CHORUS III. Remember thou in vertue serve therfore CHORUS IV. Desire not of thy soveraigne the thing Such are the praises lovers done deserve In the British Museum is "A Treatise concerning Statutes or Acts of Parliament; and the Exposition thereof. Written by Sir Christopher Hatton, late Lord Chancellour of England." Lond. 1677. 8vo. The book has neither dedication nor preface. Two letters by sir Christopher Hatton to lord Burleigh and the earl of Essex, occur in the Murdin Collection of State Papers, and three others among the Harl. MSS. (6993 and 4) to the lord treasurer, to queen Elizabeth, and Mr. Sergeant Puckering: the former of these has been transcribed from its original. "I most humbelye thank your good lordship for your honorable advertisment towchynge the comynge in of this great personage9. Hir majestie defferithe all hir directions for order too receve him, untill she be moore fullye enformed bothe of his qualitey and occasion of accesse. She semithe too dowght that he departithe from his prince as a man in displeasure, because in one sentence of his lettre too hir majestie he callithe hir the refuge of the disconsolate and afflyctid and worthe. My man, that brought her letters, is not here; nether doo I know wher to fynd him soo as I know not howe too learne what informacion I might give the queene in this matter; onelye I must stay untill the retourne of my lord of Leycester, and then I hope her majestie will resolve. Hir majestie acceptithe, in most gracius and good kind 9 "This was Albert Alasco, a noble Pole, a learned man of grave aspect, with a long beard, comely and decently apparelled; who came to see the queen. She entertained him with great respect, and so did the nobility and the university of Oxon. But after four months, running far into debt, withdrew himself secretly out of the kingdom." MS. note, apparently by lord Burleigh. parte, the offer of your lordships how se; unto the which (altho yet she will give us noo order too large in her expressions) I assuredlye thynk she will com in the Esterweeke; but as I learne the moore certentie; so will I redilye advertise your good lordship. "My lord of Oxford his cause standithe but in slow course of proceadynge too his satisfaction: but yet for my owne parte, I have sum better hope then heretofore, wherin as a preservative, you must all use pacience for a while. His lordship wrott too me a very wise lettre in this case of his; the report wherof her majestie tooke in resonable good gracius parte. By the next messanger I will breafflelye wright him the answere. "I pray God blesse your lordship with all his hevenlye graces. Last from the court at Richmond, this xixth of Marche, 1582. "CHR. HATTON." Sir Christopher's kinsman, lord Hatton, who alone had any apparent title to be admitted as a noble author, was of Jesus college, Oxford, and became L. L. D. in 16423, created baron Hatton of Kirby in Northamptonshire, by Charles the first, was made a privy coun-. sellor and governor of Guernsey by Charles the • "This cause was his claim to the forest of Waltham, and his desiring leave of the queen to try his title with her at the common law. Which matter hanging for ten or eleven years, she referred, in the year 1593, to this sir Chr. Hatton, then lord chancellor." MS. note. The earl of Oxford was son-inlaw to lord Burleigh. Vid. Fasti Oxon. vol. ii. col. 24. second, and died in 16704. Wood speaks of him as a principal Maecenas of learning in his day. From the kindness of Mr. Heber, of Brazen Nose college, Oxon, I learn that the obvious authority for ascribing to this lord an edition of the common Psalter, printed with prose titles and arguments, in 1644, is the following manuscript prefixed to the Bodleian copy: "For the use of the publique library of the famous university of Oxford, in testimony of the high esteem and affection towards her by Christopher Hatton." A copy of the same book occurs among the donations of his present majesty to the British Museum, and is dated 1646, but has no manuscript or printed denotation of its imputed publisher or compiler. A very long preface is likely however, from its tenor, to have proceeded from the pen of Jeremy Taylor. The title runs, "The Psalter of David: with Titles and Collects according to the Matter of each Psalme. Whereunto is added Devotions for the Help and Assistance of all Christian People, on all Occasions and Necessities."] • See Bolton's Extinct Peerage, p. 139. ANTHONY BROWNE, VISCOUNT MONTACUTE. It is against my rule to reckon peers as authors, of whom nothing is extant but speeches or letters. Indeed, where there is a presumption that either were published by the persons themselves, it makes a difference. I should not record this lord at all, but from his being mentioned as a writer by bishop Tanner, for his 66 Speech in the House of Lords against the Alteration of Religion 3." [This nobleman descended from sir Anthony Brown, who was made a knight of the bath at the coronation of Richard the second, and was himself one of the forty knights made at the coronation of Edward the sixth. He was sheriff for Surrey and Sussex in the last year of that king; and for the more honourable [A MS. in the editor's possession, containing a brief church history, &c. in Latin verse, is inscribed " Ornatissimo viro D. Anthonio Browneo, Vicecomiti Montis acuti,” by Edmund Campion of Oxon, the learned Jesuit, who was executed at Tyburn, in Dec. 1581.] 3 Page 131. |