[331]Johannes Barclaius, Scoto-Britannus:—from Sam. Butler—was in England some time tempore regis Jacobi. He was then an old man, white beard; and wore a hatt and a feather, which gave some severe people offence.
Dr. John Pell tells me, that his last employment was Library-Keeper of the Vatican, and that he was there poysoned.
Memorandum:—this John Barclay haz a sonne[332], now
(1688) an old man, and a learned quaker, who wrote
a Systeme of the Quakers' Doctrine in Latine[333], dedicated
to King Charles II, now