Home › A Medieval Ghost Hunter › A Medieval Ghost Hunter: Mortlake

A Medieval Ghost Hunter: Mortlake

He complained that his house at Mortlake was too public for his studies, and incommodious for receiving the numerous foreign literati who resorted to him.

Of all the promised preferments, he would have chosen the mastership of St. Cross for its seclusion. Here is a great man making great demands, but reposing with dignity on his claims; his wants were urgent, but the penury was not in his spirit. The commissioners, as they listened to his autobiography, must often have raised their eyes in wonder, on the venerable and dignified author before them."