[CXXIV.] I have heard Mr. Edmund Waller say that (William) the lord marquisse of Newcastle was a great patron to Dr. Gassendi, and M. Des Cartes, as well as Mr. Hobbes, and that he hath dined with them all three at the marquiss's table at Paris.—MS. Aubr. 9. fol. 50.
As also the like love and friendship was betwixt him and
Marinus ... Mersennus;
Monsr. Renatus Des Cartes[1549];
as also—
<Johan. Franc.> Niceron;
Samuel Sorbier, M. D.—vide his epistle and Gassendus's before his De Cive.
... Verdusius, to whom he dedicates his ... Dialogi ([1550]vide my Dialogi for his Christian name—'tis dedicated to him).
[1551]T. H. would say that Gassendus was the sweetest-natured man in the world.