Of the Crises in Diseases, &c.

Of the Mutations, Inclinations, and Eversions, &c.

Discourse of the Names, Genius, Species, &c. of all Comets.

Tracts teaching how Astrology may be restored from Marinus.

Secret Multiplication of the Effects of the Stars, from Cardan.

Sundry Rules, shewing by what laws the Weather is governed, and how to discover the Various Alterations of the same.

He also translated from Latin into English the Art of divining by
Lines and Signatures, engraven in the Hand of Man, written by John
Rockman, M.D.  Lond. 1652, 8vo.

This is sometimes called Wharton’s Chiromancy.

Most of these foregoing treatises were collected and published together, anno 1683, in 8vo, by John Gadbury; together with select poems, written and published during the civil wars.

Footnotes:  1.  Wood Athen Oxon. v. ii. 2.  Wood, ubi supra.

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AnneKillegrew.

This amiable young lady, who has been happy in the praises of Dryden, was daughter of Dr. Henry Killegrew, master of the Savoy, and one of the prebendaries of Westminster.  She was born in St. Martin’s-Lane in London, a little before the restoration of King Charles ii. and was christened in a private chamber, the offices of the Common prayer not being then publickly allowed.  She gave the earliest discoveries of a great genius, which being improved by the advantage of a polite education, she became eminent in the arts of poetry and painting, and had her life been prolonged, she might probably have excelled most of the prosession in both[1].  Mr. Dryden is quite lavish in her praise; and we are assured by other cotemporary writers of good probity, that he has done no violence to truth in the most heightened strains of his panegyric:  let him be voucher for her skill in poetry.

  Art she had none, yet wanted none,
  For nature did that art supply,
  So rich in treasures of her own,
  She might our boasted stores defy;
  Such noble vigour did her verse adorn,
  That it seem’d borrow’d, where ’twas only born.

That great poet is pleased to attribute to her every poetical excellence.  Speaking of the purity and chastity of her compositions, he bestows on them this commendation,

Her Arethusian stream remains unsoil’d,               }
Unmix’d with foreign filth and undefil’d;             }
Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.     }

She was a great proficient in the art of painting, and drew King James ii, and his Queen; which pieces are also highly applauded by Mr. Dryden.  She drew several history pieces, also some portraits for her diversion, exceeding well, and likewise some pieces of still life.

Those engaging and polite accomplishments were the least of her perfections; for she crowned all with an exemplary piety, and unblemished virtue.  She was one of the maids of honour to the Duchess of York, and died of the small-pox in the very flower of her age, to the unspeakable grief of her relations and acquaintance, on the 16th day of June 1685, in her 25th year.