Note AS — AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES' (continued 3)

Aubrey notes the inscription in MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 29:—'St. Margaret's Westminster.

C.R.

Erected at the charge of Sir William Platers, Knight and Baronet, anno 1662.'

To which he adds the note:—

'Hee departed this life the 19th of Aprill anno 1668—idem[699], east side.'

Here Anthony Wood makes the query:—

'Who doe you meane by this person that died 1668?' And Aubrey answers:—

'Sir William Platers. I doe not enter him here as a worthie, but he does implere locum. He was a merry man in the raigne of the Saints. Mercurius Aulicus made a good sport with him and Henry Martin.'