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ROSICRUCIAN APOLOGISTS: JOHN HEYDON. 325
don, and the noble Chandlers in Worcestershire of the
mother's side, which line spread by marriage into Devonshire,
among the Collins, Ducks, Drues, and Bears. He
had one sister, named Anne Heydon, who dyed two years
since, his father and mother being yet living. He was
born at his father's house in Green-Arbour, London, and
baptized at S. Sepulchre's, and so was his sister, both in
the fifth and seventh years of the reign of King Charles I.
He was educated in Warwickshire, among his mother's
friends, and so careful were they to keep him and his sister
from danger, and to their books, that they had one continu-
ally to wait upon them, both to the school and at home.
He was commended by Mr John Dennis, his tutor in
Tardebick, to Mr George Linacre, priest of Cougheton,
where he learned the Latine and Greek tongues.
The war
at this time began to molest the universities of this nation.
He was then articled to Mr Michael Petty, an attorney at
Clifford's Inn, with eighty pound, that at five years'
end he
should be sworn before Chief Justice Roll. Being very
young, he apply ed his minde to learning, and by his happy
wit obtained great knowledge in all arts and sciences.
Afterwards he followed the armies of the King, and for his
valour commanded in the troops. When he was by these
means famous for learning and arms, he travelled into
Spain, Italy, Arabia, ^Egypt, and Persia, gave his minde
to writing, and composed, about "
twenty years since, The
Harmony of the World," and other books, preserved by
the good hand of God in the custody of Mr Thomas Heydon,
Sir John Hanmer, Sir Ealph Freeman, and Sir Richard
Temple. During the tyrant's time first one had these books,
then another, and at last, at the command of these honour-
able, learned, and valiant knights, they were printed.