[CN] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'See of Sarum; impaling, azure a
cross moline or.' Dr. Philip Bliss has added the references 'see parts
ii and iii,' i.e. MSS. Aubr. 7 and 8, as cited _supra_.
[CO] Hawes resigned Sept. 12, and died Sept. 14, 1659. Ward was elected
on Sept. 14.
[CP] Thomas Pierce, installed dean May 4, 1675, died March 28,
1691. Anthony Wood comments on Pierce's quarrelsome and tyrannical
disposition; Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, i. 420.
[CQ] The paragraph in square brackets is a copy of the inscription on
the building, sent to Aubrey by some correspondent. Over the date is
the coat of arms, as above, ensigned with a mitre and encircled by the
Garter buckle and motto.
=Walter Warner= (15--- 1640).
[1210]From Dr. John Pell:--Mr Walter Warner:--his youngest brother was
High Sheriff of Leicestershire, about 1642. He and his brother dyed
both batchelors. Dr. Pell haz seen him that was sheriff; but was well
acquainted with Walter. The estate came to a middle brother, a lame man.
Walter had but one hand (borne so), he thinks a right hand; his mother
was frighted, which caused this deformity, so that instead of a left
hand, he had only a stump with five warts upon it, instead of a hand
and fingers. He wore a cuffe on it like a pockett. The Doctor never
sawe his stump, but Mr. Warner's man[1211] has told him so.
This Walter Warner was both mathematician and philosopher, and 'twas he
that putt-out Thomas Hariot's Algebra, though he mentions it not.
Mr. Warner did tell Dr. Pell, that when Dr. Harvey came out with his
Circulation of the Blood, he did wonder whence Dr. Harvey had it: but
comeing one day to the earle of Leicester, he found Dr. Harvey in the
hall, talking very familiarly with Mr. Prothero (_Wallicè_ ap Roderic),
to whom Mr. Warner had discoursed concerning this exercitation of his
_De Circulatione Sanguinis_, and made no question but Dr. Harvey had
his _hint_ from Prothero. Memorandum:--Dr. Pell sayes that Mr. Warner
rationated demonstratively by beates of the pulses that there must be a
circulation of the blood.
When Mr. Hariot dyed, he made Sir Thomas Alesbury and Mr. Prothero
his executors, by which meanes his papers came to be divided into two
hands. Those which fell to Sir Thomas Alesbury, fell, after his death,
to his sonne-in-lawe, Edward, earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, and
in his sonne's hands (this present, 1680, earle of Clarendon) 'tis
beleeved are those that are yet left; none of them were printed, save
that _Artis Analyticae Praxis_, which was printed by Mr. Warner
upon this occasion, viz. Sir Thomas Alesbury obtained of Algernon,
earle of Northumberland (son to that earle, prisoner in the Tower), a
continuation of the annuity, dureing Warner's life, upon condition that
he should, out of Mr. Hariot's papers, drawe out some piece fitt to be
published[1212], which he did, under the title aforesayd, in folio,
1631, London: but did not sett his name to it, and accordingly Warner
had his money as long as he lived. The other part of Mr. Hariot's
papers, which were in Mr. Prothero's keeping, came to the hands of the
lord John Vaughan, eldest son to the earle of Carbery, lately governor
of Jamaica, which vide.
Mr. Warner's youngest brother was a good husband and an industrious
man, and would say that had he so much money, he could improve it to
very great advantage; wherupon his eldest brother (Walter) did lett
him sell his land, by which meanes he did so improve his estate by
graseing, etc. that he became High Sheriff as aforesaid (quaere of the
attorneys when). Dr. Pell has seen him, and spake with him.
Mr. Walter Warner made an Inverted Logarithmicall Table, i.e. whereas
Briggs's table fills his margin with numbers encreasing by unites,
and over-against them setts their logarithms, which because of
incommensurability must needs <be> either abundant or deficient; Mr.
Warner (like a dictionary of the Latine before the English) fills the
margin with logarithmes encreasing by unites, and[1213] setts[C.] to
every one of them so many continuall meane proportionalls between 1
and 10[1214], and they for the same reason must also have the last
figure incompleat. These, after the death of Mr. Warner, came to the
hands of Mr. Herbert Thorndyke, prebendary of Westminster, and by him
left in the hands of Dr. Richard Busby, schoolmaster and prebendary
of Westminster, which, before Mr. John Pell grew acquainted with Mr.
Warner, were ten thousand, and at Mr. Warner's request were by Mr.
Pell's hands, or direction, made a hundred thousand. The difference of
the hands will shew the workman's in the originalls, which Dr. Busby
haz.
[C.] Vide my letter with Mr. Hooke's response, 1690.
Memorandum:--he wrote a Treatise of Coynes in relation to mint
affaires, of which Mr. John Collins haz a copie:--from Mr. Herbert
Thorndyke.
The sixth booke of Optiques in Merçennus is expressly his; the 7th is
Mr. Thomas Hobbs's.
Mr. Tovey, of Leicestershire, was his kinsman: he could tell when and
where he dyed:--from Seth <Ward>, bishop of Sarum.
The bishop thinkes he was of Cambridge university, but is not certaine.
Dr. Pell believes that he was of no university.
Quaere Dr. Pell, what is the use of those Inverted Logarithmes? for
W. Warner would not doe such a thing in vaine. Mr. Tovey was fellowe
of Christ College in Cambridge; was beneficed in Leicestershire; and
maried a neice of Mr. Warner's; and from Mr. Tovey they[1215] came to
Mr. Thorndyke.
=William Watson= (15--- 1603).
[1216]... Watson, who wrote the _Quodlibets_[1217], was taken in a
field by the Hay in Herefordshire (or Brecknockshire--vide the mapp) by
Mr. ... Vaughan, and was executed, at Brecknock (as I take it). 'Twas
observed that Mr. Vaughan did never prosper afterwards.
=George Webb= (1581-1641).
[1218]Dr. ... Webbe, one of king Charles I's chaplaines, afterwards
bishop of Limrick in Ireland, hath some sermons, or divinity, in print;
and a translation of Terence, English and Latin.
He dyed and was buried in Limrick about two or three daies before the
towne was taken by the Irish, who digged up the body again--it was
about 1642.
He was of Corpus Christi College, Oxon: borne at Brumhum in Wiltshire.
[1219]I confess I doe not like that super-zeale in the Canon Lawe, not
to let alone there the bodys of heretiques. It is too inhumane.--This,
as to the bishop's body being digged up again, which I feare was so:
for his nephew who was his archdeacon, was with him when he dyed and
the towne taken, and I remember, being then a fresh man, I heard him
tell the story. He was minister next parish to Mr. Hine.
=... Webb.=
[1220]Dr. Webb:--his way of teaching children, in Duck lane. It taught
them also to make verses. He wrote severall bookes--from Mr. Michael
Weekes: quaere +.
=John Wells.=
[1221]John Wells[CR], esq.:--he was borne at ..., educated at.... He
was a Roman Catholique. He published an excellent treatise of dialling,
entituled[1222]:--
Sciographia, or the art of shadowes, plainely demonstrating out of the
sphaere how to project both great and small circles upon any plane
whatsoever, with a new conceit of the reflecting of the sunne beames
upon a diall contrived upon a plane which the direct beame can never
shine upon, together with the manner of cutting the five regular
Platonical bodies and two other the one of 12, the other of 30 rhombes
never discovered heretofore, also the finding of their declinations and
reclinations and adorning them with variety of dialls, all performed
by the doctrine of triangles, and for ease and delight sake by helpe
of the late invented and worthily admired numbers called by the first
inventor logorithmes; by John Wells, esquire; London, printed by Thomas
Harper and are to be sold in Paul's churchyard at the signe of the
Bell, 1635.
Mr. Henry Gellibrand, professor of <Astronomy> at Gresham College, hath
put a learned preface to it, wherein it is mencioned that Mr. Henry
Brigges and Mr. Edmund Gunter did earnestly sollicite Mr. Wells to
publish it.
[1223]<In> Deptford <church at the> east end <of the> south aisle <on
a> white marble:--
Memoriae Sacrum.
Hic sita est Catherina Welles, generosa,
summae pietatis et virtutis, filia Thomae
Wailinger armigeri et Benedictae Gonson
primogenita, uxor charissima Johannis
Welles armigeri pro regia classe pridem
diribitoris ejusque navalium armamentorum
per triginta plus annos totius Angliae generalis
custodis, cui septem filios sexque filias
feliciter enixa est, quarum duo nati
tres natae hîc unâ cum illa contumulantur.
Animam coelo pie reddidit 5 Julii 1634
aetatis 47 felicem in Christo resurrectionem
indubitanter expectans.
Ad maritum superstitem.
Pignora conjugii remanent tibi plurima nostri,
Pluraque praemisit mors mihi dira rogo:
Parte fruor tumulo, reliqua tibi prole relicta;
Festina charos lentus ad hos cineres.
_Note._