Prope jacet
Gulielmus Outram, S.T.P.
ex agro Derbiensi, collegiorum apud Cantabrigienses
S. et individuae Trinitatis et Christi socius, hujus
ecclesiae canonicus et Leycestr. archidiaconus,
Theologus consummatus et omnibus
numeris absolutus, Scriptor nervosus et accuratus,
Concionator egregius et assiduus primo in agro Lincoln.
postea Londini et tandem apud S. Margaretam Westmon.
ubi confecit postremum vitae suae cursum magna
cum laude nec minore fructu. Sed in tantis laboribus
et animi contentione dum sacrarum literarum et
sanctorum patrum studio ardebat ut in renum dolores
inciderit, quibus diu afflictus et tandem fractus
aequissimo animo e vita discessit
Aug. XXIII anno Dni MDCLXXIX
postquam impleverat annum
quinquagesimum quartum.
His grave-stone (a faire black marble) is not far off from the
above-mentioned inscription. There is written on it thus, viz.:--
...
He was a tall spare leane pale consumptive man; wasted himself much, I
presume, by frequent preaching.
Scripsit....
=John Overall= (1560-1619).
[495]Dr. Overall and his wife:--
Dr. <John> Overall was deane of St. Paules, London.
I see his picture in[496] the rationale writt by <Anthony> Sparrow,
bishop of Exon, in the beginning wherof are the effigies[497] of
L<ancelot> Andrews, bishop of Winton, Mr. <Richard> Hooker, and John
Overall, bishop of Norwich--before which is writt _Ecclesiae et
Liturgiae Anglicanae vindices_. Quaere if this deane was that bishop.
I know not what he wrote or whether he was any more than a
common-prayer Doctor; but most remarqueable by his wife, who was the
greatest beautie in her time in England. That she was so I have it
attested from the famous limmer[498] Mr. <John> Hoskins[499] and other
old painters, besides old courtiers. She was not more beautifull than
she was obligeing and kind, and was so tender-hearted that (truly) she
could scarce denie any one. She had (they told me) the loveliest eies
that ever were seen, but wondrous wanton. When she came to court or
to the playhouse, the gallants would so flock round her. Richard, the
earle of Dorset, and his brother Edward, since earle, both did mightily
adore her. And by their report he must have had a hard heart that did
not admire her. Bishop Hall sayeth in his Meditations that 'there is
none so old that a beautifull person loves not; nor so young whom a
lovely feature moves not.'
The good old deane, notwithstanding he knew well enough that he was
horned, loved her infinitely: in so much that he was willing she should
enjoy what she had a mind to.
Among others who were charmed by her was Sir John Selby of Yorkshire.
1656, old Mris Tyndale (of the Priory near Easton-piers), who knew
her, remembres a song made of her and Sir John, part whereof was this,
vizt.:--
The deane of Paule's did search for his wife,
And where d'ee thinke he found her?...[500]
etc.
On these two lovers was made this following copie of pastorall verses
(vide the ballad-booke _in Museo Sheldoniano_[501]), e.g.
[502]Downe lay the shepherd swaine
So sober and demure,
Wishing for his wench againe[503]
So bonny and so pure,
With his head on hillock lowe
And his armes akimboe,
And all was for the losse of his
Hye nonny nonny noe.
His teares fell as thinne
As water from the still,
His haire upon his chinne
Grew like thyme upon a hill,
His cherry cheekes[504] pale as snowe
Did testifye his mickle woe,
And all was for the losse of his
Hye nonny nonny noe.
Sweet she was, as kind a love
As ever fetter'd swayne;
Never such a daynty one
Shall man enjoy again.
Sett a thousand on a rowe
I forbid that any showe
Ever the like of her
Hey nonny nonny noe.
Face she had of filberd hue,
And bosom'd[505] like a swan;
Back she had of bended ewe,
And wasted by a span.
Haire she had as black as crowe
From the head unto the toe
Downe, downe, all over her
Hye nonny nonny noe.
With her mantle tuck't-up high
She foddered her flock
So bucksome and alluringly,
Her knee upheld her smock.
So nimbly did she use to goe,
So smooth she danc't on tip-toe,
That all men were fond of her
Hye nonny nonny noe.
[506]She smiled like a Holy-day
And simpred like the Spring,
She pranck't it like a popingaie
And like a swallow sing,
She trip't it like a barren doe,
She strutted like a gor-crowe,
Which made the men so fond of her
Hye nonny nonny noe.
To sport it on the merry downe
To daunce the lively Haye
To wrastle for a green gowne
In heate of all the daye
Never would she say me no
Yet me thought I had thô
Never enough of her
Hye nonny nonny noe.
But gonne she is, the prettiest[507] lasse
That ever trod on plaine.
What ever hath betide of her
Blame not the shepherd swayne
For why? she was her owne foe
And gave her selfe the overthrowe
By being so franke of her
Hye nonny nonny noe.
Finis.
=Sir Thomas Overbury= (1581-1613).
[508]Sir Thomas Overbury, knight:--ex registro capellae Turris Lond.,
scilicet. 'Anno Domini 1613, Sir Thomas Overbury, poysoned, buryed
September 15ᵗʰ.'
His father was one of the judges of South Wales, viz. Caermarthen,
Cardigan, and Pembroke circuites. He lived in his later time at
Burghton on the hill in Glocestershire. Sir Giles Overbury was his
eldest brother, who dyed in London in St. Clements Danes parish about
1651 or 2.
Scripsit:--Characters, Of education of youth, a stitch't 8vo.
Translated Ovid _de remedio amoris_--which I have ('twas one of old Dr.
Kettle's bookes).
Sir Nicholas Overbury, _m._ ... Palmer.
judge. |
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1. Sir Giles. 2. Sir Thomas, (sine prole). 3. Walter, of Barton.
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Sir Thomas (orbus). | |
=Charles Pamphlin= (1649-1678).
[509]This is the copie of his mother's owne handwriting:--
'Charles Pamphlin was borne the last day of August before day, the
howre I did justly know but I guesse it might be about 3 or 4 a clock
in the morning, being Fryday the August after the king was beheaded;
which I thinke was 29 yeares since, last August.'
He was hanged in Convent Garden on a gibbet, for stealing his
Majestie's chapell-plate, May 22, 1678.
=John Partridge= (1643/4-1715).
[510]John Partridge, astrologue, the son of ... Partridge (yet living,
1680, an honest waterman at Putney[511] in Surrey).
He was borne, as by his scheme[512] appeares, January the 18ᵗʰ, 1643/4,
lat. London.
He was taught[513] to read, and a little to write. He learn'd no
farther then _As in praesenti_.
He was bound apprentice to a shoe-maker in ..., anno aetat....; where
he was kept hard to his trade.
At 18 he gott him a Lillie's grammar, and Goldman's dictionary, and a
Latin bible, and Ovid's Metamorphoses.
He is of an excellent healthy constitution and great temperance, of
indefatigable industrie, and sleepes but ... houres.
In ... yeeres he made himselfe a competent master of the Latin tongue,
well enough to reade any astrologicall booke, and quickly became a
master of that science. He then studyed the Greek tongue, and also
the Hebrew, to neither of which he is a stranger. He then studyed
good authors in physique, and intends to make that his profession and
practyse; but is yet (1680) a shoemaker in Convent Garden.
_Scripsit_, viz.:--
first, The Hebrew Kalendar, 1678.
Ecclesilogia (almanack), 1679.
The same againe, 1680.
Vade Mecum, 8vo.
The King of France his nativity.
A discourse of two moones.
Mercurius Coelestis (almanack), 1681.
Prodromus, a discourse of the conjunction of Saturn and Mars, anno 1680.
=James Peele.=
[514]Maister James Peele--'tis a folio, 1569:--
¶The pathewaye to perfectnes in th' accomptes of debitour and
creditour, in manner of a dialogue very pleasant and profitable for
merchauntes and all other that minde to frequent the same, once again
set forth and very much enlarged by James Peele, citizen and salter of
London, Clercke of Christes Hospitall, practiser and teacher of the
same, imprinted at London in Paule's church-yard by Thomas Purfoote,
dwelling at the signe of the Lucrece, Aug. 16.
He is drawne before his booke in his gowne and a cap (scilicet, like
the cappes the undergraduates weare), short haire and long beard.
It is dedicated to the right worshipful master John Mershe, esq.,
governour, the assistants, and companie of the Merchaunte Adventurers
of England.
In the dialogue between the merchant and the schoolemaster, the
merchant thanks him and sayes 'It is now street time, wherfore I must
begonne.' In those times, before the Royal Exchange was built by Sir
Thomas Gresham, the merchants did meet in the street as now a dayes
at the Exchange. The place was what we now call the old Change; but I
believe the street was then broader than it is now.
In those dayes[515] they did alwaies upon the top of the first clean
leafe in the inventorie booke write thus:--
'In the name of God, Amen.
1566
December the xxxi daye.'
=John Pell= (1610/1-1685).
<When Aubrey had finished the first sketch of this life he
submitted it for revision to Dr. Pell, who made several
corrections. To these Aubrey draws attention by a note:--'This
is Dr. Pell's owne hand-writing:' it is a neat print-like hand.
These corrections in the text here are enclosed in square
brackets.>
[516]John Pell[AN], S.T.Dr., was the son of John, who was the son of
John.
John Pell, D.D., was the son of John Pell, ...[517] of Southwyck in
Sussex, in which parish he was borne, at ..., on St. David's day (1st
of March) 1610[518], horâ ... (his youngest uncle guessed about noon).
His father was [a divine] but a kind of Non-conformist; of the Pells of
Lincolnshire, an ancient familie; his mother [of the Hollands of Kent].
His father dyed when his son John was but 5 yeares old and six weekes,
and left him an excellent library.
<He> went to schoole at the free-schoole at Stenning, a burrough
towne in Sussex, at the first founding of the schoole; an excellent
schoolmaster, John Jeffreys. At 13 yeares and a quarter old he
went as good a scholar to Cambridge, to Trinity Colledge, as most
Masters of Arts in the University (he understood Latin, Greek, and
Hebrew), so that he played not much (one[519] must imagine) with his
schoolfellowes, for, when they had play-dayes, or after schoole-time,
he spent his time in the library aforesaid.
He [never[520] stood at any election of] fellow[s] or scholar[s of the
House at] Trinity College.
Of person he was very handsome, and of a very strong and excellent
habit of body, melancholic, sanguine, darke browne haire with an
excellent moist curle.
[Before[521] he went first out of England,] he understood[522] these
languages (besides his mother-tongue), viz. Latin, Greek, Hebrue,
Arabique, Italian, French, Spanish, High-Dutch, and Low-Dutch.
Anno Domini 1632 he maried [Ithamara Reginalds, second daughter to Mr.
Henry Reginalds of London. He had by her 4 sonnes and 4 daughters borne
in this order[523] S., D., D., S., D., S., D., S.].
Dr. Pell haz sayd to me that he did believe that he solved some
questions _non sine divino auxilio_.
Anno Domini 1643 he went to Amsterdam, in December; was there Professor
of Mathematiques, next after Martinus Hortensius, about 2 yeares.
1646, the prince of Orange called for him to be publique professor of
Philosophy and Mathematiques at the _Schola Illustris_ at Breda, that
was founded that yeare by his Highnesse; vide the Doctor's inaugurall
oration[524] there, printed--the first thing printed that his name was
to.
He returned into England, 1652.
In 1654 Oliver, Lord Protector, sent him envoyé to the Protestant
cantons of Switzerland; resided chiefly at Zurich. He was sent out with
the title of _ablegatus_, but afterwards he had order to continue there
with the title of _Resident_.
In 1658 he returned into England and so little before the death of
Oliver Cromwell that he never sawe him since he was Protector.
Memorandum--when he tooke his leave from Zurich, June 23, 1658, he made
a Latin speech, which I have seen.
Memorandum that in his negociation he did no disservice to King Charles
IIᵈ, nor to the church, as may appeare by his letters which are in the
Secretarie's Office.
[525]Richard Cromwell, Protector, did not fully pay him for his
business in Piedmont, wherby he was in some want; and so when King
Charles II was restored[526], Dr. Sanderson, bishop of Lincoln,
perswaded him to take Holy Orders. He was not adroit for preaching.
[527]When King Charles II had been at home ten months, Mr. John Pell
first tooke Orders. He was made deacon upon the last of March, 1661,
by bishop Sanderson of Lincoln, by whom he was made priest in June
following.
Gilbert Sheldon, bishop of Lundon, [procured[528] for] him the
parsonage of Fobbing[AO] in Essex, 1661, and two yeares after (1663)
[gave him] the parsonage of Laindon cum annexa capella de Bartelsdon
in eodem comitatu, which benefices are in the infamous and unhealthy
(aguesh[529]) hundreds of Essex.