John Mayow

descended from a gentile family of his name living at Bree in Cornwall, was born in the parish of S. Dunstan in the West in Fleetstreet, London, admitted Scholar of Wadham Coll. 27. Sept. 1661 aged 16 years, cho [•] e probationer [•] fellow of Alls. Coll. soon after, upon the recommendations of Hen. Coventrie Esq. one of the Secretaries of State; where, tho he had a Legists place and took the degrees in the Civil Law, yet he studied Physick, and became noted for his practice therein, especially in the Summer time, in the City of Bathe, but better known by these books, which shew the pregnancy of his parts:

Of both which tracts is a large account given in the Philosophical Transactions, nu. 41. p. 833. an. 1668.

Of these three last (with which were printed again the two first) is a large account given in the Philosophical Transact. nu. 105. p. 101. &c. And all five, were printed together at the Hague 1681. oct. He paid his last debt to nature in an Apothecaries house, bearing the sign of the Anker in Yorkstreet near Covent Garden, within the liberty of Westminster (having been married a little before not altogether to his content) in the month of Sept. in sixteen hundred seventy and nine,1679. and was buried in the Church of S. Paul in Covent Garden. One Joh. Mayo was Minister of Catistock in Dorsetshire, and published certain Sermons, in 1630 and after, but of what University he was, I know not yet, nor where Jo. Maio was bred, who was author of the Popes Parliament, wherein are throughly delivered, and brightly blazed out, the paltrie trash and trumperies of him and his poling prelates, &c. whereunto is annexed the life of Pope Joan. Lond. 1591. qu.