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Sydney colledge a thousand poundes. He has perused all the records of the Church of Sarum, which, with long lyeing, had been conglutinated, read them all over, and taken abridgements of them, wch has not been donne by any of his predecessors, I believe, some hundreds of yeares. He had an admirable habit of body (athletique, wch was a fault), a handsome man, pleasant and sanguine, he did not desire to have his wisdome judged by the gravity of his beard, but his prudence and ratiotination. This, methinkes, is strange to consider in him, that being a great student, (and that of mathematiques and difficult knotty points, which does use to make men unfit for businesse), he is so cleare and ready, as no sollicitor is more adroit for looking after affaires.

MR. WALTER WARNER.

His youngest brother was High Sheriff of Leicestershire, about 1642. He and his brother dyed both batchelors. Dr. Pell has seen him that was Sheriff; but was well-acquainted with Walter. The estate came to a middle brother, a lame man. Walter had but one hand (borne so), I thinke a right hand, his mother was frighted, wch caused this deformity, so that instead of a left hand, he had only a stump, with five warts

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upon it. He wore a cuffe on it like a pockett. The Dr. never sawe his stump, but Mr. Warner has told him so.

This Walter Warner was both mathematician and philosopher, and 'twas he that putt out Thomas Hariot's Algebra, though he mentions it not. Mr. Warner did tell Dr. Pell, that when Dr. Harvey came out with his Circulation of the Blood, he did wonder whence Dr. Harvey had it: but comeing one day to the Earle of Leicester, he found Dr. Harvey in the hall, talking very familiarly with Mr. Prothero, to whom Mr. Warner discoursed concerning this exercitation of his "De Circulatione Sanguinis," and made no question but Dr. Harvey had his hint from Prothero. When Mr. Hariot dyed, he made S: Tho. Alesbury and Mr. Prothero his executors, by which meanes his papers came to be divided into two hands. Those which fell to S: Thomas Alesbury, fell, after his death, to his sonne-in-lawe, Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, and in his sonne's hands (this present (1650) Earle of Clarendon) 'tis believed are those that are yet left; none of them were printed, save that "Artis Analytica Praxis," which was printed by Mr. Warner upon this occasion, viz. S: Tho. Alesbury obtained of Algernon, Earle of Northumberland (son to that Earle, prisoner in ye Tower), a continuation of the annuity, dureing Warner's life, upon condition that he should, out of Mr. Hariot's papers, drawe

out some piece fitt to be published, which he did, under the title aforesayd, in fol. 1631. Lond. but did not sett his name to it, and accordingly Warner had his money as long as he lived.

The other part of Mr. Hariot's papers, which were in Mr. Prothero's keeping, came to the hands of the Lord John Vaughan, eldest son to the Earle of Carbery, lately governor of Jamaica, which vide.

Mr. Warner's youngest brother was a good husband, and an industrious man, and would say, that had he so much money, he could improve it to very great advantage; whereupon his eldest brother (Walter) did lett him sell his land, by which meanes he did so improve his estate by graseing, &c. that he became High Sheriff as afores. Dr. Pell has seen him, and spake with him.

Mr. Walter Warner made an Inverted Logarithmicall Table, whereas Briggs's table fills his margin with numbers, encreasing by unites, and over-against them setts their logarithms, which because of incommensurability must needs be either abundant or deficient, Mr. Warner (like a dictionary of the Latine before the English) fills the margin with logarithms, encreasing by unites, and setts to every one of them so many continuall meane proportionalls between 1 and 10, and they for the same reason must also have the last figure incompleat.

These, after the death of Mr. Warner, came to the hands of Mr. Herbert Thorndyke, Prebendary of Westminster, and by him left in y hands of Dr. Rich. Busby, Schoolmaster and Prebendary of Westminster, which, before Mr. John Pell grew acquainted with Mr. Warner, were ten thousand, and at Mr. Warner's request were by Mr. Pell's hands, or direction, made a hundred thousand. The difference of the hands will shew the workmen in the originalls, wch Dr. Busby has.

Mem. He wrote a Treatise of Coynes, in relation to mint affaires, of wch Mr. John Collins has a copie. From Mr. Herbert Thorndyke. The sixth booke of Optiques in Mercennus is expressly his; the 7th is Mr. Tho. Hobbes's. Mr. Tovey, of Leicestershire, was his kinsman, he could tell when and where he dyed. (From Seth, Bp. of Sarum.) The Bp. thinkes he was of Cambridge university, but is not certaine. Quære Dr. Pell, what is the use of those Inverted Logarithms, for W. Warner would not doe such a thing in vaine? Mr. Tovey was fellowe of Christ coll. in Cambridge; was beneficed in Leicestershire; and maried a niece of Mr. Warner's; and from Mr. Tovey they came to Mr. Thorndyke.

- Dr. Pell believes yt he was of no university.

JOHN WILKINS,

(Ld BP of Chester.)

His father was a goldsmith in Oxford. Mr. Fr. Potter knew him very well, and was wont to say, that he was a very ingeniose man, and had a very mechanicall head. He was much for trying of experiments, and his head ran much upon the perpetuall motion. He maryed a daughter of Mr. John Dod (who wrote on the Commandments), at whose house, at . . . . . . . Northamptonshire, she laye-in with her son John, of whom we now are to speake. He had a brother (Timothy) squierbeadle of.... in Oxford, and a uterine brother, Walter Pope, M.D. He had his grammar learning in Oxford, (I thinke from Mr. Sylvester). He was admitted of Magdalen-hall, in Oxford, his tutor there was the learned Mr. John Tombes, (Coryphæus of the Anabaptists). A: Di.... A.B. A: Di.... M.A. He read to pupills here, (among others, Walter Charlton, M.D. was his pupill) he continued here . . . . . . yeares. He has sayd oftentimes, that the first rise, or hint of his rising, was from goeing a courseing of a hare: where an ingeniose gentleman of good quality falling into discourse with him, and finding him to have a very good witt, told him, that he would never gett any considerable preferment by continuing in the university;

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