Ndred pound a year. And therefore, except it hath been in the hands of a person who hath had some other employment, it hath fallen to the fortune of inconsiderable men as Weckerlin was the last" (_Hist. MSS. Com._, _Heathcote Papers_, 1899, p. 9). [51:1]
_The Rehearsal Transprosed_.--Grosart, iii. 126. [55:1] Even Mr. Firth can tell me nothing about this Ward of Cromwell's. [56:1] For reprints of these tracts, see _Social England Illustrated_, Constable and Co., 1903. [57:1] "England's Way to Win Wealth." See _Social England Illustrated_, p. 253. [57:2] _Ibid._ p. 265. [58:1] Dr. Dee's "Petty Navy Royal." _Social England Illustrated_, p. 46. [58:2] "England's Way to Win Wealth." _Social England Illustrated_, p. 268. [59:1] Ranke's _History of England during the Seventeenth Century_, vol. iii. p. 68. [61:1] See Leigh Hunt's _Wit and Humour_ (1846), pp. 38, 237. [62:1] Butler's lines, _A Description of Holland_, are very like Marvell's:-- "A Country that draws fifty foot of water In which men live
as in a hold of nature. .. ... They dwell in ships, like swarms of rats, and prey Upon the goods all nations' fleets convey; ... ... That feed like cannibals
on other fishes, And serve their cousin-germans up in dishes: A land that rides at anchor and is moor'd, In which they do not live but go aboard." Marvell and Butler were rival wits, but Holland was a common butt; so powerful a motive is trade jealousy. [67:1] "To one unacquainted with Horace, this Ode, not perhaps so perfect as his are in
