_The numbers at the beginning of paragraphs refer to the pages_ LIFE OF HOOKER _Frontispiece._--The portrait here given is from Hooker's monument in Bishopsbourne Church. _Text, etc._--_The Life of Mr. Richard Hooker_ was first published in small _octavo_ in 1665. The second edition was prefixed to the _Ecclesiastical Polity_ of 1666, _folio_, and again in 1676 and 1682. It was also included in Walton's collection of 1670. A valuable essay on Hooker by Dean Church is prefixed to the Clarendon Press edition of the first book of _Ecclesiastical Polity_, 1876. _Page_ 3. _at this time of my age._ He says at p. 4 that he was "past the seventy of his age." 5. _John Hales._ See vol. i. p. 193, note. 7. _He was born, etc._ "Probably in March, 1553-54," says the _Dict. of Nat. Biography_. 8. _a school-boy._ He was educated at Exeter grammar school. 14. _the Bishop said to him. Cf._ chap. iii. of the _Vicar of Wakefield_, where this anecdote is referred to. Indeed Hooker is there alleged to have been the "great ancestor" of George Primrose. 23. _elemented._ See note to vol. i. p. 53. 26. _I cannot learn the pretended cause._ It seems probable that the views of Hooker and his friends had offended Barfoot, who was a zealous Puritan. 17. _he entered into Sacred Orders._ About 1581. 30. _her conditions_, personal qualities, manners. Recent investigations tend to show that honest Izaak's account is prejudiced, as Hooker in his will makes his "wel-beloved wife" sole executrix and residuary legatee, and his father-in-law was one of the overseers. Nevertheless Wood calls her "a clownish, silly woman, and withal a mere Xanthippe." 58. _The forenoon ... Geneva._ The speaker was Fuller, but the quotation is not quite textual. 70. _and behold God's blessings. Cf._ p. 33. 71. _corps_, endowment. "When the _corps_ of the profit or benefice is but one the title can be but one man's" (Hooker, _Ecclesiastical Polity_, v. lxxx, § 11). 94. _Judicious Hooker._ This is the first application to Hooker of this time-honoured epithet. Sir W. Cowper was the grandfather of William, first Earl Cowper. The monument was erected in 1635. 97. _one of his elder daughters. I.e._ Cicely. 97. _both died before they were marriageable._ Alice died unmarried in 1649; but Jane (or Jone) married Edward Nethersole at Bishopsbourne, 23rd March 1600. 99. _dead in her bed._ In March 1601. 108, _regiment_, regimen, regulation, management. _Cf_. Bacon's essay "Of Regiment of Health." 121. _in devise_, in contemplation. LIFE OF HERBERT _Text, etc.--The Life of Mr. George Herbert_ was first published in 1670, 12mo, with his letters to his mother, etc. It was also included in the collected _Lives_ of 1670. All his known writings have been edited by Dr. Grosart for the _Fuller Worthies Library_, 1874, and the _Aldine Poets_, 1876. 134. _he was elected ... Cambridge._ He was admitted scholar 5th May 1609, and matriculated pensioner at Trinity 18th December 1609.