The lives of the professors of Gresham College: to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas Gresham. With an appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, written by the professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives / By John Ward.

  • John Ward
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1740
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Credit: The lives of the professors of Gresham College: to which is prefixed the life of the founder, Sir Thomas Gresham. With an appendix, consisting of orations, lectures, and letters, written by the professors, with other papers serving to illustrate the lives / By John Ward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is placed his ftatue, with thofe of his two wives behind it, and behind them his fon in armour, with his wife behind him, all of them kneel¬ ing with their faces to the eaft. Under his figure are thefe verfes. CONSILIO ATQVE MANV SACRIS FAMVLANTIA SCEPTRIS PECTORA SVB PARIO MARMORE PRESSA lACENT 8ANCTE SENEX CVIVS SANCTAM STVPET ANGLIA VITAM MORS ANIMOS MORES REGIA SCEPTRA FIDEM MARMORA SI TACEANT MEMORI PRO MARMORE SERVIT “ ANGLIA NOMINIBVS NOBILITATA TVIS. Beneath the verfes, upon an alabafter ftone, is the following epitaph. HERE LYETH BVRIED SIR H. NEVIL KNIGHT DESCENDED OF THE NEVILS BARONS OF ABERGAVENNY WHO WERE A BRANCH OF THE HOVSE OF WESTMERLAND HE WAS (bESYDE MARTIAL SERVICES) OF THE PRIVY CHAMBER TO K. HENRY THE VIII AND EDWARD THE VI HE DYED XIII lANVARY A. MDXCriI ISSVE HE HAD ONLY BY DAME ELIZABETH SOLE HEYER TOSIR lOHN GRESHAM KNIGHT BY DAME FRANCES SOLE HEYER TO SIR HENRY THWAYTS KNIGHT WHICH DAME ELIZABETH DYED VI NOVEMBER A. MDLXXIII DAME FRANCES [BVRIED XXVII OCTOBER MDLXXX b] AND ARE BOTH HERE ALSO BVRIED WITH ELIZABETH NEVIL THE ELDEST DAVGHTER. Thomas Grefham, the fecond fon of Sir Richard, was born at London in the year 1519. He was bred a fcholar, and admited a pen- fioner of Gonville hall in Cambridge; but the year is not preferved, there being no regifter of admilTions fo early. However, that he was there we aie informed by Dr. Gains, who fais: Una jiohifcum per juventute7n hujiis collegtt penjionarius erat T’homas Grefloam^ nobilis ilk et dodlijlimus mercator, qm forum mercatortum Londini (quod burfam regale ex¬ cambiumextruxit anno falutis 1^66, 15(^7, 1568, 1569; quo tmpore nofrujn collegium nos quoque aedificavimus ific Cantabrigiae ^ By his calling him doklijfimus^ it feems probable, that he fpent a con- liderable time at that hall. But the profits of trade were then fo great, and fuch large eflates had been raifed by it in his own family tliat he afterwards ingaged in it himfelf. For this his father had pri’ vided m his youth, in cafe his genius fliould lead him that way having bound him apprentice to his uncle Sir John Grefham; and in the year ^543 admited a member of the mercers company. H e rnarried Anne, the daughter of William Fernley efquire ofWefl Creting in Suffolk, and widow of William Reade of Fulham in Mid- dlefex efquire, by whom he had a fon named Richard. The time of his marriage could not be later than 1544, as appears from a curious picture of him yet preferved at full length; in which on the right fide IS that date, with his name, and the year of his age, i C44 thomas GRESHAM 26; and on the left the initial letters both of his^wife’s name and his own, with the following motto, a. g. love serve and OBEI T, G, » Sum marmore, forfanpro servat. .1, are Hot the ftone but inferted by Mr. Alhmole, J, quities of Berkjhire, V. u, p. 43 j, jinnales de Gounjille et Caius. ^ This pifture is now in the poffeffion of John Thurfton efquire, at Hoxon abbey in SufFolk. After