very early age, his love of reading was a passion to which every thing else gave way; yet his mother could not overcome her husband's intention of bringing him up to his own business.

To his mother Henry discovered the cause of his unhappiness; and that affectionate and excellent parent quickly discerning that he had a mind destined for nobler pursuits, made every possible sacrifice to meet his wish to be brought up to one of the learned professions. Finding his father wholly averse to the plan, from their limited income, she opened a school in Nottingham, whereby her son's home comforts were increased, and she was at length enabled to place him in the office of an attorney. Southey's Remains of Kirke White.

NOTE B B.

QUEEN KATHERINE OF ARRAGON.

(See p. 103.)

She was not only learned herself, but was a patroness of learned men, particularly the great Erasmus, and the celebrated Ludovicus Vives. The latter she constituted tutor for the Latin tongue to her young daughter, the Princess (afterwards Queen) Mary: the former calls her, in his

Epistles, "the best of women," and observes that she was not only the most pious but the most erudite woman of the time. Ballard's Memoirs, p. 20.

NOTE C C.

QUEEN KATHERINE PARR.

(See p. 103.)

"The number as well as the piety of her compositions sufficiently show how much of her time and thoughts, amidst all the business and ceremonies of her station, were employed in secureing her own eternal happiness; and implanting the seeds of piety and virtue in the minds of her people. And as she very well knew how far good learning was subservient to these great ends, so she used her utmost endeavours for the establish

ment and improvement of it. When the act was made, that all colleges, &c. should be in the King's disposal, the University of Cambridge laboured under terrible apprehensions; and well knowing the Queen's great affection to learning, they addressed their letters to her, in which they intreated her majesty to intercede with the King

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for their colleges, which she effectually performed.Strype's Historical Memorials, vol. ii. p. 133.

NOTE D D.

SIR THOMAS MORE'S HOUSEHOLD.

(See p. 103.)

Sir Thomas More's house was reputed by the literati of Europe, a little academy.

Erasmus in so terming it says,- "there he converseth affably with his family, his wife, his son, and daughter-in-law, his three daughters, and their husbands, with eleven grand-children. You would say there was in that place Plato's Academy; but I do the house an injury in comparing it to Plato's Academy, wherein there was only disputations of numbers and geometrical figures, and sometimes of moral virtues. I should rather call his a school, or university of Christian religion; for there is none therein but readeth or studieth the liberal sciences, and their especial care is piety and virtue."-More's Life of Sir Thomas More, p. 120.

NOTE E E.

BISHOP JEWEL.

(See p. 105.)

This learned and exemplary prelate was employed to repel the accusations brought against the Church of England by the Romanists; this he performed to the infinite satisfaction of the reformed churches, and to the confusion of her enemies. The people in general having a desire to become acquainted with the contents of a book so valuable at that crisis, this excellent lady undertook the translation of it from Latin into English.-Ballard's Memoirs, p. 134.

NOTE FF.

ERUDITION of QUEEN ELIZABETH.

(See p. 108.)

Queen Elizabeth was skilled in the Greek, and spoke the Latin language with fluency. She translated from the former a dialogue of Xenophon, two Orations of Isocrates, and a play of Euripides; besides which she wrote a commentary on the works of Plato. From the Latin she translated Boethius'

"Consolations of Philosophy," Sallust's "Jugurthan War," and part of Horace's "Art of Poetry." On her departure from Oxford and Cambridge (which seats of learning Queen Elizabeth visited in state), she expressed her satisfaction to each in a Latin Oration, and her liberality and countenance were the means of producing many illustrious characters in both of the Universities.-See Birch's Hist. of Queen Elizabeth-Wood's Hist. and Antiq. Mis. Oxon. Lib. i. p. 289.-Fuller's Hist. Cambridge.

NOTE GG.

ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF BOHEMIA.

(See p. 112.)

This amiable princess was united to Frederick Count Palatine of the Rhine, afterwards King of Bohemia. Her magnanimity and greatness of mind were fully proved in the misfortunes which marked her eventful career; and her superior intellectual powers are attested by the eminence of her children.

So engaging was her behaviour, that she was in the Low Countries, called "The Queen of Hearts." From her are descended the illustrious line which