Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Carvell, Nicholas

Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 09
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CARVELL, NICHOLAS (d. 1566), poet, was elected from Eton to King's College 1545, was B.A. 1549, M.A. 1553. He was at Zurich during the reign of Queen Mary, but returned after Elizabeth's accession and died in the summer of 1566. The following poems in the ‘Mirror for Magistrates,’ signed ‘Cavyl,’ have been attributed to him: 1. ‘How the two Mortimers for their sundry vices ended their days unfortunately.’ 2. ‘The Wilfull fall of the blacke Smith and the foolishe ende of the Lord Awdeley in June, anno 1496.’ He also contributed to the collection on the death of Bucer in 1551. In Harwood's ‘Alumni Etonenses,’ p. 161, he is confounded with James Calfhill [q. v.]

[Strype's Memorials, vol. iii. pt. i. p. 233; Zurich Letters (Parker Society), i. 194; Troubles of Frankfort, pp. 16, 65, 169; Mirror for Magistrates (Haslewood), ii. 23, 396; Warton's English Poetry, iii. 185, 186, 225; Cooper's Athenæ Cant. i. 232.]