he was not the author of the two parts of Tamerlane, the great Scythian Emperor, which were written by Marlow.-VII. He tranflated from Latin into English-I. A direction for the Health of Magiftrates and Students, Lond. 1574, 12mo, written by Gul, Gratarolus.-II. Commentary on the two Epiftles General of St. Simon and St. Jude, Lond. 1581, 4t0.— III. Touchstone of Complexions, Lond. 1581, 8°. from Levinus Lemnius.-IV. The third Tragedy of L. An. Seneca, entitled Thebais, Lond. 1581, 4to. in old verfe, and printed in an English character; this was published by him together with a tranflation of the other nine tragedies, viz. the fourth, seventh, eighth, and tenth by John Studley; the fifth by Alexander Nevyle; the ninth by Thomas Nuce; and the other three by Jasper Heywood.*

JOHN STUDLEY was educated at Westminster. School, and thence elected Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is faid by Chetwood to have been killed in Flanders in 1587, at the fiege of Breda, where he had a command under Prince Maurice.+ The Agamemnon was first published separately in 1566, and dedicated to Cecil. He wrote a latin poem in 20 diftichs

*Wood's Ath. I. p. 337, 338, 339. † Biog. Dram. I. p. 437, 438. Warton, p. 383.

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on the death of Nicholas Carr.* And tranflated Bale's As of the Popes, 1574, in which Warton thinks he mifapplied his talents, which were qualified for better ftudies.

ALEXANDER NEVYLE was a native of Kent, but a branch of the noble family of Nevyle; born in 1544. He took the degree of Mafter of Arts, with Robert Earl of Effex, 6 July, 1581, at Cambridge. He was one of the learned men whom Archbishop Parker retained in his family, and was his Secretary at his death in 1575. He wrote a latin narrative of the Norfolk infurrection under Kett, dedicated to Archbishop Parker, 1575, 4to. To this he added a latin account of Norwich, accompanied by an engraved map of the Saxons and British Kings. He published the Cambridge verfes on the death of Sir Philip Sydney, 1587. He projected a tranflation of Livy, 1577, but never completed it. He died 4 Oct. 1614, and was buried in the Cathedral at Canterbury, in Brenchley's chapel, where there remained a beautiful monument for him and his brother Dean Nevyle, which I have often seen with delight-till in 1787, when the Cathedral was new paved, the Dean and Chapter, under pretence of removing this deformity, left it to the

careleffness or barbarity of the workmen, by whom, in removing, it has been mutilated and almost destroyed. How they can justify, not only this deficiency of tafte, but legal injury, I am at a lofs to guefs. Certain I am that if there were any defcendants of this illuftrious family, they might have an action against the Chapter, and I truft a well informed Jury would give exemplary damages.

THOMAS NUCE was a fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, in 1562; and afterwards Rector of Beccles, Wefton, &c. and Vicar of Gay fley, in Suffolk; and in 1586, Prebendary of the church of Ely.* Nuce's verfion is for the most part executed in the heroic rhyming couplet. All the reft of the tranflators have ufed, except in the chorus, the Alexandrine measure, in which Sternhold and Hopkins rendered the pfalms, perhaps the most unfuitable fpecies of verfification that could have been applied to this purpose. Nuce's Octavia was firit printed in 1566. He has two very long copies of verses, one in English and the other in Latin, prefixed to the first edition of Studley's Agamemnon, in 1566.+ Ob. 1617 at Ely.

JASPER HEYWOOD, was fon of John Heywood, the Epigrammatist, already mentioned,

*Tanner's Bibl. p. 554. † Warton, p. 384.

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born in London, fent to the University of Oxford at about 12 years of age, in 1547, took a a degree in Arts, 1553; and was immediately elected Probationer-Fellow of Merton College,' where he remained five years, carrying away the palm in all difputations at home, and in the public schools, till the wildness of himself, and his brother Ellis Heywood, which gave very fevere grief to their father, had drawn him into the guilt of several misdemeanors, fuch as rendered it prudent for him to refign his fellowship to prevent expulfion, on 4 Apr. 1558. In June following he took the degree of A. M. and in Nov. was elected Fellow of All-Souls, where, after a fhort refidence he left, firft the Univerfity, and then England, and entered himself into the Society of Jefuits. But before he left it, he wrote and tranflated several things: viz.-I. Various Poems and Devilesfome of which are printed in "The Paradise of Dainty Devises."-II. The Tragedies of Thyeftes, Hercules Furens, and Troas, from Seneca, as abovementioned. In 1562, he was at Rome, where after he had fpent two years in the study of Divinity among the Jefuits, he was fent to Dilling in Switzerland, where he continued about feventeen years in explaining and difcuffing controverted questions amongst thofe he called heretics, in which time he was. promoted

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promoted to the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and of the four Vows. At length Pope Gregory XIII. calling him away in 1581, he sent him with others the fame year into the miffion of England, and the rather, because the Brethren there told his Holinefs, that the Harvest was great, and the Labourers few. When fettled in the Metropolis of his own Country, as Chief or Provincial of the Jefuits in England, it was remarked by all that knew him, that he kept many men, horfes, and coaches, and that his port and carriage were more like a Baron than a Priest.

In 1584 being ordered to France upon fome business relating to the order, he was, when about to land in Normandy, driven back by contrary winds on the English fhore, where he was taken and examined, and again shipped off, and fet on fhore in France. He now retired to Naples, where he became known to that zealous Roman Catholic John Pitts. He died at Naples, 9 Jan. 1598.* Warton fays, he exercised the office of Chriftmas-Prince, or Lord of Mifrule, to his own College (Merton): and feems to have given offence, by fuffering the levities and jocularities of that character to mix with his life and general converfation. He is

* Wood's Ath. I. p. 290-Ciber's Lives, I. p. 106-Biogr. Dram. I. p. 216-Tanner's Bibl. 401.