[270]He had a middle wife, whose name was (he[271] thinkes, Katharin) Woodcock. No child living by her.
<Third wife.>
[272]He maried his second[273] wife, Elizabeth Minshull, anno ... (the year before the sicknesse): a gent. person, a peacefull and agreable humour.
<His public employment.>
He was Latin secretary to the Parliament[274].
<His blindness.>
[275]His sight began to faile him at first upon his writing against Salmasius, and before 'twas fully compleated one eie absolutely faild. Upon the writing of other bookes, after that, his other eie decayed.
[276]His eie-sight was decaying about 20 yeares before his death: quaere, when starke[277] blind? His father read without spectacles at 84. His mother had very weake eies, and used spectacles presently after she was thirty yeares old.