Thomas Stapleton, of Henfield, Sussex, adm. probationer of New College
Jan. 18, 1552/3; adm. Fellow Jan. 18, 1554/5: resigned his fellowship
in 1559.
=Thomas Stephens= (1620-16--).
[1001]Mr. Steevens[1002], formerly of Pembrocke College, my old
acquaintance there; but formerly at Blandford schole in Dorset, where
he was usher about a yeare and by whom I reap't much information: since
schoolemaster of Buckingham; and last, of Worcester: a very good and
ingeniose person.
=Richard Stokes= (16--- 1681).
[1003]<Richard> Stokes, M.D.--his father was fellow of Eaton College
(quaere if not prebend of Windsor[1004], and if not schoolmaster of
Eaton? quaere Christopher Wase de hiis).
He was bred there and at King's College. Scholar to Mr. W. Oughtred
for Mathematiques (Algebra). He made himselfe mad with it, but became
sober again, but I feare like a crackt glasse: vide my Lives[1005], and
Surrey notes[1006]. Edidit Mr. Oughtred's 'Trigonometrie.' Became a
Roman Catholique; maried unhappily at Liege, dog and catt, etc. Became
a sott. Dyed in Newgate, prisoner for debt, ... April, 1681 (quaere Mr.
Everard diem).
=John Stowe= (1525-1605).
[1007]He was of the company of the Merchant Taylors, as by the
scutcheon of that company[1008] doeth appeare--quaere +[1009] of that
company.
St. Andrewes Undershaft, London, i.e. under, or by, the Maypole, which
was anciently called a shaft. It stood over against the west end of the
church, where now Mr. <Michael> Weekes's howse is.
His monument is in effige, sitting with a little table before him, with
a booke. He was a handsome sanguine old man. 'Tis well carved (of wood)
and painted.