He was a generall scolar, and had a delicate witt; was a great historian, and an excellent poet. He wrote, among other things, ..., a Pastorall, acted at Ludlowe about 1637, an exquisite piece. _The Journey into France_, crept in bishop Corbet's poems, was made by him, by the same token it made him misse of the preferment of ... at court, Mary the queen-mother remembring how he had abused her brother, the king of France; which made him to accept of the place at Ludlowe, out of the view of the world.
When he sat in court there, he was wont to have Thuanus, or Tacitus, or etc. before him. He was as fine a gentleman as any in England, though now forgott. Obiit, at or about Ludlowe, circiter ... (quaere Sir J. H. and Sir James Long).
_The Journey into France_ was made by Mr. Thomas Goodwyn, of Ludlowe, ...; certaine.
[1002]Genesis Thomae Gore armigeri by Charles Snell, esq.:--
'Tuesday, 20ᵐᵒ Martii 1631/2, 11ʰ 00´ P.M. tempus aestimatum geneseos Thomae Gore, de Alderton <Wilts>, armigeri.'
This Thomas Gore, a writer on heraldry, was a correspondent of Anthony Wood: see Clark's Wood's _Life and Times_, ii. 140, iv. 229. Aubrey habitually, in his letters to Wood, refers contemptuously to him as 'the cuckold of Alderton.'
[1003]'Sir Arthur Gorges[1004] was buried August the 22ᵗʰ 1661'--_ex registro Chelsey_.
_In obitum illustrissimi viri Dⁱ. Arthuri Gorges, equitis aurati, epicedium._
Te deflent nati, natae, celeberrima conjux; Te dolet argutae magna caterva scholae. At Lucanus[LXXIV.] ait se vivo non moriturum Arthurum Gorges: transtulit ipse decus. Aethereas cupiens Arthurus adire per auras Et nonus ex ejus nomine natus adest.
In the aisle of the Gorges, viz. south side of the church of Chelsey on an altar monument made for his father or grandfather--'Dˢ. Arthur Gorge, eq. aur., filius ejus natu maximus.'
[1005]John Gower, esq., poet, has a very worshipfull monument in the north side of the church of St. Saviour's Southwarke; an incumbent figure: about his head is a chaplet of gold--
and a silver collar of SSS about his neck.
[1006]Captaine John Graunt (afterwards, major) was borne (ex MSᵗᵒ patris sui) 24º die Aprilis, 1/2 an houre before eight a clock on a Munday morning, the signe being in the 9 degree of Gemini that day at 12 a clock, Anno Domini 1620.