'As to the postscript of your letter, wherein I am desired to give
an account of my academicall education, etc., know that in the yeare
1622, after I had been brought up to some learning in Paule's Schoole,
London, I was admitted into St. John's Colledge, in Cambridge, where
the president was my tutor; and after I had duely performed all that
was required of me both in College and Schooles, I tooke my degree
there of Master in Arts in the yeare 1629. And ten yeares after that,
viz. in the yeare 1639, I was admitted _ad eundem gradum_ in the
university of Oxford. In the yeare 1630, my Lord Keeper Coventrey gave
<me> a little vicarage in Essex, called North Strobury; and in the
yeare 1635 his good Lordship removed me to the place where I now am.
This I concieve is all that is now enquired of me by you.--The Lord
give me grace so to number my dayes that I may apply my heart better
then I have yet donne to Spiritual Wisdome.
Good sir,
I am your true friend and servant,
EDWARD LANE.'
Sparsholt, Hants.
Novemb. 16, 1681.
_Note._