[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.