Thomas Flatman (16..-1688)
Note
EH Anthony Wood detects an oversight:—‘Why do you not set downe the yeare?’ Aubrey, in MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 386v, says, ‘Thomas Flatman dyed in 1688, before Christmas.’
Thomas Flattman, of Red Cross street, Aldersgate, London, at Winchester school from Michaelmas 1648, was admitted probationer of New College (to an Arts fellowship) 11 Sept. 1654, and fellow in 1656; but resigned in 1657, betaking himself to the study of Law.
Notes
935Mr. Thomas Flatman, quondam Novi Collegii socius, then a barrister of the Inner Temple, an excellent painter and poet. The next terme his poems will be in print.
936Mr. Thomas FlatmanEH died at his house in Fleet street on Thursday December <6th>, buried the 9th of that moneth, at St. Bride’s, neer the railes of the communion table, in the grave with his sonne, on whom he layd a fair marble gravestone with an inscription and verses. His father is living yet, at least 80, a clarke of the Chancery.
937Thomas Flatman, filius, natus 1673, Oct. 4, hora 18 P.M. This native dyed of the small pox about Christmas (December) 1682.