364 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



as we must suppose, received such a school education as 

 qualified him for an university, he was sent to Cambridge. 

 He had for his tutor Mr. Ralph Rawson, once a fellow of 

 Brazenose College, Oxford, but who had been ejected from 

 his fellowship by the Parliament visitors in 1648. This 

 person he has gratefully celebrated in a translation of an 

 ode of Johannes Secundus. 



But whatever were the views of his father in placing him 

 at Cambridge, we find not that he betook himself in earnest 

 to the pursuit of any lucrative profession. It is true that in 

 a poem of his writing he hints that he had a smattering of 

 the law, which he had gotten 



More by practice than reading, 

 By sitting o' th' bench while others were pleading. 



But it is rather probable that, returning from the University 

 to his father's, he addicted himself to the lighter kinds of 

 study, and the improvement of a talent in poetry of which 

 he found himself possessed, and also that he might travel 

 abroad ; for in one of his poems, he says he had been at 

 Roan. 



His father having married a lady of a Derbyshire family, 

 and she being the daughter and heiress of Edward Beres- 

 ford, of Beresford and Enson in Staffordshire, and of Bently 

 in the county of Derby, it may be presumed that the de- 

 scent of the family seat at Beresford to her might have beei 

 the inducement with her husband to remove with his famib 

 from their first settlement at Ovingden to Beresford, a vilh 

 near the Peak in Derbyshire, and in the neighbourhood 

 the Dove, a river that divides the counties of Derby an< 



