- Queen's Chamber.’ Their appearance in this form exercised an appreciable influence upon the contemporary drama.
- ‘A Commentarie or Exposition vpon the twoo Epistles Generall of Sainct Peter and that of Sainct Jude,’ translated from the Latin of Martin Luther, 1581.
- ‘True and Christian Friendshippe,’ translated from the Latin, 1586.
- ‘The Olde Mans Dietarie,’ translated, 1586.
- ‘The True Tryall and Examination of a Mans own Selfe,’ translated, 1587.
- ‘An Herbal for the Bible,’ 1587.
- ‘Principum ac illustrium aliquot et eruditorum in Anglia virorum Encomia,’ and ‘Illustrium aliquot Anglorum Encomia,’ contributed to Leland's ‘De Rebus Britannicis Collectanea’ in 1589 (ed. 1770, v. 79).
- ‘Ioannis Brunsuerdi Maclesfeldensis Gymnasiarchæ Progymnasmata quædam Poetica,’ 1590.
- ‘Thomas Newton's Staff to lean on,’ 1590.
- ‘Vocabula Magistri Stanbrigii,’ 1577; 2nd edit. 1596; 3rd edit. 1615; 4th edit. 1636; 5th edit. 1649.
To the above may be added (a) ‘The Booke of Marcus Tullius Cicero, entituled Paradoxia Stoicorum …’ 1569, the dedication of which, signed Thomas Newton, is dated ‘from Greenwich the kalendes of June 1569;’ and (b) ‘A Pleasaunt Dialogue concerning Phisicke and Phisitions … translated out of the Castlin tongue by T. N.,’ 1580.
His verses, both English and Latin, appear in more than twenty separate works between 1576 and 1597, including Blandie's translation of Osorius's ‘Discourse of Ciuill and Christian Nobilitie,’ 1576; Batman's ‘Golden Booke of the Leaden Goddes,’ 1577; Hunnis's ‘Hive of Hunnye,’ 1578; Munday's ‘Mirror of Mutabilitie,’ 1579; Bullein's ‘Bulwarke of Defence,’ 1579; ‘Mirror for Magistrates,’ 1587; Ives's ‘Instructions for the Warres,’ 1589; Ripley's ‘Compound of Alchymy,’ 1591; Tymme's ‘Briefe Description of Hierusalem,’ 1595; and he wrote a metrical epilogue to Heywood's ‘Workes’ of 1587.
Thomas Newton of Cheshire must not be confounded with Thomas Newton, ‘gent.,’ who was apparently of Lancashire origin, and, under the initials ‘T. N. G.,’ published ‘Atropoion Delion: on the death of Delia with the tears of her funeral. A poetical excursive Discourse on our late Eliza,’ 1603. This is dedicated to Alice, countess of Derby, wife of Sir Thomas Egerton, lord keeper. It is reprinted in Nichols's ‘Progresses of Queen Elizabeth.’ The same writer is responsible for a flowery romance entitled ‘A Pleasant New History, or a Fragrant Posie made of three flowers, Rosa, Rosalynd, and Rosemary,’ 1604.
[Cooper's Athenæ Cantabr. i. 452; Wood's Athenæ Oxon., ed. Bliss, ii. 5–12; Earwaker's East Cheshire, ii. 260–2; Corser's Collectanea Anglo-Poetica, pt. ix. p. 231; Warton's History of English Poetry, ed. Hazlitt, iv. 194–5, 278–80; Brydges's Censura Lit. ix. 386–99; Hunter's Chorus Vatum, in Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 24487, f. 484; Harl. MS. 5911, f. 102; Foster's Alumni Oxon.]
NEWTON, THOMAS (1704–1782), bishop of Bristol, born at Lichfield on 1 Jan. 1704 (N.S.), was the son of John Newton, a brandy and cider merchant. His mother, the daughter of a clergyman named Rhodes, died a year after his birth. He was first sent to Lichfield grammar school. His father afterwards married a sister of Dr. Trebeck, the first rector of St. George's, Hanover Square, London, and by Trebeck's advice he was sent to Westminster in 1717, and in 1718 was nominated to a scholarship by Bishop Smalridge, also a native of Lichfield. At Westminster he was a contemporary of the future Lord Mansfield and other men afterwards distinguished. He regretted that he dropped friendships which might have been useful by applying for a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge, in May 1723, instead of going to Christ Church. He graduated B.A. in 1726–7, and M.A. in 1730. A polite reference to Bentley, then master, in a college exercise, appears to have helped him to obtain a fellowship at Trinity. He prepared a stock of twenty sermons, and was ordained deacon in December 1729 and priest in the following February by Bishop Gibson. He became curate to Trebeck at St. George's, and was chosen reader at Grosvenor Chapel in South Audley Street. He was soon well known in the parish, and became tutor to the son of George, lord Carpenter [q. v.], in whose house he lived for some years. The position enabled him to begin a collection of books and pictures.
In 1738 Zachary Pearce [q. v.], then vicar of St. Martin's, appointed him morning preacher at the Spring Gardens Chapel. His connection was increased by an acquaintance with Mrs. Devenish, whose first husband had been the dramatist, Nicholas Rowe [q. v.] She introduced him to Pulteney, for whom he had already the ‘profoundest veneration.’ Pulteney, on becoming Earl of Bath (1742), appointed Newton his chaplain. Newton appears to have enjoyed the political confidence of his patron, and has preserved some accounts of the intrigues in which Bath was concerned at the overthrow of Walpole, and again in 1746. Bath obtained for him in 1744 the rectory of St. Mary-le-Bow, then in the king's presentation, by the preferment
