[1010]Sir William Dugdale told me that speakeing of ... Stowe to Sir Henry Spelman, Sir Henry told him that he had 'stich't us up a historie.' He was a taylor.
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[BS] Aubrey gives a drawing of the monument. At the top are the arms of the Merchant Tailors' Company, viz. 'argent, a royal tent between two parliament robes gules lined ermine, on a chief azure a lion passant guardant or.' Underneath is 'his effigies.' On the right side, the legend Aut scribenda agere over the figure of his 'Annales of England'; on the left, the legend Aut legenda scribere over the figure of his 'Survey of London.'
Thomas Street (1621/2-1689).
[1011]Mr. Thomas Streete[LXXXVI.], astronomer, was borne[BT] in Ireland, his widowe thinkes, at Castle Lyons, March the 5th, 1621.
[LXXXVI.] His astronomical tables are the best that ever were yet made.
Anno 1661 he printed that excellent piece of Astronomia Carolina, which he dedicated to king Charles II, and also presented it well bound to prince Rupert and the duke of Monmouth, but never had a farthing of any of them.
Afterwards he published an Appendix to his Astronomia Carolina, 4to, which makes it perfect—printed for Francis Cossinet at the Anchor and Mariner in Tower Street, 1664.
Before this appendix he writes thus, scilicet:—