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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SIR JULIUS Sir Julius Cjesar, Knight, was born in this county, his father having a house nigh unto Tottenham. His father was a Doctor of Physick to Queen Elizabeth, and descended from the ancient family of the Dalmarii, in Italy. This, his son, was bred in Oxford; and, after other intermediate preferments,...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SIR JULIUS Sir Julius Cjesar, Knight, was born in this county, his father having a house nigh unto Tottenham. His father was a Doctor of Physick to Queen Elizabeth, and descended from the ancient family of the Dalmarii, in Italy. This, his son, was bred in Oxford; and, after other intermediate preferments, was advanced Chancelour of the dutchy of Lancaster, and sworn a Privie Counsellor, on Sunday, the sixth of July, 1607, and afterwards was preferred Master of the Rouls. A person of prodigious bounty to all of worth or want, so that he might seem to be Almoner General of the Nation. The story is well known of a gentleman, who once borrowing his coach (which was as well known to poor people as any hospital in England, ) was so rendevouzed about with beggars, in London, that it cost him all the money in his purse to satisfy their importunity; so that he might have hired twenty coaches on the same terms. Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, was judicious in his election, when, perceiving his dissolution to approach, he made his last bed in effect in the house of Sir Julius. He continued more than 20 years Master of the Rolles; and, though heaved at by some expectants, sate still in his place, wellpoyzed therein with his gravity and integrity. Firtantarum yoi, . in. D Elemofynarum non movebitur, ' a man of so great alms and prayers (made by him and for him) shall not be removed.' Nor was it without a prosperous omen, that his chief house in Hartfordshire was called Benington, that is, Villa benigna, ' the bountiful Village, ' as one author will have it; or, as another, Villa beneficii, ' The Town of Good Turns, ' from the river so named, running by it. What shall I speak of his Arms, viz. Gules, three roses, Argeut: on a chief of the first, so many, roses of the second, e.