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growes lighter and lighter, and more glorious, till it is perfect day, so it was with the joy of the people. Maypoles, wch in the hypocriticall times, 'twas. . . . to sett up, now were sett up in crosse-way and at the Strand, neer Drury-lane, was sett up the most prodigious one for height, that perhaps was ever seen; they were faine (I remember) to have the assistance of the sea-man's art to elevate it; that wch remaines, (being broken with a high wind, I thinke about 1672) is but two parts of three of the whole height from the ground, besides what is in the earth. The juvenile and rustique folkes at that time had so much their fulluesse of desire in this kind, that I thinke there have been very few sett up since. The honours conferred on G. M. every one knowes. His sence might be good enough, but he was slow, and heavie. He dyed A. . . . and had a magnificent funerall, suitable to his greatnesse. His figure in his robes was very artificially donne, wch lay in a catafalco under a canopie, in or neer the east end of Westminster abbey, a month or 6 weekes. Seth Ward, La Bishop of Sarum (his great acquaintance), preached his Funerall Sermon, which is printed for. . . . . ... His eldest brother dyed single, about the time of the King's returne, his other brother, was made Bishop of Hereford. G. M. and his D. dyed within a day or two of each other. The Bp. of

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Sarum told me, that he did the last office of a confessor to his Grace, and closed his eies.

Some moneths before G. M.'s comeing into England, the King sent S: Richard Grenvill (since E. of B.) to him to negotiate with him, that he would doe him service, and to correspond with him. Sayd he, "If opportunity be, I will doc service; but I will not by any meanes hold any correspondence with him ;" and he did like a wise man in it; for if he had he would certainly have been betrayed.

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'Twas shrewd advice wch Wyld, then Recorder of London, gave to the Citizens, (i. e.) to keep their purse-strings fast, els the Parliament would have payd the army, and kept out the King.

He was first an ensigne, and after a captain in the Lowe-countreys, and for making false musters was like to have been. which he af

terwards did not.forget.

This underneath was writt on ye dore of ye House of Commons.

"Till it be understood

"What is under Monk's hood,

"The Citizens putt in their hornes.

* From Maj. Cosh.

"Untill the ten dayes are out, "The Speaker* has the gowt,

"And the Rumpe, they sitt upon thornes."

Mem. Mr. Baron Brampton invited me to his chamber to give me a farther account of Generall Monk. I let slip the opportunity, and my friend is dead.

hond

SIR JONAS MOORE

Was borne at Whitelee, in Lancashire, towards the Bishoprick of Durham.† He was inclined

* Lenthall.

† He was a clarke under Dr. Burghill, Chancellor of Durham. Parson Milbourne, in ye Bishoprick, putt him upon the Mathematiques, and instructed him in it. Then he came to the Middle Temple, London, where he published his Arithmetique, and taught it in Stanhope-street. After this, gott in with the Ld Gorges, Earle of Bedford, and Sir Tho. Chicheley, for the surveying of the fennes. From Captain Sherburne.

Mr. Gascoigne (of the North, I thinke Yorkshire), a person of good estate, a most learned gentleman, who was killed in the civil warres in the K.'s cause, a great mathematician, and bred by the Jesuites at Rome, gave him good information in mathematicall knowledge. Pray inquire of our friend, Mr. Ralph Sheldon, for as many memorialls of him as you can. He was one of the most accomplisht gent.

of his time.

to Mathematiques when a boy, wch some kind friends of his (whom he mentions in the preface of his first edition of his Arithmetique, dedicated to..... about 1647), and Edmund Wyld, Esq. and afterwards Mr. Oughtred more fully informed him; and then he taught gentlemen in London, wch was his livelyhood. When the great level of the fennes was to be surveyed, Mr. Wyld aforesaid was instrumentall in helping him to the employment of surveying it, wch was his rise, wh I have heard him acknowledge with much gratitude before severall persons of quality, since he was a knight, and wch evidenced an excellent good nature in him. Mem. When he surveyed the fennes, he observed the line that the sea made on the beach, which is not a streight line (quæ. what line?), by which meanes he gott great credit in keeping out the sea in Norfolke; so he made his banks against the sea of the same line, that the sea makes on the beach; and no other could doe it, but that the sea would still break in upon it. Mem. He made a modell of a citadell for Oliver Cromwell, to bridle the city of London, wch Mr. Wyld has; and this citadell was to have been the crosse building of St. Paule's church. Upon

I remember I have heard Sr Jonas saye, that when he began Mathematiques, he wonderfully profited by reading Billingsley's Euclid, and that 'twas his excellent, cleare, and plaine exposition of the 4th prop. of the first booke of the Elements, did first open and cleare his understanding.

the restauration of his Majestie he was made Master Surveyor of his Majestie's ordinance and armories. A. D. 167. he received the honour of knighthood. He was a good mathematician, and a good fellowe. He dyed at Godalming, comeing from Portsmouth to London, and was buried Septemb. 2, 1679, at the Tower Chapell, with sixtie pieces of ordinance.*

He always intended to have left his Library of Mathematical bookes to the Royall Societie, of which he was a member; but he happened to dye without making a will, whereby the R. Societie have a great losse. His only sonne, Jonas, had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him, August 9, 1680, at Windsor; his Majestie being pleased to give him this marke of his favour as well in consideration of his owne abilities, as of the faithfull service of his father deceased, (but young S: Jonas, when he is old, will never be old Sir Jonas, for all the Gazette's eulogie).†

Mem. Speake to S Chr. Wren to gett the wooden sphere that was made for Prince Hen. by Mr. Wright, out of young S: Jonas Moore's handes, into the King's again.

I remember S Jonas told us that a Jesuite (I think 'twas Grenbergerus, of the Roman College) found out a way of flying, and that he

Equall to the number of his yeares. very fat, thin skin, faire, cleare grey eie.

↑ London Gazette, N° 1537.

He was tall and

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