[240] Charlotte Jemima Henrietta-Maria Boyle, who married a Howard
(nephew of Lord Broghill’s wife). Their child, “Stuarta Howard,” died
unmarried.
[241] Evelyn’s _Diary_, October 15, 1664. The first house, built by Sir
John Denham, to be succeeded by the later house (Cunningham’s _London_).
[242] Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi.
[243] _Life of Edward Mountagu, K.G., First Earl of Sandwich_, by F. R.
Harris, vol. ii. p. 179.
[244] “Lyttle Francke” _m._ (1) Colonel Courtenay, and (2) Wentworth
Dillon, Earl of Roscommon. There were several daughters, and it was the
fourth daughter who married Lord Hinchinbroke. The fifth daughter married
Laurence Hyde, son of the Earl of Clarendon; and the third daughter
became Lady Thanet, the “virtuosa,” who used to speak much of her uncle
Robert Boyle, _vide_ Evelyn’s letter to Wotton.
[245] _Diary_, 1668.
[246] _Philaretus._
[247] Letter to Hooke in 1680, when Boyle declined to be President of the
Royal Society (see later).
[248] _Diary_, November 26, 1661.
[249] “Ianthe” was the name given to Mrs. Mary Saunderson, after her part
in Davenant’s _Siege of Rhodes_. She married Betterton and lived till
1712, having in her time played almost all Shakespeare’s great female
characters—“Nell” is, of course, Nell Gwynne.
[250] September 7, 1660 (two days after Broghill had been created Earl of
Orrery).
[251] March 9, 1661 (five weeks after the bodies of Cromwell, Ireton, and
Bradshaw had been exhumed and hanged at Tyburn).
[252] Robert Boyle’s nephew, young Lord Barrymore, had lost his first
wife, Susan Killigrew, and married again in 1656, “Martha, daughter of
Henry Lawrence, Esq.,” presumably a daughter of the President and sister
of his friend and fellow-pupil in the Barbican.
[253] Quoted from Masson’s _Milton_, vol. vi. p. 85.
[254] Pepys’s _Diary_, October 13, 1660.
[255] October 13, 14, and 17, 1660.
[256] Evelyn’s _Diary_.
[257] Part of the Church of the Old Priory of St. Bartholomew.
[258] John Goodwin, author of the Regicide pamphlet, _The Obstructors of
Justice_.
[259] Masson’s _Milton_, vol. vi. pp. 184-5.
[260] Afterwards Earl of Anglesey.
[261] George Goring, Lettice’s unkind husband, was dead. He was last seen
in 1657, in Madrid, ill and destitute,—disguised, it is said, in the
habit of a Dominican Friar.
[262] The old brick-and-timber house with its piazzas and “green court,”
called after the founder, Sir Thomas Gresham, whose dwelling-house it was
(1597).
[263] See previous mentions from diary of Earl of Cork, and King’s Head
Tavern in Cunningham’s _London_.
[264] See the _Record of the Royal Society of London_, third edition,
1912 (Printed for the Royal Society).
[265] Oldenburg to Boyle, June 1663 (Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vi.).
[266] Who preached the celebrated sermon that lasted three-and-a-half
hours, and then said he felt tired from _standing_ so long.
[267] Sprat’s _History of the Royal Society of London_, 1667.
[268] Evelyn’s _Diary_, May 1661.
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