ment gave him for his service Mr. Jo. Denham's estate at Egham, in Surrey. The motto of his colours was, Pro Rege, Lege, Grege. After the Restauration of his Majestie he was imprisoned in the Tower about three quarters of a yeare. He died the 2d day of May, 1667, and lieth interred within the East dore of the Savoy church, where he dyed. He was pupill to Bishop Warner, of Rochester. THOMAS WOLSEY, CARDINAL, .... Was a butcher's son, of Ipswych, in Suffolke. Vide his Life, writt by. He was a fellowe of Magdalen colledge, in Oxford, where he was tutor to a young gentleman of Limmington, near Ilchester, in the county of Somerset, in whose guift the presentation of that church is, worth the better part of £200 per annum, wch he gave to his tutor, Wolsey. He had comitted hereabout some debauchery (I thinke drunke); no doubt he was of a high rough spirit, and spake derogatorily of Sir Amias Pawlet (a Justice of Peace in the neighbourhood), who put him into the stockes ;* wch, when he came to be Cardinall, * From my cos. Lyte, of Lytes Carey, about a mile from Limmington. 30 yeares since the tradition was very fresh I have forgot his pupill's name.. he did not forget; he layed a fine upon Sir Amias to build the gate of the Middle Temple; the armes of Pawlet, with the quarterings, are in glasse there to this day (1680). The Cardinall's armes were, as the storie sayes, on the outside in stone, but time has long since defaced that, only you may still discerne the place; it was carv'd in a very mouldring stone. Remaines of him shew that he was a great master of the Latin tongue; Dr. John Pell tells me, that he finds in a preface to a Grammar of . . . . Haynes, schoolmaster, of Christ-church, London, that 'twas he that made the "Accedence" before Mr. Lilly's Gramar. His rise was, his quick and prudent dispatch of a message to Paris for Hen. 8. He had a most magnificent spirit. Concerning his grandure, see Stowe's Chronicles, &c. He was a great builder, as appeares by White-hall, Hampton Court. Eshur, in Surrey, a noble house, built of the best burnt brick (perhaps) that ever I sawe; stately gate-house and hall. This stately house (a fitt pallace for a prince) was bought about 1666, by a vintner, of London, who is since broke, and the house is sold, and pulled downe to the ground, about 1678. I have the draught of the house among my Surrey papers. (He had a very stately cellar for his wines, about Fish-street, called Cardinall Wolsey's cellar.) He built the stately tower at Magdalen colledge, in Oxford, and that stately palace at Winchester (where he was bishop), called Wolsey-house; I remember it pretty well standing 1647. Now I thinke it is most pulled downe. His noble foundation of his Colledge of Christ Church, in Oxford, where the stately hall was only perfected by him, there were designed (as yet may appeare by the building,) most magnificent cloysters (the brave designe whereof Dr. J. Fell hath deteriorated with his new device) to an extraordinary spacious quadrangle, to the entrance whereof, was carrying up a tower (a gate-house) of extraordinary rich and noble Gothique building. When the present great Duke of Tuscany was at Oxford, he was more taken with that, than all the rest of the buildings he sawe there, and tooke á second viewe of it. It should not be forgotten, what a noble foundation there was for the chapell, wch did runne from the Colledge, along the street as far as the Blew Boare Inn; wch was about 7 foot or more high, and adorned with a very rich Gothique water-table. It was pulled downe by Dr. J. Fell (the Deane) about 1670, to use the stones about the Colledge. Sit domus imperfecta licet, similisque ruinæ, Memorand. About the buildings of this coll. are frequent the pillars, and axes, and Cardinall's * Owen. Epigr. cappes. Concerning this great Cardinall's fall, see the histories of that time. Returning to London from Yorke, he died at Leicester, where he lies buried (to the shame of Christ Church men), yet without any monument. "A palace or a colledge for his grave, Yet here he lies interr'd, as if that all Of him to be remembred were his fall. And though, from his own store, Wolsey might have Nothing but earth to earth, nor pompous weight Upon him but a pebble or a quayte. If thou art thus neglected, what shall wee Hope after death that are but shreds of thee?" See his life writt by ..... and also by Tho. Fuller, B.D. in his Holy State, where is a picture of his which resembles those in glasse, in Christ Church. He was a lusty man, thick neck, not much unlike Martyn Luther. I believe he had ŏ ascending with the Pleiades, wch makes the native to be of a rough disposition. He was Baccalaur of Arts so young, that he was called the boy-baccalaur. From Dr. Pell. 65 MR. EDMUND WRIGHT Was of Caius colledge, in Cambridge. He was one of the best mathematicians of his time; and the then new way of sayling, which yet goes by the name of "sayling by Mr. Mercator's chart,” was purely his invention, as plainely doeth and may appear in his learned booke, called Wright's Errors in Navigation," in 4to. printed A. D. . . . . Mr. Mercator brought this invention in fashion beyond seas. He did read mathematiques to Prince Henry, and caused to be made for his Highnesse more easie understanding of astronomie, a sphere of wood, about three quarters of a yard diameter, which lay neglected and out of order in the Tower, at London, and Sir Jonas Moor begged it of his present Majestie, who showed it to me. He wrote "Hypothesis Stellarum Fixarum et Planetarum," a MS. of three sheets of paper, which I found among Bp. Ward's papers, which I gave to the Museum at Oxford. Mem. that now (1681-2) London is growne so populous and big, that the new river of Middleton can serve the pipes to private houses but twice a weeke, quod N. B. Mem. In Sir Ch. Scarborough's time (he was of Caius coll.) Dr.... (the head of that house), would visit the boyes' chambers, and see what they were studying, and Ch. Scarborough's ge |