The Chief Baron told his cosen Edmund Wyld, esq., that Sir Isaac Wake was the first that planted pines and firres in England. E. W. might have had the study for 8 li. per annum.
Clement Walker (1595-1651).
[1143]Clement Walker, esq. ('Theodorus Verax'), author of the History of Independency, was of Christ Church, Oxon. Obiit ..., in the Tower (about Worcester fight).
[1144]Clement Walker[CE], esq.—vide registrum at All Hallows, Barking, about 1650, ubi sepultus, November:—he asked about an hower before he dyed, how long it was to full-sea. They sayd, an hower. 'Then,' sayd he, 'at that time I shall depart'; and he did so, quietly—from E. P—.,, esq., his fellow-prisoner there, who told me that he wrote a continuation of his Historic of the king's comeing to Worcester: 'tis pitty 'tis lost.
His son[CF], W. W., now living, was a minor when his father dyed; and ..., an elder brother of his, was made executor, who is also dead.
Notes.
[CE] Aubrey adds also the references:—(a) 'vide A<nthony> W<ood's> lettre, about June 1681'; (b) 'vide Φ, p. [88],' a MS. I have been unable to identify.
[CF] Aubrey in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 360: July 14, 1681:—'Mr. Clement Walker's son tells me that his father was buried in Allhallowes Barking church, November ..., 1652: wherabout he knowes not, being then but 9 aetatis.'