[1026]Memorandum:—... Guy, alderman of Bristoll, was the wisest man of his time in that city. He was as their oracle and they chose him for one of their representatives to sitt in Parliament.
'Twas he that brought in the <bill> for lowering of interest from ten in the hundred to eight per centum.
... Gwyn.
[1027]Surlinesse and inurbanitie too common in England: chastise these very severely[1028].
A better instance of a squeamish and disobligeing, slighting, insolent, proud, fellow[1029], perhaps cant be found then in ... Gwin, the earl of Oxford's[1030] secretary. No reason satisfies him, but he overweenes, and cutts some sower faces that would turne the milke in a faire ladie's breast.
William Habington (1605-1645).
[1031]William Habington, of Hindlip in Worcestershire, esq., maried Luce, daughter of William <Herbert>, lord Powes, 1634, as by the Worcestershire Visitation it appeares.
He was a very learned gentleman, author of a poem called Castara. He wrote a live of one of the kings of England.