ETON COLLEGE. 



CCCXCIX 



A.D. 



1623. 

 Et. 63. 



Such was the nature of his literary occupations in the 

 first year after his retirement, during which he corresponded 

 with different learned foreigners upon his works ;() and 

 great zeal having been shewn for his majesty s service, he 

 composed a treatise entitled, &quot; An Advertisement touching 

 a Holy War/ which he inscribed to the Bishop of Win 

 chester, (b) 



In the beginning of this year a vacancy occurred in the 

 Provostship of Eton College, where, in earlier years, he 

 had passed some days with Sir Henry Savile, pleasant to E 

 himself and profitable to society, (c) His love of know 

 ledge again manifested itself. 



Having, in the spirit of his father, unfortunately en 

 gaged, in his youth, in active life, he now, in the spirit of 

 his grandfather, the learned and contemplative Sir Anthony 

 Cooke, who took more pleasure to breed up statesmen than 

 to be one, offered himself to succeed the provost: as a fit 

 occupation for him in the spent hour-glass of his life, and 

 a retreat near London to a place of study, (d) 



The objection which would, of course, be made from 

 what we, in our importance, look down upon as beneath 

 his dignity, he had many years before anticipated in the 

 Advancement of Learning, when investigating the objec 

 tions to learning from the errors of learned men, from 

 their fortunes; their manners; and the meanness of their 

 employments : upon which he says, &quot; As for meanness of 

 employment, that which is most traduced to contempt, 

 is, that the government of youth is commonly allotted 

 to them; which age, because it is the age of least au- 



() See his letter to Father Baranzan, vol. xiii. p. 68. 

 (/&amp;gt;) See vol. vii. p. 112. 



(c) Ante p. ex. 



(d) See letter to Conway, vol. xii. p. 440, and vol. xii. p. 442, and to 

 the King, vol. xii. p. 440. 



