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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The writers to whom the author of this book is most indebted for his biographical materials are Thomas Fuller and Anthony a-wood. The former, the wittiest and one of the most delightful of the old English writ ers,-and the latter one of the most crabbed and cyni cal. What has been obtained from them was gathered wherever it was sprinkled, in scattered morsels, over their numerous and bulky volumes. Beside what was furnished from these sources, numerous fragments have been collected from a wide range of reading, including every thing that seemed to promise any additional matter of information.