[489]Christopher Brookes, of Oxford, a mathematical instrument maker. He was sometime manciple of Wadham College: his widowe lived over against the Theatre.
This C. B. printed[490]1649 an 8vo of about 2 sheetes,scil. 'A new quadrant of more natural easie and manifold performance than any other heretofore extant': but it was his father-in-lawe's[491]invention. I had it from his widow about 1665.