that spot of light will be manifest when you cannot see any shadow.

He went to Dantzick to visit Hevelius, A: 167. December 1, 1680, went to Paris.

THOMAS HARIOT.*

Dr. Pell knowes not what countryman he was, but an Englishman he was†) he thinkes he dyed, about the time he (Dr. Pell) went to Cambridge. He sayes my Lord Jo. Vaughan can enforme me, and has a copie of his will, which vide.

Mr. Hariot went with Sir Walter Raleigh to Virginia, and has writt the Description of Virginia, which is printed. When . . . . Earle of

*From Dr. Jo. Pell, March 31, 1680.

+ Mr. Elias Ashmole thinkes he was a Lancashire man. Mem. S Robert Morsey declared at the R. Society, ('twas when the comet appeared before the Dutch warre) that S Francis Steward had heard Mr. Hariot say, that he had seen nine cometes, and had predicted seaven of them, but did not tell them how. 'Tis very strange: Excogitent Astronomi. This St Francis Stuart was uncle (or great uncle) to the present Dutchesse of Richmond. He was a sea-captaine, and (I thinke) he was one summer a vice or rere-admirall, He was a learned gentleman, and one of the club at the Mermayd, in Fryday street, with St Walter Raleigh, &c. of that sodalitie; heroes and witts of that time. Ben Jonson dedicated his "Silent Woman" to him.

Northumberland and Sir Walter Raleigh were both prisoners in the Tower, they grew acquainted, and Sir Walter Raleigh recommended Mr. Hariot to him, and the Earle setled an annuity of two hundred pounds a yeare on him for his life, which he enjoyed. But to Hues* (who wrote De Usu Globorum) and to Mr. Warner he gave an annuity but of sixty pounds per annum. These 3 were usually called the Earle of Northumberland's three Magi. They had a table at the Earle's chardge, and the Earle himself had them to converse with, singly or together. He was a great acquaintance of Master . . . . Ailesbury, to whom Dr. Corbet sent a letter in verse, Dec. 9, 1618, when the great blazing starre appeared.

"Now for the peace of God and men advise,

(Thou that hast wherewithall to make us wise,) "Thine own rich studies and deep Hariot's mine, "In which there is no drosse but all refine.

The Bp. of Sarum (Seth Ward) told me that one Mr. Haggar (a countryman of his), a gentleman and good mathematician, was well acquainted with Mr. Th. Hariot, and was wont to say, that he did not like (or valued it not) the old storie of the Creation of the World. He could not believe the old position, he would say, Ex nihilo

* Rob. Hues was buried in Xt Ch. Oxon.

nihil fit. But sayd Mr. Haggar, a nihilū killed him at last for in the top of his nose came a little red speck (exceeding small), which grew bigger and bigger, and at last killed him. I suppose it was that wch the Chirurgians call a noli me tangere.

Dr. Pell tells me that he finds amongst his papers (wch are now, 1684, in Dr. Busby's hands), an alphabet that he had contrived for the American language, like Devills.

He wrote a Description of Virginia, which is since printed in Mr. Purchas's Pilgrims.

V. Mr. Glanvill's Modern Improvement of Useful Knowledge, where he makes mention of Mr. Th. Hariot, pag. 33.

There is a place in Kent called Hariots-ham, now my Lord Wotton's; and in Worcestershire, in the parish of Droytwich, is a fine seat called Hariots, late the seate of Chiefe Baron Wyld.

Mr. Hariot dyed of an ulcer in his lippe. V. Dr. Read's Chirurgery, where he mentions him. as his patient, in the treatise of ulcers (or cancers).

He made a Philosophicall Theologie, wherin he cast off the Old Testament, and then the New one would (consequently) have no foundation. He was a Deist. His doctrine he taught to S Walter Raleigh, Henry Earle of Northumberland, and some others. The Divines of those times lookt on his manner of death as a judgement upon him for nullifying the Scripture.

JAMES HARRINGTON, ESQ.

Borne the first Fryday in January 1611, neer Northampton.

He was a

Commoner of Trinity Colledge, in Oxford. He travelled France, Italie, and y Netherlands; his genius lay chiefly towards the Politiques, and Democraticall Government. He was much respected by the Q. of Bohemia, who was bred up by the La Harrington's lady, and she owned the kindness of ye family. A: 1647, if not 6, he was by order of Parliament made one of his Majestie's Bedchamber, at Holmeby, &c. The King loved his company, only he would not endure to hear of a Commonwealth; and Mr. Harrington passionately loved his Majestie. Mr. Harrington and the King often disputed about Government. He was on the scaffold with the King when he was beheaded; and I have oftentimes heard him speak of K. Ch. I. with the greatest zeal and passion imaginable, and that his death gave him so great griefe that he contracted a disease by it; that never any thing did goe so neer to him. Mem. Mr. Herbert, the Traveller, was the other of his Bedchamber by order of Parliament, and was also on the scaffold. He gave them both there some watches.

He made severall Essayes in Poetry, viz. loveverses, &c. and translated.... booke of Virgill's

Æn.; but his Muse was rough, and Mr. Henry Nevill, an ingeniose and well-bred gent. a member of the H. of Commons, and an excellent (but concealed) Poet, was his great familiar and confident friend, and dissuaded him from tampering with Poetrie, which he did, invitâ Minervâ, and to improve his proper talent, viz. Political Reflections. Whereupon he writ his OCEANA, printed, London.... Mr. Hobbes was wont to say, that H. Nevill had a finger in yo pye; and 'tis like enough. That ingeniose tractat, together with his and H. Nevill's smart discourses and inculcations, dayly at Coffee-houses, made many Proselytes. In so much, that A: 1659, the beginning of Michaelmas-time, he had every night a meeting at the (then) Turke's head, in the New Pallace-yard, where they take water, the next house to the staires, at one Miles's, where was made purposely a large ovall-table, with a passage in the middle for Miles to deliver his Coffee. About it sate his disciples, and the virtuosi. The discourses in this kind were the most ingeniose, and smart, that ever I heard, or expect to heare, and larded with great eagernesse: the arguments in the Parl. house were but flatt to it. He now printed a little pamphlet called the ROTA, 4to. Here we had (very formally) a ballotting-box, and ballotted how things should be carried, by way of Tentamens. The room was every evening full as it could be crammed. I cannot now recount the