344 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



He was an eminent physician, and particularly famous for his Commen- 

 taries on some of the writings of Dioscorides. He died of the plague at 

 Trent, in 1577. Hawkins. 



Page 214. As you may note out of Dr. Heylirfs Geography. 



See No. 23 in the foregoing list, from pages 458, 459 of which this chap- 

 ter, from the words "The chief is Thamisis," down to the end of Dray- 

 ton's Sonnet, is printed almost verbatim. Dr. Peter Heylin was born at 

 Burford in Oxfordshire, November 29, 1600. In 1619 he was made Fel- 

 low of Magdalen College, Oxford, and in 1621, he published his Micro- 

 cosmos, alluded to in the text. He was steadfastly attached to King 

 Charles I., and wrote for him the weekly paper entitled Mercurius Auli- 

 cus ; though his loyalty reduced him to great poverty. He died on May 

 8, 1662. 



Page 217. Grotius in his Sophom. 



Hugo Grotius, or De Groot, a very celebrated scholar, statesman, and 

 theologian, who was born at Delft in Holland, on April 10, 1583. He 

 was at first an advocate, but about 1613 he became Grand- Pensionary of 

 Holland ; though in 1618, for adhering to the doctrines of Arminius, he 

 was confined for nine months in the castle at the Hague. Grotius died at 

 Rostock in Pomerania, August 28, 1645. His works were very numerous, 

 and a translation of that alluded to in the text is shown at No. 20 in the 

 foregoing list. The passage will be found at pages 29, etc., in the speech 

 of the Chorus, and in the notes to the third Act, pages 84, etc. The title 

 ot the Tragedy, Sophompaneas, signified, in the Egyptian language, the 

 Saviour of the World ; and was given to Joseph, Pharaoh's minister, be- 

 cause he delivered so many nations from destruction by famine. 



Page 228. // is well said by Caussin. 



Nicholas Caussin, a Jesuit and Confessor to Louis XIII., was born at 

 Troyes in Champagne, in 1580. He was esteemed a person of great 

 probity, and of such a spirit that he attempted to displace Cardinal Riche- 

 lieu ; but that minister proved too powerful for him, and procured his 

 banishment to a city of Lower Bretagne. He returned to Paris after the 

 Cardinal's death, and died in the Jesuits' Convent there, in July, 1651. 

 Hawkins. The " grave Divine " mentioned on the same page, according 

 to the Rev. Moses Browne, was Dr. Donne. The verses by Sir Henry 

 Wotton, in the same place, are printed near the end of his Remains, No. 

 43 of the preceding list. 



Page 237. Brelsford. 



Brelsford, or Brailsford, a township in the Hundred of Appletree, in 

 Derbyshire, situated about seven miles northwest of the Town of Derby. 



Page 240. Own me for his adopted Son. 



This alludes to the practice of the ancient Alchemists and Astrologers, 



