NOTES TO INTRODUCTION. xlix were these expressions : " Know that unless you bring unto me, at a day and houre, in Worcester, the monthly contribution for six months, you are to expect an unsanctifyed troop of horse among you, from whence if you hide yourselves they shall fire your houses without mercy, hang up your bodies wherever they find them, and scare your ghosts," &c. -P. 188. Dr. Nathaniel Wright. - Nathaniel Wright, M.A. of Cambridge, took the degree of Doctor of Physic at Bourges, in France, and was incorporated at Oxford, 30 May, 1638. Wood says he was afterwards " Physician to O. Cromwell, when he was sick in Scot- land."-Wood's Fasti, vol. i. p. 503. The siege commenced on the 25 Sept. 1643.-This happening on a Tuesday, the day before the monthly fast, was kept as a special day of prayer and supplication at Brampton. Page xx. Lady Brilliana's children. -The issue of Sir Robert and Lady Brilliana Harley :- 1. Edward, afterwards noticed, page xxviii. 2. Robert, knighted, married 8 Feb. 1670, Edith, daughter of Pembrugge, esquire, widow of Major Hinton, but left no issue; buried at Brampton Bryan, 18 Nov. 1673. 3. Thomas, of Kinsham Court, by Abigail, daughter of Sir Richard Saltinstall, knight, had four sons, who died issueless. 4. Brilliana, wife of James Stanley, second son of Sir Robert Stanley, knight, who was second son of the Earl of Derby. 5. Dorothy, wife of William Mitchell, of co. Norfolk. 6. and 7. Margaret and Elizabeth, who died unmarried. -Collins, vol. iv. 252. Dr. Wilkinson.-John Wilkinson was Principal of Magdalene Hall from 1605 to 1644, when he fled from Oxford -to which he was restored 1646-and became President of Magdalene College in 1648; he took his D.D. in 1613. The Hall flourished under his government, and that of his nephew Henry Wilkinson, to the Restoration; and was the chief school of Puritanism in Oxford. Wood speaks disparagingly of him, and says, " he published nothing. "- Fasti, vol. i. p. 354; and again " contrasts the liberal conduct of John Oliver, President of Magdalene College, who had been displaced 1648, but restored 1660, with that of Drs. Wilkinson and Goodwyn, who had been thrust into his office by the Parliament and Oliver, for their saintship, and zeal to the blessed cause, and gave not a farthing, but raked and scraped up all that they could get thence, as the rest of the saints did in the university."-Wood's Athenw, vol. iv. p. 300. " SIR ROBERT HARLEY TO ED. H. " Ned Harley, I thank you for yr letters, and desier so to carry ye buisiness with you yt you may alwaies thanke mee for mine, and now yt ye Lord hath in His good providence disposed you in ye university, and with so worthy a tutor as is Mr Perkins, and under ye vigilent government of ye Principal) Dor Wilkinson, whose holy example lett every day make impression in you of ye good in wrh he moves. You must consideryt ye end is to gett CAMD. SOC. 9
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