" reafon mentioned above, of the fides be"ing fomething different in length. Now « fuppofing the bafe of the Pyramid to be a

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parallelogram, and that Greaves measured "the shortest fide, and the other authors the longeft; I fay, upon this fuppofition, the "longeft fide will bring out 400 cubits, up

on Greaves's length of a cubit, full as "well as the shortest fide, which he has fup"posed to be 380 cubits; and will agree “with Dr. Arbuthnot's round number of 400 cubits, which he mentions in his book

of Weights and Meafures, as being the "most probable number for an architect to choofe in the fetting out a great building: "but it will not agree with his measure of a cubit, because he has divided 693 by 400, "whereas upon this fuppofition it should be "be 728 divided by 400."

In 1647, Mr. Greaves publifh'd his Dif courfe of the Roman Foot and Denarius : from whence, as from two principles, the meafures and weights used by the ancients may be deduced. Dr. Edward Bernard, profeffor of aftronomy at Oxford, in his book, de Menfuris & Ponderibus Antiquorum, printed at Oxford in 1683, highly applauds this treatife of our author, whom he ftiles Juftitia Romana diligentiffimus

Indagator

Indagator (g), and in his manufcript lectures, cited by Dr. Smith (r), fays, that his book is aureus, imo fupra aurum omne & metallorum Lucem pretiofus, luculentus; and that he excell'd in diligence and learning Agricola, Lucas Pætus, Villalpandus, Merfennus, and others, who had written upon the fame fubject.

In a Letter to Mr. Pocock, dated March 25, 1647. Mr. Greaves writes thus: "I thank

God, I am thus far proceeded in my "troubles, that by the committee of Lords "and Commons I am pronounced innocent, "to the fhame of my accufers, if they had

any. And now I am attending upon the "court of Aldermen, and the committee 66 at Camden houfe for reftitution." And in another Letter to the fame gentleman, dated May 17, 1648. he has the following paffage: "I am now going into "Kent, to my good friend Mr. Marfham "(s) not far from Rochefter, who hath "been very importunate, admitting of no

excufe, that I must make his house and library, who hath a fair one, mine own. "It will be this fortnight e're I return, and, "it may be, fhall afterward live with him, "if I fee at my coming to Oxford the fame "confufion,

(9) Pag. 105.

(r) Vita Joan. Gravii, p. 37.

(s) Afterwards Sir John Marsham, author of the Canon Chronicus.

"confufion, which I hear, and which is likeἐσ. ly in probability to continue."

in 12mo,

The fame year, he publifh'd at Oxford, Dr. John Bainbridges's Canicularia, to which he added, Demonftratio Ortus Sirii beliaci pro parallelo inferioris Egypti, & Infigniorum aliquot Stellarum Longitudines & Latitudines ex Aftronomicis Obfervationibus Ulug Beigi, Tamerlanis magni Nepotis. Mr. Greaves dedicated this book to Dr. George Ent, fellow of the college of Phyficians at London; and in the dedication obferves, that Dr. Bainbridge wrote his Canicularia, at the request of Archbishop Usher. To which our author added, the Demonftratio Ortus Sirii heliaci, at the defire of that Prelate.

October 30, 1648. (t) he was ejected by the parliament vifitors from his profefforship of aftronomy and fellowship of Merton-College, and oblig'd to quit the university, on pretence of his avoiding an answer to these articles alledg'd against him : "I. That he had betray'd the college, in discovering to the King's agents 400 l. in "the treasury, which thereupon was taken away for the King's use. 2. That contrary to his oath, he had convey'd away

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(t) Wood, Hift. & Antiq. Univerfit. Oxon: Lib. II. P. 42.

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"a confiderable part of the college goods "without the confent of the company, and thereby gratified courtiers with them in "other houses. 3. That he feasted the "Queen's confeffors, and fent divers prefents to them, among which was an holy throne; and that he was more familiar with them, than any true Proteftants use "to be. 4. That he was the occafion of "ejecting Sir Nathaniel Brent from his wardenship, for adhering to the parlia

ment, and bringing in Dr. Harvey (u) "into his place. 5. That he was the occa"fion, why Mr. Edward Corbet and Mr. Ralph Button were turned out of their ref

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pective offices and chambers in the college, "because they abode in the parliament's

quarters, &c. 6. That he gave leave to "father Philips, the Queen's confeffor, and "Wyatt *, one of her chaplains, to come "into the college-library to ftudy there; " and that he put Mr. John French, a fellow, "out of his chamber in Merton-college, " and put them into it, &c. (y)." Among our author's papers, I find that his brother, Dr. Thomas Greaves, made the following depofition

(u) Dr. William Harvey, the Physician, who discovered the circulation of the blood.

* Veat, a Frenchman.

(y) Wood, Athen. Oxon. Vol. II. col. 157.

depofition in his favour:

"I, Thomas Greaves, do teftify, and will be ready to depofe, that Mr, John Greaves, fellow " of Merton-college, when the plate of "the faid college was demanded by the King, kept himself private in his cham"ber for many days, that he might not "be prefent, nor give his confent, neither "did he go abroad till he had heard, "that the platewas already delivered." Mr. John Greaves in a note upon this obferves, that he had kept his chamber three weeks together at that itme, under pretence of taking phyfic. His brother further depos'd, that " Mr. John Greaves left Ox "ford, and lived privately in the country, "on purpose to avoid the delivering up of "fuch bonds, and other things of Mr. "Bainbridge, deceased, which were in his cuftody as executor, unto the commif"fioners at Oxford."

Dr. Walter Pope, who erroneoufly calls our author Edward (z), observes (a), that he had been, for a feafon, skreen'd against the fury of the vifitation, by fome powerful friends; yet finding 'twas impoffible for him to keep his ground, he made it his business

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(x) Life of Seth Ward, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, Ch.IV. p. 18. Edit. Lond. 1697.

(a) Ibid.