OF SAMUEL HARTLIB. 3 



women, of a noble extraction, both of them being ladies, 

 according to the fashions in those countries ; in regard 

 of which he obtained the sooner his third wife, my 

 own mother. How many sums of gold, and erecting of 

 pillars of honour, both to my grandfather and father, 

 were offered both by Dantzick and Elbing, remains yet 

 in the memory of some very old people in Prussia. 



'* My mother had two sisters, both which were very 

 honourably married ; one to a Lord Mayor's son at 

 London, Mr. Clark ; and afterwards to a very rich knight. 

 Sir Richard Smith, one of the King's Privy Council ; she 

 bringing a portion to him of .£'10,000 sterling. This is 

 my aunt, the Lady Smith, who marrying afterwards to 

 Sir Edward Savage, was made one of the Ladies of 

 Honour to our King's mother. The other sister was 

 married to a younger brother, Mr. Peak ; whose son hath 

 now an estate of .^^SOO sterling of land of inheritance 

 yearly ; and who is still alive. Our cousin-german, or 

 my aunts', the lady Smith's daughter, was married to Sir 

 Anthony Irby, at Boston, a knight of ^£^4,000 or ^5,000 

 sterling a year; who is still alive, and a Parliament Man. 



" But before all this I should have told you, that I 

 have been upbraided for my too much negligence of my 

 pedigree : whereas they told me that my family was of 

 a very ancient extraction in the German Empire ; there 

 having been ten brethren of the name of Hartlib. Some 

 of them have been Privy Counsellers to the Emperor, 

 some to other inferior Princes ; some Syndicks of Aus- 



