Francis Anthony(1550-1623).

[102]Dr. [Francis[103]] Anthony, the chymist, Londinensis, natus 16 Aprilis, 1550, 1h.P.M., Virgo 0° 3´ ascend.

Quaere A W if of Oxon or Cambridge[104].

Scripsit 2 libros, viz.:—Aurum potabile, and hisDefenseagainst Dr. Gwyn (who wrote a booke calledAurum non Aurum). This is all that Mr. Littlebury, bookeseller, remembers.

He lived in St. Bartholomew's close, London, where he dyed, and is, I suppose, buried there, about 30 yeares since[H], scil. 1652.

Vide his nativity in Catalogue[I].

He had a sonne who wrote something, I thinke (quaere Mr. Littlebury); and a daughter maried to ... Montague, a bookeseller in Duck-lane, who in Oliver's time was a soldier in Scotland.

Notes.[H]Wood notes here 'so that by this reckoning,' i.e. if born in 1550ut supra, 'he was 102.'[I]i.e., I suppose, in MS. Aubrey 23 (Aubrey'sCollectio Geniturarum), where at fol. 121, among nativities from Dr. Richard Napier's papers, is:—'Dr. Anthony, Londinensis, who madeaurum potabileat London, natus 16 April, 1550, 1hP.M.'

[H]Wood notes here 'so that by this reckoning,' i.e. if born in 1550ut supra, 'he was 102.'

[H]Wood notes here 'so that by this reckoning,' i.e. if born in 1550ut supra, 'he was 102.'

[I]i.e., I suppose, in MS. Aubrey 23 (Aubrey'sCollectio Geniturarum), where at fol. 121, among nativities from Dr. Richard Napier's papers, is:—'Dr. Anthony, Londinensis, who madeaurum potabileat London, natus 16 April, 1550, 1hP.M.'

[I]i.e., I suppose, in MS. Aubrey 23 (Aubrey'sCollectio Geniturarum), where at fol. 121, among nativities from Dr. Richard Napier's papers, is:—'Dr. Anthony, Londinensis, who madeaurum potabileat London, natus 16 April, 1550, 1hP.M.'


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