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fMedicinales, Prag., 1561. He died of the plague at Trent, 1577. He must not 

 be confounded with Matthiolus of Padua, 1490, who wrote Ars Numerativa. B. 



Page 228. 'Dr. Hey /in' 's (geography. The title of Heylin's work is Cosmography, 

 originally published as a small octavo, with the title of Microcosmos, or a Little 

 Description of tke Great World; enlarged to 410, Oxford, 1622, 1633, and after- 

 wards to a large folio Cosmography in Four Books, containing the Chorographie and 

 Historie of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas and Isles 

 thereof, l6^2~'6^, '66, '82. Walton has copied verbatim, from the latter work, 

 the whole passage beginning, "The chief is Thamisis," to the end of Michael 

 Drayton's Sonnet. 



Peter Heylin was born in 1600, and early distinguished himself by his talents 

 and learning, taking his degree of Master of Arts in his twentieth year, and of 

 D.D. in 1633. Deprived of his church preferments, he lived some time in 

 studious retirement, until at the Restoration he received his preferments again, 

 but never rose higher than sub-Dean of Westminster, and died in 1662. He was 

 a very voluminous writer and a keen controversialist. His learning was very great, 

 and his talents remarkable, but, as Wood observes, " He was too much of a 

 party man to be an historian, and equally an enemy to Popery and Puritanism." 

 To what extent he carried his notions may be inferred from the high favour in 

 which he stood with Laud, and the fact of his having determined in the negative 

 the two questions, " Whether the Church is ever invisible ? " and " Whether the 

 Church can err ? " From his Polemical histories of Episcopacy and Presbyterian- 

 ism, he deserves the epithet not seldom applied to him of " uncandid." B. 



Page 230. a Gjerman Poet. Who this German poet was, has not been dis- 

 covered. Heylin gives three lines : 



tot compos, syl-vas, tot regia tecta, tot Aortas, 



Artifici excultos dextra, tot -vidimus arces 



Ut nunc Ausonio Thamisis cum Tibride certet. N. 



Page 232. Grotius (in his " Sophom "). 



Of Artificial meat, so many dishes, 

 The several kinds unknown to Nile of Fishes, 

 Strange beasts from Africk, -which yet -want a name, 

 And birds "which Jrom the Arabian desert came. 

 Grotius. His Sophompaneas or Joseph, a tragedy, by Francis Goldsmith, Esq., izmo, Lond., 1652. N. 



Page 233. 'Doctor Lebault. Walton refers to Maison Rustique ; or, The Country 

 Farmer, Compiled in the French Tongue by Charles Stevens and "John Liebatilt, Doctors 

 of Physicke, and Translated into English by Richard Surflet, Practitioner in Physicke, 

 Lond., 1616, fol., from which this chapter is entirely derived. 



Page 244. Caussin. Nicholas Caussin, a Jesuit, born at Troyes, 1583, who 

 gained quite a reputation as a preacher and writer. He was Confessor to Louis XIII., 



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