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Munday and Slatter,

Oxford,

MR. SAMUEL FOSTER

WAS borne at Coventry (as I take it); he was sometime usher of the schoole there. Was professor of .. at Gresham colledge, London,

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yeares, where in his lodgeing, on the wall, in his chamber, is, of his own hand draweing, the best diall I doe verily beleeve in the whole world. Inter &c. it shews you what a clock 'tis at Jerusalem, Gran-Cairo, &c. It is drawen very artificially. He dyed July 1652, buryed at St Peter's the Poor, in Broad-street, London. A neighbour of Mr. Paschall's, neer Bridgewater, in Somerset, hath all his MSS, wch I have

seen.

THOMAS FULLER, D.D.

Borne at Orwincle,* in Northamptonshire; his father was minister there, and maried ..... one

VOL. II.

* J. Dryden, Poete, was borne here.

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of the sisters of John Davenant, Bp. of Sarum.* He was a boy of a pregnant witt, and when the Bp, and his father were discoursing, he would be by and hearken, and now and then putt in, and sometimes beyond expectation, or his yeares.He was of a middle stature; strong sett; curled haire; a very working head, in so much, that walking and meditating before dinner, he would eate up a penny loafe, not knowing that he did it. His naturall memorie was very great, to wch he added the art of memorie: He would repeate to you forwards and backwards all the signes from Ludgate to Charing-crosse. He was fellow of Sydney coll. in Cambr. where he wrote his "Divine Poemes." He was first minister of Broad Windsor, in Dorset, and prebendary of the church of Sarum. He was sequestered, being a royalist, and was afterwards minister of Waltham-crosse, in Essex, and also of the Savoy, in the Strand, where he died, and is buried, not long after the restauration of his majestie. He was a pleasant facetious person, and a bonus socius.

Scripsit" Holy Warre;" "Holy State ;"" Pisgah Sight;"" England's Worthies;" Severall Sermons; among others, a Funerall Sermon on Hen. Danvers, Esq. the eldest son of S: John

* From Dr. Edw. Davenant.

Danvers,* (and only [son] by his second wife, Darteby) brother to H. E. of Danby, preached at Lavington, in Wilts. Obijt 19: Novemb.

GASCOIGNE, ESQ.

Of Middleton, neer Leeds, in Yorkshire, was killed at the battle of Marston Moore, about the age of 24 or 25 at most. Mr. Towneley, of Towneley, in Lancashire, Esq. hath his papers. From Mr. Edm, Flamstead, who sayes he found out the way of improveing Telescopes before Des Cartes. Mr. Edm. Flamstead tells me, Sept. 1682, that 'twas at Yorke fight he was slaine.

HENRY GELLIBRAND

Was borne in London. He was of Trinity Colledge, in Oxon. Dr. Potter and Dr. Hobbes knew him. Dr. Han. Potter was his tutor, and preached his funeral sermon in London. They

* His first wife was the Lady Herbert, a widowe, mother of the La Edw. Herbert, of Cherbury, and George Herbert, orator. By her he had no issue; she was old enough to have been his mother. He maried her for love of her witt. The E. of Danby was greatly displeased with him for this disagreeable match.

told me that he was good for little, till at last it happened accidentally, that he heard a Mathematical Lecture. He was so taken with it, that immediately he fell to studying it, and quickly made great progress in it. The fine diall over the Colledge Library is his owne doeing. Construxit Logarithmos Henrici Briggs, jussu Autoris TË μanapíтs, 1631. He was, Astronomy Professor in Collegio Greshamensi, Lond. Scripsit Trigonometriam. He being one time in the country, shewed the trick of telling what card you touched, which was by combination with his confederate, who had a string that was tied to his leg, and the leg of the other, by which his confederate gave him notice by the touch; but by this trick, he was reported to be a conjuror.

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The learned herald, Mr. . . . . Glover, was borne at . . . . . . . in Somersetshire; V. Fuller's "Worthies" de hoc. I have heard S Wm. Dugdale say, that though Mr. Camden had the name, yet Mr. Glover was the best herald that did ever belong to the office. He tooke a great deale of paines in searching the antiquities of severall counties. He wrote a most delicate hand, and pourtrayed finely. There is (or late was) a

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