[310] Evelyn’s _Diary_, and Letter to Sir Samuel Tuke. [311] The model is preserved in All Souls’ College, Oxford. [312] J. R. Green, writing in 1882: _History of the English People_, vol. iii. p. 382. [313] Near Windsor. [314] Evelyn’s _Diary_. [315] Lady Ranelagh to Robert Boyle: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vol. vi. [316] Evelyn: January 9, 1667. [317] _Diary_, June 25, 1667. [318] Which he called “Philosophical Commerce.” [319] Morrice: _Earl of Orrery’s State Papers_. Evelyn, Pepys, Oldenburg to Boyle (Birch); Green’s _History_; Masson’s _Milton_. [320] Morrice. [321] The pious royalist, Dr. John Fell, who himself preached in blank verse, and was perhaps not a disciplinarian. [322] Wallis to Boyle, 1669: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vi. [323] Waller, 1661. [324] Lady Ranelagh to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vi. [325] See account in Cunningham’s _London_. [326] Evelyn’s _Diary_, May 1671. [327] Evelyn to Wotton. [328] About £40 a year, which would mean about £140 now. [329] Evelyn’s _Diary_. [330] Lady Ranelagh to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vi. [331] Now a great man, not only in the Society of which he had so long been Curator. He had blossomed out as an architect, and had achieved Montague House, afterwards the British Museum. [332] Afterwards Archbishop of Armagh. [333] Letters of Marsh to Boyle: Birch’s Ed. _Works_, vi. _Bedell’s Life_, by T. Wharton Jones, F.R.S. (Camden Society). _Some Worthies of the Irish Church_, by G. T. Stokes, D.D., ed. by H. F. Lawlor, D.D. Appendix to Boyle’s _Life_: Birch, vol. i. [334] Evelyn, January 1684. [335] The second part appeared after his death. [336] _Transactions_, 1692. [337] J. R. Green’s _History of the English People_, vol. iv. [338] J. R. Green’s _History of the English People_, vol. iv. [339] See Burnet’s Sermon, preached at the funeral of Robert Boyle, and Birch’s _Life_. [340] Evelyn, Oct. 30, 1688. [341] Ranelagh House, afterwards sold and turned into the famous Ranelagh Gardens. [342] Left to his daughter in his will. [343] Evelyn to Wotton. [344] _Ibid._ [345] Birch’s _Life_. [346] Boyle dictated a good deal to Burnet, and the use of the Scottish word “forenoon” suggests that Burnet assisted in the drawing up of this announcement. Evelyn, the Englishman, uses the word “morning.” [347] Evelyn to Wotton. [348] _Ibid._ [349] Evelyn to Wotton. [350] Birch’s _Life_. [351] Where, also, Nell Gwynne had been buried in 1687. [352] Eccles. ii. 26. The sermon was published and may be read. [353] Among these was one to found and endow in perpetuity the Boyle Lectures—a course of eight lectures, which are still delivered yearly—“In Defence of Christianity.” INDEX Abbot, George, Archbishop of Canterbury, 22 Act of Oblivion. _See_ Indemnity Bill _Air, the Spring and Weight of the_, 189, 202, 248, 288 Aix, 99 Albemarle, George Monk, Duke of, 224, 232, 237, 269, 270 Aldersgate Street, 128, 130, 133 Aldgate, 128, 133