[278]After he was blind he wrote these following bookes, viz. Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Grammar, Dictionarie (imperfect)—quaere +.
[279]I heard that after he was blind that he was writing a Latin Dictionary (in the hands of Moyses Pitt[280]). Vidua affirmat she gave all his papers (among which this dictionary, imperfect) to his nephew, a sister's son, that he brought up, ... Philips, who lives neer the Maypole in the Strand (quaere). She has a great many letters by her from learned men, his acquaintance, both of England and beyond sea.
<His later residences.>
He lived in several places, e.g. Holborne neer King's-gate. He died in Bunhill, opposite to the Artillery-garden wall.
<His death and burial.>
He died of the gowt[281] struck in, the 9th or 10th of November, 1674, as appeares by his apothecarye's booke.
He lies buried in St. Giles's Cripplegate, upper end of chancell at the right hand, vide his gravestone[282].—Memorandum his stone is now removed; for, about two yeares since (now, 1681), the two steppes to the communion table were raysed. I ghesse John Speed and he lie together.
<Personal characteristics.>
His harmonicall and ingeniose soul did lodge[283] in a beautifull and well-proportioned body:—
In toto nusquam corpore menda fuit.