Francis Anthony (1550-1623)
Quaere A<nthony> W<ood> if of Oxon or Cambridge104.
Scripsit 2 libros, viz.:—Aurum potabile, and his Defense against Dr. <Matthew> Gwyn (who wrote a booke called Aurum non Aurum). This is all that Mr. Littlebury, bookeseller, remembers.
He lived in St. Bartholomew’s close, London, where he dyed, and is, I suppose, buried there, about 30 yeares sinceH, scil. 1652.
Vide his nativity in CatalogueI.
He had a sonne who wrote something, I thinke (quaere Mr. Littlebury); and a daughter maried to... Montague, a bookeseller in Duck-lane, who in Oliver’s time was a soldier in Scotland.
Notes
102Dr. [Francis103] Anthony, the chymist, Londinensis, natus 16 Aprilis, 1550, 1h. P.M., Virgo 0° 3´ ascend.
H Wood notes here ‘so that by this reckoning,’ i.e. if born in 1550 ut supra, ‘he was 102.’
I i.e., I suppose, in MS. Aubrey 23 (Aubrey’s Collectio Geniturarum), where at fol. 121, among nativities from Dr. Richard Napier’s papers, is:—‘Dr. Anthony, Londinensis, who made aurum potabile at London, natus 16 April, 1550, 1h P.M.’