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LADY DENHAM.
daughter and lieire of-Cotton, of Glocestershire, by whom he
had 500 lib. per annum, one son and two daughters.
“ He was much beloved by King Charles the First, who much
valued him for his integrity. He granted him the reversion of
the Surveyor of his Buildings, after the decease of Mr. Inigo
Jones 5 which place after the restoration of King Charles II., he
enjoyed to his death, and gott seaven thousand pounds as Sir
Christopher Wren told me of, to his owne knowledge. Sir Chris-
topher Wren was his deputy.
“An. Dom. 166- he married his second wife, — Brooke, a very
beautiful young lady; Sir John was ancient and limping.
“The Duke of Yorke fell deeply in love with her. This occa-
sioned Sir John’s distemper of madnesse in 166-, which first
appeared when he went from London to see the famous free-stone
quarries at Portland, in Dorset. When he came within a mile of
it, turned back to London againe, and would not see it. He went
to Hounslowe, and demanded rents of lands he had sold many
yeares before j went to the King, and told him he was the Holy
Ghost 5 but it pleased God that he was cured of this distemper, and
wrott excellent verses, particularly on the death of Abraham Cow-
ley, afterwards. His second lady had no child, and was poysoned
by the hands of the Co. of Hoc. with chocolatte. At the corona-
tion of King Charles II. he was made knight of the Bath.
“He died in 1668-9, March the 23rd; was buried in West-
minster Abbey, near Sr Jeffrey Chaucer’s monument.
“ He delighted much in bowles, and did bowle very well. He
was of the tallest, but a little uncurvetting at his shoulders, not
very robust. His haire was but thin and flaxen, with a moist
curie. His gate was slow, and was rather a stalking, (he had long
legges.) His eie was a kind of light goose gray, not big ‘ but it
had a strange piercingness, not as to shining and glory, but (like
LADY DENHAM.
daughter and lieire of-Cotton, of Glocestershire, by whom he
had 500 lib. per annum, one son and two daughters.
“ He was much beloved by King Charles the First, who much
valued him for his integrity. He granted him the reversion of
the Surveyor of his Buildings, after the decease of Mr. Inigo
Jones 5 which place after the restoration of King Charles II., he
enjoyed to his death, and gott seaven thousand pounds as Sir
Christopher Wren told me of, to his owne knowledge. Sir Chris-
topher Wren was his deputy.
“An. Dom. 166- he married his second wife, — Brooke, a very
beautiful young lady; Sir John was ancient and limping.
“The Duke of Yorke fell deeply in love with her. This occa-
sioned Sir John’s distemper of madnesse in 166-, which first
appeared when he went from London to see the famous free-stone
quarries at Portland, in Dorset. When he came within a mile of
it, turned back to London againe, and would not see it. He went
to Hounslowe, and demanded rents of lands he had sold many
yeares before j went to the King, and told him he was the Holy
Ghost 5 but it pleased God that he was cured of this distemper, and
wrott excellent verses, particularly on the death of Abraham Cow-
ley, afterwards. His second lady had no child, and was poysoned
by the hands of the Co. of Hoc. with chocolatte. At the corona-
tion of King Charles II. he was made knight of the Bath.
“He died in 1668-9, March the 23rd; was buried in West-
minster Abbey, near Sr Jeffrey Chaucer’s monument.
“ He delighted much in bowles, and did bowle very well. He
was of the tallest, but a little uncurvetting at his shoulders, not
very robust. His haire was but thin and flaxen, with a moist
curie. His gate was slow, and was rather a stalking, (he had long
legges.) His eie was a kind of light goose gray, not big ‘ but it
had a strange piercingness, not as to shining and glory, but (like