[372]Mris ... Barckley, sister of the late lord Fitz-Harding[373], was cosen german to Mr. Sydney Godolphin, and also his mistresse. He loved her exceedingly. After Mr. Godolphin's death she maried one Mr. Davys who I thinke is now[374] dead, and she lives at Twicknam—from Philip Packer, esq.
Willoughby Bertie, 3rd earl of Abingdon (1692-1760).
[375]<Willoughby> Bertie, filius primus Jacobi Bertie, 2ndi filii Jacobi, comitis de Abington, natus Westmonast. 28 die Novembris, 2h. P.M. 1692.—The child is yet living, notwithstanding the 8th house[376]: mend the figure, but the time is right.
[377]I know not how to retreive the fashion or shape of the old engine of the battering-ramme, but from the coate of the Bertyes, which is 'or, 3 battering rammes barrewise,' as in the margent, the timber is proper, the head azure, the hornes and ironworke gilded.
[378]Memorandum:—the battering ramme, the armes of Bertie, hung in equilibrio in an engine they call the triangles—from Mr. Nicolas Mercator: vide Bertie's coate in primo volumine[379]. See[380] the old glasse windowes in Aldersgate street—from Mr. <Edward> Bagshawe.