the former freedom of his tongue. At his return to England, he retired to Oxford, and spent fome years there for the fake of the public library. He died in Westminster, in 1633, and was buried in the Abbey. Wood fays, he was"in animo catholicus;" and in an epitaph which that writer had feen, he was ftyled "miferrimus peccator, mufarum & amicitiarum cultor fanctiffimus."* His works are I. Verfes in Defcription of the chief Cities of Europe. II. Chronicle of Queen Elizabeth's reign. III. Life of William Camden, Clar.-All MSS. IV. A Cypress Garland+ for the facred Forehead of the late Sovereign King James, Lond. 1625, a poem; and "other things," fays Wood," which I have not feen."‡ Having now given an account of all the poets mentioned by Phillips, who come properly within the reign of Queen Elizabeth, though perhaps fome of those who flourished principally in the time of King James, may have published their earliest productions in this *Wood mentions "an Hugh Holland, A. B. at Oxford, 1570, and another Hugh, an esquire's son of Denbighshire, matriculated at Baliol college, Oxford, 1582, aged 24. Ath. 1. 583. mer's Catalogue, No. 7061. Wood's Ath. I. p. 583. + In Far period, I have only to add to the prefent volume, a few articles which Phillips has omitted. 66 JOSEPH HALL, afterwards Bishop of Exeter, was born 11 July, 1574, in Bristow Park, within the parish of Afhby-de-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire, his father being an officer under Henry, Earl of Huntingdon. He was educated at Emanuel college, Cambridge, and at the age of 23, published in 1597 Virgidemiarum; fatires in fix books." The three first are called toothlefs fatires, poetical, academical, moral: the three laft, biting fatires. They were re-printed at Oxford, 8vo. 1752. He calls himself in the prologue, the first sa. tyrift in the English language: I first adventure, follow me who lift, Gray, the poet, in a letter to his friend Dr. Wharton, of Durham, dated 19 December, 1752, fays," Bishop Hall's Satires, called Virgidemiarum, are lately re-published. They are full of fpirit and poetry, as much of the first as Dr. Donne, and far more of the latter; they were written at the University, when he was about twenty-three years old, and in Queen Elizabeth's reign."* After fix or seven years ftay in college, he was prefented by fir Robert Drury, to the rec * Letters in Mafon's Life of Gray, p. 224. tory tory of Halstead, in Suffolk, and married a wife, with whom he lived happily 49 years. In 1605, he accompanied fir Edmund Bacon to the Spa, and after his return was prefented by Edward, Lord Denny, to the donative of Waltham Cross, in Effex. Having been made chaplain, he in 1612 took the degree of D. D. In 1616 he was made dean of Worcester; in 1618 he was fent to the Synod of Dort; in 1624 he refufed the Bishopric of Gloucester, and in 1627 accepted that of Exeter. Though he was reckoned a favourer of puritanism, yet he wrote in the beginning of the troubles with great ftrength in defence of epifcopacy. In November 1641, he was tranflated to the fee of Norwich; and on December 30, was com mitted by the violence of the prevalent party to the Tower; from whence he was not released till June 1642; and withdrew to Norwich, where he lived in tolerable quiet till April 1643; on which occafion, the order for fequestering notorious delinquents being passed, he was cruelly plundered, and fuffered the greatest inconveniences, of which he has given an account in his piece, entitled "Hard Meafure." In 1647 he retired to a little eftate, which he rented at Heigham, near Norwich; and in this retirement he ended his life, 8 September, 1656, æt. 82. He is univerfally allowed to have been a man of great wit and learning, and of as great meeknefs, modefty, and piety. His works, befides the "Satires" make in all five volumes in folio and quarto," and are filled" fays Bayle "with fine thoughts, excellent morality, and a great deal of piety." His "Contemplations" have been several times re-published, and there was an edition of them not long fince published in Scotland in 8vo. FERDINANDO STANLEY, EARL of DERBY, has been introduced into the last edition of the "Catalogue of Royal and Noble Authors" in confequence of a poem written by him, which has been within thefe few years rescued from oblivion, by the Antiquarian Repertory. The history of this illuftrious nobleman, whofe mother Lady Eleanor Clifford, was a granddaughter and co-heir to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and Mary, the youngest daughter of Henry VII. (widow of Louis XII of France)his accomplishments, his fpirit, and his early death by the cruel operation of poison, in confequence of his refufal to be the inftrument of the Jefuits in attempting the crown, are told in fo many books, that I fhall not enlarge upon them here. In Lodge's "Illuftrations of Bri There is an unaccountable afperity in the article of this poet, in Cibber's Lives. tifh Hiftory" there is preferved a moft curious letter of this Earl to Lord Effex, dated 19 December, 1593; "it abounds," fays the learned editor, "with good fenfe, high fpirit, and fweetness of temper: an untimely death undoubtedly defrauded him of a confpicuous fituation in the history of his country." ""* He died 16 April 1594, leaving three daughters his coheirs, viz. 1. Lady Ann, married to Grey Bridges, Lord Chandos; 2. Lady Frances, wife of John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater, and 3. Lady Elizabeth, married to Henry Haftings, Earl of Huntingdon. But fince this nobleman has been introduced into a lift of English poets, it would be injuftice perhaps to refufe a place to his rival, to whom the above-mentioned fpirited letter was addreffed. ROBERT DEVEREUX, EARL OF ESSEX, may claim to be recorded here, because Coxeter had feen one of Ovid's Epiftles tranflated by him: "This" adds Warton, " I have never feen; and if it could be recovered, I truft it would be only valued as a curiofity. A few of his fonnets are in the Afhmolean Museum, which have no marks of poetic genius. He is a vigorous, and elegant writer of profe. But if Effex was no poet, few noblemen of his age were more courted by poets. From Spencer to the lowest * Lodge, III. p. 31, rhymer, |