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IT is to be lamented, that of this benevolent and refpedable perlon very-
few notices have been tranfmitted to us; fo few indeed, that we mult
content ourfelves with merely tranfcribing the ihort account given of
him by Mr. Granger; which, together with his epitaph, contains, all that
has hitherto been difcovered concerning him.
He was born, as appears from his monumental infcription, in the year
1606; and was keeper of the palace of Hampton-Court, ana yeoman of
the robes to King Charles the Second. “ Being fenfibie (fays Granger)
how much youth of a liberal turn of mind mud: buffer for want of a com-
petent fubfiflence at the Univerfity, what a check poverty is to a riling
genius, and what an ill effed the want of the common advantages of fo-
ciety has upon a man’s future behaviour and condud in life, he bellowed
a conliderable part of his fortune upon young Undents in Oxford and
Cambridge. He gave 1000I. to purchafe 50I. a year; the income of
which was chiefly to be applied to the augmentation of thirteen poor fel-
lowfbips at St. John’s college in Oxford.. He founded eight fellowlhips
at Jefus college, in Cambridge, for the orphans of poor clergymen. He
was a conliderable benefador to Bridewell in London, and contributed
liberally towards the building of St. Paul’s church. The brazen flatue
of Charles II. in the middle of the great court at Chelfea, [which coll
500I.*] and the equeflrian flatue of him at Windfor, were ereded at his
expence. This very charitable perfon, who while he lived was a bleflmg
to the poor and to the publick, died, to the great regret of all that knew
his worth, in 1693/’—“ It appears, (fays his great-nephew, who was living
* Lyfons’s Envi ron.s of London, ii. 155c
few notices have been tranfmitted to us; fo few indeed, that we mult
content ourfelves with merely tranfcribing the ihort account given of
him by Mr. Granger; which, together with his epitaph, contains, all that
has hitherto been difcovered concerning him.
He was born, as appears from his monumental infcription, in the year
1606; and was keeper of the palace of Hampton-Court, ana yeoman of
the robes to King Charles the Second. “ Being fenfibie (fays Granger)
how much youth of a liberal turn of mind mud: buffer for want of a com-
petent fubfiflence at the Univerfity, what a check poverty is to a riling
genius, and what an ill effed the want of the common advantages of fo-
ciety has upon a man’s future behaviour and condud in life, he bellowed
a conliderable part of his fortune upon young Undents in Oxford and
Cambridge. He gave 1000I. to purchafe 50I. a year; the income of
which was chiefly to be applied to the augmentation of thirteen poor fel-
lowfbips at St. John’s college in Oxford.. He founded eight fellowlhips
at Jefus college, in Cambridge, for the orphans of poor clergymen. He
was a conliderable benefador to Bridewell in London, and contributed
liberally towards the building of St. Paul’s church. The brazen flatue
of Charles II. in the middle of the great court at Chelfea, [which coll
500I.*] and the equeflrian flatue of him at Windfor, were ereded at his
expence. This very charitable perfon, who while he lived was a bleflmg
to the poor and to the publick, died, to the great regret of all that knew
his worth, in 1693/’—“ It appears, (fays his great-nephew, who was living
* Lyfons’s Envi ron.s of London, ii. 155c