["Poems, written by William Earl of
Pembroke, &c. many of which are answered by way of repartee, by Sir
Benjamin Rudyard. With other poems by them occasionally and apart."
Lond. 1660, 8vo.-J. B.] He had his nativity calculated by a learned
astrologer, and died exactly according to the time predicted therein,
at his house at Baynard's Castle in London. He was very well in
health, but because of the fatal direction which he lay under, he made
a great entertainment (a supper) for his friends, went well to bed,
and died in his sleep, the [10th] day of [April] anno Domini 1630. His
body lies in the vault belonging to his family in the quire of Our
Ladies Church in Salisbury. At Wilton is his figure cast in brasse,
designed, I suppose, for his monument. [See the notices of the Earls
of Pembroke in the ensuing chapter. - J. B.]
Sir Edward Hyde, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellour of England, was
born at Dynton in Wiltshire. His father was the fourth and youngest
sonn of..... Hyde, of Hatch, Esq. Sir Edward married [Frances]
daughter of Sir Thomas Aylesbury, one of the clarks of the councell In
his exile in France he wrote the History of the late Times, sc. from
1641 to 1660; near finished, but broken off by death, by whom he was
attacked as he was writing; the penn fell out of his hand; he took it
up again and tryed to write; and it fell out the second time. He then
saw that it was time to leave off, and betooke himself to thinke about
the other world.
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