In the year 1634, I taught Sir George Peckham, Knight, astrology, that
part which concerns sickness, wherein he so profited, that in two or
three months he would give a very true discovery of any disease, only by
his figures. He practised in Nottingham, but unfortunately died in 1635,
at St. Winifred's Well in Wales; in which well he continued so long
mumbling his _Pater Nosters_ and _Sancta Winifrida ora pro me_, that the
cold struck into his body; and, after his coming forth of that well,
never spoke more.

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the
Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

In November, the 18th day, I was again the second time married, and had
five hundred pounds portion with that wife; she was of the nature of
Mars.

Two accidents happened to me in that year something memorable.

Davy Ramsey, his Majesty's clock-maker, had been informed, that there
was a great quantity of treasure buried in the cloyster of
Westminster-Abbey; he acquaints Dean Williams therewith, who was also
then Bishop of Lincoln; the Dean gave him liberty to search after it,
with this proviso, that if any was discovered, his church should have a
share of it. Davy Ramsey finds out one John Scott,[9] who pretended the
use of the Mosaical rods, to assist him herein: I was desired to join
with him, unto which I consented. One winter's night, Davy Ramsey, with
several gentlemen, myself, and Scott, entered the cloysters; we played
the hazel-rod round about the cloyster; upon the west-side of the
cloysters the rods turned one over another, an argument that the
treasure was there. The labourers digged at least six foot deep, and