aughters,--one, Anne, unmarried, and another the wife of Robert Baker. He
tells us how his wife and her maid brewd him 200 gallons of beer for 20s.,
as he was "scarse a good malster" himself, and a poor man on L40 a year
(Goldsmith's sum too). And no doubt his kindly "Eve will be Eve, tho' Adam
would saie naie," tho' said of widows, shewd that he understood the sex,
was "to their faults a little blind, and to their virtues very kind"--or
however the old saw runs. At Radwinter he must have workt away at his
_Chronologie_, collected his Roman coins, got savage with the rascally
Essex lawyers, attended to his garden:

"For mine owne part, good reader, let me boast a little of my garden,
which is but small, and the whole _Area_ thereof little aboue 300
foot of ground, and yet, such hath beene my good lucke in purchase of
the varietie of simples, that notwithstanding my small abilitie,
there are verie neere three hundred[30] of one sort and other
conteined therein, no one of them being common or vsuallie to bee
had,"

kept his eyes open to everything going on round him, and lookt after his
parishioners, when he wasn't writing his _Description of England_ in
London, or visiting at Lord Cobham's house in Kent.

On April 23, 1586, William Harrison was appointed Canon of Windsor, and
was installd the day after. The Dean has kindly sent me the following
extract from the Chapter Book, St. George's Chapel, Windsor--

Anni Canonici. Anni
Install. obitus.
Gulielmus Harrison 24{to} Aprilis, loco Ryley,
1586. Theologiae Baccalaureus. Obijt, et Sepultus est 1593.
Windsoriae, et White Successit.--Rector fuit de
Radwinter,[31]

but says there is no grave-stone or other notice of where Harrison was
buried.[32] (I can't get a line from the now rector of Radwinter.)

For the following abstract of Harrison's Will, I am indebted to Colonel
Chester--

(81 Nevell.) "William Harrison, Clerk, parson of Radwinter and
Prebendary of Windsor--dated at Radwinter 27 July 1591--to be buried
at Radwinter or Windsor, as I may die at either place. My goods to be
divided into 4 equal parts 'of which one parte and an halfe shall
remaine vnto Marion Harrison al_ia_s Marion Isebrande and the
daughter of William Isebrande sometyme of Ande