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 51 Winchester (see Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, vol. i. p. 461, 2nd ed. 1 72 1 ; vol. i. p. 302, ed. Bliss). Aubrey, a contemporary of Wood's, appears, from a note at p. 417 of the second volume of his Lives of Eminent Persons, to have had the same story from Izaak Walton, who gave Dr. Morley again as his autho- rity ; and Aubrey repeats the tale with cer- tain additions, and notably with that of Dr. Pell's authority, at p. 577 of the same volume. The same story was pointed out to me by one of the officials in the Bodleian Library as being given in an anonymous biographical Miscellany to be found in the Rawlinsonian Collection, B 158, pp. 152-153. This MS. appears to be of the latter half of the seventeenth century, and its legend runs to the following effect. A certain Henry, Earl of Northumberland, being imprisoned in the Tower, did, for the better passing of his time, get several learned persons to live and converse with him ; one of these men (whom, Aubrey tells us, I. c. p. 368, the world called the Earl of Northumberland's magi) was ' Mr. Warrener.' And the MS. proceeds, ' He was the inventor, probably, of the cir- E 2