Archbishop Laud in his annual account to the king 1636, page 37, mentions one Fenner, a principal ringleader of the Separatists, with their conventicles, at and about Ashford in Kent. [55] See Lodge’s Illustrations of British History, 4to. vol. iii. p. 178; Brydges’s Peers of the Reign of James the First, vol. i.; and Winwood’s Memorials. [56] For this vehement attack upon the weakness of an infatuated woman, the author must be screened under the example of Horace, Ep. 8 and 12. [57] Henry Garnet, provincial of the order of Jesuits in England, who was arraigned and executed at the west end of St. Paul’s, for his connivance at, rather than for any active participation in, the Gunpowder Plot, May 3, 1605. See State Trials. [58] Wilson’s Hist. of James I, Pa. 62. fol. 1653. [59] Two manufacturers of almanacks and prognostics. The latter was, however, of some note as to family, being the fifth son of sir Arthur Hopton by Rachael, daughter of Edmund Hall, of Greatford in Lincolnshire; nor was his fame in learning unequal to his birth. In 1604 he was entered a gentleman commoner of Lincoln college, Oxon, and in 1607 was admitted bachelor of arts. He was held in high estimation by Selden for his mathematical knowledge, but died in the prime of life in the month of Nov. 1614. [60] Dr. Daniel Price was the eldest son of Thomas Price, vicar of Saint Chad’s, Shrewsbury, in which borough he was born and educated. From St. Mary Hall, Oxford, where he was entered in 1594, he removed to Exeter college, where he took the degree of master of arts, and entered into holy orders. He afterwards became dean and residentiary canon of Hereford, rector of Worthyn in Shropshire, and of Lantelos in Cornwall; for which counties, as well as that of Montgomery, he officiated as magistrate. He was author of many works, wholly devotional, and died at Worthyn the 23d September 1631, and was buried there in the chancel of the church. [61] This poem, for what reason does not appear, is printed before some of the later editions of sir Thomas Overbury’s “Wife.” [62] These reverend gentlemen were jesters to James the First. The name of the former was Archibald Armstrong, of whom and of whose jests an account may be found in Granger, vol. ii. p. 399. ed. 1775. 8vo. They are again joined in a manuscript poem (_penes me_) by Peter Heylin, written in derision of Barten Holiday’s play already mentioned in the life of the bishop, of which the following are the introductory lines: “Whoop Holyday! why then ’twill ne’er be better, Why all the guard, that never saw more letters Than those upon their coates; whose wit consists In Archy’s bobs and Garret’s sawcy jests, Deride our Christ-church scene.” [63] Thomas Ereskine, earl of Fenton. [64] William, earl of Pembroke, a poet himself, and an universal patron of learning, whose character is so admirably drawn by Clarendon.