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Gent. No great gentleman, Sir ; but one that wisheth well to all that mean 

 well. I pray you, how far do you travel this way ? 



Scholar. As far as York. 



Gent. 1 should be glad, if I might have your company thither. 



Scholar. And I, if my company might stand you in any stead ; but, howsoever 

 it be, you may command it ; and, by vouchsafing me the benefit of your company, 

 make me much beholden to you. . . ." 



According to Nicolas, " many other parts of the ' Treatise ' appear to have 

 been imitated both by Walton and Cotton." 



Page 21. the Thatched House in Hoddesden. We are able in this edition for the 

 first time to give positive and accurate information about this old inn. All that 

 remains of it to-day is incorporated in the house now called the " Brewery 

 House," situated on the east side of the main street, and used as Messrs. Christie's 

 offices. The greater part of this house belongs to the old inn. See illustration 

 p. 63. 



Page 21. Theobald's. The site of Theobald's Palace lies a little to the west 

 of the road to Ware, at the distance of twelve miles from London, in the parish 

 of Cheshunt. It was built about 1560, by Sir William Cecil, afterwards Lord 

 Burleigh, and is said to have been first intended as a small mansion for the 

 residence of his younger son. Queen Elizabeth having honoured it with a visit 

 in 1564, her minister was induced to enlarge it; and he completed the whole 

 upon a more extensive scale in 1571. Her visits to it, as appears from Lord 

 Burleigh's diary, were repeated ten times between 1572 and 1597. In 1603, Sir 

 Robert Cecil, his son, afterwards Earl of Salisbury, entertained King James the 

 First at it, on his way from Scotland to London, when he came to take possession 

 of the crown ; and in 1606, gave him a second entertainment ; soon after which 

 the Palace and Manor were exchanged for the ancient royal residence at Hatfield. 

 Theobald's became afterwards one of King James's favourite places of retirement, 

 and he died there, March 27th, 1625. It was also an occasional place of resi- 

 dence with his successor, who went from it in 1642, to put himself at the head 

 of the army. Nordon, in his description of Hertfordshire, says, " To speake of 

 the state and beauty thereof at large as it deserveth, for curious buildinges, 

 delightfull walkes, and pleasant conceites, within and without, and other things 

 very glorious and ellegant to be scene, would challenge a great portion of this 

 little treatise ; and therefore leaste I should come shorte of that due commenda- 

 tion that it deserveth, I leave it, as indeed it is, a princely seate." 



[It was pulled down by Parliament during the Commonwealth, and] after 

 the restoration of King Charles the Second, the House, Park and Manor, 

 were granted to the Duke of Albemarle, on the death of whose son, without male 

 issue, they again reverted to the Crown ; and were granted to the Duke of 

 Portland by King William the Third, in 1689. In 1762, the property of 

 Theobald's was sold by the late Duke of Portland to George Prescott, Esquire, 



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