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seems to have acted as tutor to Thomas and Henry Howard, suc- 
cessively Dukes of Norfolk,! the former of whom died unmarried 
at Padua in 1677. On the Restoration in 1660, Dr. Henry Yer- 
bury recovered his Fellowship, and followed up at Oxford those 
tastes for natural science which he had cultivated in Italy. He be- 
came a pupil of the noted Peter Sthael, a chemist and Rosicrusian of 
Strasburg, who had settled in Oxford in the year 1659, brought thi- 
ther by the Hon. Robert Boyle. Amongst those, besides Dr. Henry 
Yerbury, who attended the classes of this foreign, and, at the time, 
highly-esteemed lecturer, were several whose names are very fami- 
liar to us. They were,—Sir Christopher Wren,—Nathaniel Crew, 
afterwards Bishop of Durham,—Dr. Ralph Bathurst, afterwards 
President of Trinity, and Dean of Wells,—and Sir Thomas Milling- 
ton, of All-Souls’ College.’ 
Shortly after this time, Dr. Henry Yerbury became involved in 
disputes with the President of his College, in consequence of which 
he seems once more to have been removed from his Fellowship. 
Dr. Pierce, (a son of John Pierce,* a wealthy alderman and draper 
of Devizes,) who, with Henry Yerbury, had been ejected from a 
Fellowship at Magdalen College by the Parliamentary Commis- 
sioners, was, on the Restoration, raised to the high and coveted 
post of President. His domineering spirit caused much dissatis- 
faction in the College, and this at last led to an open rupture 
between himself and the other members of the Society. The Pre- 
sident resolved at length on the extreme step of declaring Dr. 
'Guillim’s Display of Heraldry, p. 180. It may be observed, that Guillim, 
in describing the armorial bearings of Dr. Henry Yerbury, makes them differ 
somewhat (so far, that is, as tinctwres are concerned,) from those assigned by 
the authorities to Yerbury of Trowbridge, which we have printed at the 
head of the pedigree. He gives them thus,—‘‘Party per fess Or and sable a lion 
rampant counterchanged.” 
2 Wood’s Athen: Oxon: iv. 304. 
’ John Pearce, or Piers, the ‘ wealthy alderman and draper of Devizes’ was a 
great Royalist, and was in 1649 fined to the extent of £426 by the Parliamen- 
tary Commissioners. In a poem called ‘Caroloiades’ by Edward Howard, son 
of the Earl of Berkshire, he is described as ‘‘ the trusty townsman,” who dis- 
covered to the Lord Hopton a magazine of powder concealed on his own premi- 
ses, and thus recruited, at a moment of jeopardy, the exhausted ammunition 
of the Royalists. 
