His onely daughter and heire was
married to [Ferdinando] Earle of Huntingdon.
[*"Nosce Teipsum: this oracle expounded in two elegies. 1st. Of
Human knowledge. 2nd. Of the soule of man, and the immortality
thereof;" with acrostics on Queen Elizabeth. (London, 1609, small
8vo.) The works of the above named Lady Eleanor Davies, the
prophetess, widow of Sir John, were of a most extraordinary kind. See
a list of them in Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica. - J. B.]
Mr. Thomas Hobbes was born at Westport juxta Malmesbury, April the
fifth, anno 1588, he told me, between four and six in the morning, in
the house that faces or points to the horse-faire. He died at Hardwick
in Darbyshire, Anno Domini 1679, ?tatis 91. [See Aubrey's Life of
Hobbes, appended to Letters from the Bodleian, vol. iii. p. 593.
- J. B.]
Thomas Willis, M.D., was born at Great Bedwin in this county, anno
[1621.] His father, he told me, was steward to my Lady Smyth there. He
dyed in London, and lies interred with his wife in Westminster Abbey.
Thomas Piers, D.D., and Dean of Salisbury, formerly President of
Magdalen College in Oxford, was born at the Devizes. His father was a
woollen draper and an alderman there.
Sir Christopher Wren, Knt., Surveyor of his Majesties buildings, the
eldest sonne of Dr. Christopher Wren, Deane of Windsor, was born at
Knoyle, in this county, where his father was rector, in the
parsonage-house, anno 1631; christened November the 10th; but he tells
me that he was born October the 20th.
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