e beforementioned, was privately buried there in the
chancel of the church. His lordship of Pooley, which had belonged to
the name of Cokaine from the time of King Richard II. was sold several
years before he died, to one Humphrey Jennings, esq; at which time our
author reserved an annuity from it during life. The lordship of
Ambourne also was sold to Sir William Boothby, baronet. There is an
epigram of his, directed to his honoured friend Major William Warner,
which we shall here transcribe as a specimen of his poetry, which the
reader will perceive is not very admirable.

Plays, eclogues, songs, a satyr I have writ,
A remedy for those i' th' amorous fit:
Love elegies, and funeral elegies,
Letters of things of diverse qualities,
Encomiastic lines to works of some,
A masque, and an epithalamium,
Two books of epigrams; all which I mean
Shall in this volume come upon the scene;
Some divine poems, which when first I came
To Cambridge, I writ there, I need not name.
Of Dianea, neither my translation,
Omitted here, as of another fashion.
For Heaven's sake name no more, you say I cloy you;
I do obey you; therefore friend God b'wy you.

Footnotes:
1. Athen. Oxon. p. 756, vol. ii.
2. Wood, ubi supra.

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Sir GEORGE WHARTON

Was descended of an ancient family in Westmoreland, and born at
Kirby-Kendal in that county, the 4th of April 1617, spent some time at
Oxford, and had so strong a propensity to the study of astronomy and
mathematics, that little or no knowledge of logic and philosophy was
acquired by him[1]. After this, being possesed of some patrimony, he
retired from the university, and indulged his genius, till the
breaking out of the civil wars, when he grew impatient of sollitude,
and being of very loyal principles turned all his inheritance into
money, and raised for his Majesty a gallant troop of horse, of which
he himself was captain.

After several generous hazards of his person, he was routed, about the
21st of March 1645, near Stow on the Would in Glouceste[r]shire, where
Sir Jacob Astley was taken prisoner, and Sir George himself received
several scars of honour, which he carried to his grave[2]. After this
he retired to Oxford the then residence of the King, and had in
recompence of his losses an employment conferred upon him, under Sir
John Heydon, then lieutenant-general of the ordna