Note 758 — FATHER HUBBURD’S TALES; OR, THE ANT AND THE NIGHTINGALE.

Peter Bales] A particular account of this person may be found in Wood’s Athenæ Oxon. vol. i. p. 655, ed. Bliss, and in Chalmers’s Biog. Dict. I need only state that he was unrivalled, during his day, in the various branches of the art of penmanship, (occasionally producing specimens of extraordinary minuteness); that in 1590, when he published his Writing Scholmaster, he kept a school situated at the upper end of the Old Bailey; and that he is supposed to have died about 1610.