26 A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR 



of July, 1660, remarking : — "This day I put on my 

 new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life. 

 Home, and called my wife, and took her to Clodius's 

 to a great wedding of Nan Hartlib to Mynheer Eoder, 

 which was kept at Goring House with very great state, 

 cost, and noble company. But among all the beauties 

 there, my wife was thought the greatest." 



Pepys's next visit to Goring House, was six years 

 later, when it became the residence of Lord Arlington. 

 He observes that it was the house " where I was once 

 at Hartlib's sister's wedding." — Vol. III. p. 235. 



About the middle of the year 1658, Hartlib was a 

 complete martyr to disease and the further punish- 

 ment of quacks : for the knowledge of medicine was 

 then at a low ebb, and the strongest and most violent 

 remedies were recommended for the alleviation of the ills 

 of suffering humanity. His letters to Boyle are full of 

 expressions such as an afflicted Christian could alone 

 indite or dictate. On the 25th of April 1658, he 

 writes : — " I may truly say, even in an outward sense, 

 * I die daily.' . These three days I have been near unto 

 death." On the 26th of May he recovers a little : — 

 " since my last the fury of my pains have very much 

 abated." But on the 8th of June comes : — " my body 

 is still full of pains, though not so violent." 



His immediate necessities, it would appear, obliged 

 him to make appeals to his friends for present support, 

 pending the non-payment of his pension. 



