This gentleman was born at Oundle in Northamptonshire, and received his education in Queen's-College, Cambridge.

* * JOHN DRYDEN, Esq; This illustrious Poet was son of Erasmus Dryden, of Tickermish in Northamptonshire, and born at Aldwincle, near Oundle 1631, he had his education in grammar learning, at Westminster-school, under the famous Dr. Busby, and was from thence elected in 1650, a scholar of Trinity-College in Cambridge.

Therefore, that night he left London for Oundle, and put up at the old-fashioned "Talbot.

"We see a few people from Oundle and Northampton in the summerholiday folk.

Erasmus Dryden and Mary Pickering were married at the church of Pilton, a very small village between Aldwinkle and Oundle, on October 21, 1630.

[A rival tradition favours Oundle, which had and has a grammar school of merit.

Having now pursued a westerly direction until I was in the range of a continuous upland section of country, I took a northward course and walked on to Oundle, a goodly town in Northamptonshire, as unique as its name.

It was market day in Oundle, and I had the pleasure of sitting down to dinner with a large company of farmers and cattle and corn- dealers.

From Oundle I walked the next day to Stamford, a good, solid, old English town, sitting on the corners of three counties, and on three layers of history, Saxon, Dane and Norman.

The first object of interest was a stone bridge over the Nen at Oundle.

In Oundle, the principal hotel, a large castellated building, shows its whole front built of them.