Sir Erasmus Dryden(1553-1632).

[886]Sir Erasmus Dryden, of in Northamptonshire:—John Dreyden, esq., Poet Laureat, tells me that there was a great friendship between his great grandfather's father[887]and Erasmus Roterodamus, and Erasmus was god-father to one of his sonnes, and the Christian nameof Erasmus hath been kept in the family ever since. The poet's second sonne is Erasmus.

And at ..., the seate of the family, is a chamber called 'Erasmus's chamber.'

I ghesse that this coate[888]—'azure, a lion rampant and in chief a sphere between 2 estoiles or'—was graunted in Henry 8th's time by the odnesse of the charge.

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