William Neile

the eldest Son of Sir Paul Neile Knight, one of the Ushers of the Privy Chamber to King Ch. 2, eldest Son of Dr. Rich. Neile Archb. of York, was born in the Archb. Pallace at Bishops Thorp in Yorkshire, 7. Dec. 1637, became a Gent. Com. of Wadham Coll. for the sake of Dr. Wilkins the Warden thereof, an. 1652, where by the instruction of him and Dr. Ward, he improved his nat. genius very much in the Mathematicks. In July or Aug. 1657 he divulged his invention of the equating of a streight line to a crooked or parabole. The demonstration of which is at large set down in a book entit. De Cycloide & Corporibus inde genitis, &c. Ox. 1659. qu. p. 91.92. Written by John Wallis D. D. one of the Savilian Professors of the University of Oxon. to which place I refer the reader, where he may see also what benefit hath been made of it by Dr. Christop. Wrenn and Will. Viscount Brounker. Mr. Neile hath written,

De motu, lib. 1.

Of Morality, in one book.

Whether these two are printed I cannot tell. He died in his Fathers house at White Waltham in Berks. 24. of Aug. in sixteen hundred and seventy, and was buried in the Church there, to the great grief of his Father,1670. and resentment of all Virtuosi and good men that were acquainted with his admirable parts. See more of him, and his invention in the Philosophical Transactions, an. 1673. nu. 98. p. 6146. One Sir Will. Neale Knight, who had been Scout-master General to K. Ch. 1, and a stout proper man and a good Soldier against his enemies in the grand rebellion, died in Greys-inn-lane in Holbourne on the 24 of March, the last day of the year, 1690, aged 81 years and was buried according to his desire near the west door fast by the Christning pew, in S. Pauls Church in Covent Garden, within the liberty of Westm, but he was no kin to the former Will. Neile, because he was of the Neales of Wollaston near Northampton.