This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... imaginable in our years, which increased as we grew older, and never to expire but in both our deaths. But my being so very young was assisted with the troubles I had already undergone in my own affairs, having now for several years been inured to the complaints of miseries from near relations and oppressions from men in power, being forced to learn the world faster than my book, and in that I was no ill proficient: yet I had for my diversion both hounds and hawks of my own. I chose my uncle Tooker, my surviving trustee, for my guardian, he being most versed in my affairs, my nearest relation, and had the reputation of a worthy man, as indeed he proved. He was a very honest, industrious man, an hospitable, prudent person, much valued and esteemed, dead and alive, by all that knew him."' Having had for about a year before going to the University a third tutor, of whom no more is known than that he was a Master of Arts, of Oriel College, Oxford,2 Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper was sent to Oxford in 1637, at the age of sixteen.3 He was entered as a gentleman-commoner at Exeter College, --the college chiefly resorted to from the western counties of England, which was then flourishing under the mastership of Dr. Prideaux, afterwards Bishop of Worcester. Shaftesbury says in his Fragment of Autobiography, that he was "under the immediate tuition of Dr. Prideaux," and in the short sketch of his early life, written in 1640, he calls Dr. Prideaux his tutor, and mentions that Mr. 1 Fragment of Autobiography. Autobiographical Sketch prefixed to Diary. 'His name had been entered, according to Anthony Wood, in Lent Term, 1636. (Ath. Oxon. ed. Bliss, iv. 7.) Hussey, "since minister of Hinton Martin,"1 was his servitor. He stayed at Oxford not much longer...