Notes 



Page 263. My most worthy father. The alchemists used to call their disciples 

 "sons," and Ben Jonson's adopted "sons" are famous. It is likely that Cotton 

 was thinking of Jonson. 



Page 269. Ashborn. Ashbourne is thirteen miles west of Derby, situated on 

 a tributary of the Dove, a tiny brook called Henmore. Dr. Johnson used to stop 

 there, and Ham Valley is supposed to be referred to in Rasselas. 



'Brelsford. Brailsford is six miles S.E. of Ashbourne. 



Page 272. the brook before us. This would be the brook -that now flows 

 through Osmaston Park. See map, page 268. 



Page 277. Spittle Hill. The old road, now only a lane. The new road 

 breaks off one and a half miles before Ashbourne, and meets the old road at the 

 bottom of the hill. 



Page 277. Henmore. At that time it was commonly called Henmore, because 

 it flowed through Henmoor ; but its proper name is Schoo-brook. See a singular 

 contest for the right of fishing in this brook, as reported in Burrows, 2279 : 

 Richard Hayne, Esq., of Ashbourne vs. Uriah Cordon, Esq., of Clifton. BAGSTER. 



According to Shipley and Fitzgibbon, True Treatise on the <Art of Fly-Fishing, 

 Trolling, etc., as Practised in the Dove, etc., London, 1838, this "pretty little brook, 

 now called Compton-brook, and formerly the Schoo or Henmore, and, in times gone 

 by, celebrated for the excellent quality of its trout, runs irregularly on the south of 

 the town." B. 



Page 278. the Talbot. The inn stood in the market-place, and till about 

 sixty years since was the first inn at Ashbourne. About that time, a wing was 

 divided off for a private dwelling, and the far-famed Talbot reduced to an inferior 

 pot-house, and continued thus degraded until the year 1786, when it was totally 

 demolished by Mr. Langdale, then a builder in that town, who erected a very 

 handsome structure on that site. N. 



Page 280. Bently 'Brook. Bentley Brook is a narrow, swift stream, a mile 

 beyond Ashbourne by the road. 



Page 280. the river Dove. Sir Oswald Moseley says: "The Dove was so 

 called from the British word 'dwfr' (water) ; and the Derwent, from 'dwfr' and 

 'gwin' (white), i.e., white water." 



Drayton, in his Poly Olbion (Twelfth Song), makes the Dove the " darling " of 

 Moreland 



because the daintie gran 

 That grtnus upon his banks all others doth surpass. 



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