which met at Westminster on 8 May. During that parliament, which lasted seventeen years, he is said to have become a pensioner, and to have received £100 every session. Anthony Wood speaks very harshly of Bysshe. In June, 1663 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Byshhe died in the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden, at the age of 64. He was buried in the church of St. Olave, Jewry. Bysshe married Margaret Green, daughter of John Green of Boyshall, Essex, serjeant-at-law. She survived him. Works Bysshe edited: Nicolai Vptoni de Studio Militari Libri Quatuor. Iohan. de Bado Aureo Tractatus de Armis. Henrici Spelmanni Aspilogia. Edoardus Bissæus e Codicibus MSS. primus publici juris fecit, notisque illustravit, London 1654. An edition of Nicholas Upton, dedicated to John Selden. The notes, originally written in English by Bysshe, were translated into Latin by David Whitford, an ejected student of Christ Church, Oxford. Palladius, de Gentibus Indiæ et Bragmanibus. S. Ambrosius, de Moribus Brachmanorum. Anonymus, de Bragmanibus, London 1665. In Greek and Latin, and dedicated to Lord Clarendon. At one time he contemplated writing the Survey or Antiquities of the County of Surrey, but the work never appeared. He treated heraldry as an antiquary and historian. Arms References Citations Bibliography Further reading External links 1615 births 1679 deaths English officers of arms English barristers English subscribers to the Solemn League and Covenant 1643 Original Fellows of the Royal Society 17th-century English lawyers English MPs 1640 (April) English MPs 1640–1648 English MPs 1654–1655 English MPs 1659 English MPs 1661–1679 Garter Principal Kings of Arms