I1 was born in the county of Leicester,in an obscure town, in the north-west borders thereof, calledDiseworth, seven miles south of the town of Derby, one mile fromCastle-Donnington, a town of great rudeness, wherein it is notremembered that any of 8 the farmers thereof did ever educate any oftheir sons to learning, only my grandfather sent his younger son toCambridge, whose 9 name was Robert Lilly, and died Vicar ofCambden in Gloucestershire, about 1640.