The Annual Register - volume 12 - Page 48

some anecdotes of his great bravery, attachment to the royal cause in the civil war in England in the last century, and his death, suffered in support of it at the siege of Colchester ; his age, and remarkable epigram upon his writing a large folio with a single pen ; biographical account of his education, study of physic, and translations ; character of this eminent mathematician and antiquary, his travels to several parts of Europe, and collections he made of a considerable number of Arabic, Persic and Greek manuscripts, for archbishop Land