with them: He dyed Feb. 8. and was buryed Feb. 22. 1659. at
Olaves Iury.
[unspec XVIII] Richard Edes, and Marmaduke Roydon Esq Mr. Thomas Brown,
Mr. Peter Paggon, Mr. Charles Iennings, Mr. Edward Carleton,
Mr. Robert Abbot, Sir Andrew King, Mr. William White, Mr. Stephen
Balton•• Mr. Robert Aldem, Mr. Edmund Foster, Mr. Thomas Blinkhorn
belonging to Sir Nicholas Crisp, no other Memorial than that Com∣mission
of great importance sent them 1643. to London, by the La∣dy
D' Aubigney to their lasting honor; and executed by them as
far as it was possible to their great danger. Mr. Iefferson, Mr. Au∣stin, Mr. Bedle, Mr. Batty, Mr. Long, Mr. Lewis, all of Broadstreet
Ward, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Wright, Mr. Drake, Mr. Walter, &c. refusing
to contribute Arms towards the Rebellion, and so were disarmed
themselves.
[unspec XIX] Mr. Iohn Crane, a native of Wisbich Cambridgeshire, and Apothe∣cary
in Cambridge-town, with whom Dr. Butler of Clare-hall lived
himself, and to whom he left most of his estate, with which he
would entertain openly, all the Oxford Scholars at the Commence∣ment,
and relieve privately all distressed Royalists during the U∣surpation;
and whereof, he bestowed 3000l. to charitable uses,
whereof 200l. to two Bishops, Bishop Wren, and Bishop Brownrigge,
500l. to forty Orthodox Ministers, his fair house to the Cambridge
Professor of Physick, the rest equally and discreetly on Wis∣bich,
where he was born; Lyn, where he was well acquainted;
Ipswich, where Dr. Butler was born; Kingston, where his estate lay;
and Cambridge, where he lived; where observing the bad effects
of naughty fish and fowls, bought for the University, he gave 200l.
to be lent gratis to an honest man, the better to enable him to buy
good. He died, May 1650.
[unspec XX] Mr. William Collet, the faithful and methodical keeper of the
Records in the Tower, which he neither washed, to make them
look clear; nor corrected, to make them speak plain. Mr. Selden
and others entertain us with a feast of English rarities, whereof
Mr. William Collet is the Caterer. He was born at Over in Cambridge-shire,
bred a Clerk in London, and died beloved, and missed by all
Antiquaries in the Tower, 1644.
[unspec XXI] Mr. Edward Norgate, Son to Dr. R. Norgate, Master of C. C. C. and Son-in-law to Dr. Felton, Bishop of Ely, encouraged in his natural
inclination to Limning and Heraldry, lest he might (by a force
upon nature) be diverted to worse, became the best Illuminer,
and Herald of his age; wherefore, and because he was a right ho∣nest
man, the Earl of Arundel employed him to Italy for some Pi∣ctures;
whence returning by Marseilles, he missing the money he
looked for, and walking up and down melancholy in the walk of
that City, was thus accosted by a civil Monsieur, who (upon the
relation of his condition) said, Take I pray my counsel, I have taken
notice of your walking more than twenty miles a day, in one furlong up∣wards
and downwards; and what is spent in needless going and return∣ing,
if laid out in progressive motion, would bring you into your own
Country; I will suit you (if so pleased) with a light habit, and fur∣nish