Nathaniel Torporley (1563-1632).
[1094]Mr. J.[1095] Torporley—Mr. <Robert> Hooke affirms to me that Mr. J. Torporley was amanuensis to Vieta[1096]; but from whom he had that information he haz now forgot, but he had good and credible authority for it, and bids me tell you that he was certainly so.
He printed something against Vieta by the name of John Poulterey (a disguised name, the same letters a little transpos'd).
[1097]Memorandum:—Mr. Nicholas Mercator (who taught the last earl of Northumberland[1098], then lord Percy, at Petworth) assures me that the earle of Northumberland who was prisoner in the Tower gave also a pension to one Mr. ... Torporley, Salopiensis, a learned man; and that in the library of that family (I thinke) at Petworth, are some papers of his: quaere iterum.
Ex catalogo librorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae:
Nath. Torporlaeus, Diclides coelometricae, seu valvae astronomicae universales: Lond. 1602, 4to: C. 46 Art.