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Memoir Of Elias Ashmole.
very acceptable to his Majesty . " He was appointed Commissioner of Excise . On the 10 th September he was appointed joint Commissioner , Avith Thomas Ross , Esq ., to examine Hugh Peters , with regard to the books and medals which had been embezzled from the King ' s library ,
but nothing satisfactory resulted , though it was well known thatmany and great varieties had , after the overthrow of the late King , found their way into other countries of Europe . The warrant for this appointment reads as folloAvs : To our trusty and Avell beloved Sir John Eobinson , Knt ., and Bart .,
Lieutenant of our Tower of London . Our will and pleasure is that you permit Thomas Ross and Elias Ashmole , Esquires , to speak and examine Hugh Peters , concerning our books and medals that have been embezzled , and this to be performed in your presence ; for Avhich this shall be your warrant . Given at our Court at Whitehall , the 10 th clay of September , 1660 , in the twelfth year of
our reign . By His Majesty ' s command , CHARLES EEX . BDW . NICHOLAS .
Having been called to the Bar in Middle Temple Hall in November of the same year , and admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society on 15 th January , 1661 , he Avas constituted on 9 th of February , by the King Secretary of Surinam , in the West Indies . Early in 1662 , he Avas chosen one of the Commissioners for recovering the
King ' s goods , and in June , 1664 , a Commissioner of the White Office , having in the interim in memory of his former connection with the city sent a set of services and anthems to Lichfield Cathedral , of Avhich he had been in his boyhood a chorister , and towards the repair of which he subsequently contributed the sum of £ 20 .
In February , 1665 , his deputation to visit Berkshire was sealed by Sir E . Byshe , and he entered on the duties of his visitation the month following , the result of his labours being subsequently made public in his work , entitled " The Amis , Epitaphs , Fenestra ! Insertions , with the Draughts of the Tombs , & c ., in all the Churches
in Berkshire . " To this , the brief title of which is commonly set down as the " Antiquities of Berkshire , " was in later years prefixed a memoir , said to have been compiled from Ashniole ' s own Diary , by Dr . Rawlinson .
On 1 st of April , 1668 , he lost his second wife , the same who years preA'iously had sought to be judicially separated from him , and with some of whose friends he had become involved in various laAVStiits . He must , hoAvever , have felt the loss less keenl y than he might otherwise have done , through being appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to the office of Accountant-General and County Accountant of Excise . Moreover , Ave may suppose that it did not
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Memoir Of Elias Ashmole.
very acceptable to his Majesty . " He was appointed Commissioner of Excise . On the 10 th September he was appointed joint Commissioner , Avith Thomas Ross , Esq ., to examine Hugh Peters , with regard to the books and medals which had been embezzled from the King ' s library ,
but nothing satisfactory resulted , though it was well known thatmany and great varieties had , after the overthrow of the late King , found their way into other countries of Europe . The warrant for this appointment reads as folloAvs : To our trusty and Avell beloved Sir John Eobinson , Knt ., and Bart .,
Lieutenant of our Tower of London . Our will and pleasure is that you permit Thomas Ross and Elias Ashmole , Esquires , to speak and examine Hugh Peters , concerning our books and medals that have been embezzled , and this to be performed in your presence ; for Avhich this shall be your warrant . Given at our Court at Whitehall , the 10 th clay of September , 1660 , in the twelfth year of
our reign . By His Majesty ' s command , CHARLES EEX . BDW . NICHOLAS .
Having been called to the Bar in Middle Temple Hall in November of the same year , and admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society on 15 th January , 1661 , he Avas constituted on 9 th of February , by the King Secretary of Surinam , in the West Indies . Early in 1662 , he Avas chosen one of the Commissioners for recovering the
King ' s goods , and in June , 1664 , a Commissioner of the White Office , having in the interim in memory of his former connection with the city sent a set of services and anthems to Lichfield Cathedral , of Avhich he had been in his boyhood a chorister , and towards the repair of which he subsequently contributed the sum of £ 20 .
In February , 1665 , his deputation to visit Berkshire was sealed by Sir E . Byshe , and he entered on the duties of his visitation the month following , the result of his labours being subsequently made public in his work , entitled " The Amis , Epitaphs , Fenestra ! Insertions , with the Draughts of the Tombs , & c ., in all the Churches
in Berkshire . " To this , the brief title of which is commonly set down as the " Antiquities of Berkshire , " was in later years prefixed a memoir , said to have been compiled from Ashniole ' s own Diary , by Dr . Rawlinson .
On 1 st of April , 1668 , he lost his second wife , the same who years preA'iously had sought to be judicially separated from him , and with some of whose friends he had become involved in various laAVStiits . He must , hoAvever , have felt the loss less keenl y than he might otherwise have done , through being appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to the office of Accountant-General and County Accountant of Excise . Moreover , Ave may suppose that it did not