[CA] This letter from Charles Snell to Aubrey is sealed with the following coat:—'... a cross pattée crossed; quartering, ... 3 roses on a fess between 6 martlets.'
Aubrey has on it a jotting 'Memorandum his life as to Dove,' and in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 15, the note 'Mr. ... Tombes: mend the mistake of ... Dove's widdowe,' i.e. supra, p. [259], correct the statement that 'he maried the widowe of ... Dove.' He married the widow of Wolston Abbott of Salisbury: Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 360: July 14, 1681.
[CB] George Penruddock, of Broad Chalk, born at Westminster.—MS. Aubr. 23, fol. 61.
Ezreel Tonge (1621-1680).
[1088]Ezreel Tong[CC], D.D., was borne at Tickell, in Yorkshire, between Bautre and Doncaster.
Obiit ... Decemb., sepultus 23 Decemb. <1680> in the vault of the church-yard of St. Mary Stayning, London; where, before the conflagration, was a church, of which he was the parson[1089]; but I have heard his brother, captain Tong (of the King's Guards) say 'twas worth but 18 li. per annum, for he had gathered it.
Mr. <Thomas> Jones (who preached his funerall sermon: printed) sayes that he haz left two tomes in folio of alchymie. His excellency lay there.
About 1658, or 1659, the then-Power made an Academie of the Bishop's Pallace at Durham, for the benefit of the North. Dr. Tonge was the governour, or one of the professors. Ned Bagshawe was proposed to have been another. The Dr. had an excellent schoole there, and followed precisely the Jesuites' method of teaching; and boyes did profit wonderfully, as needes they must, by that method.
He afterwards taught at Islington, at Sir Thomas Fisher's house[CD], where was a long gallery, and he had severall printed heads of Caesars, &c.; verbes under such a head, governed a dative case; under another, an ablative. The boyes had it as readie as could be. I have been there.