hese daies.
Neverthelesse because a title thereof is passed in the beginning of
the booke, I will deliuer that parcell thereof which remaineth,
leauing the supplie of the rest either to my selfe hereafter (if I
may come by it), or to some other that can better performe the same.

"Againe, vnderstanding of the great charges & notable enterprise of
that worthie gentleman _maister Thomas Sackford, in procuring the
Charts of the seuerall prouinces of this realme to be set foorth, we
are in hope that in time he will delineate this whole land so
perfectlie_," etc.

C.--SOMEBODY'S QUARREL WITH HARRISON.

The last section refers to Harrison's loss by somebody's pilfering. Now
comes another of the tribulations he had to endure. Somebody is in a huff
about something, and refused the aid promised to describe all the towns in
England. It must have been no ordinary topographer, and may possibly be
young Camden, whose name seems never to be mentioned by Harrison, although
in 1587 at least his initial labours must have been well known to every
scholar in London, especially a man like Harrison who knew all that was
going to happen in the world of letters as well as all that the public
knew. His complaint is as follows, beginning the 11th chapter of Book I.,
the first of our series just referred to, the Thames having as natural the
place of honour:--

"Having (as you [Lord Cobham] haue seene) attempted to set downe a
full discourse of all the Ilands, that are situat upon the coast of
Britaine, and finding the successe not correspondent to mine intent,
it has caused me some what to restreine my purpose in this
description also of our riuers. For whereas I intended at the first
to haue written at large, of the number situation names quantities
townes villages castles mounteines fresh waters plashes or lakes,
salt waters, and other commodities of the aforesaid Iles, _mine
expectation of information from all parts of England was so deceiued
in the end, that I was faine at last onelie to leane to that which I
knew my selfe either by reading, or such other helpe as I had
alreadie purchased and gotten of the same_. And even so it happeneth
in this my tractation of waters, of whose heads, courses, length,
bredth, depth of chanell (for burden) ebs, flowings, and falles, I
had thought to haue made a perfect description unde