By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 101 



"T'was my unhappincss iu half a year to lose this good cnformer 

 (Mr. Latimer) by his death : and afterwards was under severall 

 dull ignorant teachers till 12 ; 1638: about which time I was sent 

 to Blandforde School in Dorset ; W. Sutton B.D. : who was ill- 

 natured. Here I recovered my health and got Latin and Greeke. 



" 1638. Hero also was the use of covering of bookes with old 

 parchments, sc. leases, &c., but I never saw any thing of a Manu- 

 script there. Hereabout were no Abbeys or convents for men. 

 Anno 1647, I went to Parson Stump out of curiosity, to see his 

 Manuscripts, whereof I had seen some in my childhood : but by that 

 time they were all lost and disperst. His sons were gunners and 

 souldiers, and scoured their gunncs with them : but he showed mc 

 severall old deedes granted by the Lords Abbotts with their seals 

 annexed, which I suppose his sonne, Capt. John Stump of Malms- 

 bury hath still. 



" I was always enquiring of my (maternal) Grandfather (Isaac 

 Lyte), of the old time, the Itoodloft, ceremonies of the Priory, 

 &c. At 8 I was a kind of engineer and fell then to Drawing, be- 

 ginning with plain outlines in draughts of the curtains : then on to 

 colours; being only my own instructor. Copied pictures in the 

 parlour, in a table-book. At 9, a portraiter and was passable. 

 Was wont to lament with myself that I lived not in a citj'^, where 

 I might have access to watchmakers, locksmiths, &c. Not much 

 care for grammar. Strong and early impulse to Antiquities. 

 Tacitus and Juvenal. Look't through some logiquc and ethiques. 

 A musical inventive head : ideas were clear. 



" 1639. My uncle's nag ran away with me, Monday after Easter, 

 and gave me a very dangerous fall. About this time my grand- 

 father Aubrey dyed, leaving my Father, who was not educated to 

 learning but to liawking. 



"1642, May 3. Entered at Trinity Coll. Oxon. Peace. 'Atque 

 inter sylvas Academi quoererc verum.' But now did Bellona 

 tlumdor : and as a clear sky is sometimes overstretclied with a dis- 

 mall black cloud, so was tlie serene peace by tlio Civill AVar tlirougli 

 llio factions of those times. ' Amovero loco mo tcmpora grato.' 

 In August following, 1643, my Father seat for mo home for fcarc. 



