[50] Memorials of the See of Chichester, p. 290.
[51] ‘December 8, 1646. The pious soul of my wife Eliza flew up to Christ at half-past five in the morning.’
[52] Life of Dr. Barwick, ed. 1724, p. 122.
[53] Grey’s Examination of Neale’s History of the Puritans, vol. iii. p. 333.
[54] It is really 24,899 miles.
[55] The box is, I believe, in Peterhouse Library to this day, but a portion of the Commentary was published as a treatise against the Socinians by the Bishop’s son Matthew, under the title of Increpatio Bar Jesu, sive polemicae adsectiones locorum aliquot S. Scripturae ab imposturis perversis in Catechesis Racoviana collectae.
[56] Petty’s history is a curious one. The son of a clothier of Rumsey; he educated himself; was some years in the navy; became Gresham professor of music; then a physician of some fame; was also Henry Cromwell’s secretary; was a commissioner for Ireland, and married Sir Hardress Waller’s daughter. Soon after the Restoration he was knighted by Charles II. Petty invented a ‘double-bottomed ship to sail against wind and tide; it was flat-bottomed, had two distinct keels cramped together with huge timbers, so as a violent stream run between: it bore a monstrous broad sail.’ It excited much interest at the time, made one very successful voyage, and was afterwards wrecked in a frightful storm. Its model is still preserved at the Royal Society, of which he became a member. He died in 1687. Lives of the Gresham Professors, p. 217. Ward. See also Evelyn’s Diary of March 22, 1675, for an interesting account of Petty’s career.
[57] Seth Ward, born 1617. Was Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford and an active member of the Royal Society. Afterwards Bishop of Exeter and then of Salisbury; died 1689.
[58] Life of Sir C. Wren, by J. Elmes, p. 12. The full title of the play was ‘Πλουτοφθαλμία Πλουτογαμία,’ a pleasant comedy intituled Hey for Honesty, &c., augmented and published by F. J. A copy, published in 1651, and containing a MS. note saying that Wren took the part of ‘Neanias Adolescens,’ was in the possession of Isaac Reed, a commentator on Shakespeare and a great book collector, who died in 1807. His epitaph (given in Notes and Queries, series v., xiii. p. 304) was as follows:—
‘Reader of these few lines take heed,