OF SAMUEL HARTLIB. 5 



the changes that have fallen out, [I have been] recom- 

 mended before and in Parliaments ; books dedicated 

 unto me from several places and countries, &c. But I 

 grow weary to pursue such vanities." 



It was at a period when the Jesuits prevailed in 

 Poland that Hartlib was obliged to take refuge in 

 Prussia; and, as appears from his own statement, he 

 came over thence into England about or before 1628. 

 We find him in 1633, associated with John Durie, 

 promoting a theological publication, perhaps his earliest 

 connection with the press in this country. Among the 

 State Papers of Charles the First's reign,* is a MS. 

 of one page, dated Heilbron, April j^^ 1633, from Durie 

 to Sir Thomas Eoe, requesting him, among other 

 matters, to assist Mr. Hartlib with a Petition of Divines 

 of those quarters, concerning an edition of a Body 

 of Practical Divinity, gathered out of English authors, 

 a work which will be exceedingly profitable, but will 

 require divers agents, and an exact ordering of the 

 work, for which he considers no one fitter tlian Sir 

 Thomas himself 



Eleven days later, he sent Sir Thomas, by Mr. 

 Hartlib, whose industry he specially recommends, 

 certain political propositions and articles. And a 

 fortnight later, from Frankfort, requests Sir Thomas 



* Cal. of State Papers, D Series, J. Bruce, F.S.A., 1633—1634, 

 8vo, 1863. 



