12 A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR 



and great services to the Parliament: And the Lords 

 and Commons, considering the present great necessities 

 of the said Mr. Hartlib, and his family, do hereby 

 earnestly recommend it to the said Committee, That 

 speedy payment may be made of the said Three Hun- 

 dred Pounds. And the more particular care of this 

 business is especially referred to Mr. Lisle and Mr. 

 Bond. 



Ordered. — That it be referred to the Committee for 

 the University of Oxon, to take into their especial 

 consideration the deserts of Mr. Hartlib, both from this 

 Parliament, and from all that are well-wishers to the 

 advancement of learning: and to recommend him to 

 some place of benefit in the University of Oxon ; where 

 he may have an encouragement, and future supply. 



"2nd April, 1647. — Sir John Clotworthy carried to 

 the Lords the vote for 



Three hundred pounds, out of Haberdasher's Hall, for 

 Mr. Hartlib. 



" And brings Answer, 

 That, to the Order for Three hundred pounds to Mr. 

 Hartlib, out of the Haberdasher's Hall, they do agree." 



On the 27th of November, 1655, Evelyn notes in 

 his Diary* that he went " to visit honest and learned 

 Mr. Hartlib, a public spirited and ingenious person, 



* Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S., Edited by 

 W. Bray, Esq., F.A.S. 4 vols, post 8vo. 1852. Vol. I. p. 310. 



