Note 7 — GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE

Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, Familiar Letters, edited by Joseph Jacobs, 1890, book ii, letter 76, p. 506: “To my Honourable Friend, Mr. E. P., at Paris” (cf. Jacobs’s notes pp. 783-784). The letter is dated “Fleet, 3 Feb. 1646.” This is certainly Old Style. Howell is a queer dater, but a reference in this letter to the departure of the Scottish army (p. 505) proves that the letter was written after Dec. 21, 1646. There is a similar passage about witches in book iii, letter 2, p. 515 (also to Porter), dated “Fleet, 20 Feb. 1646.”