He was seized abroad, and sent to London, where he was condemned and executed without a trial, and with peculiar circumstances of rigour, having been conducted to death by those sorrowful soldiers who had been accustomed to obey his command. The king was much exasperated against him, as he believed him to be the seducer of his favourite son. He, at his death, denied his ever having any design against his majesty's life.

SIR EDMOND BURY GODFREY. P. Vandrebanc sc. large sheet.

SIR EDMUND BURY GODFREY, Et. 57. P. Vandrebanc sc. large h. sh. Another, smaller, by the same hand.

SIR EDMOND BURY GODFREY, Et. 57; two English verses.

SIR EDMUND BURY GODFREY. Van Hove sc. octogon; h. sh. A copy of the same, by Nutting.

SIR EDMUND BURY GODFREY; sold by Arthur Tooker.

SIR EDMUND BURY GODFREY; in a large h. sh. with seven others.

Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey, an able magistrate, and of a fair character, who had exerted himself in the business of the Popish plot, was found pierced with his own sword, and several marks of violence on his body. His death, which was imputed to the Papists, who were then supposed to be the authors of all mischief, was generally deemed a much stronger evidence of the reality of the plot, than any thing that Oates either did, or could swear. Even the foolish circumstance of the anagram of his name, helped to confirm the opinion of his being murdered by Papists. His funeral was

*

* Sir Edmund Bury Godfrey was anagrammatized to, “ I find murdered by rogues.”

celebrated with the most solemn pomp: seventy-two clergymen preceded the corpse, which was followed by a thousand persons, most of whom were of rank and eminence. His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. William Lloyd, dean of Bangor, and afterward bishop of Worcester. He was found dead, the 17th of October, 1678.

THOMAS THYNNE, esq'. Lely p. Browne; h. sh.

mezz.

THOMAS THYNNE, esq. Kneller p. White sc. h. sh. THOMAS THYNNE, esq. Cooper; 4to. mezz.

THOMAS THYNNE, esq. of Longleat, (murdered 1681-2). Claussin fec. 4to.

There is a portrait of him at Longleat.

Thomas Thynne, esq. of Longleat, in Wiltshire, and member of parliament for that county, was noted for the affluence of his fortune, and his uncommon benevolence and hospitality. Hence he gained the epithet of "Tom of ten thousand." He was married to the Lady Elizabeth Percy, countess of Ogle, sole daughter and heir of Josceline, earl of Northumberland; but was murdered in his coach, before consummation, by three assassins, supposed to be suborned by Charles, count Koningsmark, a necessitous adventurer, who had made some advances to the Lady Ogle.* He is the person meant by the name of Issachar, in Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel ;" and is hinted at in the following lines of the Earl of Rochester. But it ought to be observed, that this author is sometimes as licentious in his satire, as he is in his other writings.

"Who'd be a wit in Dryden's cudgel'd skin,t

Or who'd be rich and senseless like Tom- ?”

Ob. 12 Feb. 1681-2.

* See an account of this murder in Reresby's " Memoirs," 8vo. p. 135.

+ Dryden was cudgelled for reflecting on the Duchess of Portsmouth, and the Earl of Rochester, in his "Essay on Satire," which he wrote in conjunction with the Earl of Mulgrave.

JOHANNES COTTONUS BRUCEUS, piλáv@pw¬ πος, φιλοβασίλευς, καὶ φιλοκάρολος.

"Virtus repulsæ nescia sordidæ,
Intaminatis fulget honoribus;

Nec sumit aut ponit secures,

Arbitrio popularis auræ."-HOR.

G. Kneller p. Vandrebanc sc. large sheet.

SIR JOHN COTTON BRUCE. Kneller p. R. White sc. 1699; 4to.

John Cotton Bruce was the only son of Sir Thomas Cotton, bart. and grandson to Sir Robert Cotton, the celebrated antiquarian. This gentleman, who died in 1702, made considerable additions to the valuable library collected by his grandfather. It consisted of manuscripts, which, bound up, made about a thousand volumes. They relate for the most part to English history and antiquities; the improvement of which was what Sir Robert chiefly aimed at in his collections. They were methodically ranged, and placed in fourteen sets of shelves; over which were the heads of the twelve Cæsars, Cleopatra, and Faustina. They were purchased of Sir John Cotton, great grandson of Sir Robert, by Queen Anne; and are now deposited in the British Museum. See more concerning the Cottonian Library, in Ward's "Lives of the Gresham Professors," p. 251, 252.

DANIEL COLWAL, esq. R. White sc. 1681; h.sh.

DANIEL COLWAL, armiger, &c. h. sh. Before Dr. Grew's " Museum Regalis Societatis,” 1681; fol.

Daniel Colwal, esq. of the Friary, near Guilford, was a gentleman of good fortune, the superfluities of which he expended in making a collection of natural rarities. These he presented to the Royal Society, and is therefore justly esteemed the founder of their Museum. Of these Dr. Grew has given us a catalogne, which is at once a proof of the judgment of the compiler and the collector.