[989]William Stafford, of Thornbury in com. Gloc., esq., descended of the family of the duke of Buckingham, was a student of Christ Church, Oxon. Old Dr. Fell[990] was his tutor. About 30 yeares + since[991] he printed a pamphlet, viz. _The reasons of the warre_. I thinke he was a parliament man--but of that party he was. He dyed about May last, 1684, aged ... <at> Thornbury.
[992]Dorothy, sister to William Stafford aforesayd, married to her first husband, <Robert> Stafford, her kinsman, who was of Exeter Coll., and pupill to Dr. John Prideaulx. He wrote a thin 4to Geographie, which I have read. I remember he begins thus:--
'Indignation made Juvenal a poet and me a geographer.'
[993]Thomas Stanley, esqr., son to Sir Thomas Stanley, born at Cumberlow....
His praeceptor, Mr. William Fairfax, in his father's howse.
Was of Pembrooke hall in Cambridge, where he took the degree of Master of Arts.
Was admitted _ad eundem gradum_ in Oxford.
Writ his poems about the years 1646, 1647.
His History of Philosophy, in the years 1655, 1656.
Dy'd April 12, 1678. Buried at St. Martin's in the Fields, in the middle isle.
His eldest sonne is Thomas Stanley, esq., of the Middle Temple, jurisconsultus[994]. He hath left two other sonnes, viz. 2. George, 3. Charles.
Thomas Stanley, the sonne, aforesayd, translated Aelian's _Variae Historiae_ at 14 yeares of age. He was also of Pembrooke-hall in Cambridge.
Quaere his sonne pro nativitate patris and also of what age he was when he went to Cambridge.
[995]Richard Staper, alderman of London:--On the south wall of St. Martin Outwich church, London, is a faire monument with this inscription, viz.--
Here resteth the bodie of the worshipfull Richard Staper, elected alderman of this citty anno 1594. He was the greatest merchant in his time, the chiefest actor in the discovery of the trades of Turkey and East India, a man humble in prosperity, painfull and ever ready in affaires publique, and discreetly carefull of his private, a liberall howsekeeper, bountifull to the poore, an upright dealer in the world, and a divout aspirer after the world to come, much blessed in his posterity, and happy in his and their allyaunces. He dyed the last June anno Domini 1608.