14. Investigatio jurium et antiquorum et rationalium regni
etc.: printed 1687.
15. Legale necessarium: about estreateing and leavying fines
and amercements and other profits of the king's casuall
revenues.
Tristia diffugiunt, paupertas, cura, labores,
Quae tulit ingratis gratior urna tulit.
O miseris miserans, Jesus, miserere Philippo;
Defesso Fabian sanguine parta tuo,
Sanguine parta tuo, da gaudia luce perenni,
Gaudia coelicolis morte parata tua.
Oh ens entium, deus misericordiarum, amator animarum, spes
viventium et mortuorum, miserere mei et posterorum.
He dyed the 17th of November 1690, and lies buried by his wife at
Twyford, a little church neer Acton in Middlesex, in the southwest part
of the church at the lower end of the church.
His sonne will not be at the chardge to sett this up for his father.
But I have spoken to his good daughter to sett his name and obiit. His
workes will praise him in the gates[671].
--From his eldest sonne, who succeeds him in his place of filazer.
[672]Old Fabian Philips has told me severall times that it hath cost
him 800 _li._ in taking paines searching and writing to assert the
king's prerogative and never gott a groate. Only, when the regulation
of the lawe was, he was made one of the commissioners, which was worth
200 _li._ per annum--I thinke it lasted two yeares.
_Note._