him a matter of 20 feete into the Thames. This surprize absolutely cured him. A gent. with a red, ugly, pumpled* face came to him for a cure. Said the D, "I must hang you." So presently he had a device made ready to hang him from a beame in the roome; and when he was een almost dead, he cutts the veines that fed these pumples,* and lett out the black ugly bloud, and cured him. Inscription on his monument : Nunc positis novus exuviis. Gulielmus Butlerus, Clarensis Aulæ quondam Socius, Medicorum omnium quos præsens ætas vidit facile princeps, hoc sub marmore secundum Christi adventum expectat, et monumentum hoc privata pietas statuit, quod debuit publica. Abi, viator, et ad tuos reversus, narra te vidisse locum in quo salus jacet. Nil proh! marmor agis, Butlerum dư tegis, ullu Sic homines vivus, mira sic mortuus arte, * [Sic. EDIT.] Butlero Herôum hoc posuere dolorque fidesque Hei! quid agam, exclamas et palles, Lector? At unum Quod miseris superesse potest, locus hic monet: ora. Obiit CIɔɔCXVII. Janua. XXIX. Æta, suæ LXXXIII. This ins. was sent to me by my learned and honoured friend D: Henry More, of Cambridge. A scholar made this drolling Epitaph: Here lies Mr. Butler, who never was doctor, Who dyed in the yeare that the Devill was proctor. Mem. There is now in use in London a sort of ale called D: Butler's ale. MR. WILLIAM CAMDEN, CLAREN“. Mr. Edward Bagshawe (who had been second schoolemaster of Westminster schoole) has told me that Mr. Camden had first his place and his lodgings, (which is the gatehouse by the queen's schollars' chamber in Deanes-yard,) and was after made the head schoolemaster of that schoole, where he writt and taught Institutio Græcæ Grammatices Compendiaria. In usum Regia Schola Westmonasteriensis, wch is now the comon Greeke gramar of England, but his name is not sett to it. Before they learned the prolix Greeke Gramar of Cleonard. He writt his Britannia first in a large 8: There is a little booke in 16: of his printed, viz. A Collection of all the Inscriptions then on the Tombes in Westminster Abbey. "Tis reported, that he had bad eies (I guesse lippitude) wch was a great inconvenience to an antiquary. Mr. N. Mercator has Stadius's Ephemerides, which had been one of Mr. Camden's; his name is there (I knowe his hand) and there are some notes by which I find he was astrologically given.* My hond and learned friend, Tho. Fludd, esq. (75, 1680) a Kentish gentleman, was neighbour and an acquaintance to S: Robert Filmore, in Kent, who was very intimately acquainted with Mr. Camden, who told S: Robert, that he was not suffered to print many things in his "Elizabetha" which he sent over to his acquaintance and correspondent Thuanus, who printed it all * In his "Britannia" he hath a remarkable astrologicall observation, that when his in a great plague is certainly in London. He had observed it all his time, and setts downe the like made by others before his time. h was so posited in the great plague 1625, and also in the last great plague 1665. He likewise delivers that when an eclipse happens in ..... that 'tis fatall to the towne of Shrewsbury. faithfully in his "Annalls" without altering a word. He lies buried in the South cross-isle of Westminster Abbey, his effigies on an altar; in his bande a booke, on the leaves whereof is writt BRITANNIA. Mr. Camden much studied the Welsh lan guage, and kept a Welsh servant to improve him in that language, for the better understanding of our antiquities.* S: William Dugdale tells me that he hath Minutes of King James's life to a moneth and a day, written by Mr. Wm. Camden, as also his owne life, according to yeares and days, which is very briefe, but 2 sheetes; Mr. Camden's owne hand writing. S: William Dugdale had it from.... Hacket, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, who did filch it from Mr. Camden as he lay a dyeing.† *From Mr. Sam. Butler. + Quære Mr. Ashmole to retrieve and looke out Mr. Camden's minutes (memorandums) of King James I. from his entrance into England, which Dr. Thorndyke filched from him as he lay a dyeing. 'Tis not above 6 or 8 sheetes of paper, as I remember. Dr. Thorndyke told Sr. Wm. Dugdale so, who told me of it. Those memoires were continued within a fortnight of his death. SIR CHARLES CAVENDISH* the younger Was borne at brother to William Duke of Newcastle. He was a little, weake, crooked man, and nature having not adapted him for the court nor campe, he betooke himselfe to the study of the mathematiques, wherein he became a great master. His father left him a good estate, the revenue whereof he expended on bookes and on learned men. He had collected in Italie, France, &c. with no small chardge, as many manuscript mathematicall bookes as filled a hoggeshead, which he intended to have printed, which if he had lived to have donne, the growth of mathematicall learning had been 30 yeares or more forwarder than 'tis. But he died of the scurvey, contracted by hard study about 1652, and left one Mr... an attorney of Clifford's Inne, his executor, who shortly after died, and left his wife executrix, who sold this incomparable collection aforesayd by weight, to the past-board maker for waste paper. A good caution for those that have good MSS. to take care to see them printed in their life-times. He dyed. . . . and was buried in the vault of the family of the Duke of Newcastle, at Bolsover, in the countie of.. He is mentioned by Mersennus. Dr. John Pell (who knew him, and *From Mr. Jo. Collins, mathematician. VOL. II. Ꭲ . |