SMITH, HENRY. Collected Works (1655), with a biographical preface by Thomas Fuller, written in his best manner. State Trials (1816). STRYPE. Life of Bishop Aylmer (1821, reprinted). An excellent study of the bishop's life. TAYLOR, JOHN. Works (1630). John Taylor was the "water poet," who was esteemed the best English verser by the sapient King James. TERRY. A Voyage to East India (1777, reprinted). An interesting account of his chaplaincy to Sir Thomas Roe. TRUTH BROUGHT TO LIGHT BY TIME (1692, reprinted). A curious little tract, of which the author is not finally ascertained. In spite of one serious chronological blunder, it bears the marks of one who knew at first hand the subjects of which he was treating. WELDON, SIR ANT. Court and Character of James I. (1650). A terrible exposure of the corruptions of the Court, which it professes to describe. WINSTANLEY, W. Worthies of England (1725, 2nd ed.). A useful but by no means reliable series of biographies. Fuller imagines that Winstanley had stolen his own suggested title, but the latter was able to give the greater biographer content. WINWOOD, SIR R. Memorials of Affairs of State (1725), edited by Sawyer, and one of the most useful collections of documents on English history. WOOD, ANTONY À. Athence and Fasti Oxonienses (1813), judiciously edited by Bliss. Where his prejudices would allow him, Wood is an accurate authority for the lives of which he treats. WOTTON, SIR H. Reliquia (1672 and 1685), edited by Izaak Walton, who has prefixed a delightful character sketch of the diplomatist. The fourth edition of 1685 has been used for the letters to Lord Zouch. State of Christendom (1657), which has been sufficiently characterized below. Such is the list of authorities consulted, with a comment upon each of them to indicate, as far as is possible in a single sentence, the comparative value of each. It is not pretended that these comprehend all or nearly all of the authorities for the lives of the eminent bachelors who pass under review. But they have sufficed for the present writer's purpose, and he hopes that the portraits which he has endeavoured to sketch in outline may prove likenesses and not caricatures. He is indebted to the kindness of the editor of Macmillan's Magazine for the . permission to use his paper on an Old World Parson therein printed as the basis of his study of Henry Smith, while the substance of the papers on Henry Peacham and Andrew Boorde has appeared in the Manchester Quarterly, the organ of the Manchester Literary Club. But in each case the studies have been entirely rewritten and greatly enlarged. He is furthermore much indebted to the kindness and courtesy of Messrs. C. W. Sutton and W. R. Credland, librarians of the Manchester Reference Library, for their invariable kindness and courtesy, which have much assisted him in his researches. In conclusion, he hopes that his compilation, such as it is, may help to throw some stray beams of light upon the lives of ten past worthies. Corrections he will gratefully receive; for he realizes how difficult, how almost impossible exact accuracy is in such matters, and he leaves his book to the indulgence of those kindly readers who take some interest in the men and the doings of a former century. TODMORDEN, October, 1899. ERRATA. Page 2, line 17, after school add avтodidakтol. 4, in notes 2 and 3, for p. 31 and p. 31 read p. 27 and p. 30. 14, note 1, for note 2 read note 4. 29, note 1, for p. 225 read p. 25. 73, note 1, for ccxii. read cclxii. 111, note 2, for p. 287 read p. 288. 91, last line, for Dickson read Dickons. 317, note 5, for p. 509 read p. 599. 363, note 1, for pp. xxii.-xxiii. read pp. xxvii.-xxix. 376, note 1, for pp. 380-381 read pp. 379-380. "TH THE SCHOOLMASTER HENRY PEACHAM "Memini quæ plagosum mihi parvo HORACE, Epist. II. i. 70, 71. HERE is scarce any profession in the commonwealth more necessary, which is so slightly performed. The reasons whereof I conceive to be these: First, young scholars make this calling their refuge, yea perchance, before they have taken any degree in the University, commence schoolmasters in the country, as if nothing else were required to set up this profession but only a rod and a ferula. Secondly, others, who are able, use it only as a passage to a better preferment, to patch rents in their present fortune, till they can provide a new one, and betake themselves to a more gainful calling. Thirdly, they are disheartened from doing their best with the miserable reward which in some places they receive, being masters to the children, and slaves to their parents. Fourthly, being grown rich, they grow negligent, and scorn to touch the school but by the proxy of an usher." So wrote Thomas Fuller, no mean judge of the principles of education, concerning the pedagogues of his day, and with only too much truth. The worthy divine, though by nature one of the kindliest souls who ever lived, still smarted in memory and in person from the too pressing attentions of his earliest tutor, the Reverend Arthur Smith." This otherwise little-known schoolmaster, who became vicar of Oundle, appears to have had a striking predilection for illustrating the transitive verb upon the breeches of his pupils; and his logical training seems to have been confined to the argumentum a posteriori! Indeed, Fuller's remembrances of William Lily, the famous grammarian, 1 Fuller, Holy State (1648), p. 98. 2 Aubrey's Letters (Ed. I.), Vol. II. Pt. ii. p. 334. |