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At length, for want of evidence to shewe,
Was forc't himselfe to take a deadly blowe.

These verses I transcribed out of the collection my hond friend and neighbour, Tho. Tyndale, Esq.

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Mem. The tryall was with this* S: Rich. Temple's gr. grandfather. The L. treas. had in his bosome some writings, wch as he was pulling out to give in evidence, sayed, "Here is that will strike you dead!" and as soon as he had spoken these words, fell downe starke dead in the place. (Mem. An extraordinary perturbation of mind will bring an apoplexie. I know severall instances of it.) From S' Richard Temple.

'Twas this Lord that gott Salisbury house cum

Picture of her Mind; Her being chose a Muse; Her faire Offices; Her happy Match; Her hopefull Issue; Her AПODENEIZ, or Relation to the Saints; Her Inscription or Crowne."

Her picture drawn by S Anth. Vandyke hangs in the queene's drawing-roome, at Windsor-castle, over the chim

ney.

Venetia Stanley was (first) a miss to St Edmund Wyld, so he had her picture, wch after his death, serjeant Wyld (his executor) had, and since ye serjeant's death hangs now in an entertaining roome at Droitwich, in Worcestershire. The serjeant lived at Droitwich.

Venetia Stanley's picture is at the E. of Rutland's, at Belvoir.

* [The present. EDIT]

appurtenantiis, juxta S Bride's, in exchange for a piece of land, neer Cricklade, in Wilts, I thinke called Marston, but the title was not good, nor did the value answer his promise. From Seth Sarum, who sayes that all the parish of St. Bride's belonged to the Bp. of Sarum, as also all Shoe-lane.

MICHAEL DRAYTON, ESQ.

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Natus in Warwickshire, at Atherston upon Stower. He was a butcher's sonne. Was a squire, viz. one of the Esqres to S: Walter Aston, K' of the Bath, to whom he dedicated his Poeme. S' . . . . . B . . . was a great patron of his. He lived at the bay-windowe house next the East end of St Dunstan's ch. in Fleet-street. Sepult. in N. of W. Abbey. The Countesse of Dorset (Clifford) gave his monument. Mr. Marshall, (the stone-cutter) who made it, told me. S: Edw. Bissh Clarenc. told me he asked Mr. Selden once (jestingly) whether he wrote the comment. to his "Polyolbion" and Epistles," or Mr. Drayton made those verses to his notes.

In Westm. Abbey, neer Spencer.

MICHAEL DRAYTON, ESQUIER,

A memorable Poet of this age, exchanged his Laurel for a Crowne of Glorie, A: 1631.

Doe pious marble, let thy readers knowe
What they, and what their children owe
TO DRAYTON'S name, whose sacred dust
We recommend unto thy trust.

Protecte his mem'ry, and preserve his storie,
Remaine a lasting monument of his glorye.
And when thy ruines shall disclame

To be the treas'rer of his name,

His name, that cannot fade, shall be
An everlasting monument to thee.

Mr. Marshall, the stone-cutter, of Fetter-lane, also told me, that these verses were made by Mr. Francis Quarles, who was his great friend, and whose head he wrought curiously in playster, and valued for his sake. 'Tis pitty it should be lost. Mr. Quarles was a very good man.

SAINT DUNSTAN.

I find in Mr. Selden's verses before Hopton's "Concordance of Yeares," that he was a Somersetshire gentleman. He was a great chymist. The storie of his pulling the devill by the nose with his tongues as he was in his laboratorie, was famous in church-windowes, picture, and poetrie.*

V. Gazai "Pia Hilaria," delicately described.

He was a Benedictine monke at Glastonbury, where he was afterwards abbot, and after that was made A. B. Cant. He preached the coronation sermon at Kingston, and crowned King

In his sermon he prophesied, wth the Chronnicle mentions. Mr. Meredith Lloyd tells me that there is a booke in print of his "De Lapide Philosophorum." Edwardus Generosus gives a good account of him in a Manuscript wch Mr. Ashmole hath. Mem. Lloyd had, about the beginning of the civill warres, a MS. of this Saint's concerning Chymistrey, and sayes that there are severall MSS. of his up and downe in England. Edwardus Generosus mentions that he could make a fire out of gold, with which he could sett any combustible matter on fire at a great distance. Mem. In Westminster library is an old printed booke, in folio, of the Lives of the old English Saints. Mem. Lloyd tells me that three or 400 yeares ago, Chymistrey was in a greater perfection much than now. The proces was then more seraphique and universall. Now they looke only after medicines. Severall churches are dedicated to him: two at London; Qu. if one at Glastonbury.

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SIR EDWARD DYER,

Of Somersetshire, (Sharpham Parke, &c.) was a great witt, poet, and acquaintance of Mary Countesse of Pembroke, and S: Philip Sydney. He is mentioned in the preface of the "Arcadia." He had four thousand pounds per annum, and was left fourscore thousand pounds in money, he wasted it almost all. This I had from Captaine Dyer, his great grandsonne, or brother's gr. gr. son. I thought he had been the sonne of y Lord Chiefe Justice Dyer, as I have inserted in one of these papers, but that was a mistake. The judge was of the same family the Capt. tells

me.

SAINT EDMUND.

Seth Lord Bishop of Sarum tells me, that he finds St Edmund was borne at Abington. He was A. B of Cant. He built the college at Sarum, by St. Edmund's church. It is now Judge Wyndham's sonne's house. He resigned his archbishoprick, and came and retired hither. In S Edmund's church here, were windowes of great value. Gundamore offered a good summe for them; I have forgott [what.] In one of them was the picture of God the Father, like an old

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