John Dryden (1631-1700).
[889]John Dreyden, esq., Poet Laureate. He will write it[890] for me himselfe.
[891]John Dryden, poeta, <born> 19 Aug. 1631, 5h 33´ 16˝ P.M.
[892]'Natus insignis poeta
1631
Aug. 9°, 5h 53´ P.M.
Latit. 52° North.'
This is the nativity of Mr. John Dreyden, poet laureat, by Mr. John Gadbury, from whom I had it.
Sir William Dugdale (1605-1685/6).
[893]Sir William Dugdale, Garter, <born> 12 Sept. 1605, 3h 15´ P.M.
[894]'Sir[EC] William Dugdale avow'd to mee <that> at the time of his birth (10 September, as I thinke, which was the birth day of Francis the first) a swarme of bees came and settled under the window where hee was borne, September 18. Johan. Gybbon.'
Memorandum that Sir William Dugdale did not tell his son or Mr. Gibbons de Edward the Confessor and he laught at it—quod N. B.