SOME ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

OWEN FELLTHA M.*

THERE are few English writers, perhaps none, who enjoyed any considerable celebrity in the ages in which they lived, of whom less is known, than of the author of the Resolves; and what is particularly remarkable, though this production of his pen had passed through no less than twelve editions before the commencement of the present century, yet the name of OWEN FELLTHAM has not been made the subject of an article in any of our biographical collections.

It appears that he was the son of Thomas Felltham, a gentleman of worth in Suffolk, who died in 1631, and that he was the youngest of six children. Scarcely any other particulars of his life are known

*This Account is chiefly taken from the one prefixed to Cumming's second edition of the Resolves.