HE WAS OF AN ADMIRABLE PREGNANCY OF WIT, AND THA PREGNANCY MUCH IMPROVED BY CONTINUAL STUDY FROM H CHILDHOOD: BY WHICH HE HAD GOTTEN SUCH A PROMPTNESS I EXPRESSING HIS MIND, THAT HIS EXTEMPORAL SPEECHES WER LITTLE INFERIOR TO HIS PREMEDITATED WRITINGS. MANY, N DOUBT, HAD READ AS MUCH, AND PERHAPS MORE THAN HE; BU SCARCE EVER ANY CONCOCTED HIS READING INTO JUDGEMENT A HE DID.'

Baker's Chronicle [ed. 1665, p. 449].

'The man thus described is James I.