'Heare lies (expecting the second comeing of our Saviour Christ Jesus) the body of Edmund Spencer, the Prince of Poets of his tyme; whose divine spirit needs no other witnesse then the workes which he left behind him. He was borne in London, in the yeare 1510, and dyed in the yeare 1596.'
William Stafford (1593-1684).
Robert Stafford (1588-1644).
[989]William Stafford, of Thornbury in com. Gloc., esq., descended of the family of the duke of Buckingham, was a student of Christ Church, Oxon. Old Dr. Fell[990] was his tutor. About 30 yeares + since[991] he printed a pamphlet, viz. The reasons of the warre. I thinke he was a parliament man—but of that party he was. He dyed about May last, 1684, aged ... <at> Thornbury.
[992]Dorothy, sister to William Stafford aforesayd, married to her first husband, <Robert> Stafford, her kinsman, who was of Exeter Coll., and pupill to Dr. John Prideaulx. He wrote a thin 4to Geographie, which I have read. I remember he begins thus:—
'Indignation made Juvenal a poet and me a geographer.'
Thomas Stanley (1625-1678).
[993]Thomas Stanley, esqr., son to Sir Thomas Stanley, born at Cumberlow....
His praeceptor, Mr. William Fairfax, in his father's howse.