FOOTNOTES
[1] Lismore Papers, first series, vol. i.
[2] Philaretus. Robert Boyle left a fragment of Autobiography, An Account of Philaretus (i.e. Mr. R. Boyle) during his Minority. See Works, ed. Birch, 6 vols., 1774.
[3] For a delightful modern biography, see the Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork, by Dorothea Townshend (Duckworth).
[4] See the Lismore Papers (referred to throughout as L. P.), edited by the late Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, D.D., LL.D., from the original MSS. belonging to the Duke of Devonshire, and preserved in Lismore Castle (10 vols.).
[5] Corpus Christi.
[6] Froude’s History, vol. vii. (1562).
[7] Ibid.
[8] Edmund Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland.
[9] Then worth about five times as much.
[10] Spenser’s View of the Present State of Ireland.
[11] True Remembrances.
[12] True Remembrances.
[13] Life of the Earl of Cork in the L. P., second series, vol. v.
[14] Equal to about £5000 now.
[15] True Remembrances.
[16] Philaretus.
[17] L. P., first series, vol. i.
[18] Philaretus.
[19] Aubrey’s Account.
[20] Oliver St. John, High Treasurer for Ireland.
[21] This celebrated tavern, “haunted by roysterers and famous for its wine” in Ben Jonson’s day, and dating back into the 15th century, was in New Fish Street (Cunningham’s London). Croone must have moved into “new and enlarged premises,” for he will be found in 1641 at the Nag’s Head Tavern, in Cheapside.
[22] See Evelyn’s Diary and Pepys’s Diary.
[23] Abbott.
[24] Loftus, Earl of Ely. He and Sir Adam Loftus of Rathfarnham were cousins.
[25] Falkland.
[26] The Earl’s house is mentioned as “my Lord Caulfield’s.”
[27] In succession to Lord Grandison, whose house in Channell Row the Earl had rented.
[28] She was buried with her mother in the tomb in St. Patrick’s.
[29] Life of Milton, by David Masson.
[30] Mall.
[31] Ireland under the Stuarts, vol i.
[32] Bulkeley and Usher.
[33] Charles I to Lord Deputy, 1634. L. P., second series, vol. iii.
[34] Though, in his Philaretus, he dates it a little earlier. It is, however, evidently the same that is recorded in the Earl’s Diary under the date Dec. 17, 1634.
[35] Philaretus.
[36] Philaretus.
[37] See L. P., second series, Carew’s letters from Eton to Earl of Cork.
[38] They were “commensals” at the second table. See Lyte’s History of Eton.
[39] See the masterly biography of Wotton in the Dictionary of National Biography. Also Izaak Walton’s Life of Wotton, and Masson’s Milton, vol. i.
[40] See his lines on “His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia,” Percy Society Publications, vol. vi.
[41] See Masson’s Milton, vol. i. p. 531.
[42] Evelyn’s Diary.
[43] Was “Irish” part of the Eton curriculum in 1635?
[44] L. P., second series, Carew’s letters to the Earl.
[45] Philaretus.
[46] Ibid.
[47] Philaretus.
[48] L. P., second series, Carew’s letters to Earl.
[49] See A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth, Percy Society Publications, vol. vi.
[50] Masson’s Life of Milton, vol. i. p. 665.
[51] Ibid.
[52] It was payable in three instalments, the third to be paid on Midsummer Day 1638.
[53] Compare Prospero in The Tempest: “To my poor cell”.
[54] L. P., first series, vol. v.
[55] L. P., first series, vol. v.
[56] Lady Warwick’s Autobiography (Percy Society).
[57] Variously explained as being the arbutus, and espalier apples.
[58] George Goring was now Governor of Portsmouth. He had been wounded in the leg at the siege of Breda, had been going about London on crutches, and was still lame.
[59] He died, after a long illness, in December 1639. See his Hymn, written “in a night of my late sickness” (Percy Society, vol. vi.).
[60] See Masson’s Milton, vol. i.
[61] Philaretus.
[62] See Masson’s Milton, vol. ii.: First and second Bishops’ Wars.
[63] L. P., second series, vol. iv.: Letter from Lord Barrymore to the Earl of Cork, 1639.
[64] Pepys’s Diary, Sept. 28, 1668.
[65] Verney Memoirs, vol. i.
[66] L. P., second series, vol. v.
[67] Verney Memoirs, vol. i.
[68] Afterwards Earl of Clanbrassil.
[69] Son of Sir George Carew, Earl of Totness.
[70] Philaretus.
[71] L. P., second series, vol. iv.
[72] Philaretus.
[73] Philaretus.
[74] Countess of Warwick’s Autobiography (Percy Society).
[75] Broghill and Kynalmeaky had boarded with the celebrated Dr. Diodati, at the Villa Diodati, outside Geneva.
[76] L. P., second series, vol. iv.
[77] Philaretus.
[78] Philaretus.
[79] L. P., second series, vol. iv.
[80] L. P., second series, vol. iv.
[81] Philaretus.
[82] L. P., second series, vol. iv.
[83] Lady Dungarvan’s mother was a Cecil.
[84] Earl’s letter quoted in Collins’ Peerage.
[85] Autobiography of the Countess of Warwick (Percy Society).
[86] Philaretus.
[87] Philaretus.
[88] St. Bernard.
[89] L. P., second series, vol. iv.
[90] It was the Earl of Leicester.
[91] Birch’s “Life of Boyle,” in Boyle’s Works, vol. i.
[92] Ibid.
[93] Philaretus.
[94] L. P., first series, vol. v.
[95] See Masson’s Milton, vol. ii.
[96] L. P., first series, vol. v.
[97] L. P., first series, vol. v. Daubigne’s = Dunbar’s. Lady Suffolk was daughter and heiress of the Earl of Dunbar.
[98] Suckling died in 1641.
[99] Morrice’s account of her in his “Life of the Earl of Orrery,” prefixed to the Orrery State Papers.
[100] Boyle to Lady Orrery: Birch, vol. i.
[101] Countess of Warwick’s Autobiography.
[102] Countess of Warwick’s Autobiography (Percy Society).
[103] L. P., first series, vol. v.
[104] St. Leger.
[105] L. P., first and second series, vol. v. For a masterly account of the Rebellion of 1641, read Bagwell’s Ireland under the Stuarts.
[106] L. P., second series, vol. v.
[107] L. P., second series, vol. v.
[108] Lord Barrymore died on Sept. 29. It was thought he had been wounded at Liscarrol.
[109] L. P., first series, vol. v.
[110] She died in England in July 1643.
[111] See Mrs. Townshend’s Life of the Great Earl of Cork.
[112] Usual.
[113] Letter to Kynalmeaky, L. P., second series, vol. v. The original letter in the Lismore Papers is much mutilated (“apparently mice-eaten”). (Grosart.)
[114] Evelyn’s Diary for 1646.
[115] Evelyn’s Diary for 1646. Masson’s Milton, vol. iii.
[116] Evelyn’s Diary in 1646.
[117] February 1644.
[118] Milton’s Latin letter to Dick Jones. See Masson’s Milton.
[119] Cunningham’s London; Pall Mall. Account of Lord Broghill’s visit to Lady Ranelagh (Morrice & Budgell).
[120] Catherine, m. (1) Sir William Parsons, (2) Hugh, Lord Mount-Alexander; Elizabeth, m. Mr. Melster; Frances, d. unm.; Richard, 2nd Visc. Ranelagh.
[121] Identity not known.
[122] Countess of Warwick’s Autobiography.
[123] Ibid.
[124] Robert Boyle: Philaretus.
[125] Robert Boyle’s Letter to Mr. Tallents: Birch’s Life.
[126] Lord Broghill, who was Governor of Youghal, returned to England in 1645 (bringing with him his wife and Lady Barrymore and young Lord Barrymore) to obtain further assistance of English troops. See Bagwell’s History of Ireland under the Stuarts, vol. ii.
[127] Masson’s Milton, vol. iii. p. 338.
[128] Sir William Wray, member of House of Commons in Long Parliament.
[129] Tutor in Geneva to the little Lord Carnarvon.
[130] See Autobiography of Anne, Lady Halkett (Camden Society).
[131] Birch’s Life, vol. vi. p. 534.
[132] Letter to Lady Ranelagh, March 1646: Birch’s Life.
[133] Broghill seems to have been more anxious to avoid them than Robert Boyle himself. “Strange that so well-armed an head should be fearful!” says Robert Boyle in his letter to Lady Ranelagh.
[134] There is a little touch of sarcasm in this letter, which may well be a sly thrust at Lord Howard of Escrick, in his place among the Divines, as a lay elder of the Westminster Assembly. At Winchester the little party were “as nicely catechised concerning our ways as if we were to be elected in the number of the new lay elders.” Lord Edward Howard’s subsequent career—his expulsion from the House for receiving bribes, and his betrayal of Lord Russell and Algernon Sidney, are matters of history.
[135] The Committee of the Two Kingdoms, very active after the organisation of the New Model. It sat in, and issued its orders from, Derby House, Cannon Row, Westminster.
[136] Letter to Lady Ranelagh, March 1646: Birch’s Life.
[137] Early letter, undated, Birch, vol. vi.
[138] It was Essex who had spoken the words that sealed Strafford’s doom: “Stone dead hath no fellow.”
[139] Inchiquin and Broghill had both declared for the Parliament.
[140] Bringing, it will be remembered, Lady Pegg, Lady Barrymore, and young Lord Barrymore home with him. Young Barrymore must have gone straight to Milton in the Barbican.
[141] Usher.
[142] Augustine.
[143] In due time Lord Broghill was to send his own sons to Marcombes in Geneva. The old governour was much gratified at having a batch of the second generation of the Boyle family put under his charge.
[144] David Masson’s Milton, iii. 662.
[145] Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and former tutor to Lady Pegg’s brothers.
[146] Letter to John Durie about a Union of the Churches, Birch’s Ed. Works.
[147] To Lady Ranelagh: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[148] Robert Boyle to Hartlib, May 1647: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[149] “Marginal Note” in Occasional Reflections, Section II, ed. 1665, p. 187.
[150] Not published till after his death.
[151] After lying many years in manuscript they were published at her entreaty—dedicated to her—after the Restoration.
[152] Occasional Reflections, ed. 1665, pp. 245, 161.
[153] Ibid. p. 256: Upon my Spaniel’s fetching me my glove.
[154] Written after 1648.
[155] See p. 194. Lindamor, the scholarly youth, well born and well bred, seems often in his writings to represent Boyle himself. The direct reference to “Mr. Boyle” is a favourite device of the author. Swift has satirised the Reflections in his “Occasional Meditations on a Broomstick,” but he has not acknowledged “The Eating of Oysters” as the inspiration of his Gulliver’s Travels.
[156] For historical accounts see Masson’s Milton, vol. iii, and Bagwell’s Ireland under the Stuarts, vol. ii.
[157] It was Anne Murray, the girl-friend of “My Robyn’s yonge Mrs.,” who was entrusted with the dressing-up of the young Prince. See Diary of Anne, Lady Halkett (Camden Society) for pretty description of the dressing-up, and the “Wood Street cake” given to the boy at parting.
[158] Robert Boyle’s letter to Mrs. Hussey: Birch’s Life.
[159] Letter to Mrs. Hussey.
[160] Sentiment.
[161] Vide Robert Boyle’s Reflections written in that month: “Upon the prodigiously wet weather which happened the summer that Colchester was besieged (1648).”
[162] Ibid.
[163] The family seem to have had their town house in Soho, and were “distinguished parishioners” of St. Giles in the Fields (see Cunningham’s London). The Earl, when he died in 1661, left property in Long Acre and St. Martin’s Lane, etc.
[164] He died of smallpox, 1649, and was buried in the Savoy.
[165] Afterwards Earl of Clanbrassil.
[166] Evelyn’s letter to Dr. Wotton about Robert Boyle.
[167] Masson’s Milton, vol. iii.
[168] Letter to Lady Ranelagh, August 1649: Birch’s Ed. of Works, vol. vi.
[169] Compare Budgell’s and Morrice’s accounts.
[170] Bagwell’s Ireland under the Stuarts.
[171] Robert Boyle’s letter: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[172] Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[173] This wife died young. The second wife was a daughter of Henry Lawrence, presumably a sister of young Barrymore’s friend and fellow-pupil at Milton’s house in the Barbican.
[174] Broghill’s letter to Lenthall, quoted by Bagwell. For the whole account of Broghill’s part in the war, see Bagwell’s Ireland under the Stuarts.
[175] Charles II was then at Breda, and so were the Scottish Commissioners. Montrose was executed in Edinburgh on May 21st, 1650, and the Treaty of Breda had been signed on May 3rd, pledging Charles to uphold the Covenant; but at this very time he was still using the Service Book, and Breda itself was the gay scene of nightly “balling and dancing.”
[176] Cary.
[177] Philaretus.
[178] The heroine of Seraphick Love.
[179] Robert Boyle’s brother Francis was his heir presumptive.
[180] This may have been young Lord Barrymore’s second wife, daughter of Henry Lawrence.
[181] Philaretus.
[182] Colonel Lawrence’s account, quoted by Bagwell.
[183] Chalked up on the door of the House of Commons.
[184] Bagwell.
[185] Some Worthies of the Irish Churches, by G. T. Stokes, D.D., ed. by Dr. Lawlor, p. 74.
[186] Birch’s Life.
[187] Letter from Hartlib to Boyle; Birch’s ed. Works, vol. vi.
[188] The Encænia.
[189] The Sheldonian was not then in existence.
[190] Kendal.
[191] Afterwards Bishop of Lincoln.
[192] Cp. Evelyn’s Diary, August 6, 1657: “I went to see Col. Blount, who shewed me the application of a way-wiser to a coach, exactly measuring the miles and shewing them by an index as we went on ... very pretty and useful.”
[193] Birch’s Life. Lady Ranelagh’s letter is dated merely “Oct. 12.” It must have been written in October 1653, after Boyle was back in Ireland, or so late as 1654, before Boyle left Ireland for good.
[194] Birch’s Life.
[195] Evelyn’s letter to Dr. Wotton, 1703.
[196] Birch’s Life.
[197] Boyle’s Occasional Reflections were not published till 1665, but it is probable they were well known in manuscript.
[198] Bishop of Lincoln, after the Restoration.
[199] Robert Boyle to Lord Broghill: Birch’s Life; afterwards used as Epistle Dedicatory to the Considerations on the Style of the Scriptures.
[200] Birch’s Life.
[201] Of Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight.
[202] Boyle’s Law, confirmed by Mariotte in 1676: “The volume of any given sample of a gas at constant temperature is inversely proportional to the pressure.”
[203] Hooke’s Law, 1676: Ut tensio, sic vis; “Strain is proportional to stress.”
[204] Published Oxford, 1660.
[205] Birch’s Life.
[206] Attacked by Hobbes and Franciscus Linus; 2nd ed. London, 1662; 3rd ed. London, 1682.
Oh Morning Star! give back the Day;
Why dost thou delay our joys?
Oh Morning Star! give back the Day!
[208] An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language, published in folio, 1668. (The MS. was lost in the Fire of London.)
[209] Birch’s ed. Works.
[210] Boyle’s Law is not strictly applicable, if all modern refinements of experiment are used, to any gases except an “ideal” gas; but for all practical purposes it is exact, because the corrections to it are only minute additions, and not alterations.
[211] Professor Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., etc., in his Presidential Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Portsmouth, 1911.
[212] Autobiography of the Countess of Warwick (Percy Society).
[213] Autobiography.
[214] Lady Ranelagh to Robert Boyle, Birch’s ed. Works.
[215] Autobiography of the Countess of Warwick.
[216] Edward Phillips’s account.
[217] Richard Jones was not at any college.
[218] Peter du Moulin, Royalist and Episcopalian, had been private tutor to the second Earl of Cork’s family in Ireland. He translated the Devil of Mascon, a French story of authenticated spirit-rapping, published in 1658, with an introductory letter by Robert Boyle, to whom it was dedicated; and in 1670 du Moulin dedicated a volume of Latin poems to Boyle. He was the author of the Regii Sanguinis Clamor. His brother, on the other hand—Lewis du Moulin, Doctor of Physic—was a Parliamentarian and Independent, and, after the Visitation, was Camden Professor of History at Oxford.
[219] Name given by Boyle to that “hopeful young gentleman,” Mr. Richard Jones, to whom Boyle addressed his Physiological Essays, etc.
[220] Passport granted in September 1656. See Masson’s Milton, vol. v. Her eldest daughter, Catherine, was possibly then already married and already in Ireland. She married (1) Sir William Parsons, (2) Lord Mount-Alexander. The two other daughters, Elizabeth and Frances, were with their mother (see later).
[221] Milton’s letters to Mr. Richard Jones. See Masson’s Milton, vol. v.
[222] Evelyn’s letter to Wotton, 1703.
[223] Mrs. Evelyn was the daughter of Sir Richard Browne, English Ambassador at Paris, where Evelyn married her.
[224] See later. Evelyn’s Diary and letters.
[225] We still say “you and yours,” though not “yours” alone.
[226] David Masson. Life of Milton, vol. v, p. 358.
[227] Lord Ranelagh.
[228] Letter to Lord Broghill, Thurloe’s State Papers.
[229] Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[230] Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[231] “Virile government” was apparently assailed in 1659 as it is to-day.
[232] There were nine editions between 1660 and 1708, and it was translated into Latin.
[233] Evelyn’s Diary, May 5, and May 25, 1659.
[234] He was one of the chief of the “Dynastic” or “Court” Cromwellians, in opposition to the “Army” Cromwellians.
[235] Morrice; but Pepys mentions “Mr. Boyle” receiving a passport on April 11, and on board Montagu’s ship, where he was treated as “a person of honour,” on April 20.
[236] Evelyn.
[237] See Pepys’s graphic account of the crossing of Charles II from The Hague, and Evelyn’s account of his reception in London.
[238] Petty’s invention of a “double-bottomed boat,” which made a great talk at the time.
[239] Discourses Useful for the Vain Modish Ladies and their Gallants. 1696.
[240] Charlotte Jemima Henrietta-Maria Boyle, who married a Howard (nephew of Lord Broghill’s wife). Their child, “Stuarta Howard,” died unmarried.
[241] Evelyn’s Diary, October 15, 1664. The first house, built by Sir John Denham, to be succeeded by the later house (Cunningham’s London).
[242] Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[243] Life of Edward Mountagu, K.G., First Earl of Sandwich, by F. R. Harris, vol. ii. p. 179.
[244] “Lyttle Francke” m. (1) Colonel Courtenay, and (2) Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon. There were several daughters, and it was the fourth daughter who married Lord Hinchinbroke. The fifth daughter married Laurence Hyde, son of the Earl of Clarendon; and the third daughter became Lady Thanet, the “virtuosa,” who used to speak much of her uncle Robert Boyle, vide Evelyn’s letter to Wotton.
[245] Diary, 1668.
[246] Philaretus.
[247] Letter to Hooke in 1680, when Boyle declined to be President of the Royal Society (see later).
[248] Diary, November 26, 1661.
[249] “Ianthe” was the name given to Mrs. Mary Saunderson, after her part in Davenant’s Siege of Rhodes. She married Betterton and lived till 1712, having in her time played almost all Shakespeare’s great female characters—“Nell” is, of course, Nell Gwynne.
[250] September 7, 1660 (two days after Broghill had been created Earl of Orrery).
[251] March 9, 1661 (five weeks after the bodies of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw had been exhumed and hanged at Tyburn).
[252] Robert Boyle’s nephew, young Lord Barrymore, had lost his first wife, Susan Killigrew, and married again in 1656, “Martha, daughter of Henry Lawrence, Esq.,” presumably a daughter of the President and sister of his friend and fellow-pupil in the Barbican.
[253] Quoted from Masson’s Milton, vol. vi. p. 85.
[254] Pepys’s Diary, October 13, 1660.
[255] October 13, 14, and 17, 1660.
[256] Evelyn’s Diary.
[257] Part of the Church of the Old Priory of St. Bartholomew.
[258] John Goodwin, author of the Regicide pamphlet, The Obstructors of Justice.
[259] Masson’s Milton, vol. vi. pp. 184-5.
[260] Afterwards Earl of Anglesey.
[261] George Goring, Lettice’s unkind husband, was dead. He was last seen in 1657, in Madrid, ill and destitute,—disguised, it is said, in the habit of a Dominican Friar.
[262] The old brick-and-timber house with its piazzas and “green court,” called after the founder, Sir Thomas Gresham, whose dwelling-house it was (1597).
[263] See previous mentions from diary of Earl of Cork, and King’s Head Tavern in Cunningham’s London.
[264] See the Record of the Royal Society of London, third edition, 1912 (Printed for the Royal Society).
[265] Oldenburg to Boyle, June 1663 (Birch’s Ed. Works, vi.).
[266] Who preached the celebrated sermon that lasted three-and-a-half hours, and then said he felt tired from standing so long.
[267] Sprat’s History of the Royal Society of London, 1667.
[268] Evelyn’s Diary, May 1661.
[269] Dr. Wilkins and Oldenburg were Joint-Secretaries, but Oldenburg did all the work.
[270] Still in constant use.
[271] By which the Society is still governed.
[272] Evelyn’s Diary, November 30, 1663.
[273] Pepys’s Diary, November 30, 1668.
[274] Record of the Royal Society of London, 1912.
[275] London, 1661.
[276] Oxford, 1661.
[277] Dr. Saunderson. It is to be remembered that Lord Broghill, as one of the Lords Justices, had the drawing up of the Act of Settlement, and that the Boyle family were already great Irish landowners, and with hereditary claims on the country for personal service and sacrifice in the Protestant and Royalist cause.
[278] Boyle to the Bishop of Cork, May 27, 1662: Birch, vi.
[279] Now among the relics of the Royal Society at Burlington House.
[280] Evelyn’s Diary, May 7, 1662.
[281] Evelyn speaks of Mr. Povy’s “well contrived cellar and other elegancies,” and again of his “pretty cellar and the ranging of his wine-bottles.”
[282] Oldenburg to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[283] Sorbière, Relation d’un voyage en Angleterre, 1664. Oldenburg’s correspondents in various countries.
[284] Butler’s The Elephant in the Moon.
[285] An Examen of Mr. Hobbes’ Dialogus Physicus de Naturâ Æris.
[286] Daubigney Turberville, of Oriel College: M.D. Oxford, 1660, the well-known oculist, who, at Boyle’s suggestion, later practised in London (see Pepys’s Diary).
[287] Evelyn’s Diary, October 24, 1664.
[288] Oldenburg to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[289] Evelyn, January 1665.
[290] The boat foundered in the Bay of Biscay, and Petty was censured for “rashness,” but he persisted in believing in his invention. See Evelyn, March 22, 1675. Petty’s invention is one of the relics of the Royal Society in Burlington House.
[291] Pepys, December 17, 1664.
[292] Pepys, March 1, 1665.
[293] Pepys, February 15, 1665.
[294] Memoirs of the Comte de Grammont.
[295] The great victory over the Dutch, June 3, 1665. Lord Burlington’s second son, Mr. Richard Boyle, was killed on the Royal Charles.
[296] See Evelyn and Pepys for 1665-6.
[297] Autobiography of the Countess of Warwick (Percy Society).
[298] Hooke to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[299] From Hampton Court to Salisbury, and then to Oxford.
[300] Nonsuch was selected for the offices of the Exchequer, and they seem to have gone to Durdans, Lord Berkeley’s house near Epsom.
[301] Lady Ranelagh to Mr. Boyle: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[302] Boyle’s niece, Lord Burlington’s daughter.
[303] Lady Ranelagh to Boyle, September 9, 1665: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[304] The poet Waller’s house, Hall Barn, Beaconsfield.
[305] Lady Anglesey’s house, near Epping.
[306] F.R.S., President of the Royal College of Physicians.
[307] Oldenburg to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[308] Oldenburg to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[309] Lady Ranelagh to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[310] Evelyn’s Diary, and Letter to Sir Samuel Tuke.
[311] The model is preserved in All Souls’ College, Oxford.
[312] J. R. Green, writing in 1882: History of the English People, vol. iii. p. 382.
[313] Near Windsor.
[314] Evelyn’s Diary.
[315] Lady Ranelagh to Robert Boyle: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.
[316] Evelyn: January 9, 1667.
[317] Diary, June 25, 1667.
[318] Which he called “Philosophical Commerce.”
[319] Morrice: Earl of Orrery’s State Papers. Evelyn, Pepys, Oldenburg to Boyle (Birch); Green’s History; Masson’s Milton.
[320] Morrice.
[321] The pious royalist, Dr. John Fell, who himself preached in blank verse, and was perhaps not a disciplinarian.
[322] Wallis to Boyle, 1669: Birch’s Ed. Works, vi.
[323] Waller, 1661.
[324] Lady Ranelagh to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. Works, vi.
[325] See account in Cunningham’s London.
[326] Evelyn’s Diary, May 1671.
[327] Evelyn to Wotton.
[328] About £40 a year, which would mean about £140 now.
[329] Evelyn’s Diary.
[330] Lady Ranelagh to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. Works, vi.
[331] Now a great man, not only in the Society of which he had so long been Curator. He had blossomed out as an architect, and had achieved Montague House, afterwards the British Museum.
[332] Afterwards Archbishop of Armagh.
[333] Letters of Marsh to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. Works, vi. Bedell’s Life, by T. Wharton Jones, F.R.S. (Camden Society). Some Worthies of the Irish Church, by G. T. Stokes, D.D., ed. by H. F. Lawlor, D.D. Appendix to Boyle’s Life: Birch, vol. i.
[334] Evelyn, January 1684.
[335] The second part appeared after his death.
[336] Transactions, 1692.
[337] J. R. Green’s History of the English People, vol. iv.
[338] J. R. Green’s History of the English People, vol. iv.
[339] See Burnet’s Sermon, preached at the funeral of Robert Boyle, and Birch’s Life.
[340] Evelyn, Oct. 30, 1688.
[341] Ranelagh House, afterwards sold and turned into the famous Ranelagh Gardens.
[342] Left to his daughter in his will.
[343] Evelyn to Wotton.
[344] Ibid.
[345] Birch’s Life.
[346] Boyle dictated a good deal to Burnet, and the use of the Scottish word “forenoon” suggests that Burnet assisted in the drawing up of this announcement. Evelyn, the Englishman, uses the word “morning.”
[347] Evelyn to Wotton.
[348] Ibid.
[349] Evelyn to Wotton.
[350] Birch’s Life.
[351] Where, also, Nell Gwynne had been buried in 1687.
[352] Eccles. ii. 26. The sermon was published and may be read.
[353] Among these was one to found and endow in perpetuity the Boyle Lectures—a course of eight lectures, which are still delivered yearly—“In Defence of Christianity.”