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We now take up our immediate line, descended from Dr. Theodore
(12) Diodati.
THEODORE DIODATI, born in 1574 at Geneva, being educated
as a physician, went early to England, where he is heard of, says Professor
Masson, in his "Introductions" to Milton's Latin Poems, "as living, about
the year 1609, near Brentford, in professional attendance on Prince Henry,
and the Princess Elizabeth [afterwards Queen of Bohemia]."® He
received the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Leyden, October 6, 1615 ;
and was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in
London, January 24, 1616-17. He became an eminent practitioner,
" much among persons of rank," residing in London, apparently, to the
age of seventy-six, his burial having been in the parish-church of St. Bar-
tholomew the Less, February 12, 1650-51. "The naturalized London
physician," says Masson, " is to be fancied, it seems, as a cheery, active
veteran, with courtly and gallant Italian ways to the last."^ He was twice
married : first to an English "lady of good birth and fortune," by whom
he had three children ;
and
afterwards to another English lady, who
brought him "goods and estate," survived him, and was his executrix.
52 j The children of Dr. Diodati were Philadelphia ;'^'^ buried at St. Anne's,
53 Blackfriars, August 10, \bi^; John}'^ "mentioned," as Col. Chester says,
"in the will of Elizabeth Cundall (widow of Henry Cundall, the partner
54 of Burbage in the Globe Theatre), dated i Sept. 1635 ;" and Charles}-'^
This Charles was the well-known youthful companion and bosom-
friend of Milton ; whose
life and character are delineated, in connection
with those of Milton, in so very interesting a manner, by means of the
joint researches of Professor Masson and Col. Chester, in the former's
" Life of John Milton " and in his edition of Milton's Poetical Works.
It was to him Milton addressed two of his Latin sonnets, and he was the
ii. 324.
^ The Poetical Works of John Milton. Ed. . . . b)' David Masson. . . . London, 1874,
'* The Life of John Milton. ... By David Masson. .
ii. 81, note.
396
. . London and New York, 1871,