Note 129 — CALAMITIES OF AUTHORS: (continued 5)
Reading edition
The following are extracts from Ockley’s letters to the Earl of Oxford, which I copy from the originals:—
“Cambridge Castle, May 2, 1717.
“I am here in the prison for debt, which must needs be an unavoidable consequence of the distractions in my family. I enjoy more repose, indeed, here, than I have tasted these many years, but the circumstance of a family obliges me to go out as soon as I can.”
“Cambridge, Sept. 7, 1717.
“I have at last found leisure in my confinement to finish my Saracen history, which I might have hoped for in vain in my perplexed circumstances.”