Charles Snell lived near Fordingbridge in Hampshire. He occurs in these 'Brief Lives' and other Aubrey MSS. as a frequent correspondent of Aubrey's on matters astrological.
John Speed (1542-1629).
[979]He is in effigie, a faire monument, not much unlike Mr. Camden, in the south side of the chancell of St. Giles Cripplegate[980].
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Johannis Speed civis Londinensis,
mercatorum scissorum fratris, servi fidelissimi
regiarum majestatum Elizabethae
Jacobi et Caroli nunc superstitis, terrarum
nostrarum geographi accurati et fidi,
Antiquitatis Britannicae historiographi,
Geneologiae sacrae elegantissimi delineatoris,
qui postquam annos 77 superaverat
non tam morbo confectus quam mortalitatis
taedio lassatus, corpore se levavit
July 28, 1629, et jucundissimo Redemptoris
sui desiderio sursum elatus,
carnem hic in custodiam deposuit, denuò
cum Christus venerit recepturus
et Susannae suae suavissimae <conjugis>
quae postquam duodecim illi filios et
sex filias pepererat, annos quinquaginta
septem junctis utriusque
solatiis cum illo vixerat, liberos gravi
et frequenti hortamine ad Dei
cultum sollicitaverat, pietatis et
charitatis opere quotidiano praeluxerat,
emori demum erudiit suo
exemplo quae septuagenaria placide
in Christo obdormivit, et fidei
suae mercedem habuit Martii
vicesimo octavo Anno Domini
MDCXXVIII.
John Speidell.
[981]Mr. ... Spiedell:—he taught mathematiques in London, and published a booke in quarto named Spiedel's Geometrical Extractions (London[982], 163-), which made young men have a love to geometrie.