[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.