[7] Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, Familiar Letters, edited by Joseph Jacobs, 1890, book ii, letter 76, p. 506: “To my Honourable Friend, Mr. E. P., at Paris” (cf. Jacobs’s notes pp. 783-784). The letter is dated “Fleet, 3 Feb. 1646.” This is certainly Old Style. Howell is a queer dater, but a reference in this letter to the departure of the Scottish army (p. 505) proves that the letter was written after Dec. 21, 1646. There is a similar passage about witches in book iii, letter 2, p. 515 (also to Porter), dated “Fleet, 20 Feb. 1646.” [8] Letters, as above, book iii, no. 23, pp. 547 ff., dated “Fleet, 20 Feb. 1647,” i. e. doubtless 1648. [9] See Jacobs’s Introduction, pp. xlii-xliii. The question whether Howell’s letters were actually sent to the persons to whom they are addressed or whether they are to be regarded merely as literary exercises composed during his imprisonment (see Jacobs, pp. lxxi ff.) does not affect, for our purposes, the value of the quotations here made, since the letters to which we now refer actually purport to have been written in the Fleet, and since they were first published in the second edition (1650) in the additional third volume and from the nature of things could not have appeared in the first edition (1645). They must, at all events, have been composed before 1650, and are doubtless dated correctly enough. [10] See p. 64, below. [11] Sermon xvii (Whole Works, ed. Heber and Eden, 1861, IV, 546). [12] Whole Works, III, 57; cf. Sermon vii (Works, IV. 412). [13] See p. 7, above, note 4.