Richard Busby; after his death the bulk of his papers were seized in 1644 by superstitious sequestrators. George John Gray, writing in the Dictionary of National Biography'', states that the table of 11-figure antilogarithms later published by James Dodson was believed to have passed to Herbert Thorndike, and then to Busby; Pell's account in 1644 was that Warner had been bankrupt, and the creditors were likely to destroy the work. References 1563 births 1643 deaths English mathematicians 16th-century English scientists Alumni of Merton College, Oxford People from Leicestershire 16th-century English mathematicians 17th-century English mathematicians 17th-century English scientists