[CS] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'<argent, on a fesse gules
between 3 eagles' heads, erased sable, 3 escallops or> [Wilmot];
impaling, azure, 3 escallops or [Malet],' surmounted by an earl's
coronet, and wreathed in laurel (for a poet). The top of fol. 55 has
been cut off, the writing on the recto side having previously been
scored out: I think the mutilation is due to Aubrey himself.
=Edmund Wingate= (1593-1656).
[1262]Edmund Wingate, esq., was a Bedfordshire man, I thinke; recorder
of Bedford--there you may learne, or at my lord Bruce's (now Alesbury).
_Scripsit_--Arithmetica;
Logarithmotechnia, with solution of triangles;
another little booke of working on a line of numbers;
Abridgment of the Statutes,....
He was of Graye's Inne, and dyed.... His yonger sonne was Mr. <Fabian>
Stedman's fellow prentice; since turned a musquetere. He can tell me
everything. He did wayte at the Tower.
[1263]Edmund Wingate dyed at Mr. Bayles howse in Gray's Inne lane, and
was buried at St. Andrewe's, Holborne, the 13 Decemb. anno Domini 1656.
=George Withers= (1588-1667).
[1264]Mr. George Withers (vide A. Wood's _Antiq. Oxon._) was borne at
Bentworth, near Alton, in Hantshire, on the eleaventh of June, 1588.
He maried Elizabeth, eldest daughter of H. Emerson, of South Lambeth,
in com. Surrey, esqre, whose ancestors lye entombed in the choeur of
St. Savior's, Southwark, neer the monument of bishop Andrewes, with a
statue of white marble. She was a great witt, and would write in verse
too.
He was of <Magdalen College> in Oxford. He would make verses as fast
as he could write them. And though he was an easie rymer, and no good
poet, he was a good _vates_. He had a strange sagacity and foresight
into mundane affaires.
He was an early observator of _Quicquid agunt homines_; his witt was
satyricall. I thinke the first thing he wrote was 'Abuses whipt and
stript,' for which he was committed prisoner to ...[1265] (I beleeve,
Newgate). I believe 'twas tempore Jacobi regis. He was a captain in the
Parliament army, and the Parliament gave him for his service Mr. John
Denham's estate at Egham, in Surrey. The motto of his colours was, _Pro
Rege, Lege, Grege_.
After the restauration of his majestie he was imprisoned in the Tower
about three quarters of a yeare. He died the 2d of May, 1667, and lieth
interred within the east dore of the Savoy church, where he dyed. He
was pupill to bishop <John> Warner, of Rochester.
[1266]George Wythers, poet:--vide memorandum 1673 + μ de G. W.[1267]
=Theophilus Wodenote= (senior).
[1268]Theophilus Woodenoth[CT], B.D.--his father[CU] was a Cheshire
gentleman of that ancient family; was minister[1269] of Lankenhorn in
Cornwall, in which place his sonne succeeded him--
'In Cornwall at a parish Lankenhorn
Neer Launceston six miles southwards was I born.'
When I was a school-boy he[1270] lived two yeares with his brother ...
Peyton, vicar of Chalke, being obnoxious to danger of arests.
He did me much good in opening of my understanding; advised me to read
lord Bacon's Essayes and an olde booke of proverbs (English); answered
me my questions of antiq<uities>, etc.
He was an Eaton scholar and fellow of King's College, Cambridge,
contemporary with Dr. <Samuel> Colins.
He wrote in his solitude at Chalke a little manuall called 'Good
thoughts in bad times,' as I take it. I remember 'tis dedicated to his
cosen ... Wodenoth of Cheshire, esq.
_Notes._