[CA] This letter from Charles Snell to Aubrey is sealed with the
following coat:--'... a cross pattée crossed; quartering, ... 3 roses
on a fess between 6 martlets.'
Aubrey has on it a jotting 'Memorandum his life as to Dove,' and in MS.
Aubr. 8, fol. 15, the note 'Mr. ... Tombes: mend the mistake of ...
Dove's widdowe,' i.e. _supra_, p. 259, correct the statement that 'he
maried the widowe of ... Dove.' He married the widow of Wolston Abbott
of Salisbury: Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 360: July 14, 1681.
[CB] George Penruddock, of Broad Chalk, born at Westminster.--MS. Aubr.
23, fol. 61.
=Ezreel Tonge= (1621-1680).
[1088]Ezreel Tong[CC], D.D., was borne at Tickell, in Yorkshire,
between Bautre and Doncaster.
Obiit ... Decemb., sepultus 23 Decemb. <1680> in the vault of
the church-yard of St. Mary Stayning, London; where, before the
conflagration, was a church, of which he was the parson[1089]; but I
have heard his brother, captain Tong (of the King's Guards) say 'twas
worth but 18 _li._ per annum, for he had gathered it.
Mr. <Thomas> Jones (who preached his funerall sermon: printed) sayes
that he haz left two tomes in folio of alchymie. His excellency lay
_there_.
About 1658, or 1659, the then-Power made an Academie of the Bishop's
Pallace at Durham, for the benefit of the North. Dr. Tonge was the
governour, or one of the professors. Ned Bagshawe was proposed to have
been another. The Dr. had an excellent schoole there, and followed
precisely the Jesuites' method of teaching; and boyes did profit
wonderfully, as needes they must, by that method.
He afterwards taught at Islington, at Sir Thomas Fisher's house[CD],
where was a long gallery, and he had severall printed heads of Caesars,
&c.; verbes under such a head, governed a dative case; under another,
an ablative. The boyes had it as readie as could be. I have been there.
[1090]Ezerel Tong, D.D.:--Mr. Cadnam, bookeseller, New Exchange, hath
his papers, among which is a MS. (folio) of chymistrie: quaere title.
Respondet quod non: Captain Tonge (his brother) gave all his papers to
my lord Culpepper[1091], when he went to Virginia. I spake to Sir R.
Reding to quaere <about them>, and my lord heeded not such things. So
there is a precious collection of other men's labours lost.
[1092]Ezerel Tong, D.D., invented (among other things) the way of
teaching children to write a good hand in twenty dayes' time, by
writing over, with black inke, copies printed from copper-plates in
red inke:--viz., the children (scilicet, about 8 or 9 aetatis) were
to do it four howers in the day; i.e. 2 howers or 2 halfe-howers in
the morning at a time (as the boyes' temper could endure it, without
tyring him); and then to play as long; and then to it again, to
keep up the idea in the child fresh. Since his death, Mr. Robert
Moray (projector[1093] of the Penney Post) haz engraven severall
plates printed-off in red letters, by which meanes boyes learne (to
admiration) as aforesayd--quod N.B.
His funerall sermon was preached in the church of St. Michael,
Wood-street; the church of St. Mary Stayning being burn't, and never to
be re-edified, but both parishes putt together.
_Notes._