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coffee-house at the upper end of Bell-yard, (or Shier-lane) under his owne hand, a Visitation of Cheshire, a most curious piece, wh S: Wm. Dugdale wish❜t me to see; and he told me that at York, at some ordinary house (I thinke a house of entertainment) he sawe such an elaborate piece of Yorkshire. Severall counties he surveyd, and that with great exactnes, but after his death they were all scattered abroad, and fell into ignorant hands. He lies interred neer Mr. Foxe's monument (who wrote "The Martyrologie") in St. Giles' Cripplegate Chancell, but I could not find any inscription concerning him. Qu. the register when he was buried. 'Twas Mr. Jo. Gibbons, Blewmantle, told me he was buried here, I thinke Mr. Glover was Blewmantle.

JONATHAN GODARD, M.D.

Borne at Greenwich (or Rochester, where his father commonly lived, but to my best remembrance, he told me at the former). His father was a ship carpenter. He was of Magdalen hall, Oxon. He was one of the College of Physitians, in London; Warden of Merton coll. Oxon; Physitian to Oliver Cromwell, protector; went with him into Ireland. Qu. if not sent to him into Scotland, when

he was so dangerously ill there of a kind of calen. ture or high fever, weh made him [so] mad, that he pistolled one or two of his commanders that came to visit him in his rage. Collegii Greshamensis prælectoris* medicine; where he lived, and had his laboratory for Chymistry. He was an admirable Chymist. He had three or four medicines wherewith he did all his cures: a great ingredient was Radix Serpentaria. (From Mr. Mich. Weekes, who looked to his stills). He intended to have left his library and papers to the Royall Socictie, had he made his will, and had not dyed so suddainly. So that his bookes (a good collec tion) are fallen into the hands of a sister's son, a scholar in Caius coll. Camb. But his papers are in the hands of St John Bankes, Reg. Soc. Socius. There were his lectures at Chirurgions' hall, and two manuscripts in 4to. thicke volumes, readie for the presse, one was a kind of Pharmacopoeia.t 'Tis possible that his rare universall medicines aforesayd might be retrieved amongst his papers.‡ He was fellowe of the Royal Societie, and a zealous member for the improvement of naturall knowledge amongst them. They made him their drudge, for when any curious experiment was to be donne they would lay the taske on him. He

[Sic. EDIT.]

+ His nephew has this.

My Lord Brounker has the B but will not impart is

was most curious in his wines, but dranke not to excesse. He was hospitable. It happened that comeing from his club at ye Crowne taverne, in Bloomesbery, at foote, at eleaven at night, he fell downe dead of an apoplexie in Cheapside; at Wood-street end, March 24, A: D 1674-5, ætat. 56. Sepult. in the church of Great S: Helen, Londini.

SIR EDMUND BURY GODFREY

Was of Christ's Church, in Oxon, and chamber-fellowe to my cos. W. Morgan, of Wells, in Peckwater, in N. East angle. He was afterwards of Grayes Inne, and chamber-fellowe to my counsell, Tho. Corbet, Esq. I thinke Mr. Corbet told me he was called to the barre. But by match, or &c. he conceived he should gaine more by turning word-monger. The rest of his life and death is Lippis et Tonsoribus notum.

Knighted for his great service done in London

fire.

* [In the hand-writing of Anthony à Wood. EDIT.]

GOODWYN.

...

He was borne in Norfolke. I beleeve of the university of Cambridge. He was. of the court of Ludlowe (in wth place Jack Butts was his successor). He maried first Barbara.. dau. of S: W. Long, of Draycot-Cerne, in Wilts: 2d..... Brabazon, of .... Herefordsh. obiit sine prole. He was a generall scholar, and had a delicate witt; was a great historian, and an excellent poet. He wrote, among other things, "A Pastorall, acted at Ludlowe" about 1637, an exquisite piece. The journey into France crept in. B. Corbet's poems was* made by him, by the same token it made him misse of the preferment of... at court. M. the Q, mother remembring how he had abused her brother, the K. of France; which made him to accept of the place at Ludlowe, out of the view of the world. When he sat in court there, he was wont to have Thuanus, or Tacitus, or &c. before him. He was as fine a gentleman though now forgott. Obijt,

as any in England,

at or about Ludlowe, circiter.....

GREGORIE,

The famous peruque maker, was buryed at St.

Clement's Danes church dore West.

INS. in

* [Sic. EDIT.]

Rhyme, from Baron Gregory, Baron of the Exchequer. Vide Cotgrave's French Dictionary, ubi Peruques are called Gregorians.

SIR FULKE GREVILLE,

(Lord Brookes),

Adopted a parke-keeper's sonne his heire, who (I thinke) had but one eie. Vide de hoc in Dr. Heylin's Historie of the Church of England. Lord Brookes was maried to ... da. of the Earle of Bedford. He was killed at the siege of Lichfield, March the 2d, (St. Chad's day, to whom the Church is dedicated) by a minister's sonne, borne deafe and dumbe, out of the church. He was armed cap à pied, only his bever was open. I was then at Trinity coll. in Oxon. and doe perfectly remember the story.

The Lord Brookes, that was killed at Lichfield, printed a booke about Religion, a little before the civill warres, by the same token that in the libelling song-Characters on the Lords then, he was," Brooke is a foole in print."

...

"Poems" in folio, London, printed . . "The Life of the renowned S: Philip Sidney, "with the true Interest of England, as it then "stood in relation to all Forrein Princes: And

particularly for suppressing the power of Spain,

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