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lie was fixed in a different part of the city, it is 

 supposed, he was one of the first inhabitants of 

 that building; and being then but twenty-three 

 years, was perhaps one of those industrious young 

 men whom, as we are told, the munificent founder 

 himself, Sir Thomas Gresham, placed in the shops 

 erected over that edifice. We next hear of him 

 in Chancery Lane, where he carried on the trade 

 of a linen draper. About 1 643, he left London 

 with a fortune, very far short of what would now 

 be called a competency ; we are told he subse- 

 quently "lived at Stafford and elsewhere, but 

 mostly in the families of the eminent clergymen 

 of England, of whom he w r as much beloved." He 

 employed his time in writing several biographical 

 works, and at the advanced age of eighty-three, 

 (which, to use his own words) " might have pro- 

 cured him a writ of ease, and secured him from 

 all further trouble in that kind," he undertook to 

 write the life of Dr. Robert Sanderson, Bishop 

 of Lincoln, which was published in 16/7- I n 



