ADDITIONAL NOTES

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LIFE OF HOOKER

Frontispiece.—The portrait here given is from Hooker's monument in Bishopsbourne Church.

Text, etc.—The Life of Mr. Richard Hooker was first published in small octavo in 1665. The second edition was prefixed to the Ecclesiastical Polity of 1666, folio, and again in 1676 and 1682. It was also included in Walton's collection of 1670. A valuable essay on Hooker by Dean Church is prefixed to the Clarendon Press edition of the first book of Ecclesiastical Polity, 1876.

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3. at this time of my age. He says at p. 4 that he was "past the seventy of his age."

5. John Hales. See vol. i. p. 193, note.

7. He was born, etc. "Probably in March, 1553-54," says the Dict. of Nat. Biography.

8. a school-boy. He was educated at Exeter grammar school.

14. the Bishop said to him. Cf. chap. iii. of the Vicar of Wakefield, where this anecdote is referred to. Indeed Hooker is there alleged to have been the "great ancestor" of George Primrose.

23. elemented. See note to vol. i. p. 53.

26. I cannot learn the pretended cause. It seems probable that the views of Hooker and his friends had offended Barfoot, who was a zealous Puritan.

17. he entered into Sacred Orders. About 1581.

30. her conditions, personal qualities, manners. Recent investigations tend to show that honest Izaak's account is prejudiced, as Hooker in his will makes his "wel-beloved wife" sole executrix and residuary legatee, and his father-in-law was one of the overseers. Nevertheless Wood calls her "a clownish, silly woman, and withal a mere Xanthippe."

58. The forenoon … Geneva. The speaker was Fuller, but the quotation is not quite textual.

70. and behold God's blessings. Cf. p. 33.

71. corps, endowment. "When the corps of the profit or benefice is but one the title can be but one man's" (Hooker, Ecclesiastical Polity, v. lxxx, § 11).

94. Judicious Hooker. This is the first application to Hooker of this time-honoured epithet. Sir W. Cowper was the grandfather of William, first Earl Cowper. The monument was erected in 1635.

97. one of his elder daughters. I.e. Cicely.

97. both died before they were marriageable. Alice died unmarried in 1649; but Jane (or Jone) married Edward Nethersole at Bishopsbourne, 23rd March 1600.

99. dead in her bed. In March 1601.

108, regiment, regimen, regulation, management. Cf. Bacon's essay "Of Regiment of Health."

121. in devise, in contemplation.

LIFE OF HERBERT

Text, etc.—The Life of Mr. George Herbert was first published in 1670, 12mo, with his letters to his mother, etc. It was also included in the collected Lives of 1670. All his known writings have been edited by Dr. Grosart for the Fuller Worthies Library, 1874, and the Aldine Poets, 1876.

134. he was elected … Cambridge. He was admitted scholar 5th May 1609, and matriculated pensioner at Trinity 18th December 1609.

135. her husband died. Sir Richard Herbert died in 1597.

136. in Oxford four years. From 1598 to 1603-4.

142. Bachelor of Arts in 1611. The correct date is 1612-13.

142. Matter of Arts, 1616. See also p. 143. These data were furnished to Dr. Grosart by the University authorities.

143. chosen Orator. 18th January 1620.

149. many Seals. See vol. i. p. 72.

150. a sinecure. Whitford is in Flintshire.

152. cross-bias me. A bowling-green image.

154. Prebend of Layton Ecclesia. Grosart points out that Walton was wrong here. Herbert was not a Deacon. He held the prebendary of Layton (Leighton Bromswold) as a laic, as he did the sinecure rectorship of Whitford.

163. she died in the year 1627. In June. On July 1 Donne preached her Funeral Sermon. See ante, p. 139. When it was published (London, 1627, 12mo) Herbert appended to it the Greek and Latin poems to her memory, entitled Parentalia; these were the chief verses he published in his lifetime.

165. three months after this marriage. It took place at Edington on 5th March 1629.

167. canonical clothes. This, as Dr. Grosart says, shows that he "was still a layman."

167. Parsonage of Bemerton. In the presentation in the Record Office, which is dated 16th April 1630, ten days before his induction, it is styled "Rectory of the parish church of Fulston (Fuggleston) St. Peter's and Bemerton."

175. "The Country Parson." For further particulars see p. 212. Of the simplicity of this beautiful little book Canon Ainger has well said, "Not for the first or last time in our literature was it to be shown that the euphuistic tendency is killed when the writer begins to think more of his topic than himself" (Craik's English Prose, ii. (1894), 204).

190. being, seeing. Cf. also p. 258.

193. genteel, refined, well-bred.

201. "The Temple." See full title on p. 213.

205. passion, violent commotion of the mind, perturbation.

206. my last Will. This, which Walton had not seen, is printed by Dr. Grosart (Herbert's Poetical Works, 1876, p. lxi).

207. buried 3rd day of March, 1632. I.e. in 1633, as the rest of the note seems to imply. He lies under the altar in the church.

LIFE OF SANDERSON

Text, etc The first separate edition of the Life of Dr. Robert Sanderson was printed in 1678, 8vo. It is corrected and supplemented in Jacobson's edition of Sanderson's works, 1854, 6 vols.

223. the place of his birth was Rotherham. As stated in the note, it was Sheffield, in a house called the Lane Head Stane. He was baptized on the 10th September.

240. about this time. He was presented to the Rectory of Boothby Pagnell in 1619. There is a print of Boothby Parsonage in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1801, i. 105.

241. resigned his Fellowship. In May 1619.

241. pennyworths, bargains.

271. prevented him, anticipated him.

282. Little Britain. Like Duck Lane, Little Britain was (in Strype's words) "much inhabited by booksellers."

296. conversation, intercourse with the world.

303. blacks, mourning. Cf. Bacon "Of Death" (Essay 2).

305. 29th of January 1662. Should be 1663. He was buried in the chancel of Buckden Church.