at Bemmarton* (between Wilton and Salisbury), a pittifull little chappell of ease to Foughelston. The old house was very ruinous. Here he built a very handsome house, and made a good garden and walkes for the minister, of brick. Helyes in the chancell, under no large, nor yet very good marble grave-stone, without any inscription. Scripsit Sacred Poemes, called The Church, printed, Cambridge, 1633. A booke entituled "The Country Parson," not printed till about 1650, 8: He also writt a folio in Latin, wch because the parson of Hineham could not read, his widowe (then wife to S Robert Cooke) condemned to the uses of good houswifry. He was buryed (according to his owne desire) with the singing service for the burial of dead, by the singing men of Sarum. Dr. Sambroke (attorney) then assisted as a chorister boy; my uncle, Th. Danvers, was at the funerall. V. in the Register booke at the office when he dyed, for the parish register is lost. Mem. In the chancell are many apt sentences of the Scripture. At his wife's seate, My Life is hid with Christ in God, Coloss. iii. 3. (He hath verses on this text in his Poemes).

In the records of the Tower it is writt Bymerton. + This account I had from Mr. Arnold Cooke, one of St Robert Cooke's sonnes, whom I desired to aske his mo.-inlawe for Mr. G. Herbert's MSS.

Above in a little windowe blinded, within a veile (ill pointed), Thou art my hideing place, Psalm xxxii. 7.

He maried Jane, the third daughter of Charles Danvers, of Baynton, in com. Wilts, Esq. but... had no issue by her. He was a very fine complexion and consumptive.. His mariage, I suppose, hastened his death; my kinswoman was a handsome bona-roba and generose. When he was first maried he lived a yeare or more at Dantesey house. H. Allen, of Dantesey, was well acquainted with him, who has told me that he had a very good hand on the lute, and that he sett his own lyricks or sacred poems.

"Tis an honour to the place, to have had the heavenly and ingeniose contemplation of this good man, who was pious even to prophesie ;-e. g.

Religion now on tip-toe stands,

Ready to goe to the American strands.”.

MR. NICHOLAS HILL.

This Nicholas Hill was one of the most learned men of his time: a great mathematician, philosopher, and a poet, and traveller. His writings had the usuall fate of those not printed in the author's life-time. He was so eminent for know

ledge, that he was the favourite of . . . . the great Earle of Oxford, who had him to accompanie him in his travells (he was his steward), which were so splendid and sumptuous, that he kept at Florence a greater court than the Great Duke, This Earle spent in that.... of travelling, the inheritance of ten or twelve thousand pounds per annum. Old Serjeant Hoskins (the Poet, grandfather to this S John Hoskins, Baronet, my hond friend) was well acquainted with him, by which means, I have this tradition, which otherwise had been lost, as also his very name, but only for these verses in Ben Jonson's 2d volume, viz.

I fancy that his picture, i. e. head, is at the end of the Long Gallery of Pictures at Wilton,* which is the most philosophical aspect that I have seen, very much [like that] of Mr. T. Hobbes, of Malmesbury, but rather more antique. 'Tis pitty that in nobleman's galleries, the names are not writt on or behind the pictures. He writt 66 Philosophia Epicureo-Democritiana, simpliciter proposita, non edocta." Print

* Philip, E. of Montgomery, lord chamberlayne, maried ..the daughter of . . . . Earle of Oxford, by whom he had his issue.

ed at Colen. in 8 or 12mo S: J. Hoskins hath it.

Thomas Henshawe, of Kensington, Esq. R. Soc. Soc. hath a treatise of his in Manuscript, which he will not print, viz. "Of the Essence of God, &c. Light." It is mighty paradoxicall: That there is a God; What he is, in 10 or 12 articles. Of the Immortality of the Soul, which he does demonstrate Πανεσία and ὀντασία.

He was, as appears by A. W. Historie, of St. John's Colledge, in Oxford, where he mentions him to be a great Lullianist.

In his travells with his Lord, (I forget whether Italy or Germany, but I thinke the former) "A poor man begged him to give him a penny. Penny!" said Mr. Hill, "what dost say to ten pounds?" "Ah ten pounds," said the beggar, "that would make a man happy." N. Hill gave him immediately 10£. and putt it downe upon account,-Item, to a Beggar ten pounds to make him happy.

HUGH HOLLAND,*

(Poeta).

He was descended of the family of the Earles of Kent, &c. and was a Roman Catholique.

* From Sir John Penrudock.

The Lady Eliz. Hatton (mother to ye Lady Purbec) was his great patronesse.* S J. P. asked him his advice as he was dyeing, (and he then gave it) that the best rule for him to governe his life, was to reade St Hierome's Epistles. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, in the South crosse aisle neer the dore of S: Benet's Chapell, where the E. of Middlesex' monument is, but there is no monument or inscription for him. He was buryed July 23, 1633. He was of a Lancashire family. Tho. Holland, E. of Kent, his sonnes Dukes of Surrey, tempore Rich. 2.

...

PHILEMON HOLLAND

Was schoole-master of the free-schoole at Coventry, and that for many yeares. He made a great many good scholars. He translated T. Livius A: 15.... with one and the same pen, wch the lady . . . (vide at the end of his translation of Suetonius) embellished with silver, and kept amongst her rare иý. He wrote a good hand, but a rare Greeke character; witnesse the MS. of Euclid's Harmoniques in the library belonging to the schoole. He translated severall Latin au

* V. B. Jonson's Masque of ye Gipsies for these 2 beauties.