on fol. 11, he gives the coat and motto, but adds that there is a crescent 'in medio scuti.'
[EA] 'Wotton' is substituted for '... Castle,' to which a marginal note was added, 'I think 'tis Chilham Castle.' In MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 11, Aubrey wrote:—--'... Digges, esq., of Chilham Castle, Kent—vide prefaces of his Pantometrie and Ala seu Scala Mathematices, etc. His son makes mention of his life in his Stratioticos.'
[EB] A pencil note on fol. 73 gives the title, with the press mark in the 1674 Catal. libr. impress. Bibl. Bodl., viz.—'A perpetual prognostication for weather: C. 2. 13. Art.'
Thomas Digges (15..-1595).
[879]Mr. Thomas Digges:—he wrote a booke in 4to, entituled—
'Stratioticos, compendiously teaching the science of nombres as well in fractions as integers, and so much of the rules and aequations algebraicall and art of nombers cossicall as are requisite for the profession of a soldier; together with the modern militarie discipline, offices, lawes and orders in every well-governed camp and armie inviolably to be observed.'
First published by him, 1579, and dedicated 'unto the right honourable Robert, earle of Leicester.' The second edition, 1590.
He was muster-master generall of all her majestie's forces in the Low Countries, as appeares in page [237].