[63] 'Dr. Christopher Wren, Deane of Windsor, was buried June 3, 1656,' is the entry in the register; there does not appear to be any monument or brass to his memory. The _Parentalia_ and Elmes's Life give 1658, but the dates are frequently inaccurate in both books. [64] Evelyn's _Diary_, March 31, 1658. 'That holy martyr Dr. Hewer condemned to die, without law, jury or justice by a mock council of State as they called it. A dangerous, treacherous time. June 8, _ib._ That excellent preacher and holy man Dr. Hewer was martyred for having intelligence of his Majesty, through the Lord Marquess of Ormond. He was beheaded on Tower Hill. The name was spelt Hewer, Hewet, and Hewett. [65] Pascal is said to have written his treatise on the cycloid from a religious motive. It was a common opinion in France that the study of natural sciences, especially of mathematics, led to infidelity. Accordingly Pascal, writing for geometricians and mathematicians, wished to show, by the solution, vainly sought before, of this problem, that the same man who wrote the _Lettres à un Provincial_ could also instruct them in abstract science, and he published his treatise in the intervals of writing the _Pensées_. See _Vie de Pascal, par sa soeur Mad. Perier, Pensées de Pascal_, p. 13, ed. 1839. [66] _Hist. of England_, vol. vii. ch. lxi. p. 292. [67] Gresham Professor of Divinity, confirmed in his post by Cromwell. [68] Thomas Sprat, D.D., Dean of Westminster, and afterwards Bishop of Rochester; was an active member of the Royal Society, and was educated at Wadham College with Sir C. Wren, whose intimate friend he was: born 1636; died 1713. CHAPTER V. 1659-1663. APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION--DIFFICULTY OF PRESERVING IT--LETTERS FROM LORD CLARENDON--BISHOP WREN'S RELEASE--THE RESTORATION--CONVOCATION--SAVILIAN PROFESSORSHIP--ROYAL SOCIETY--'ELEPHANT IN THE MOON'--PEMBROKE CHAPEL BEGUN. Yet bethink thee that the spirit whence those princely bounties flowed To the ties of private feeling all its force and being owed; Severed from the bonds of kindred, taught his lonely heart to school, By his Father's chastening kindness or his Church's sterner rule; Oft to spots by memory cherished, where his earliest love began, In his age's desolation, fondly turned the childless man. _Phrontisterion_, by Dean Mansel.