He writt (amongst many other) an admirable elegie on the countesse of Rutland, which is printed with verses before Sir Thomas Overburie's _Characters_. John Earles, in his verses on him, speaking of them,
'A monument that will then lasting bee, When all her marble is more dust then shee.'
Ex registro:--he was buryed at the entrance of St. Benedict's chapell where <is> the earl of Middlesex' monument, in Westminster Abbey, March 9, 1615/6[XX.].
[XX.] Memorandum:--Isaac Casaubon was buryed at the entrance of the same chapell. He dyed July 8, 1614.
I searched, severall yeares since, in the Register-booke of St. Mary Overies, for the obiit of Mr. John Fletcher, which I sent to Mr. Anthony à Wood.
He hath a very good prefatory letter before Mr. Speght's edition of Sir Geofrey Chaucer's Workes printed by Adam Islip, 1602, London, where he haz judicious observations of his writing.
[365]... Bedwell, professor of ... at Gresham College, translated into English Pitisci _Trigonometria_. Published _The turnament of Totnam_. He was an Essex man--from his grand-niece.
[366]Did I tell you that I have mett with old Mr ...[367] who knew all the old English poets, whose lives I am taking from him: his father was master of the ... play-house.
[368]The more to be admired, quaere--he was not a company keeper; lived in Shorditch; would not be debauched; and if invited to court, was in paine.
_W. Shakespeare_--quaere Mr. Beeston, who knowes most of him from Mr. Lacy. He lives in Shoreditch at Hoglane within 6 dores north of Folgate. Quaere etiam for _Ben Jonson_.
[369]Old Mr. Beeston, whom Mr. <John> Dreyden calles 'the chronicle of the stage,' died at his house in Bishopsgate street without, about Bartholomew-tyde, 1682. Mr. Shipey in Somerset-house hath his papers.
[370]I did see, many yeares since, in a countrey-man's house, a little booke in 8vo in English, called
printed in an old black letter about Henry VIII. The author's name I doe not remember--quaere in Duck lane.
The next old mathematicall booke in English that I have seen hath this title, viz:--
This booke sheweth the manner of measuring of all manner of land, as well of woodland as of lande in the felde, and comptinge the true nombre of acres of the same.