[Footnote 110:  A letter from J. Mead to Sir M. Stuteville, July 19, 1628.  Sloane MSS. 4178.]

[Footnote 111:  See “Calamities of Authors,” vol. ii. p. 116.]

[Footnote 112:  It is a quarto tract, entitled “Mr. John Milton’s Character of the Long Parliament and Assembly of Divines in 1641; omitted in his other works, and never before printed, and very seasonable for these times. 1681.”  It is inserted in the uncastrated edition of Milton’s prose works in 1738.  It is a retort on the Presbyterian Clement Walker’s History of the Independents; and Warburton, in his admirable characters of the historians of this period, alluding to Clement Walker, says—­“Milton was even with him in the fine and severe character he draws of the Presbyterian administration.”]

[Footnote 113:  Southey, in his “Doctor,” has a whimsical chapter on Anagrams, which, he says, “are not likely ever again to hold so high a place among the prevalent pursuits of literature as they did in the seventeenth century, when Louis XIII. appointed the Provencal, Thomas Billen, to be his royal anagrammatist, and granted him a salary of 12,000 livres.”]

[Footnote 114:  Two of the luckiest hits which anagrammatists have made, were on the Attorney-General William Noy—­“I moyl in law;” and Sir Edmundbury Godfrey—­“I find murdered by rogues.”  But of unfitting anagrams, none were ever more curiously unfit than those which were discovered in Marguerite de Valois, the profligate Queen of Navarre—­“Salve, Virgo Mater Dei; ou, de vertu royal image.”—­Southey’s Doctor.]

[Footnote 115:  Drummond of Hawthornden speaks of anagrams as “most idle study; you may of one and the same name make both good and evil.  So did my uncle find in Anna Regina, ‘Ingannare,’ as well of Anna Britannorum Regina, ‘Anna regnantium arbor;’ as he who in Charles de Valois found ’Chasse la dure loy,” and after the massacre found ‘Chasseur desloyal.’  Often they are most false, as Henri de Bourbon ‘Bonheur de Biron.’  Of all the anagrammatists, and with least pain, he was the best who out of his own name, being Jaques de la Chamber, found ‘La Chamber de Jaques,’ and rested there:  and next to him, here at home, a gentleman whose mistress’s name being Anna Grame, he found it an ‘Anagrame’ already.”]

[Footnote 116:  See ante, LITERARY FOLLIES, what is said on Pannard.]

[Footnote 117:  An allusion probably to Archibald Armstrong, the fool or privileged jester of Charles I., usually called Archy, who had a quarrel with Archbishop Laud, and of whom many arch things are on record.  There is a little jest-book, very high priced, and of little worth, which bears the title of Archie’s Jests.]

[Footnote 118:  The writer was Bancroft, who, in his Two Books of Epigrams, 1639, has the following addressed to the poet—­

    Thou hast so us’d thy pen, or shooke thy speare,
    That poets startle, nor thy wit come neare.