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Isaac Casaubon, 1614

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2010

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Wills from Doctors' Commons
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1863

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References

page 81 note a “Versatur jam isthic [at London in 1614]; Isaacus Chabansæus sororis meæ filus, juvenis singulari pietate prseditus. “See Casauboni Epistolse, 1638, pp. 442, 467, 652.

page 81 note b He had married, April 28, 1586, Florence, daughter of Henry Stephauus, the celebrated printer and author of the Thesaurus, who had withdrawn from Paris to Geneva.

page 81 note c Afterwards mentioned with his Christian name, John. This was his eldest son; who had given way to those arguments of the Cardinal du Perron and other zealous Romanists that were ineffectual with the father. “This accident gave him a great deal of affliction and uneasiness.”—Biographia Britannica.

page 81 note d He had in all twenty children, one of whom was born in England in 1612, and the King and Archbishop of Canterbury were his godfathers. Another son, Augustine, turned to Rome, and became a Capuchin at Calais. Nothing is on record of the rest, except Meric, the successor to his learned reputation, who became D.D. at Oxford, 1636, and, having been well beneficed in England, died at Canterbury in 1671.

page 81 note e Joseph Justus Scaliger. He left France in 1593 to be Professor at Leyden, where he died Jan. 21, 1609, aged 68.

page 82 note a Afterwards Sir Theodore Mayerne, the celebrated physician to King James I.

page 82 note b Burlamachi, an eminent Italian merchant in London.