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Sir Peter Lely, 1679

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2010

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Wills from Doctors' Commons
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Camden Old Series , Volume 83: Wills from Doctor's Commons. A selection from the wills of Eminent Persons proved in the prerogative court of Canterbury, 1495–1695 , March 1863 , pp. 133 - 137
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1863

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page 133 note a Hugh May, esq. comptroller of the works to King Charles II. He died 24 Feb. 1683–4, and has a monument in Mid Lavant church, Sussex. At Audley End is a picture by Lely, representing himself and May together, with a bust of Grinling Gibbons, and Windsor Castle in the background. May's portrait was engraved from this picture by Harding, but erroneously attributed to his brother Baptist May. See Lord Bray brooke's Audley End, p. 106.

page 134 note a Sir Peter's grandson, John Lely, was a portrait-painter. See the Gentleman's Magazine for 1737, p. 181.

page 136 note a The pictures and drawings left by Lely were so numerous that their sale by auction is said to have occupied forty days, and to have produced 26,0001. The “Remains” were sold in 1694. London Gazette, No. 3011.

page 137 note a In the churchwardens' accounts of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, is the following entry: “1680, Dec. 7: Received for the ground for the corps of Sr Peter Lilly, and use of the pall, 61. 13s. 4.” A monument was placed in the church, with a bust by Grinling Gibbons, and an epitaph by Flatman: destroyed by fire 17 Sept. 1795.

page 137 note b Sir Gabriel de Silvius, who was knighted by Charles the Second 28 Jan. 1669–70: occurs in the memoirs of Grammont, Temple, and Dalrymple. He married 13 Nov. 1677, at St. Martin's in the Fields, Mrs. Anne Howard, sister to Craven Howard. He died in 1696, and his burial is in the same register.

page 137 note c The account book of Sir Peter Lely's executors is preserved in the British Museum, Addit. MS. 16,174.