—From his eldest sonne, who succeeds him in his place of filazer.
[672]Old Fabian Philips has told me severall times that it hath cost him 800 li. in taking paines searching and writing to assert the king's prerogative and never gott a groate. Only, when the regulation of the lawe was, he was made one of the commissioners, which was worth 200 li. per annum—I thinke it lasted two yeares.
Note.
[AR] Aubrey gives in trick the coat: 'azure, a fess between 3 falcons argent.' This life is later than the others in MS. Aubr. 6, being written on a page originally set aside for 'Mr. John Milton.' Letters of F. Philips to A. Wood are found in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 64, 65.
John Philips (1631-1706).
[673]Mr. Philips, author of Montelion[674] and Don Juan Lamberto[675], is very happy at jiggish poetrey.
Montelion is happy for a jiggish phancy and gypsies and ballads.