SAVILE, SIR HENRY (1549-1622)

—Scholar, ed. at Oxf., where he lectured on mathematics. He was afterwards Warden of Merton Coll. and Provost of Eton, and made a translation from Tacitus entitled, The Ende of Nero and Beginning of Galba, etc. (1581), and in the same year pub. Rerum Anglicarum Script ores post Bedam Præcipui , a collection of some of the chronicles subsequent to Bede, William of Malmesbury, Roger of Hoveden, etc. He founded the Savilian Profe orship of Astronomy and Geometry at Oxf. SAXBY, EDWARD ( d. 1658). — B. in Suffolk, and was in Cromwell's Horse. His extreme republican views, however, led him into the bitterest antagonism when C. a umed the Protectorship. This received expre ion in his extraordinary pamphlet, Killing no Murder , in which the a a ination of C. is advocated, and which displays in a remarkable degree perverted ingenuity of argument combined with considerable literary power. S. d. demented in the Tower in 1658.