[690]Mr. Thomas Pigot, M.A. Coll. Wadh., my worthy friend, obiit August 14, A.D. 1686, of a feaver, about one a clock in the afternoon.
He was fellow of Wadham College and chaplain in ordinary to the earle of Ossory, at whose house in St. James' Square he deceased. He was buried in St. James's church by St. James's fields, Sunday the 15th, in the middle aisle between the pulpit and the railes of the communion-table of the north side of this aisle, in the grave of Mr. Rigby, the first rector[691] here, upon whose coffin he lies. His head lies under 14.
His brother haz a MS. of musick written by him, a little 4to.
Quaere for his decyphering the inscription on Sir Thomas More's family-picture at Bessills-Leigh. Memorandum--this decyphering gives great light to the antiquitie of the family which els would be lost utterly.
He haz some pieces of _opus tessellatum_ found at or near Badmanton (the duke of Beauford's) not long before his death.
[692]Dr. Thomas Pittis, rector of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate, died Wednesday in Christmas weeke in December 1687. He was buryed in the Isle of Wight at the west Cowes.
He haz a sonne of the same College[693] in Oxford that he was of.
[694]Sir William Plater[695], knight, was a Cambridgeshire gentleman at.... He had a good estate (about 3000 _li. per annum_). He was a very well bred gentleman, as most was of those times; had travelled France, Italie, etc., and understood well those languages. He was one of the Long Parliament in the time of the late warres.
He was a great admirer and lover of handsome woemen, and kept severall. Henry Martyn and he were great cronies, but one time (about 1644) there was some difference between them--Sir William had gott away one of Henry's girles, and Sir John Berkinhead inserted in his _Mercurius Aulicus_ how the saintes fell out. He was temperate and thriftie as to all other things.
He had onely one sonne, who was handsome and ingeniose, and whome he cultivated with all imaginable care and education[696].... He allowed his son liberally but enjoyned him still temperance, and to sett downe his expences[697]....
The father was a good linguist and a good antiquary. This beloved sonne of his dyeing ..., shortned his father's dayes. He built the triumphall-like arch wheron the king's armes is in the partition between church and chancell at St. Margaret's Westminster, under which he lies buried. The following inscription is on the arch[AS], viz....