Excerpt from Wise Words and Quaint Counsels of Thomas Fuller: Selected and Arranged, With a Short Sketch of the Author's Life Homas fuller was the son of a clergyman of the same name, by Judith, widow of James Payne and daughter of John Davenant, a citizen of London and a man of considerable wealth, of which doubtless his daughter received her share. Fuller's father was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and, on leaving the University, was presented to the Rectory of Aldwinkle St. Peter, in Northamptonshire, the next parish to Achurch. Of Achurch the notorious Robert Browne, the separatist, was rector during the last forty years of his life, and with him and his family Fuller was brought in to intimate relations in boyhood and early manhood. The fact of Fuller's father having been a Fellow of Trinity is a sufficient proof that he was a man of more than ordinary ability. From his mother, too, he must have inherited a great deal of his intellectual power, and he very early attracted the special notice of his uncle John Davenant, who became Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in Cambridge the year after Fuller was born, and in 1614 was appointed Master of Queens' College, then, as now, a position of more honour than emolument. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.