apple-tree, he lett them stand, and planted vines at the bottome, and lett them climbe up, and they would beare very well. He was one of my councell in my law-suites in Breconshire about the entaile. He had a kindnesse for me and invited me to his house, and told me a great many fine things, both naturall and antiquarian. He was very facetious, and a good musitian, playd on the organ and lute. He could compose. He was much troubled with flegme, and being so one winter at the court at Ludlowe (where he was one of the counsellours), sitting by the fire, spitting and spewling, he tooke a fine teader sprig, and tied a ragge at the end, and conceived he might putt it downe his throate, and fetch up the flegme, and he did so. Afterwards he made this instrument of whale-bone. I have oftentimes seen him use it. I could never make it goe downe my throate, but for those that can 'tis a most incomparable engine. If troubled with the wind it cures you immediately. It makes you vomit without any paine, and besides, the vomits of apothecaries have aliquid veneni in them. He wrote a little So. booke, of this way of medicine, called Organon Salutis: London, printed for Daniel Pakeman, at the Rainebowe, in Fleet-street, 1659, the second edition. I had a young fellow, that was my servant, that used it incomparably, more easily than the Judge; he made them. In Wilts, among my things, are

some of his making still. The Judge sayd he never sawe any one use it so dextrously in his life. It is no paine, when downe y' throate; he would touch the bottome of his stomach with it.

DR. ROBERT SANDERSON,

(Lord Bishop of Lincoln,)

Would confesse to his intimate friends, that he studied and mastered only, Tully's Offices,* Tho. Aquinas's Secunda Secundæ, and Aristotle's Rhetorique, and that all other bookes he read but cursorily (but he had forgott, by his favour, to speake of Aristot. Organon, and Logique bookes, els he could never have compiled his owne excellent Logique.) From Seth Ward, Bp. of Sarum, and Pierson, Bp. of Chester, his great friends. And Bp. Ward sayd, that he would doe the like were he to begin the world again. He was a lover of musique, and was wont to play on his base violl, and also to sing to it. He was a lover of heraldry, and gave it in charge in his articles of enquiry; but the clergie-men made him such a lamentable imperfect returne, that it sig

his bosome.

Harsenet, A.B. of Yorke, alwayes carried it in

nified nothing. The very Parliamentarians reverenced him for his learning and his vertue, so that he always kept his living, quod N.B. (The information in the Oxon. Antiq, was false.) He had no great memorie, I am certaine not a sure one; when I was a freshman and heard him read his first lecture, he was out in the Lord's Prayer. He always read his sermons and lectures. Had his memorie been greater his judgement had been lesse: they are like two well-buckets. In his Logique, he recommends disputation to young men, as the best exercise for young witts. Under his picture, before his booke, is, Ætat. 76, 1662.

SR HENRY SAVILL, KNIGHT,

Was borne in Yorkshire. Vide A. Wood, Antiq. Oxon. He was a younger, or of a younger brother, not borne to a foot of land. He came to Merton coll. Oxon. Made Warden there

He was a learned

gentleman as most of his time; he would faine have been thought (I have heard Mr. Hobbes say) to have been as great a scholar as Joseph Scaliger. But as for mathematiques, I have heard Dr. Wallis say, that he lookt on him to be as able a mathematician as any of his time. He was an extraordinary handsome man; no lady

had a finer complexion. Q. Eliz. favoured him much; he read (I think) Greeke and Politiques to her. He was also preferred to be Provost of Eaton colledge. He was a very severe governour, the scholars hated him for his austerity. He could not abide witts: when a young scholar was recommended to him for a good witt, "Out upon him, I'le have nothing to doe with him, give "me the plodding student. If I would look for "witts I would goe to Newgate, there be the "witts;"'* and John Earle (afterward Bp. of Sarum) was the only scholar that ever he tooke as recommended for a witt, wch was from Dr. Goodwyn, of Christ Church. He was not only a severe governour, but old Mr. Yates (who was fellow in his time) would make lamentable complaints of him to his dyeing day, that he did oppresse the fellows grievously, and he was so great a favourite to the Queen, that there was no dealing with him, his næve was that he was too much inflated with his luxury and riches. He was very munificent, as appears by the two lectures he has given of astronomy and geometry. Bp. Seth Ward, of Sarum, has told me that he first sent for Mr. .. Gunter, from London, (being at Oxford university) to be his Professor of Geometrie, so he came and brought with him his sector and quadrant, and fell to resolving

*This I was told by Rob. Skinner, Bp. of Oxon, 1646.

of triangles and doeing a great many fine things. Said the grave knight, "Doe you call this reading of Geometrie? This is shewing of tricks, man-" and so dismissed him with scorne, and sent for Briggs, from Cambridge. I have heard Dr. Wallis say, that S: H. Savill has sufficiently confuted Joseph Scaliger de Quadratura Circuli, in the very margent of the booke: and that sometimes when J. Scaliger sayes A B C D ex constructione, S: H. Savill writes sometimes in the margent, Et Dominatio vestra est asinus ex constructione. He left only one daughter, which was maried to Sir..... Sedley, of . . . . in Kent, mother to this present Sir Charles Sedley, who well resembles his grandfather Savill in the face, but is not so proper a man. S: H. Savill dyed at, and was buried at Eaton colledge, in the chapell, on the South east side of the chancell, under a faire black marble grave-stone, with this inscription.* He had travelled very well, and had a generall acquaintance with the learned men abroad; by which meanes he obtained from beyond sea, out of their libraries, severall rare Greeke MSS. which he had copied, by an excellent amanuensis for the Greeke character.

putt a trick upon him, for he gott a friend to send him weekly over to in Flanders (I thinke), the

sheetes of the curious Chrysostome, that were

* [Not inserted in the life. EDIT.]