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ought to be the good education of children. ii. Examples of good children. This is the story book with proverbs. J. J.]"

D. At the same place.

"1. The book of temperance, by way of dialogue. [One or two stories in it. J. J.]

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2. Another book of dialogues, with many stories. ginning with The treble admonition. With an index of the stories at the end.

3. Of the education of children, many stories. Also, wise and witty sayings and actions included in stories. Part ii. Outlandish proverbs &c.

4. Conversations concerning the true end and design of human life and the contempt of the world. Interspersed with many useful stories. [At the beginning are the young ladies' letters, &c. At the end, an index. J. J.]

5. The instruction of children, translated from the Italian, &c. 1634."

25. The translations of Valdesso and Lessius, and Ferrar's preface to Herbert's Temple. (See below.)

Additional Notes.

Page 3. n. 3. The other sister was named Joyce. She seems to have died before N. F. took his farewell of the family in 1613. See page 11 § 6. An only sister.

Page 7. Barnabas Oley was a most laborious tutor at Clare at the outbreak of the civil war. (See the list of freshmen, nearly all pupils of his, preserved in the college.) See Walker's Sufferings, ii. 141, 142, Wood's Ath. ii. 667, Bentham's Ely, i. 27, Barwick's Life, 26 n., Baker in Hearne's Caius, 690, his will in Baker's MS. xii. (or xvi? the Index gives both volumes) 191, his letter to Dr. Gower, ibid. ii. 146. "[I] can satisfy you that the rich man that desired to print Dr. Jackson]'s works was Mr. Nettleton of University College, and the Cambridge man that solicited it, Mr. Oley of

Clare Hall, who lives in the north privately, near the place of [ady] Savil's demolished habitation."—Hammond's letter of Jan. 7. [1652-3] in the Theologian and Ecclesiastic, xiii. 328. Lady S. lived at Altrop (Ibid. vii. 60). "Mr. Oley is living, and, I think, now in L[ondon], but I know not where.”Hammond, March 4. [1650-1]. Ibid. vii. 285.

"I had like

Page 9. line 12. Officiate himself in person. wise observed it ordinary in the universities to preach long without orders as probationers, &c., and accordingly thought myself obliged not to refuse any inoffensive opportunity of doing good by preaching, where it was wanted, &c." Life of Edmund Trench (London, 1693), 51.

Page II. Mrs. Collett. A few only of the Collett letters1

For the following table of contents I am chiefly indebted to Mr. Hopkinson.

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Mrs. Elizth, Banderlo, written soon after her marriage to the lady who taught her the French language. She concludes: "Voster amme Tres affectionat."

her brother Richard at Hamborough.

her eldest son Thomas, on his
intended marriage with
Miss Sherington.

Do., on the same subject.
her cousin, Arthur Wood-

noth, inclosing the above letter to her son Thomas. her cousin Mrs. Stead, still on

the same subject.

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her son Thomas.

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lady Bodley*.

• Wife of Sir John Bodley, of Streatham, co. Surrey; his mother, a daughter of Humphrey Collett of Southwark, was cousin to John C. Sir J. B. was knighted at Warwick, Sept. 5, 1617. Nichols's Progr. of James I. iii. 435. Cf. Manning and Bray's Surrey, iii. 432, 438.

can here be given; they will suffice to prove that she was not unworthy of her race.

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her daughter Mapletoft, who has her sister Margaret with her.

Do.; speaks of Mrs. M.'s daughter, "little Nan:" "We thank God for your own and my dear Peggie's recovery."

lady Bodley, proposing in July to visit with her daughter lady B. in Essex. Aunt Collett, written during a visit (with her daughter Hester) to the Mapletofts. She had hoped to have borne a part in the training of her aunt's daughter Julia.

her brother Ferrar [i. e. J. F.]

XVIII. 30 Dec. 1628.

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From a letter to "aunt Collett," Febr. 1627-8.

"I suppose you may have expected to have heard from me upon occasion of the late business touching my son; and

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indeed I had performed it, but that the answering my son's letters every week hath taken up that space of time which the carrier affords us between the delivery of his letters and the calling for of our answer. And now my brother Nicholas

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an ague-Dorothy's quartain continues."

4 Oct. 1630. Gidding. Mrs. Collett. her cousin Wright: speaks of

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"the perfect health and (I may well say, and bless God for it) the great strength and ability both of body and mind of my dear mother."

her aunt Collett: her son Thomas and his wife are resolved to leave Gidding and keep house in London. lady Bodley, at Streatham. "I understand my cousin Parkes is with you at Streatham."

her son Nicholas: has been much comforted by his letters.

her daughter (in law) Collett.

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her daughter Mapletoft.

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