"Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the fir…"

"There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people."

"He left an estate of eleaven thousand pounds per annum. Sir John Danvers, who knew him, told me that he had heard one…"

"How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe."

"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more then his reading. He was wont t…"

"The parliament intended to have hanged him, and he expected no less, but resolved to be hanged with the Bible under o…"

"Dr. Kettle was wont to say that Seneca writes as a Boare does pisse, scilicet by jirkes."

"His complexion exceeding faire – he was so faire that they called him the Lady of Christ's College."

"He pronounced the letter R (littera canina) very hard – a certaine signe of a Satyricall Witt."

"I remember about 1660 there was a great difference between him and Sir Hierome Sanchy, one of Oliver's knights…The Kn…"