mouthshire and Ireland upon his said daughter, upon condi tions she married one of the surname of Herbert, otherwise the said lands to descend to the heirs male of the said Sir William; and his daughter to have only a small portion out of the lands he had in Anglesey and Carnarvanshire; his lands being thus settled, Sir William died shortly afterwards; he was a man much conversant with books, and especially given to the study of divinity, in so much that he writ an Exposition upon the Revelations, which is printed, though some thought he was as far from finding the sense thereof, as he was from attaining the Philosopher's-stone, which was another part of his study; howsoever he was very understanding in all other things, he was noted yet to be of a very high mind, but I can say little of him, as having never seen his person, nor otherwise had much information concerning him. His daughter and heir called Mary, after her father died, continued unmarried till she was one-andtwenty, none of the Herberts appearing in all that time, who either in age or fortune was fit to match her; about this time I had attained the age of fifteen, and a match at last being proposed, yet notwithstanding the disparity of years betwixt us, upon the eight-and-twentieth of February, 1598, in the house of Eyton, where the same man, Vicar of married my father and mother, christened and married me, I espoused her. Not long after my marriage I went again to Oxford, together with my wife and mother, who took a house and lived for some certain time there; and now having a due remedy for that lasciviousness to which youth is naturally inclined, I followed my book more close than ever, which course I continued till I attained about the age of eighteen, when my mother took a house in London, between which place and Montgomery Castle I passed my time till I came to the age of one-and-twenty, having in that space divers children, I having now none remaining but Beatrice, Richard, and Edward. During this time of living in the University or at home, I did without any master or teacher attain the knowledge of the French, Italian, and Spanish languages, by the help of some books in Latin or English, translated into those Idioms, and the dictionaries of those several languages; I attained also to sing my part at first sight in musick, and to play on the lute with very little or almost no teaching. My intention in learning languages

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being to make my self a citizen of the world as far as it were possible; and my learning of musick was for this end, that I might entertain my self at home, and together refresh my mind after my studies, to which I was exceedingly inclined; and that I might not need the company of young men, in whom I observed in those times much ill example and debauchery.

Being gotten thus far into my age, I shall give some observations concerning ordinary education, even from the first infancy 'till the departure from the University, as being desirous together with the narration of my life to deliver such rules as I conceive may be useful to my posterity. And first I find that in the infancy those diseases are to be remedied which may be hereditary unto them on either side, so that if they be subject to the Stone or Gravel, I do conceive it will be good for the nurse sometimes to drink posset drinks in which are boyled such things as are good to expell Gravel and Stone, the child also himself when he comes to some age may use the same posset drinks of herbs, as Milium Solis, Saxifrigia &c. good for the Stone many are reckoned by the Physicians, of which also my self cou'd bring a large catalogue, but rather leave it to those who are expert in that art; the same course to be taken for the gout, for which purpose I do much commend the bathing of childrens legs and feet in the water wherein Smyths quench their iron, as also water wherein allom hath been infused, or boyled, as also the decoction of Juniper-berries, Bayberries, Chamedris, Chamoepetis, which baths also are good for those that are hereditarily subject to the Palsie, for these things do much strengthen the sinews; as also Olium Castorij, and Succoni, which are not to be used without advice: they that are also subject to the spleen from their ancestors ought to use those herbs that are spleneticks, and those that are troubled with the Falling sickness with Cephaniques, of which certainly I should have had need but for the purging of my ears above-mentioned. Briefly what disease soever it be that is derived from ancestors of either side, it will be necessary first to give such medicines to the nurse as may make her milk effectual for those purposes, as also afterwards to give unto the child itself such specifique remedies as his age and constitution will bear. I could say much more upon this point, as having delighted ever in the knowledge of herbs, plants, and gums, and in few words the history of nature, in so`much that coming to

apothecaries' shops, it was my ordinary manner when I looked upon the bills filed up, containing the physicians' prescriptions, to tell every man's disease; howbeit I shall not presume in these particulars to prescribe to my posterity, though I believe I know the best receipts for almost all diseases, but shall leave them to the expert physicians, only I will recommend again to my posterity the curing of hereditary diseases in the very infancy, since otherwise without much difficulty they will never be cured.

When children go to school they should have one to attend them who may take care of their manners as well as the School-master doth of their learning, for among boys all vice is easily learned, and here I could wish it constantly observed that neither the master should correct him for faults of his manners, nor his governor for manners, for the faults in his learning. After the Alphabet is taught, I like well the shortest and clearest Grammars, and such books into which all the Greek and Latin words are severally contrived, in which kind one Comenus hath given an example; this being done it would be much better to proceed with Greek authors than with Latin, for as it is as easy to learn at first the one as the other, it would be much better to give the first impressions into the child's memory of those things which are more rare than usual: therefore I would have them begin at Greek first, and the rather that there is not that art in the world wherein the Greeks have not excelled and gone before others; so that when you look upon philosophy, Astronomy, Mathematicks, Medicines, and briefly all learning, the Greeks have exceeded all nations. When he shall be ready to go to the University, it will be fit also his governor for manners to go along with him, it being the frail nature of youth as they grow to ripeness in age to be more capable of doing ill, unless their manners be well guided, and themselves by degrees habituated in vertue, with which if once they acquaint themselves, they will find more pleasure in it than ever they can in vice, since every body loves vertuous persons, whereas the vitious do scarce love one another; for this purpose it will be necessary that you keep the company of grave, learned men, who are of good reputation, and hear rather what they say, and follow what they do, than follow the examples of young, wild, and rash persons, and certainly of those two parts which are to be acquired in youth, whereof one is goodness and

vertuous manners, the other learning and knowledge, I shall so much prefer the first before the second, as I shall ever think vertue accompanied with ordinary discretion will make his way better both to happiness in this world and the next, than any puff'd knowledge which would cause him to be insolent and vain glorious, or minister as it were arms and advantages to him for doing a mischief, so that it is pity that wicked dispositions shou'd have knowledge to actuate their ill intentions, or courage to maintain them, that fortitude which shou'd defend all a man's vertues being never well imployed to defend his humors, passions, or vices. I do not approve for elder brothers that course of study which is ordinarily used in the University, which is, if their parents perchance intend they shall stay there four or five years, to imploy the said time as if they meant to proceed Masters of Art and Doctors in some Science, for which purpose their tutors commonly spend much time in teaching them the subtilities of Logick, which as it is usually practiced, enables them for little more, than to be excellent wranglers, which art, though it may be tolerable in a mercenary lawyer, I can by no means commend in a sober and well govern'd gentleman. I approve much those parts of Logick which teach men to deduce their proofs from firm and undoubted principles, and show men to distinguish betwixt truth and falshood, and help them to discover fallacies, sophismes, and that which the schoolmen call vitious argumentations, concerning which I shall not here enter into a long discourse. So much of Logick as may serve for this purpose being acquired, some good sum of Philosophy may be learned, which may teach him both the ground of the Platonick and Aristotelian Philosophy. After which it will not be amiss to read the Idea Medicina Philosophica, written by Severnius Danus, there being many things considerable concerning the Paracelsion principles written in that book which are not to be found in former writers; it will not be amiss also to read over Franciscus Patricius and Tilesius, who have examined and contraverted the ordinary Peripatetick doctrine, all which may be performed in one year, that term being enough for Philosophy as I conceive, and six months for Logick, for I am confident a man may have quickly more than he needs of these two arts. These being attained, it will be requisite to study Geography with exactness, so much as may teach a

man the situation of all countries in the whole world, together with which it will be fit to learn something concerning the Governments, Manners, Religions either ancient or new, as also the interests of States and Relations in amity or strength in which they stand to their neighbours; it will be necessary also at the same time to learn the use of the Calestial Globe, the studies of both Globes being complicated and joined together. I do not conceive yet the knowledge of judicial Astrology so necessary, but only for general predictions; particular events being neither intended by, nor collected out of the Stars. It will be also fit to learn Arithmetick and Geometry in some good measure, but especially Arithmetick, it being most useful for many purposes, and among the rest for keeping accounts, whereof here is much use: as for the knowledge of lines, superficies, and bodies, though it be a science of much certainty and demonstration, it is not much useful for a gentleman, unless it be to understand Fortifications, the knowledge whereof is worthy of those who intend the wars, although yet he must remember that whatsoever Art doth in way of defence, Art likewise in way of assailing can destroy. This study hath cost me much labour, but as yet I could never find how any place could be so fortified but that there were means in certain opposite lines to prevent or subvert all that could be done in that kind. (To be Resumed.)

SPANISH SUPERSTITION.

I HAVE witnessed many instances of Spanish superstition, but none at which I felt more indignant than that which I am about to relate. During my stay in the city of S******, it chanced to be the season for bathing; which the Spaniards of Andalusia appear particularly fond of. I was walking one evening on the banks of the river, in expectation of meeting a friend who had gone out for the above-mentioned recreation; and I had already come near enough to speak to him, when I perceived a youth in the middle of the river, who seemed struggling for his life, as I suppose, from an attack of the cramp. I immediately called to my friend, who was not yet quite dressed, and directed his attention to the person in danger. He stripped, and plunged into the