their children to some austere government, without haunting alehouses, taverns, dice, cards, and vain delites of charge, the case is altred: the husbandman will be equal to the yeoman, the yeoman to the gentleman, the gentleman to the squire, the squire to his superior, and so the rest, every one so far exceeding the corruptions held in former times, that I will speake without reprehension, there is at this day thirty times as much vainly spent in a family of like multitude and quality, as was in former ages, whereof I speake. And therefore impute not the rate of grounds to a wrong cause, for to tell you truly, both lord and tenant are guilty in it: and yet they may be both content, for they are as the sea and the brookes: for as the rivers come from the sea, so they runne into the sea againe."*

Thus it is, that in all ages the same complaints become the topics of the mob: and two centuries ago, were heard exactly the same murmurs at increased rents, increased price of the articles of life, and the luxury of farmers, as we hear at this moment as if they had now first occurred.

This "Surveyor's Dialogue" was republished 1610, and again 1618, in 4to.

JOHN NORDEN.

John Norden, the author, was of a gentleman's family, probably of Wiltshire. He was educated at Hart-Hall, Oxford, 1564, where he took the degree

In p. 184 he mentions "the commendable booke of Surveying of Master Valentine Leigh."

of

of A. M. 1573. He was a voluminous author, according to A. Wood, who enumerates the following

titles.

1. Sinful Man's Solace, most sweet and comfortable for the sick and sorrowful soul, &c. London, 1585, 8vo.

2. Mirror for the Multitude; or, a glass wherein may be seen the violence, the error, the weakness, and rash consent of the multitude. London, 1586, 8vo.

3. Antithesis; or, contrariety between the wicked and godly, set forth in form of a pair of gloves, fit for every man to wear, &c. London, 1587.

4. Pensive Man's Practice. 1591, 12mo. —40th edit. 1629, 12mo.

5. Poor Man's Rest; founded upon motives, meditations, and prayers, &c. Printed several times in 8vo. and 12mo. The 8th edition. London, 1620, 12m0.

6. Progress of Piety, whose Jesse's lead into the harborough of heavenly Hearts-ease, to recreate the afflicted souls of all such, as, &c. London, 12mo.

7. Christian Comfort and Encouragement unto all English subjects not to dismay at the Spanish threats. London, 1596.

8. Mirror of Honour, wherein every professor of arms, from the General to the inferior Soldier, may see the necessity of the fear and service of God. London, 1597, 4to.

9. Interchangeable Variety of Things, London, 1600, 4to.

10. Surveyor's Dialogue, as above.

11. Labyrinth of Man's Life: or, Virtue's Delight and Envy's Happiness. London, 1614, 4to. a Poem, dedicated to Rob. Car, Earl of Somerset.

12. Loadstone to a Spiritual Life. London, 1614,

13. Pensive

13. Pensive Soul's Delight: or, a devout man's help, consisting of motives, meditations, and prayers, &c. London, 1615, 12mo.

14. An Eye to Heaven in Earth. A necessary watch for the time of death, consisting in meditations and prayers fit for that purpose. With the husband's Christian counsel to his wife and children left poor after his death. London, 1619, 12mo.

15. Help to true Blessedness.

16. Pathway to Patience in all manner of Afflictions, &c. London, 1626, 8vo.

He is supposed to be the same, who was eminent for his skill in topography, and wrote "Speculum Britanniæ; or, an historical and chorographical description of Middlesex. London, 1593," in about seven sheets, 4to. ; and about the same time "A Chorographical Description of Hartfordshire, in four sheets, 4to." He was one of the Surveyors of the King's lands, A. D. 1614.

*

ART. XX. Milton's Cypher, and Harleian Library.

Oldys in his MSS. says, "Milton's cypher for secret communication with others used by the Republicans under Oliver, I had among the Royal Letters in Clarendon's Collection, which I redeemed from perdition, and presented to my late noble Lord of Oxford; and they are still preserved in the Harleian Library. But God knows how soon that magnificent collection of MSS. may undergo the same dispersion as the printed books, which were sold to Tom Osborne, my neighbour, for less than 13,cool.; though the binding only of the least part of them, by his lordship, cost him 18,000l." From Oldys's Interleaved Langbaine.

* Wood's Ath. I. 450, 451.

ART.

ART. XXI. THOMAS NABBES.

"Thomas Nabbes," who was a dramatic writer in the time of Charles I. " made a continuation of R. Knolles's General History of the Turks, from the year 1628 to the end of 1637, collected out of the Dispatches of Sir Peter Wyche, and other Embassadors. He seems to have been secretary, or other domestic, to some nobleman or prelate at or near Worcester. Partly hinted in his poem "On losing his way in a forest, after he was intoxicated with drinking perry: wherein "I am a servant of my Lord's."*

he says,

A farther continuation of Knolles's History was made by Sir Paul Rycaut, late Consul at Smyrna. Lond. 1679.

ART. XXII. Addenda.

Richard Knolles sprung from Northamptonshire, and was educated at Oxford. He died at Sandwich, 1610. See Wood's Ath. I. 362.

John Vicars is well known by the couplet in Hudi

bras,

"Thou, that with ale, or viler liquors,

Didst inspire Withers, Pryn, and Vickars."

See Nash's Hudibras, III. p. 49.

Vicars died 1652, aged 72. See Wood's Ath. II. 152. There was a second edition of Martin's Hebrides, 1716, 8vo. much corrected. Martin was a native of one of these islands, where he lived as a factor.

From Oldys's Interleaved Langbaine.

ART.

ART. XXIII. Literary Obituary.

DIED LATELY.

May 29. Bernard Hodgson, L. L. D. Principal of Hertford College, Oxford; author of "Translations of Solomon's Song, 1785," &c.

Geo. Barry, D. D. of Shapinshay, in the Orkneys, See p. 381.

Dr. Donald Smith, Compiler of the Appendix to the Report of the Highland Society, regarding Ossian's Poems. See Edinb. Rev. Vol. VI. p. 435.

At Bath, John Clark, M. D. aged 62, Author of "Observations on the Diseases of Hot Climates," &c.

Rev. John Clarke Hubbard, A. M. Rector of St. John's, Horsleydown, Surry, and author of "Jacobinism," a Poem, &c.

July 2. Dr. Patrick Russell, F. R. S. author of " A Treatise on the Plague," and Editor of his brother's "History of Aleppo."

Aug. 3. At Harnish House, Wilts, at an advanced age, Christopher Anstey, Esq. of Bath, and of Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, well known for his comic poem, "The New Bath Guide," &c.

Aug.

Sir Richard Worsley, Bart.

Communications from Correspondents for the continuance and enlargement of this Literary Obituary are particularly requested. Memoirs, and Lists of Works of deceased Authors would be very acceptable, and, it is hoped, not discreditably recorded by this publication,

T. Bensley, Printer,

Bolt Court