carrying on his English edition of the _Britannia_, Mr. Camden came accidentally to the press, when this sheet was working off; and looking on, he found, that to his own observation of Banbury being famous for cheese, the translator had added cakes and ale. But Mr. Camden thinking it too light an expression, changed the word _ale_ into _zeal_; and so it passed, to the great indignation of the Puritans, who abounded in this town." Barnaby Googe, in his _Strappado for the Divell_, refers to Banbury as "Famous for twanging ale, zeal, cakes, and cheese." Better remembered are the lines in his _Journey through England_: "To Banbury came I, O profane one! Where I saw a puritane one Hanging of his cat on Monday For killing of a mouse on Sunday." Early in the seventeenth century, the Puritans were very strong in Banbury. In Ben Jonson's _Bartholomew Fair_, Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, the Puritanical Rabbi, is called a _Banbury man_, and described as one who was a baker--"but he does dream now, and sees visions; he has given over his trade out of a scruple that he took, that it spiced conscience, _those cakes he made_ were served to bridales, May-poles, morrises, and such profane feasts and meetings:" in other words, he had been a baker, but left off that trade to set up for a prophet; and one of the characters in _Bartholomew Fair_ says: "I have known divers of these Banburians when I was at Oxford." And Sir William D'Avenant, in his play of _The Wits_, illustrates this Puritanical character, in "A weaver of Banbury, that hopes To entice heaven by singing, to make him lord of twenty looms." Old Thomas Fuller personifies the zeal in the Rev. William Whately, who was Vicar of Banbury in the reign of James I., and was called "The Roaring Boy." Fuller adds: "Only let them (the Banbury folks) adde knowledge to their zeal, and then the more zeal the better their condition." The Vicar was a zealous and popular preacher, according to his monument: "It's William Whately that here lies, Who swam to's tomb in's people's eyes." In the _Tatler_, No. 220, in describing his "Ecclesiastical Thermometer," to indicate the changes and revolutions in the Church, the Essayist writes, "That facetious divine, Dr. Fuller, speaking of the town of Banbury, near a hundred years ago, tells us, 'it was a place famous for cakes and zeal,' which I find by my glass is true to this day, as to the latter part of this description, though I must confess it is not in the same reputation for cakes that it was in the time of that learned author."