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te Founder os the seventh Stall, Privy-counfellor to the two" Kings, Henry Vllth and Vllltli,

Again, in his Note on the Nature of the Trefoils tC Galfri-t£ dus Wren inter fundatores capellæ de Windsor ; et R. R. Hen-u ricus VII. et VIII. d consiliis • pro crifld Jcuti gentilitii, Regu-u lum habuit , gerentem pede elevato Trifolium: utroque Jigni-<c scans rationem else optima auguria V*

One of the Ancestors of this Family having gained muchHonour and Estate by his Valour against the Scots , wrote underhis Coat of Arms

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p. 21t.l’enes me

C. IV.

Ducente Deo for tuna secuta ejl.

The Crest and Mottos have been since varied: the Mottochosen by Sir Chrijiopher Wren, well adapted to a Mathema-tician, was-

Numero , pondere , et mensura.

The Print of Bishop Wren is from an original Picture of him,before his Advancement to the Prelacy, being about thirty Yearsof Age. Sapiens mails premi , fed non opprimi potefl , was notthe Bishop’s Motto ; but is only an Inscription, alluding to theSerenity and Fortitude with which he bore all the injurious At-tacks of his Enemies, and an Imprisonment os eighteen Years.

The Resemblance is as perfectly retained in the Print of Dr.Christopher Wren , as in the former, being also from an Original.Virtuti fortuna comes , intimates the Honours to which his distin-guished Qualities raised him ; the Doctor's own Motto (and ayery excellent one) being, Si reBe intus , ne labor a.

Dc Familia Wrennorum, et Inngnibus gentilitiis.

Exfchedis reverendi ChriflophoriWren, decani Windfotnenfis , Scc.

Prœfantijftmi in Anglia navales duces fuerunt Hawkins, Wil-lowby, Burrows, Jenkinfon, Drake, Forbiilier, Cavendish, et mograpjuamGreenvile : a for ore Jenkinsoni prœdiBi^ avo tioftro nuptd , nia- r . 267. ik!.j temwn genus ducimus ; pater num ab illuflri familid Wrennorum ; i 4 ’ S ' mee qud Matthæus, a decanatu Windforienfi, ad epjeopatum Here-ford enfem primiim , dein Norwicensem, et pofremb Elieniem pro -t c mot us,

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