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1660, the two friends went together for a month's visit to 

 Ireland, and that on their return journey they were very 

 nearly shipwrecked at Holyhead. 



Aubrey gives Anthony Ettrick of Trinity College first 

 place in his list ol amid, or special friends,* and at his death 

 he " left to the library of Jesus College, Oxford, such of his 

 books as Anthony Ettrick, or John Lydell,J also of Trinity 

 CoUege, should think fit." | 



On August 1st, 1650, he was married, at Gillingham, to 

 Anne, daughter of the Rev. Edward Davenant, D.D., Vicar 

 of Gillingham and nephew of the Bishop (John Davenant) 

 of Salisbury. Mrs. Ettrick's father was credited by Sir 

 Christopher Wren with being " the best mathematician in 

 the world." He was a man of vast learning, and had a 

 noble library the aggregate of his father's, the bishop's, 

 and his own. According to Aubrey, Dr. Davenant had the 

 following " excellent way of improving his children's 

 memories " : he w r ould make one of them read a chapter, 

 or whatever it might be ; " and they were (sur le champ) to 

 repeat what they remembered, which did exceedingly profitt 

 them ; and so for sermons he did not let them write notes 

 (which faded their memories), but let them give an account 

 viva voce."* Mrs. Ettrick inherited to some extent her 

 father's mathematical gifts, and was an "excellent algebraist." 



Anthony Ettrick had been admitted to the Middle Temple 

 on Nov. 26, 1641, and in course of time filled there almost 

 every possible position of dignity. He was called to the 

 Bar on Nov. 26, 1652 ; became a Bencher 22 Nov. 1672 ; a 

 Reader in Lent term 1674 ; and was appointed Treasurer in 

 1678. 



The following references are extracted from the Records of 

 the Middle Temple : | 



* Ibid, Vol. I., p. 43. 

 J Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, Ft. II., p. 133. 



f Ibid, Vol. I., p. 52. 

 t Middle Temple Records, by C. H. Hopwood, K.C., 1904. 



