Richard Stokes

He was bred there and at King's College. Scholar to Mr. W. Oughtred for Mathematiques (Algebra). He made himselfe mad with it, but became sober again, but I feare like a crackt glasse : vide my Lives, and Surrey notes. Edidit Mr. Oughtred's ' Trigonometric/ Became a Roman Catholique ; maried unhappily at Liege, dog and catt, etc. Became a sott. Dyed in Newgate, prisoner for debt, . . . April, 1681 (quaere Mr. Everard diem).