By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 99 



"1629. About 3 years old I had a grievous ague, I can remem- 

 ber it. I got not health till eleven or twelve. This sickness nipt 

 my strength in the bud. Longsevous healthy kindred. When a 

 boy — bred ignorant at Eston [eremiticall solitude] : was very 

 curious : his greatest delight was, to be with the artificers that came 

 there, joyners, carpenters, cowpers, masons, and understand their 

 trades. lion's mcuis, (at leisure hours) I drew and painted. Did ever 

 love to converse with old men as Living Histories ; cared not for 

 play. 



"Anno 1633. I entered into my Grammar at the Latin School at 

 Yatton Kaynell, in the Church, where the Curate, Mr, Hart, taught 

 the eldest boys, Virgil, Ovid, &c. The fashion then was to save the 

 foridcs of their bookes with a false cover of parchment, sc. old 

 manuscript, which I was too young to understand ; but I was 

 pleased with the elegancy of the writing and the coloured initials. 

 I remember the Rector (Mr. Wm. Stump, great gr. son of Stump 

 the Cloathier of Malmsbury,) had sevcrall manuscripts of the 

 Abbo}'. He was a proper man, and a good fellow, and when he 

 brewed a barrell of special ale, his use was to stop the bunghole 

 (under the clay) with a sheet of manuscript. He said nothing did 

 it so well, which it grieved me then to see. I remember having 

 learnt the Alphabet from a Horn book, now extinct. 



" 1 034. Afterwards I went to School to Mr. Uobcrt Latimer, a deli- 

 cate and little person, Rector of Leigh Dclaracre — a mile — fine walk 

 — wlio liad an easie way of teaching: and every time we asked leave 

 to go forth we had a Tjatin word from him, which at our return we 

 were to tell him again. This in a little while amounted to a good 

 number of words. Zeal to learning extraordinary : but memory not 

 tenacious. Mr. Ijaiimer, at 70, wore a dudgeon,' witli a knife and 

 bodkin, as also my old grandfather Lyte and Aldcnnan Whitson of 

 iJristowe, which I supprtse was the common fashion iji (lieii- young 

 dayes. 



"Here was like covering of bookes. In my grandfalhor's days 



' A sniiill (la;;;;cr. " It was a sfi-viw:il>l<! dudgeon, citlicr lof fif>;li(in}v (ir tor 

 druJ^,'iii;i: " lludiluiis. I'ropiu'ly tlic root ol' l)(>\ (d' w liicli IimikIIis wiic UiuJe. 

 (Ilulliwfll). Tlie liaiidle, in Macbedi; "on lliy ld:id. ,ind diid-i..ii." 



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