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of adopting favorite persons for their sons or pupils, to whom they im- 

 parted their secrets. Hawkins. In the English translation of the Script- 

 ures, the disciples of the Prophets are called " the Sons of the Prophets, 1 * 

 with the same signification. 



Page 249. Tom Coriate. 



The son of the Rev. George Coriate, born at Odcombe in Somersetshire, 

 in 1577. He was educated at Westminster School, and at Gloucester 

 Hall, Oxford ; after which, he went into the family of Henry Prince of 

 Wales. He travelled almost all over Europe on foot, and in that tour 

 walked nine hundred miles with one pair of shoes, which he got mended 

 at Zurich. Afterwards he visited Turkey, Persia, and the Great Mogul's 

 dominions ; proceeding in so frugal a manner that, as he tells his mother 

 in a letter, in his ten months' travel between Aleppo and the Mogul's 

 Court, he spent but three pounds sterling, living reasonably well for 

 about twopence sterling a day ! He was a redoubted champion for 

 ^the Christian religion, against the Mahometans and Pagans ; in the 

 defence whereof he sometimes risked his life. He died of the flux, oc- 

 casioned by drinking sack at Surat in 1617; having, in 1611, published 

 his Travels in a quarto volume, which he called his Crudities ; in which, 

 on the reverse of b. i. in "a Character of the Author," is the passage 

 alluded to in the text. Hawkins. 



Page 250. What have we here, a church ? 



This passage alludes to the Church at Alstonefield, a Parish in the North 

 Division of the Hundred of Totmanslow, and County of Stafford ; it is 

 dedicated to St. Peter, and stands five miles north-northwest from Ashborn. 



Page 254. Now you are come to the door. 



This celebrated Fishing-House is formed of stone, and the room within 

 is a cube of fifteen feet, paved with black and white marble, having in the 

 centre a square black marble table. The roof, which is triangular in shape, 

 terminates in a square stone sun-dial, surmounted by a globe and a vane. 

 It was originally wainscoted with walls of carved panels and divisions, in 

 the larger spaces of which were painted some of the most interesting scenes 

 in the vicinity of the building ; whilst the smaller ones were occupied with 

 groups of fishing-tackle. In the right-hand corner stood a large beaufet with 

 folding-doors, on which were painted the portraits of Walton and Cotton 

 attended by a servant-boy ; and beneath it was a closet, having a Trout and 

 a Grayling delineated upon the door. Such was the original appearance 

 of the Fishing-House, as collected from a description given by Mr. White 

 of Crickhowel to Sir John Hawkins, in 1784; although it was then con- 

 -'siderably decayed, especially in the wainscoting and the paintings. To 

 this, the following account of its present state, written from actual obser- 

 vation by W. H. Pepys, Esq., F. R. S., etc., will form an appropriate and 



