[BD] Aubrey gives in trick the coat, as found under one of Sanderson's
engraved portraits:--'See of Lincoln; impaling, paly of six argent and
azure, a bend of the first, quartering, ermine, on a canton ..., a
cross engrailed ...' a crescent for difference.
[BE] i.e. Anthony Wood's _Hist. et Antiq. Univ. Oxon._ lib. ii. pag.
167, where Wood says 'his omnibus ... a Parliamento privatus est,'
including, i.e., his rectory of Boothby-Pagnall. In the _Athenae_ Wood
modified the statement, in accordance with what Aubrey says here.
=George Sandys= (1578-1643/4).
[929]In Boxley register thus:--'Georgius Sandys, poetarum Anglorum sui
saeculi facile princeps, sepultus fuit Martii 7, stilo Anglicano, anno
Domini 1643.'
I happened to speake with his niece, my lady Wyat, at whose howse,
viz. at Boxley abbey, he dyed. She saies he told her a little before he
dyed that he was about 63.
He lies buried in the chancel neer the dore on the south side, but
without any remembrance or stone--which is pitty so sweet a swan should
lye so ingloriously.
He had something in divinity ready for the presse, which my lady lost
in the warres--the title of it shee does not remember.
=William Saunderson= (15---1676).
[930]<In> Westminster abby[931] north aisle, the very place where
colonel ... Matthews his statue was erected by the Parliament, to whom
by his will he left all his estate.--This monument is of alablaster, a
bust, but no coate of armes.
M.S.
Guliel. Saundersoni, equit. aurati
Regiaeque camerae generos. ordinar.,
viri
à natalibus, ab eruditione, ab invicta sua erga principes
fide, a scriptis, a candore,
clari.
Scripsit inter alia inque lucem emisit vitarum Mariae
Scotorum reginae, Jacobi, et Caroli I historias
idiomate Anglicano.
Post varias clades sub nupera perduellium tyrannide
acceptas, post diuturnos labores domi peregreque fortiter
exantlatos, vitae hujus umbratilis satur, plus quam
nonagenarius, animi tamen integer, transit
ad meliorem,
Julii 15 anno Christianorum MDCLXXVI.
H.M.
Conjugi optime de se merito quicum L annos
concorditer vixerat Brigitta Edvardi Tyrelli
eq. aurat. filia, virginumque nobilium sereniss.
Catharinae reginae ancillantium (ut vocant) Mater
M.P.
[932]Sir W. Saunderson:--he did read and write to his dying day.
Sir Christopher Wren said that as he wrote not well so he wrote not
ill. He dyed at Whitehall (I was then there): went out like a spent
candle--died before Dr. <William> Holder could come to him with the
sacrament. Quaere his family and coat of arms.
=Sir Henry Savile= (1549-1621/2).
[933]Sir Henry Savill[BF], knight, was borne in Yorkshire (vide A.
Wood's _Antiq. Oxon._).... He was a younger (or <son> of a younger)
brother, not borne to a foot of land. He came to Merton Coll. Oxon.
<1565>; made Warden there <1585>.
He was a learned gentleman, as most was of his time. He would faine
have been thought (I have heard Mr. Hobbes say) to have been as great a
scholar as Joseph Scaliger. But as for mathematiques, I have heard Dr.
Wallis say that he look't on him to be as able a mathematician as any
of his time. He was an extraordinary handsome and beautifull man; no
lady had a finer complexion.
Queen Elizabeth favoured him much; he read (I think) Greeke and
Politiques to her. He was also preferred to be Provost of Eaton
colledge <1596>.
He was a very severe governour, the scholars hated him for his
austerity. He could not abide _witts_: when a young scholar was
recommended to him for a good witt, '_Out upon him, I'le have nothing
to doe with him; give me the ploding student. If I would look for witts
I would goe to Newgate, there be the witts_[LXXXI.];' and John Earles
(afterwards bishop of Sarum) was the only scholar that ever he tooke as
recommended for a witt, which was from Dr. <William> Goodwyn, <dean> of
Christ Church.
[LXXXI.] This I was told[BG] by Robert Skinner, bishop of Oxon, 1646.
He was not only a severe governor, but old Mr. Yates[BH] (who was
fellow in his time) would make lamentable complaints of him to his
dyeing day, that he did oppresse the fellows grievously, and he was so
great and a favourite to the Queen, that there was no dealing with
him; his naeve was that he was too much inflated with his learning and
riches.
He was very munificent, as appeares by the two lectures he has given of
Astronomy and Geometry. Bishop Seth Ward, of Sarum, has told me that
he first sent for Mr. <Edmund> Gunter, from London, (being of Oxford
university) to have been his[934] Professor of Geometrie: so he came
and brought with him his sector and quadrant, and fell to resolving of
triangles and doeing a great many fine things. Said the grave knight,
'_Doe you call this reading of Geometrie? This is shewing of tricks,
man!_' and so dismisst him with scorne, and sent for <Henry> Briggs,
from Cambridge.
I have heard Dr. Wallis say, that Sir H. Savill has sufficiently
confuted Joseph Scaliger de Quadratura Circuli, in the very margent
of the booke: and that sometimes when J. Scaliger sayes 'A B = C D ex
constructione,' Sir H. Savill writes sometimes in the margent, 'Et
dominatio vestra est asinus ex constructione.'
He left only one daughter, which was[935]maried to Sir ... Sedley,
of ... in Kent, mother to this present Sir Charles Sedley, who well
resembles his grandfather Savill in the face, but is not so proper a
man.
Sir H. Savill dyed at, and was buried at Eaton colledge, in the
chapell, on the south east side of the chancell, under a faire black
marble grave-stone, with this inscription:--
* * * * *
* * * * *
He had travelled very well, and had a generall acquaintance with the
learned men abroad; by which meanes he obtained from beyond sea, out of
their libraries, severall rare Greeke MSS., which he had copied by an
excellent amanuensis for the Greeke character.
... putt a trick upon him, for he gott a friend to send him weekely
over to ... in Flanders (I thinke), the sheetes of the curious
Chrysostome that were printed at Eaton, and translated them into
Latin, and printed them Greeke and Latin together, which quite spoyled
the sale of Sir Henry's.
Memorandum:--he gave his collection of mathematicall bookes to a
peculiar little library belonging to the Savillian Professors[BI].
_Notes._