80 AUBREY'S NATURAL HISTORY OF WILTSHIRE. 



of the world, and writt underneath, "and all for man." [Some interesting passages fromForman's 

 MS. Diary have recently been brought forward by Mr. Collier in illustration of the history of 

 Shakspere's works. They describe some very early performances of several of his plays, at which 

 Forman was present J. B.] 



S' Johan Davys, Knight, was born at Tysbury ; his father was a tanner. He wrote a poeme in 

 English, called Nosce Teipsum* ; also Reports. He was Lord Chief Justice in Ireland. His wife was 

 sister to the Earle of Castle-Haven that was beheaded ; she had also aliquid dementia, and was a 

 prophetesse, for which she was confined in the Tower, before the late troubles, for her predictions. 

 His onely daughter and heire was married to [Ferdinando] Earle of Huntingdon. 



Mr. Tliomas Holies was born at Westport juxta Malmesbury, April the fifth, anno 1588, he told 

 me, between four and six in the morning, in the house that faces or points to the horse-faire. He 

 died at Hardwick in Derbyshire, Anno Domini 1679, astatis 91. [See Aubrey's Life of Holies, 

 appended to Letters from tlie Bodleian, vol. iii. p. 593. J. B.] 



Thomas Willis, M.D., was born at Great Bedwyn in this county, anno [1621.] His father, he 

 told me, was steward to my Lady Smyth there. He dyed in London, and lyes interred with his 

 wife in Westminster Abbey. 



Tliomas Piers, I). I)., and Dean of Salisbury, formerly President of Magdalen College in Oxford, 

 was born at the Devizes. His father was a woollen draper and an alderman there. 



Sir Christopher Wren, Kid., Surveyor of his Majesties buildings, the eldest sonne of Dr. 

 Christopher Wren, Deane of Wimlsore, was born at Knowyle, in this county, where his father was 

 rector, in the parsonage-house, anno 1631 ; christened November the 10th ; but he tells me that he 

 was born October the 20th. His mother fell in labour with him when the bell rung eight. 



[Richard] Blaekmore, M.D., bom in Cosham parish, the sonne of an attorney, went to schoole to 

 Parson. . . . of Dracot. Scripsit an Epique poeme, called Prince Arthur, 1694. 



Sir William Penn, Vice-Admirall, bom at Minety, in the hundred of Malmesbury. His father 

 was a keeper in Braden forest : the lodge is called Perm's lodge to tliis day. He was father to Wil- 

 liam Penn, Esq. Lord Proprietor of Pensylvania ; it is a very ancient family in Buckinghamshire. 

 Tliis family in North Wilts had heretofore a dependence on the Abbey of Malmesbury as stewards 

 or officers. [Sir William Penn was buried in Redcliffe Church, Bristol. See Britton's Account of 

 Reddiffe Church. J. B.] 



T. ByfalJ, a physician, sonn of Adoniram Byfield, the Assembly man, bom at Collingbourn 

 Ducis, where his father was rector. He published a book of Waters about 1684. 



Mr. Edward Whatman, of Mayclen Bradley, practitioner in physick, and very successfull in his 

 practise. By reason of the civill warrs he was of no university, but he was a young man of great 

 parts and great hopes. He died shortly after his Majesties restauration, aged about 35. He onely 

 printed " Funerall Obsequies on the Honourable the Ladie Elizabeth Hopton, wife to Sir Ralph 

 Hopton," London, 1647. 



Mr. William Gardiner, the eminent schoolemaster at Blandford, about twenty yeares ; born in this 

 county; died about 1636, astatis 47. 



MUSICIANS. The quire of Salisbury Cathedral hath produced as many able musicians, if not 

 more, than any quire in this nation. 



[* " Noice Teiptum : this oracle expounded in two elegies. 1st. Of Human knowledge. 2nd. Of the soule of man, and the im- 

 mortality thereof;" with acrostics on Queen Elizabeth. (London, 1609, small 8vo.) The works of the above named Lady Eleanor 

 Davies, the prophetess, widow of Sir John, were of a most extraordinary kind. See a list of them in Watt's Bibliotheca Bri- 

 Unnica. J. B.] 



