(Vol. viii., p. 386.)
There can be no doubt as to the authorship of the _Store-house of
Similies_. The work is now before me, and the title-page is as follows:
"A Treasurie or Store-house of Similies; both Pleasaunt, Delightfull,
and Profitable for all Estates of Men in Generall: newly collected into
Heades and Common Places. By Robert Cawdray. London: printed by Thomas
Creede, 1609."
The only reference to his Life, which I can find, is in "The Epistle
Dedicatorie;" and two ancestors of mine, "Sir John Harington, Knight, and
the Worshipful James Harington, Esquire, his brother," in which, when
assigning his reasons for the "Dedication," he says:
"Calling to mind (right worshipfuls) not only the manifold curtesies
and benefits, which I found and received, now more than thirty years
ago, _when I taught the grammar schoole at Okeham in Rutland_, and
sundry times since, of the religious and virtuous lady, Lucie
Harington," &c.
The "Dedication" is subscribed "Robert Cawdray." Cawdray was also the
author of a work _On the Profit and Necessity of Catechising_, London,
1592, 8vo.