[144] David Masson’s _Milton_, iii. 662. [145] Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and former tutor to Lady Pegg’s brothers. [146] Letter to John Durie about a Union of the Churches, Birch’s Ed. _Works_. [147] To Lady Ranelagh: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [148] Robert Boyle to Hartlib, May 1647: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [149] “Marginal Note” in _Occasional Reflections_, Section II, ed. 1665, p. 187. [150] Not published till after his death. [151] After lying many years in manuscript they were published at her entreaty—dedicated to her—after the Restoration. [152] _Occasional Reflections_, ed. 1665, pp. 245, 161. [153] _Ibid._ p. 256: _Upon my Spaniel’s fetching me my glove_. [154] Written after 1648. [155] See p. 194. Lindamor, the scholarly youth, well born and well bred, seems often in his writings to represent Boyle himself. The direct reference to “Mr. Boyle” is a favourite device of the author. Swift has satirised the _Reflections_ in his “Occasional Meditations on a Broomstick,” but he has not acknowledged “The Eating of Oysters” as the inspiration of his _Gulliver’s Travels_. [156] For historical accounts see Masson’s _Milton_, vol. iii, and Bagwell’s _Ireland under the Stuarts_, vol. ii. [157] It was Anne Murray, the girl-friend of “My Robyn’s yonge Mrs.,” who was entrusted with the dressing-up of the young Prince. See _Diary_ of Anne, Lady Halkett (Camden Society) for pretty description of the dressing-up, and the “Wood Street cake” given to the boy at parting. [158] Robert Boyle’s letter to Mrs. Hussey: Birch’s _Life_. [159] Letter to Mrs. Hussey. [160] Sentiment. [161] _Vide_ Robert Boyle’s _Reflections_ written in that month: “Upon the prodigiously wet weather which happened the summer that Colchester was besieged (1648).” [162] _Ibid._ [163] The family seem to have had their town house in Soho, and were “distinguished parishioners” of St. Giles in the Fields (see Cunningham’s _London_). The Earl, when he died in 1661, left property in Long Acre and St. Martin’s Lane, etc. [164] He died of smallpox, 1649, and was buried in the Savoy. [165] Afterwards Earl of Clanbrassil. [166] Evelyn’s letter to Dr. Wotton about Robert Boyle. [167] Masson’s _Milton_, vol. iii. [168] Letter to Lady Ranelagh, August 1649: Birch’s Ed. of _Works_, vol. vi. [169] Compare Budgell’s and Morrice’s accounts. [170] Bagwell’s _Ireland under the Stuarts_. [171] Robert Boyle’s letter: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [172] Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [173] This wife died young. The second wife was a daughter of Henry Lawrence, presumably a sister of young Barrymore’s friend and fellow-pupil at Milton’s house in the Barbican. [174] Broghill’s letter to Lenthall, quoted by Bagwell. For the whole account of Broghill’s part in the war, see Bagwell’s _Ireland under the Stuarts_.