In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 117, attached to the notice of William Camden,
are pp. 17-24 of Lewis du Moulin's Latin orations, 1652. On p. 18 of
this, Aubrey writes: 'I found this fragment amongst the papers of Mr.
Laurence Rooke in bishop Seth Ward's study after his death.' Page 19
begins: 'Oratio in laudem ... Cambdeni,' July 10, 1652, beginning: 'Cum
muneris ratio postulet.'
=Walter Rumsey= (1584-1660).
[906]Judge Rumsey: vide A. Wood's _Antiq. Oxon._
Walter Rumsey, of Lanover, in com. Monmouth, esquier (borne there),
was of <Gloucester Hall> in Oxon; afterwards of the society of Graye's
Inne, where he was a bencher.
He was one of the judges in South Wales, viz. Caermarthen,
Pembrokeshire, and Cardigan circuit. He was so excellent a lawyer, that
he was called _The Picklock of the Lawe_.
He was an ingeniose man, and had a philosophicall head; he was most
curious for graffing, inoculating, and planting, and ponds. If he
had any old dead plumbe-tree, or apple-tree, he lett them stand, and
planted vines at the bottome, and lett them climbe up, and they would
beare very well.
He was one of my councell in my law-suites in Breconshire about the
entaile. He had a kindnesse for me and invited me to his house, and
told me a great many fine things, both naturall and antiquarian.
He was very facetious, and a good musitian, playd on the organ and
lute. He could compose.
He was much troubled with flegme, and being so one winter at the
court at Ludlowe (where he was one of the councesellours), sitting by
the fire, spitting and spawling, he tooke a fine tender sprig, and
tied[907] a ragge at the end, and conceited he might putt it downe his
throate, and fetch-up the flegme, and he did so. Afterwards he made
this instrument of whale-bone. I have oftentimes seen him use it. I
could never make it goe downe my throat, but for those that can 'tis
a most incomparable engine. If troubled with the wind it cures you
_immediately_. It makes you vomit without any paine, and besides, the
vomits of apothecaries have _aliquid veneni_ in them. He wrote a little
8vo booke, of this way of medicine, called _Organon Salutis_: London,
printed for Daniel Pakeman, at the Rainebowe, in Fleet-street, 1659,
scil. the second edition, dedicated to Henry <Pierrepont>, marquess of
Dorchester. I had a young fellow (Marc Collins), that was my servant,
that used it incomparably, more easily than the Judge; he made of them.
In Wilts, among my things, are some of his making still. The Judge sayd
he never sawe any one use it so dextrously in his life. It is no paine,
when downe your throate; he would touch the bottome of his stomach with
it. There is praefixt a letter from the Judge to Sir Henry Blount,
knight; to which is annexed Sir Henry Blount's ingeniose answer.
=John Rushworth= (1607-1690).
[908]I was borne in Northumberland[909], but my parents were both born
in the county of York. The title of the books I writ went by the name
of _Historicall Collections_; except _The earle of Strafford's triall_,
which I toke with my owne pen in characters at the time of his triall,
which I have impartially published in folio. And I gave the first
president of my method in writing and declaring onely matter of fact
in order of time, without observation or reflection: but Dr. Nalson, a
learned man, finds fault with me, but I leave it to posterity to judg.
I being neere of kin to Sir Thomas Fairfax, the parlament's generall,
he made choice of me to be his secretary in the wars[910], by which
means I am beter inabled to give account of military affairs, both in
the first wars and in the second which hapened in the year 1648--all
which I am now upon perfeting the same, but the times favors not the
comeing of it forth.
There is an other thing which inables me the better to proceed with the
work I am now upon, my privity to all debates and passages in the house
of Commons: for that house made choice of me to be assistant at the
table to Mr. Ellsing, clark of that parlament to the house of Commons,
by which means I was privey to all circumstances in there procedings.
I might perticularly remonstrate more concernements of my owne, as
being with the king Charles the first at the camp at Barwick, at the
great councill at York, at Newborne[911] nere Newcastle upon the Scots
invading of England, et cetera.
Both the houses of parlament had the confidence in me that they sent
by me ther[912] addresses to the king after he left the parlament and
went to Yorke. And it so fell out that I rode severall times, with
that expedition betwen London and Yorke (being one hundred and fivetey
miles) in 24 hours at a time.
Sir[913], pardon my boye's ignorance in writeing: