name was John, as I remember, who maried... da. of . . . . . . Cesar, in com. Hertf. He dyed without issue about 4 or 5 years since, or lesse. So there is an end of this ancient family. Mem. Newark (now the seate of S Gabriel Lowe) was built by S Robert's grandfather to keep his w. . . . s in. Sir Robert dyed at, A: D. 16.. and buryed ... WILLIAM PRINNE, ESQ. Was borne (as his nephew, George Clarke, assures me) at Aust, in Gloucestershire, where his father had an estate. I find by the Herald's bookes that he is descended from an ancient family. Vide Biblioth. Sheldoniana, N. 115. His father, and also he, lived at Swainswyck, a pleasant seat in Somerset. about 3 miles from Bathe; where his grandfather. . . . . . Sherston, his mother's father, lived, and had been Mayor, and a very wise magistrate; here he learnt his grammar learning. He was of Oriell Coll. in Oxon, where, I thinke, he tooke the degree of M.A. From hence, A ... was admitted of Lincolne's-Inn; he was always temperate and a very hard student, and he had a prodigious memorie. A . . . . he was stigmatiz'd* in the pil *His eares were not quite cutt off, only the upper part, his tippes were visible. W. Laude, A. B. Cant. was much blamed for being a spectator, when he was his judge. lorie, and then banished to Cornet Castle, in . sey, where he was very civilly treated by .... . the governor Carteret, a very ancient familie in that island. A: 164. he was with B..... ... and Bastwyck called home by the Parliament, and hundreds met him and them out of London, some miles. He was a learned man, of immense reading, but is much blamed for his unfaithfull quotations. His manner of studie was thus, he wore a long quilt cap, which came 2 or 3 inches at least over his eies, which served him as an umbrella to defend his eies from the light; about every 3 houres his man was to bring him a roll and a pott of ale* to refocillate his wasted spirits; so he studied and drank, and munched some bread; and this maintained him till night; and then he made a good supper now he did well not to dine, wch breakes off one's fancy, wh will not presently be regained. Thou that with ale, or viler liquors, HUDIBRAS. Gorlenius, Professor at ..... in Germany did better ¡ he kept bottles of good Rhenish wine in his studie, and, when his spirits wasted, drank a good rummer of it, + Was one of the assembly and tryers, He was burghesse of the citie of Bath,* before and since the King's restauration. He endured severall imprisonments for the King's cause, and was (really) very instrumentall in his restauration. Upon the opening of the Parliament, viz. letting in the secluded members, he girt on his long rustic sword (longer than ordinary), Sir William Waller marching behind him. As he went to the House, W. Prinne's long sword ranne between Sir William's short legges, and threw him downe, wch caused laughter. He was of a strange Saturnine complexion. Sir C. W. sayd once, that he had the countenance of a witch. He dyed at his chamber in Lincolne's-Inn, A: .. and is buried at . . . . SIR WALTER RALEGH, KNIGHT. He was a tall, handsome, and bold man; but his næve was, that he was damnably proud. Old S: Robert Harley, of Brampton-Brian Castle (who knew him), would say, 'twas a great question, who was the proudest, S: W. or S. Thomas Overbury, but the difference that was, was judged on S, Tho. side. * He was also Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London. He had 2 wives; his first was .. Throck morton; 2a....... mother of Carew Ralegh, 2d son. S: Carew Ralegh,* of Downton, in Com. Wilts, was his eldest brother, who was gentleman of the horse to Sir Jo. Thynne, of Longleate, and after his death maried his lady; by whom he had children as in the pedigree.Walter and Tom, his gr. children, say that Sir Carew was the elder knight. I have heard my grandfather say, that S: Carew had a delicate cleare voice, and played singularly well on the olpharion, † (wch was the instrument in fashion, in those dayes), to which he did sing. His grand-children, Walter and Tom (with whom I went to schoole at Blandford, in Dorset. 4 yeares), had also excellent tuneable voices, and played their parts well on the violin; ingeniose, but proud and quarrelsome. Sir Walter Ralegh was of...... in Oxford Vide de hoc A. Wood's Antiquities. He went into Ireland, where he served in the warres, and shewed much courage and conduct, but he would be perpetually differing with . . . . . I thinke, Gray, then Ld Deputy; so that at ..... * Mem. He made an excellent cordiall, good in feavers, &c. Mr. R. Boyle has the rec. and makes it, and does great cures with it. 'Tis as big as a lute, but flatt-bellyed, with wire strings. last the hearing was to be at councill table before the Q. wch was w' he desired, where he told his tale so well, and with so good a grace and presence, that the Q. tooke especiall notice of him, and presently preferred him. So that it must be before this that he served in the French warres. He was a second with the Earle of Oxford in a duell. Was acquainted with all the hero's of our nation in his time. Sir Walt, Long, of Draycot (gr. father to this S: James Long) maried a daughter of Sir Jo. Thynne, by which meanes, and their consimility of disposition, there was a very conjunct friendship between the two brothers and him; and old John Long, who then wayted on S: W. Long, being one time in the Privy-Garden with his master, saw the Earle of Nottingham wipe the dust from Sir Walter R.'s shoes with his cloake, in compliment. In the great parlour at Downton, at Mr. Ralegh's, is a good piece (an originall) of Sir W. in a white sattin doublet, all embroidered with rich pearles, and a mighty rich chaine of great pearles about his neck. The old servants have told me, that the pearles were neer as big as the painted ones. He had a most remarkable aspect, an exceeding high forehead, long-faced, and sour eie-lidded, a kind of piggeeie. At.... an obscure taverne, in Drury-lane (a bayliff's), is a good picture of this worthy, and also of others of his time; taken upon some execution, I suppose, formerly. I have heard my |