kindness from Cromwell; at the Restoration he was reinstated and survived till 14th July 1671; he died at Canterbury, and was buried within the Cathedral. He was the father of John Casaubon, Surgeon in Canterbury, whose son, Meric, died young. Another son of Isaac Casaubon was James, M.A. of Oxford in 1641, who studied Divinity under Dr Prideaux.
There is a tablet to the memory of Isaac Casaubon in Westminster Abbey (opposite Dryden’s monument) with this inscription:—
ISAAC : CASAUBON
(O Doctiorum quidquid est, assurgite
Huic tam colendo nomini)
Quem Gallia reipublicae literaria; bono peperit
Henricus IV. Francorum Rex invictissimus
Lutetiam literis suis evocatuni Bibliothecae sua: praefecit
Charumque deinceps, dum vixit, habuit,
Eoque terris erepto,
Jacobus Magn. Brit. Monarcha, Regum doctissinius,
Doctis indulgentissimus, in Angliam accivit,
Munificè fovit,
Posteritasque ob doctrinam aeternum mirabitur.
H. S. E.
Invidiâ major. Obiit aeternam in Christo vitam anhelans
Kal. Jul. MDCXIV. aet. LV.
Qui nosse vult Casaubonum
Non saxa, sed chartas legat
Superfuturas marmori
Et profuturas posteris.
The epitaph to Meric Casaubon in Canterbury Cathedral (where he lies buried “in the south part of the first cross aisle joining southward to Christ-Church Cathedral,”) contains the following encomium:—
| Sta et venerare, viator! | ||||||||
| Hic mortales immortalis spiritus exuvias deposuit Meric Casaubon | ||||||||
| Magni Nominis Eruditique Generis |
par haeres | |||||||
| quippe qui | Patrem Isaacuni Qasaubonum Avum Henricum Stephanum Pro-avum Robertum Stephanum |
habuit | ||||||
Heu quos viros! quae literarum lunima! quae oevi sui decora! ipse eruditionem per tot erudita capita traduce excepit, excoluit, et ad pietatis (quae in ejus pectore regina sedebat) ornamentum et incrementum feliciter consecravit, rempublicamque literariam multiplici rerum et linguarum supellectile locupletavit —
Vir, incertuni doctior an melior —
in pauperes liberalitate,
in amicos utilitate,
in omnes humanitate,
in acutissimis longissimi morbi tormentis Christianâ patientiâ,
insignissimus.
Another eminent French Protestant was our King James’s physician. Louis de Mayerne Baron d’Aubon, was a French author who with his lady fled from Paris to Geneva, narrowly escaping the St Bartholomew Massacre. It is with their son that we are now concerned, viz., Theodore Turquette de Mayerne, who was born in Geneva. He took the degree of Doctor of Physic at Montpellier. and rose to be a Councillor, as to matters of physic, to the
