Laurence Rooke

His deare friend the bishop (then of Exon) gave to the Royall Societie a very faire pendulum clock, dedicated to Mr. Rooke's memory, with this inscription :

Societati Regali ad scientiam naturalem promovendam institutae dono dedit Reverendus in Christo pater, Sethus, episcopus Exon, ejusdem societatis sodalis in memoriam Laurentii Rook viri omni literarum genere instructissimi in Collegio Greshamensi primum Astronomiae deinde Geometriae professoris dictaeque societatis nuper sodalis, qui obiit Jun. 26, 1662.