I pray[1650] you keep his will private to your selfe and Mr. Hobbes's frends onely.
vi. James Wheldon to John Aubrey.
[1651]Chatsworth, Sept. the 7th, 1680.
Honoured Sir,
Although for these three weekes, since I receaved your letter, I have made all the enquiry I can, yet all that I hear of the death and buriall of Sir Charles Cavendish is that he was interred at Bolsover in the vault belonging to the family of the duke of Newcastle about the year 1652 or 1653. I will continue to make further inquiry, and if I can learne the day and the month of his death or buriall will give you notice of it.
I have sent you underwritten Mr. Hobbes's epitaph written by himselfe, which is but lately come to my hand from a person that copyed it from the originall.
With much respect, I rest, Sir,
Your most humble and obliged servant,
James Wheldon.
My lord of Devonshire has paid the hundred pounds to Mr. Hobbes's kinred, which he bid Mr. Hobbes dispose of in his will.
Condita hic sunt ossa
Thomae Hobbes
Qui per multos annos servivit
duobus comitibus Devoniae
(patri et filio).
Vir probus, et fama eruditionis.
Domi forisque bene cognitus
Obiit Anno Domini 1679, mensis Decis die 4º,
Aetatis suae 91.
[1652]To my much honoured frend John Aubrey, esq.