Lower of South Wales; Nathaniel Torporley of Shropshire; Sir Ferdinando
Gorges of Devonshire; Captain Keymis; Captain Whiddon, and many others.
Cordial and affectionate letters of most of these men to their venerated
master are still preserved.

At Sion were the groves of Hariot's academy.

Yet he with Warner and Hues was constantly passing by the Thames between
Sion and the Tower, some three or four hours by oar and tide. They were
all three pensioners, or in the pay, of the Earl, though the last two
were on a very different footing from that of Hariot as to emoluments
and responsible position. They were, however, companions of both the
Earl and Sir Walter, and, if tradition is to be believed, they were
sometimes joined by Ben Jonson, Dr Burrill, Rev. Gilbert Hawthorne, Hugh
Broughton, the poet Hoskins and perhaps others.

The Earl had a large family to be educated, and there is reason to
believe that in his absence from Sion Hariot was intrusted for many
years with the confidential supervision of some of the Earl's personal
affairs at Sion, including the education of his children. How he
identified himself with the noble family of his patron may be inferred
from these extracts from a letter to Hariot, dated July 19, 1611, of
William Lower, one of his loving disciples. Cecil had been fishing out
some new evidence of Percy's treason from a discharged servant, and was
pressing cruelly upon the prisoner. Lower writes :

I have here [in South Wales] much otium and therefore I may cast awaye
some of it in vaine pursuites, chusing always rather to doe some thinge
worth nothing then nothing att all. How farre I had proceeded in this, I
ment now to have given you an account, but that the reporte of the