Sir H. Savill dyed at, and was buried at Eaton colledge, in the chapell, on the south east side of the chancell, under a faire black marble grave-stone, with this inscription:—
He had travelled very well, and had a generall acquaintance with the learned men abroad; by which meanes he obtained from beyond sea, out of their libraries, severall rare Greeke MSS., which he had copied by an excellent amanuensis for the Greeke character.
... putt a trick upon him, for he gott a friend to send him weekely over to ... in Flanders (I thinke), the sheetes of the curious Chrysostome that were printed at Eaton, and translated them into Latin, and printed them Greeke and Latin together, which quite spoyled the sale of Sir Henry's.
Memorandum:—he gave his collection of mathematicall bookes to a peculiar little library belonging to the Savillian Professors[BI].
Notes.
[BF] Aubrey gives in trick the coat:—'argent, on a bend sable, 3 owls of the field [Savile].'
[BG] Aubrey seems to have had a special interest in this story. He notes it twice in MS. Aubr. 21 (fol. 2, and fol. 4):—'Sir H. Savile—If you'l have witts, goe to Newgate.'
[BH] Leonard Yates, fellow of Merton in 1593, rector of Cuxham, co. Oxon., 1608, died 1662, aged circ. 92. His son, John Yates, was M.A. of Trinity in 1639, and probably Aubrey knew him there.