[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.