John P. Hobson, M.A. HANNAH MORE.

But we're up against it good and hard, you see, and it's what you might call Hobson's choice.

Thomas Hobson had been for sixty years carrier between Cambridge and the Bull Inn, Bishopsgate Street, London.

Steele, in No. 509 of the "Spectator" ascribed to him the origin of the proverbial phrase, Hobson's Choice.

" In the spring of 1630 the Plague in Cambridge caused colleges to be closed, and among other precautions against spread of infection, Hobson the Carrier was forbidden to go to and fro between Cambridge and London.

At the end of the year, after six or seven, months of forced inaction, Hobson sickened; and he died on the first of January, at the age of eighty-six, leaving his family amply provided for, and money for the maintenance of the town conduit.

Character-writing being in fashion many a character of the University Carrier was written, no doubt, by Cambridge men after Hobson's death at the beginning of the year 1631 (new style).

Here lies old Hobson.

If any ask for him, it shall be said, "Hobson has supped, and's newly gone to bed.

Returning to the crowd of Character-writers we find in 1631, the year of Milton's writing upon Hobson, WYE SALTONSTALL, author of "Pictures Loquentes, or Pictures drawn forth in Characters.

QUINN, ARTHUR HOBSON, ed.

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