“it was his happiness that he neither heard nor read any thing vulgar, weak or raw, till his mind was fixed to notions exact as reason and as high as fancy”

His own account of the discipline behind his learning · Reported as his usual saying, in Lloyd's Memoirs

• Learning
• Standards

“For this assertion was Dr Featley brought upon his knees before Wm. Laud A-Bp of Canterbury.”

A wry marginal jab at a fellow divine, preserved by Aubrey · Marginal note in his copy of Featley's Handmayd to Devotion, reported by Aubrey

• Humour
• Religion