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followed by three pages of an address '' To the Reader/' 

 ending " Imprimatur^ Joseph Caryl.'' 



It thus appears that Hartlib wrote to his friend 

 Woodward, (whose judgment, he says, '^hath not 

 deceived me these sixteen years/') to give his opinion 

 of Mr. Edwards' book. Now 16 years prior to 1644, 

 the date of his letter and publication, takes us back to 

 1628, about or before which year Hartlib probably first 

 came to England. 



VIII. 



Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib. 4to. [June 

 5, 1644.] 



This celebrated tract of eight pages, written by John 

 Milton, seems to have been published without any 

 regular title page. The first page gives in one line at 

 the top, " Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib." 

 It is pretty well printed, in small type, 48 Hnes on a 

 page. 



Wood says of John Milton, that, in 1635, he was 

 incorporated Master of Arts. He wrote : — 



'^ Of Education," a tract addressed to Mr. Samuel 

 Hartlib. In this treatise he prescribed an easy and 

 deHghtful method (says Wood), for the training up of 

 gentry to all arts of literature, that they might at the 

 same time, by like degrees, advance in virtue and abili- 

 ties to serve their country, subjoining directions for 

 their obtaining other necessary or ornamental accom- 



