William Bedwell (15..-1632)
365... Bedwell, professor of... at Gresham College, translated into English Pitisci Trigonometria. Published The turnament of Totnam. He was an Essex man—from his grand-niece.
William Beeston (16..-1682)
W. Shakespeare—quaere Mr. Beeston, who knowes most of him from Mr. Lacy. He lives in Shoreditch at Hoglane within 6 dores north of Folgate. Quaere etiam for Ben Jonson.
Notes
366Did I tell you that I have mett with old Mr...367 who knew all the old English poets, whose lives I am taking from him: his father was master of the... play-house.
368The more to be admired, quaere—he was not a company keeper; lived in Shorditch; would not be debauched; and if invited to court, was in paine.
369Old Mr. Beeston, whom Mr. <John> Dreyden calles ‘the chronicle of the stage,’ died at his house in Bishopsgate street without, about Bartholomew-tyde, 1682. Mr. Shipey in Somerset-house hath his papers.