Thomas Stanley (1625-1678).
[993]Thomas Stanley, esqr., son to Sir Thomas Stanley, born at Cumberlow....
His praeceptor, Mr. William Fairfax, in his father's howse.
Was of Pembrooke hall in Cambridge, where he took the degree of Master of Arts.
Was admitted ad eundem gradum in Oxford.
Writ his poems about the years 1646, 1647.
His History of Philosophy, in the years 1655, 1656.
His Aeschylus about the same time.
Dy'd April 12, 1678. Buried at St. Martin's in the Fields, in the middle isle.
His eldest sonne is Thomas Stanley, esq., of the Middle Temple, jurisconsultus[994]. He hath left two other sonnes, viz. 2. George, 3. Charles.
Thomas Stanley, the sonne, aforesayd, translated Aelian's Variae Historiae at 14 yeares of age. He was also of Pembrooke-hall in Cambridge.
Quaere his sonne pro nativitate patris and also of what age he was when he went to Cambridge.