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Stowmarket -- The Rev. Thomas Young -- Bishop Hall and the Smectymnian divines -- Milton's mulberry-tree -- Suffolk relationships.
'My father destined me,' writes John Milton, in his 'Defensio Secunda,' 'while yet a little boy, for the study of humane letters, which I served with such eagerness that, from the twelfth year of my age, I scarcely ever went from my lessons to bed before midnight, which, indeed, was the first cause of injury to my eyes, to whose natural weakness there were also added frequent headaches; all which not retarding my natural impetuosity in learning, he caused me to be instructed both at the Grammar School and under other masters at home. ' Of the latter, the best known was the Rev. Thomas Young, the Puritan minister, of Stowmarket, Suffolk.