Mr. Henry Gellibrand, professor of <Astronomy> at Gresham College, hath put a learned preface to it, wherein it is mencioned that Mr. Henry Brigges and Mr. Edmund Gunter did earnestly sollicite Mr. Wells to publish it.
[1223]<In> Deptford <church at the> east end <of the> south aisle <on a> white marble:--
Memoriae Sacrum. Hic sita est Catherina Welles, generosa, summae pietatis et virtutis, filia Thomae Wailinger armigeri et Benedictae Gonson primogenita, uxor charissima Johannis Welles armigeri pro regia classe pridem diribitoris ejusque navalium armamentorum per triginta plus annos totius Angliae generalis custodis, cui septem filios sexque filias feliciter enixa est, quarum duo nati tres natae hîc unâ cum illa contumulantur. Animam coelo pie reddidit 5 Julii 1634 aetatis 47 felicem in Christo resurrectionem indubitanter expectans. Ad maritum superstitem. Pignora conjugii remanent tibi plurima nostri, Pluraque praemisit mors mihi dira rogo: Parte fruor tumulo, reliqua tibi prole relicta; Festina charos lentus ad hos cineres.
[CR] In MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 80ᵛ, Aubrey drew the coat:--'argent, a chevron vert powdered with ermine spots of the first between 3 martletts sable,' but crossed it out with the note 'false.' On fol. 81 he gives a coat, as carved on the monument there described:--'or, a lion rampart within a bordure engrailed sable, a crescent for difference; impaling, gules, a fess verry between 3 (pheasants, I thinke) or'; and adds 'the lord Wells tempore <Henr. VII> gave this coate.'
[1224]Sir George Wharton, baronet, treasurer and paymaster to the office of his majestie's Ordinance, dyed at his howse at Enfield, 12th of August 1681, and lyes buryed in the Tower chapell, 25 of August following.
At the end of this note Anthony Wood has added the reference 'see p. 39b,' i.e. fol. 90ᵛ of the MS., where is the note--'Sir George Wharton, baronet, obiit in Turri London, ubi sepultus est, Aug. 10th 1681.' Wood has noted there 'in page 45,' i.e. fol. 97, ut supra, 'you say 12 August.' Aubrey there gives in trick the coat:--'<sable>, a maunch <argent>, on a canton ..., a lion's gamb,' and adds 'sans bordure, quod N.B.'--On fol. 9ᵛ of the MS. is still another version:--'Sir George Wharton, knight, buryed at the Tower chapel (quaere), 26 August, Friday, 1681'; and Wood there objects 'in page 45, you say 25 August: see page 39b.'