[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.