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thors,-e. g. Tit. Livius, Plinii Hist. Natur. Suetonius Tranquillus, &c. One made this Epigram on him,

"Philemon with's Translations doeth so fill us, "He will not let SUETONIUS be TRANQUILLUS.”

WILLIAM HOLDER, D.D.

Was of Pembroke-hall, in Cambridge, where he had a Greek scholar's place. About 1640, he maried. . . . the.... daughter of . . . . Wren, Dean of Windsore, and Rector of Knowyll, in Wiltshire. A: D 1642, had his institution and induction for the rectorie of Bletchington, in Com. Oxon. In the troublesome times he was with his father-in-lawe, Wren, at the garrison of Bristowe. After the surrender of it to

the Parliament, he lived ..... years at Knowyll with him. A: about 1646, he went to Bletchington to his parsonage, where his hospitality and learning mixt with great courtesie, easily conciliated the love of all his neighbours to him. The deane came with him thither and dyed, and is buryed there. He was very helpfull in the education of his brother-in-law, Mr. Christopher Wren (now knighted), a youth of a prodigious inventive witt, and of whom he was as tender as

if he had been his own child, who gave him his first instructions in geometrie and arithmetique, and when he was a young scholar at the University of Oxford, was a very necessary and kind friend. The parsonage-house at Bletchington, was Mr. Chr. Wren's home, and retiring place; here he contemplated, and studied, and found out a great many curious things in Mathematiques. About this house he made severall curious dialls, with his owne hands, which are still to be seen. But to return to this honest worthy gentleman; he is a good poet. I have some very good verses in Latin on St Vincent's rocks, and the hott well, neere Bristowe. He is very musicall, both theorically and practically, and he had a sweet voyce. He hath writt an excellent Treatise on Musique, in English, which is writt both doctis et indoctis, and readie for the presse. He is extremely well qualified for the Sub-Deane of the King's Chapell, to which he was preferred A: 167. as likewise of the Sub-Almoner, being a person abhorring covetousness, and full of bowels (pitty).

A: 16.. Popham (the only son of... Popham, Admirall for the Parliament), being borne deafe and dumbe, was sent to him to learne to speake, which he taught him to doe: by what method and how soon, you may see in the Appendix to his Elements of Speech, S. London, printed... It is a most ingeniose and curious discourse, and untouched by any other; he was beholding to no

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author; did only consult with nature. This booke I sent to Mr. Anthony Lucas, at Liege, who very much admired it. I have desired him to translate it into French. Dr. Jo. Wallis unjustly arrogated the glory of teaching y° sayd young gentleman to speake, in the Philosophical Transactions, and in Dr. Rob. Plott's History of Oxfordshire; which occasioned Dr. Holder to write a against him, a pamphlet in 4t: 167. In Anno.... he was made a Prebendary of Ely. A.... had the parsonage of . . . . in Norfolk. He is a handsome gracefull person, of a just stature, roundish face, tall and well set, sanguine, thin skin, grey eies, of a delicate constitution, of an even and smooth temper, gracefull elocution; his discourse is gentle and obliging, so that if one would goe about to describe a perfect good man, would draw this Doctor's character. They say that morum similitudo conciliat amicitiam, then it will not be found strange that there should be such a conjunct friendship, between this worthy gentleman, and the right reverend father in God, Seth Ward, L' Bishop of Sarum, his coetanean in Cambridge.

It ought not to be forgott the great and exemplary love between the Doctor and his vertuose wife, who is not lesse to be admired in her sex and station, than her brother, Sir Christopher; and (which is rare to be found in a woman) her excellencies doe not inflate her. Among many

other gifts she has a strange sagacity as to cu ring of wounds, which she does not doe so much by presedents and receipt books, as by her own excogitancy, considering causes, effects, and circumstances. His Majte K. Ch. II. 167.. had hurt his.... hand, which he entrusted his chirurgians to make well; but they ordered him so, that they made it much worse, so that it swelled, and pained him up to his shoulder; and pained him so extremely that he could not sleep, and began to be feverish ..... told the King w' a rare shee-surgeon he had in his house; she was presently sent for at eleven o'clock at night. She made ready a pultisse, and apply'd it, and gave his Majte sudden ease, and he slept well; next day she dressed him, and in. . . . perfectly cured him, to the great griefe of all the

envy and hate her.

surgeons, who

Non Illo melior quisquam, nec amantior æqui
Vir fuit aut Illâ reverentior ulla Deorum.

OVID. Metam. lib. i.

WINCESLAUS HOLLAR (BOHEMUS)

Was borne at Prague, his father was a Knight of the Empire, wch is by letters patent under the Imperiall seale (as our Baronets), I have seen it. The scale is bigger then the broad seale of Eng

land in the middle is the Imperiall Coate; and round about it are the Coates of the Princes Electors. His father was a Protestant, and either for keeping a conventicle, or being taken at one, forfeited his estate, and was ruined by the Rom. Catholiques; he told me that when he was a school-boy he tooke a delight in drawing of mapps; `wch draughts he kept, and they were pretty. He was designed by his father to have been a lawyer, and was putt to that profession, when his father's troubles, together with the warres, forced him to leave his countrey. So y what he did for his delight and recreation only when a boy, proved to be his livelihood when a man, I thinke he stayd sometime in Lowe Germany, then he came into England, where he was very kindly entertained by that great patron of painters and draughts-men. L' High Marshall, E. of Arundell and Surrey, where he spent his time in drawing and copying rarities, wch he did etch (i. e. eate with aqua fortis in copper plates). When the Ld Marshall was ambassador to the Emperor of Germany to Vienna, he travelled with much grandeur, and among others, Mr. Hollar went with him (very well clad) to take viewes, landscapes, buildings, &c. remarqueable in their journey, wch wee see now at y print shoppes. He hath donne the most in that way that ever any one did, insomuch that I have heard Mr. Jo. Evelyn, R. S. S. say, that at sixpence a

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