William Aubrey

Besides the great learning and wisdom that this gentleman was plentifully endowed withall, Nature has also framed him so courteous of disposition ad affable of speech, so sweet of conversation and amiable behaviour, that there was never any in his place better beloved all his life, nor he himself more especially favoured of her majesty and the greatest personages of the realm in any part of his life than he was when he drew nearest his death.