[CV] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:--'sable, on a cross engrailed
argent a lion passant gules between 4 leopards' faces or, on a chief
or a rose gules between 2 Cornish choughs proper,' ensigned with
Cardinal's hat and strings, gules.
[CW] Aubrey wrote 'a very rich Gothique ...,' and added a note in the
margin 'quaere Sir Chr. W<ren> _nomen_.' Wren told him 'water-table,'
which he then inserted in the text, striking out the marginal note.
In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 4ᵛ, is the note:--'_Basis_, or _list_, or I
thinke they call it _the water-table_, of the parish church wall at
St. Edmundsbury in Suffolke. Of which fashion was the foundation of
that famous began chapell or cathedrall of Cardinal Wolsey's which went
towards the Blew-bore in Oxford, and pulled downe by deane Fell about
1671. Magdalen parish <-church> tower <Oxford> is also of this fashion,
viz. of Henry VIII.'
=Anthony Wood= (1632-1695).
[1281]Mr. Anthony à Wood, M.A., antiquarius, in his lettre to me, Palm
Sunday March 23, 1672, writes thus, viz. 'My nativity I cannot yet
retrive; but by talking with an ancient servant of my father's I find
I was borne on the 17 of Decemb., but the year when I am not certain:
'twas possibly about 1647.--John Selden was borne the 16 of December
and Sir Symonds Dews the 17. But of these matters I shall tell you more
when my trouble is over.'
=Sir Christopher Wren= (1631-1723).
[1282]Sir Christopher Wren[CX], surveyor of his majestie's buildings,
borne at ... Knahill[1283] in the parsonage-howse in the county of
Wiltes neer Shaftesbury, Thursday, October 20, 1631[CY], 8ʰ P.M.--the
bell rang VIII as his mother fell in labour with him (from himselfe).
He was knighted[CZ] at Whitehall on Friday, 14th November 1673, at 5ʰ
A.M. (from Mr. Robert Hooke, the next day).
[1284]Anno 1669, Dr. Christopher Wren was invited by the bishop of
Sarum (Seth Ward), where he made a particular survey of the cathedrall
church[DA]. He was at least a weeke about it, and a curious discourse
it was: it was not above two sheetes. Upon my writing _The Natural
History of Wilts_, I had occasion to insert it there, and they told me
that it was lent to somebody--they could not tell to whom. But in Febr.
last Mr. Cole thinks it not unlikely that Mr. Nash (the surveyor of the
fabrick) of Sarum may have that paper. I desired him to enquire but
have not yet received any answer.
<_Pedigree_: in MS. Aubr. 7, fol. 28ᵛ.>
... Wren, of Ipswych _m._ ...
in Suffolke. |
|
... Wren, a wealthy _m._ ...
citizen in Cheapside |
(quaere if not a |
millener). |
+---------------------------------+-+
| |
Matthew Wren, _m._ ... Christopher Wren, _m._ ... Cox, of Funthill
Lord Bishop | second son, deane | in com. Wilts.
of Ely. | of Windsor |
+--------------+---------+ |
| | |
Matthew Wren, secretary |
to the Lord Chancellor |
Hyde, then to the duke |
of Yorke. |
+-----------------------+-----------------------+
| |
Faith, daughter _m._ Sir Christopher _m._ <Jane> Fitzwilliams, |
of Sir Thomas Wren. daughter of the lord |
Coghill of Blech- Fitzwilliams in North- |
ington in com. amptonshire, second |
Oxon., first wife, wife, A.D.... |
A.D.... |
|
+----------------------------------------------------+
|
... _m._ William
| Holder, D.D.,
| sub-deane of
| the king's
| chapel.
|
sine prole.
_Notes._