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The latter was only re-issued in 1632 and 1664, whilst the former came out in new editions in 1613 and 1632. 21: Winter's Tale, act iv. sc. 3. Michel Montaigne was favoured by birth as few writers have been. He was the son of a worthy nobleman who gave him, from early childhood, a most carefully conducted education.
For instance, one of the most eminent and popular scientists of England emphasised his views on the necessity of 'improving natural knowledge, by ascribing the great plague of 1664, and the great fire of 1666 which in point of population and of houses, nearly swept London from the face of the globe to ignorance and neglect of sanitary laws, and to the failure to provide suitable organizations for the suppression of conflagrations.
When the poem first appeared in public, in 1663, after circulating secretly for years in manuscript, it became at once enormously popular. The king carried a copy in his pocket, and courtiers vied with each other in quoting its most scurrilous passages. A second and a third part, continuing the adventures of Hudibras, were published in 1664 and 1668.
In 1664, Sharp, who was despised by Lauderdale and Glencairn, obtained the erection of that old grievance a Court of High Commission, including bishops, to punish nonconformists. Sir James Turner was intrusted with the task of dragooning them, by fining and the quartering of soldiers on those who would not attend the curates and would keep conventicles.
"It is truly observed by you, that Monsieur de Lionne doth you wrong in not treating you with 'Excellency, but then it is truly observed, that that style is quite out of use in that Court, and so much, that Frenchmen of any tolerable quality do not use it to their own Ambassador here, or in any other Court." Ibid. p. 141. To MR. SECRETARY BENNET. Madrid, Wednesday, ..th July, 1664.
Soon after the Restoration it was that some Royalist brought out a small volume called "The Court and Kitchen of Elizabeth, commonly called Joan Cromwell, the wife of the late Usurper, truly described and represented," 12mo, 1664. Its design was to throw ridicule on the parsimony of the Protectoral household.
In 1664 occurred the celebrated witch-trials which took place before Sir Matthew Hale. The accused were charged with bewitching two children; and part of the evidence against them was that flies and bees were seen to carry into the victims' mouths the nails and pins which they afterwards vomited. There is an allusion to this belief in the fly-killing scene in "Titus Andronicus." Edit.
In both countries there was a general irritation which vented itself in cries for war, and in the session of 1664 the English Parliament presented an address to the Crown praying for the exaction of redress for wrongs done by the Dutch to English merchants. But the squabble was of long standing, and there was nothing to threaten any immediate strife.
In 1664 we find the following entry made: "Paid in beere to the Ringers for a peale to trye if the Tower shooke £0 1s 0d." As we read this entry, we cannot help wondering if the large amount of beer which a shilling would purchase in those days was given to the ringers so as to give them a fictitious courage and blind their eyes to the possible danger of bringing the tower down upon their heads.
Then there-were separate Characters, as "of a Projector" ; "of an Oxford Incendiary" ; and in 1664, "A New Anatomic, or Character of a Christian or Roundhead, expressing his Description, Excellenrie, Happiness, and Innocencie. Wherein may appear how far this blind World is mistaken in their unjust Censures of him."
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