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To J (Jni Tya (I esccntt the yonn- 



ger, surviving, 



Atuujr. : 



John T r a d e s c a n t. 



Cannot hide Arts. 



Heire of tliy Fathers goods, and his good parts, 



Which both preservest, and augment' st his store, 

 Tracing th' ingenuous steps he trod before : 

 Proceed as thou begin'st, and win those hearts, 

 With gentle curt'sie, which admir'd his Arts, 



Whilst thou conceal' st thine own, and do'st deplore 

 Thy want, compar'd with his, thou shew'st them 

 Modesty clouds not worth ; but hate diverts. 



And shames base envy, arts he cannot hide 

 That has them. Light through every chink is spy'd. 

 Nugas has ego, pessimus Poeta 

 Plantarum tamen, optimique amici 

 Nusquarn pessimus aestimator, egi. 



Gualterus Stonehousus. 



Theologus servtis natus. 



By rearranging the letters of John Tradescant's name he composed 

 the anagram Cannot hide Arts, and by a similar process his own 

 name, Gualterus Stonehousus, became Theologus servus natus — w^ords 

 quoted by Macray, who, however, did not "grasp their meaning, as 

 occurring on the titlepage of a volume of Sermons in Magdalen 

 College Library. 



By piecing together various scraps of information we find that 

 Walter Stonehouse, born in 1597, was a Londoner — a relative of 

 Sir William Stonehouse, Bart., of Kadley, since he referred to 

 Sir William's daughter, Mrs. Langton, wife of the President of Mag- 

 dalen College, as " cousin." He came up to Oxford as one of the 

 first Scholars of the newly founded Wadham College. There, at 

 the age of 16, he wrote a Turcarum Historia generalis m 213 pages. 

 He took his B.A. on 25th Feb. 161^, and came to Magdalen as a 

 Fellow in 1617, filling the office of Prelector in Logic in 1619-20. 

 He remained in residence for some years, preaching occasional sermons 

 at the University Church and in the College, including the funeral 

 sermon at President Langton's funeral in 1626. In 1629 he took his 

 degree as Bachelor of Divinity and resigned his fellowship, probably 

 on marriage, since his son Walter was born in the following year. 

 The University presented him to a rectory in the diocese of Canter- 

 bury, 7th March 168^, and it may have been then that he made the 

 acquaintance of Thomas Johnson, then engaged on the descrij^tion of 

 his second botanical tour in Kent (published 1632). 



Stonehouse was presented to the rectory of Darfield by John 

 Savile of Methley, who hekl him in great esteem. He became a 

 member of the literary circle of Sir J. Jackson of Hickleton, in which 

 Lightfoot, Sir H. Wotton, and Bishop Morton were sometimes found. 

 Witli Laud he is rememl)ered as being one of the first Englishmen to 

 make a collection of coins and medals: these eventuallv formed the 



