[BW] Anthony Wood objects here: 'Dr. Corbet married Sir Nathaniel
Brent's daughter': see Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, i. 235.
=Thomas Sutton= (1532-1611).
[1028]... Sutton, founder of the Hospitall[1029]--from old Thomas
Tyndale, esq., the father--was first a garrison-soldier at
Barwick[1030]. He was a lusty healthy handsome fellowe, and there
was a very rich brewer who brewed to the navy, etc., who was ancient
and he had maried a young buxome wife.... The old brewer doted on
his desirable wife and dies and left her all his estate which was
great[1031].
Sutton was a man of good understanding, and improved it[1032] admirably
well, but the particular wayes by which he did it I have now forgot;
but he was much upon mortgages, and fed severall with hopes of being
his heire.
'Twas from him that B. Johnson tooke his hint of the fox, and by
Seigneur Volpone is meant Sutton.
The later end of his dayes he lived in Fleetstreet at a wollendraper's
shop opposite to Fetterlane, where he had so many great chests full of
money that his chamber was ready to groane under it; and Mr. Tyndale,
who knew him and I thinke had money of him on mortgage during his
lawe-suite (vide the lord Stafford's case in Coke's Reports), was
afrayd the roome would fall. He lived to establish his hospitall, and
was governor there himselfe. Obiit....
The earle of Dorset (I thinke, Richard) mightily courted him and
presented[1033] him, hoping to have been his heire; and so did severall
other great persons.
Vide his life in 4to.
=William Sutton= (1562-1632).
[1034]Mr. William Sutton came to Ch. Ch. Oxon at eleaven. He wrote
much, but printed nothing but a little 8vo against the Papists.
_Note._