WRITTEN BY EMINENT PERSONS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES: TO WHICH ARE ADDED, HEARNE'S JOURNEYS TO READING, AND TO WHADDON HALL, THE SEAT OF BROWNE WILLIS, ESQ. AND LIVES OF EMINENT MEN, BY JOHN AUBREY, ESQ. THE WHOLE NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINALS אן THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY AND ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY ILLUSTRATIONS. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II.-PART II. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATEK- MR. SAMUEL FOSTER WAS borne at Coventry (as I take it); he was sometime usher of the schoole there. Was professor of . ..... at Gresham colledge, London, yeares, where in his lodgeing, on the wall, in his chamber, is, of his own hand draweing, the best diall I doe verily beleeve in the whole world. Inter &c. it shews you what a clock 'tis at Jerusalem, Gran-Cairo, &c. It is drawen very artificially. He dyed July 1652, buryed at St Peter's the Poor, in Broad-street, London. A neighbour of Mr. Paschall's, neer Bridgewater, in Somerset, hath all his MSS, wch I have seen. THOMAS FULLER, D.D. Borne at Orwincle,* in Northamptonshire; his father was minister there, and maried * J. Dryden, Poete, was borne here. ..... one |