CHAPTER II.
ILLUSTRATIONS AND NOTES ON PETTY'S LIFE FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES.
1 In 1769 edition, "University of Oxon." All the manuscript copies of the "Will" that I have seen, read "Caen."
2 According to Burrows' "Register," p. 483, he took the M. D. degree in 1650.
3 Petty here refers to the "Invisible College" or "Philosophical Club," out of which grew later on the Royal Society. Cf. Masson's "Life of Milton," iii, 662, and note.
4 Petty was Fellow and Vice-Principal of Brasenose College in 1651 and 1659. Burrows' "Register," p. 483.
5 A. Wood gives his father's name as Anthony. "Athenae oxonienses," iv, p. 215.
6 The compiler of the catalogue of the Lansdowne manuscripts in the British Museum asserts that a Hampshire clergyman, William Petty, whose manuscript letters are indexed in the collection, was a brother of Anthony Petty, and conjectures that from this relative Sir William received his Christian name.
