Brief Lives, Vol. 2

bringing the water from Ware to London [1] called Middleton's water . He was a poore-man, but Sir Hugh Middleton [2] , alderman of London, moneyed the businesse; undertooke it; and gott the profit and also the credit of that most usefull invention, for which there [3] ought to have been erected a statue for the memory of this poore-man from the city of London.—From my honoured and learned friend Mr. Fabian Philips, filiser of London, etc., who was in commission about this water. Notes. [A] In MS. Aubr. 6, fol. 1 v , Aubrey has this note:—'In Pond's Almanack, 1647, thus—"Since the river from Ware to London began by Edward Pond, Jan. 2, 35 yeares. 'Twas finished, Sept. 20, 34 yeares"—.' John Innocent (14— -1545). [4] At Doctors Commons is 'argent on gules a mayd stark naked with a chaplet in her hand dexter.' The name I could never learn, till by chance, in Hampshire, by a courtier. It is the coate of Dr. Innocent, deane of Paule's and master of St. Crosses, tempore Henrici VII. Borne at Barkehamsted, Hertfordshire; where he built a free-schole, where this coat is in severall places. 'Tis endowed with 500 li. per annum for 120 scholars from any part of England. The Visitor is the Warden of All Soules, Oxon. Henry Isaacson (1581-1654). [5] Mr. Henry Isaacson was secretary to Lancelot Andrews, lord bishop of Winton. Was borne in this parish (of St. Katharine Coleman) anno Domini 1581; christned—ex registro [I.] —Septemb. 17 th ; and buried in this church. He died about the 7th of December, 1654. He had severall children: four sonnes still living, one is a minister at Stoke neer Ipswych in Suffolk. [I.] St. Catherine Coleman, 1581—'Sept. 17, Henry Isackson baptised.'—MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 89 v . In the chancell here [6] I find this inscription, on a marble grave-stone, viz.: 'Here lyeth the body of Richard Isaacson, esq., Eastland merchant, and free of the Paynters Stayners of this citie of London, who having lived in this parish 58 yeares, slept in the Lord 19 January, Anno Domini 1620. [II.] Henricus filius et haeres hoc memorabile posuit pietatis ergo.' [II.] Scil. Henricus praedictus. [7] Memorandum:—<Thomas> Bourman, Dr. of Divinity, of Kingston upon Thames, did know Mr. Isaacson, and told me that he was a learned man, which I easily believed when I heard he was secretary to that learned…