By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 103 



life, (Ingeniose youths like rosebudds imbibe tbe morning dew.) till 



" 1648, Dec. Xmas eve, I was sent for borne again to my sick 

 father, who never recovered : where I was engaged to look after 

 his country business and solicit a law suit. 



1649-50, April. My Mother fell from her horse and brake her 

 arm the last day of April, when I was a suitor to Mistress Jane 

 Codrington. 



" 1651. About the 16 or 18 April I sawo that incomparable good 

 conditioned gentlewoman, Mistress M. Wiseman, with whom at 

 first sight I was in love. 



"Oct. 21. My Father died, leaving me debts £1800: and law 

 proceedings £1000. Began to enter into pocket mem. books philo- 

 sophical! and antiquarian remarques a.d. 1654 at Llantrihid. 



"Sept, 1655, or rather I think 1656, I began my chargeable 

 and tedious lawe suite on the entaile at Brecknockshire and Mon- 

 mouthshire. This yearc and the last was a strange yeare to me. 

 Several love and law suites. 



" 1657. Nov. 27. Obiit Domina Kasker Ryves, with whom I was 

 to marry : to my great losse. — £2000 ; besides counting one of her 

 Brothers £1000 per ann. 



" A° . . . I made my "Will, and settled my estate on Trustees, 

 intending to have seen the Antiq. of Rome and Italy, and then to 

 have returned and married. But (Diis alitor visum est superis) 

 viz. ... to my inexpressible grief and ruine hindered the designc 

 . . . But notwithstanding all these embai-rassments, I did, 2>>((ti 

 piano (as they occurred) take notes of Antiq., and having a quick 

 draught have drawn landskips on horseback symbolically, as on the 

 journey to Ireland a.d. 1060. 



1659. March or April: like to break my neck in Ely Minster: 

 and the next day riding a gallop there, my horse tumbled over and 

 over, and yet I, thank God, no hurt." 



[After visiting Ireland and being nearly shipwrecked at Holy- 



liead, he sold his Burleton estate in Herefordshire to Dr. F. AVillis : 



then the Manor of Stratford,' in 1661 and 1062. In 1663 ho was 



elected F.R.S. In June 1664, he went to France, was very ill at 



' Probably ytrctl'ord ucar Lcominstor. 



