr. Hariot.
He and his voyages are much cited in.... Voyages in Latin in folio
(quaere nomen libri a domino J. Vaughan[404]).
He was a most accomplished gentleman.
He died in Fleet Street about anno Domini 1656 or 57, and buryed....
He had excellent collections and remarques of his voyages, which were
all unfortunately burnt in Fleet Street at the great conflagration of
the city.--From my <friend> Sir Francis North, Lord Chiefe Justice of
the Common Pleas, his nephew, and Edmund Wyld, esq., who knew him very
well.
He dyed about the time of the fire (?); quaere iterum.
This family speakes not well of Sir Walter Raleigh, that Sir Walter
designed to breake with the Spanyard, and to make himselfe popular in
England. When he came to ..., he could not show them where the mines of
gold were. He would have then gonne to the king of France (Lewis XIII),
but his owne men brought him back.
[405]Capt. North--quaere if of Oxon[406]: I thinke of University
College.
=Thomas North= (1535-1601).
[407]Mr. Thomas North, that translated Plutarch's Lives (my lord chief
justice[408] tells me) was great-uncle to his grandfather.
=Richard Norwood= (1590?-1675).
[409]Mr. Richard Norwood:--where he was born I cannot yet learn.
Norwood is an ancient family: about 300 yeares since St. Low maried
with a daughter and heire of them and quarters the coate in the
margent[410]. They flourish still in Gloucestershire, the mannour of
Lakhampton belonging to them.--'Tis probable that this learned Norwood
was that countreyman.