8G A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR 



any assurance that, when the day should come in which 

 man cannot work, he would have the means of common 

 livelihood. Self-protection is so implanted in our 

 nature, that, however we may admire the sacrifice, we 

 cannot but deplore the result in the case of this martjrr 

 to humanity ; who finding friends and bread for many, 

 came at last to the sad necessity of himself soliciting 

 the cold hand of charity. 



Samuel Pepys notes in his Diary* of the 7th of 

 August, 1660: — "While I was at dinner in came 

 Samuel Hartlib and his brother-in-law, now knighted 

 by the King, to request my promise of a ship for them 

 to Holland, which I had promised to get for them.'' 

 Later the same day he remarks : — " At night, meeting 

 Samuel Hartlib, he took me by coach to Kensington, 

 to my Lord of Holland's ; I staid in the coach while he 

 went about his business." 



That Hartlib did not accompany his brother-in-law 

 to Holland, we may infer from the next entry in the 

 same Diary on the 23rd of February, 1660-61. " This 

 my birthday, 28 years. Mr. Hartlib told me how my 

 Lord Chancellor had lately got the Duke of York and 

 Duchesse, and her woman, my Lord Ossory, and a 

 Doctor, to make oath before most of the Judges of the 



* Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.E.S. With 

 a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Brayhrooke. 3rd edition. 

 5 vols, post 8vo. 1848. Vol. I. p. 126. 



