AUTOGRAPH OF SAMUEL BUTLER.

So thinke how Spencer dyer how lowly mourned How Butler, faith & Serbias were Returnd.

LIST OF PORTRAITS.

Agrippa, Cornelius ......Part I. Canto I. line 539
Albertus Magnus .........Part II. Canto I. line 438
Bacon, Roger...............Part II. Canto III. line 224
Behmen, Jacob ............Part 1. Canto I. line 542
Blanc, Vincent Le.........Part I. Canto II. line 282
Bonner, Bishop............Part II. Canto II. line 510
Brahe, Tycho
.Part I. Canto I. line 120
Burton, Henry ............ Part I. Canto III. line 1122
Byfield, Adoniram ......... Part III. Canto II. line
Calamy, Edmund ......... Part III. Canto

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640

II. line 636 ..Part II. Canto II. line 160 ...Part III. Canto II. line 794

Cromwell, Oliver .........Part III. Canto

Cromwell, Richard.........Part III. Canto

I. Canto II. line

395

II. line 227

Cutpurse, Mall ............Part

II. line 166

II. line 1200
II. line 270

I. line

Davenant, Sir William ...Part
Digby, Sir Kenelm ......Part I. Canto
Essex, Robert, E. of......Part II. Canto
Fairfax, Sir Thomas ......Part III. Canto
Fleetwood, General ......Part III. Canto
Fludd, Robert ............ Part I. Canto
Goodwin, Thomas ......... Part II. Canto
Helmont, Baptist Van ...Part
Hopkins, the Witch-finder, Part II. Canto III. line
Joan, Pope..................Lady's Answer, line 283
Joan of Arc.........Lady's Answer, line 285

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669

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140

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Lambert, General ......... Part III. Canto II. line 270
Lenthall, William ......... Part III. Canto II. line 909
Lilburn, John............... Part III. Canto II. line 421
Lilly, William ..... ..Part II. Canto III. line 1093
Loyola, Ignatius .........Part III. Canto II. line 1564
Lunsford, Sir Thomas ...Part III. Canto II. line 1112
Luther, Martin ............Part II. Canto III. line 155
Montaigne
.Part I. Canto
I. Canto
Owen, Dr. John............Part III. Canto II. line

I. line

38

638

White, Thomas............ Part II. Canto II. line

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ON

SAMUEL BUTLER, Esq.

AUTHOR OF HUDIBRAS.

THE life of a retired scholar can furnish but little matter to the biographer: such was the character of Mr. Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras. His father, whose name likewise was Samuel, had an estate of his own of about ten pounds yearly, which still goes by the name of Butler's tenement, a Vignette of which may be seen in the title-page of the first volume: he held, likewise, an estate of three hundred pounds a year under sir William Russell, lord of the manor of Strensham, in Worcestershire. He was not an ignorant farmer, but wrote a very clerk-like hand, kept the register, and managed all the business of the parish under the direction of his landlord, near whose house he lived, and from whom, very probably, he and his family received instruction and assistance. From

'This information came from Mr. Gresley, rector of Strensham, from the year 1706 to the year 1773, when he died, aged 100: so that he was born seven years before the poet died.