[368]The more to be admired, quaere—he was not a company keeper; lived in Shorditch; would not be debauched; and if invited to court, was in paine.
W. Shakespeare—quaere Mr. Beeston, who knowes most of him from Mr. Lacy. He lives in Shoreditch at Hoglane within 6 dores north of Folgate. Quaere etiam for Ben Jonson.
[369]Old Mr. Beeston, whom Mr. <John> Dreyden calles 'the chronicle of the stage,' died at his house in Bishopsgate street without, about Bartholomew-tyde, 1682. Mr. Shipey in Somerset-house hath his papers.
Richard Benese (14..-1546).
[370]I did see, many yeares since, in a countrey-man's house, a little booke in 8vo in English, called
Arsmetrie, or the Art of numbring:
printed in an old black letter about Henry VIII. The author's name I doe not remember—quaere in Duck lane.
The next old mathematicall booke in English that I have seen hath this title, viz:—