inscribed the epitaph "upon the living author" which Cowley had
written for himself, whilst living in retirement here, commencing

"Hic, O Viator, sub lare parvulo,
Couleius hic est conditus hic jacet."

It is represented in its original condition in the two views we have
engraved.

2 Some additional rooms have been added to the house by the same
occupant, who has, however, religiously preserved all the old rooms,
which still exhibit the "fittings" that existed in Cowley's time.
The bed-chambers are wainscotted with oaken panels. The staircase is
a very solid structure, with ornamental balusters, leading toward
the small study in which the poet wrote,--a little back room, about
five feet wide, looking upon the garden. It may be distinguished in
our back view of the house, by a figure placed at the window. Cowley
ended his life in this house at the early age of forty-nine.

3 Brayley, in his History of Surrey, states that Cowley accompanied by
his friend Dean Spratt, having been to see a "friend," did not set
out for his walk home until it was too late, and had drunk so deep,
that they both lay out in the fields all night; this gave Cowley the
fever that carried him off. Brayley's authority for this slander
(which is not borne out by the poet's previous course of life), is
"Spence's Anecdotes."

4 Life and Letters of Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States, and Dane professor of law at Harvard
University. Edited by his son, William W. Story. Two vols. Boston:
Little & Brown, 1851.

5 As an example of the gravity and formality with which proceedings in
matters of this nature were conducted, even as late as the end of
the sixteenth century, take the subjoined palinode or recantation of
a Flemish ecclesiastic, who had been guilty of the offence of
doubting the evection, or bodily transport through the air, of
witches and wizards. The original may be found in Delrio, at the end
of the Appendix, in his 5th book:--

"I Cornelius Loseus Gallidius, born in the town of Gouda, in
Holland, now, by the command of the renowned and illustrious Lord
Nuncio Apostolic, the Lord Octavius Bishop of Tricaruis, arrested
and detained in the Imperial Monastery of St. Maximin, near Treves,