[A] A full account of his life and works has been prepared for the Royal Society of Literature by the present writer (“Transactions, 1899”). Those who are interested in Nicholas Ferrar should consult Professor J. E. B. Mayor’s volume devoted to him in “Cambridge in the Seventeenth Century.” [B] Cress, or Wild Mint. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: Italicized or underlined text is surrounded by underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. The cover image for this eBook was created by the transcriber and is entered into the public domain.