[CVII.] Quaere de hoc: vide his life.—'Twas 1650 or 1651.—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38v.
[CVIII.] Quaere etiam de hoc. I thinke true as I remember.—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 38v.
<Kindness to his nephew.>
[1329]1655 or 1656: about this time he setled the piece of land (aforesayd), given to him by his uncle, upon his nephew Francis[CIX.] for life, the remaynder to his nephew's eldest son, Thomas Hobbes. He also not long after[1330] dischardged a mortgage (to my knowledge[CX.], to Richard Thorne, an attorney) of two hundred pounds, besides the interest thereof, with which his nephew Francis (a careles[1331] husband) had incumbred his estate.
[CIX.] Or brother: I have now forgott. But surely 'twas to his nephewe[1332].—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 30v.
[CX.] I doe not insert this to be published, but only my familiar way of writing to you and to give to you the greater testimonie.—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39v.
<Residence in London.>
He was much in London till the restauration of his majesty, having here convenience not only of bookes, but of learned conversation, as Mr. John Selden, Dr. William Harvey, John Vaughan, etc., wherof anon in the catalogue of his acquaintance.
I have heard him say, that at his lord's house in the countrey[1333] there was a good library, and bookes enough for him, and that his lordship stored the library with what bookes he thought fitt to be bought; but he sayd, the want of learned[1334] conversation[CXI.] was a very great inconvenience[1335], and that though he conceived[1336] he could order his thinking as well perhaps as another man, yet he found a great defect[1337].
[CXI.] Methinkes in the country, in long time, for want of good conservation, one's understanding (witt, invention) growes mouldy.—MS. Aubr. 9, fol. 39v.