Brief Lives, Vol. 2

Chapter 49: Note.

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A collection of concise biographical sketches of contemporaries and earlier figures recorded by an antiquarian observer, combining factual entries—births, offices, publications, and inscriptions—with personal anecdotes, hearsay, heraldic and parish-register notes, bibliographic references, and occasional critical judgments. Entries range from terse records to extended reminiscences, often citing documentary sources or witness statements, and reflect an informal, detail-driven approach aimed at preserving lives, reputations, and local traditions for reference and remembrance.

Sir Henry Martin (1562-1641).

[155]Sir Henry Martin, LL.D., was borne at Stoke-Poges in the countie of Bucks; his father a copy-holder there of about 60 li. per annum. He was formerly a fellow of New Colledg, Oxon. He left his sonne 3000 li. per annum.

[156]H. Martyn.—his father <Sir Henry> has a handsome monument at Becket in Berks which he purchased of Sir ... Essex.

Note.

Henry Martyn, of the parish of 'S. Michael in Basingeshall,' London, was adm. probationer of New College, Aug. 19, 1580, and Fellow July 6, 1582; vacated his fellowship in 1595. He was Judge of the Admiralty, Dean of the Arches, and Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Aubrey (MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 12^v) gives for his coat, 'argent, 2 bars gules, each charged with 3 besants.'