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•ad printed the book of Rutk in Hebrew, with the oommentary of R. Solomon Alkabetz, 1661, 4to. No farther account is known of him.
1569, Sept. 5. Died, Edmund Bonneb, an English prelate, was a peasant's son in Worces- tershire, and educated at Oxford. He after- wards entered into the service of Wolsey, who bestowed upon him several benefices. Henry VIII. to whom he was chaplain, sent him to Rome to ^t the sentence of divorce from Cathe- rine of Arragon confirmed, and his behaviour was so bold, that the pope threatened to throw him into a caldron of t>oiline lead. In 1538 he was nominated bishop of Hereford, being then ambass&doT at Paris; but before IiLs consecration he was translated to London. In the reign of Edward VI. he scrupled to take the oath of su- premacy, for which he was sent to prison, but on making his submission obtained his discharge. His negligence, however, in complying with the laws, occasioned him a second imprisonment, and the loss of his bishopric. On the accession of Haiy be was restored to his episcopal function, and through the whole of her reign, showed a most sanguinary spirit, by bringing numbers of protestants to the stake.
When penecattng znl made rojd (port With royal innocence in Mary'a court, Tlien Bonner, bljrtbe as sliepberd at a wake, Bi^Joy'd the allow, and danced about the stake.
When queen Elizabeth came to the throne, he was sent to the marshalsea prison, where he died. His body was interred in St. George's church- yard, Southwark. Bonner was a man of forious disposition, but well versed in the com- mon law.*
1570, May 5. HcoH Morts, a journeyman to John Aide, who resided at the long shop ad- joining to St. Mildred's church in the Poultry, died of the plague, in a room called the ttocht, as appears by the register book of that parish.
1 570. Epitaphs, epigranu, tongs, and sonets, with a discourse of the friendly affections of Tymetet to Pyndara his tadie. Newly corrected, with additions, and set out by George Turbervile, gentleman. Printed by Henry Denham, at the siffn of the Star, in Pater noster row.
1571. The printers of Paris were authorised to wear swords by a royal ordinance of king Charles IX.
• In I5(S9, John Aide printed the foUowing work, in ISmo. "A commemoration or dirge of bastarde Edmonde Boner, aUaa Savage, uanriied biaboppe of London. Com- pOeidMiy Lemeke Avale. Kpiseopaium rjut accipet otter, ISdO. Imprinted by P. O. ISmo. John Aide. Very cut- Umg : part of it it thiu : Here after do follow a linial pede. gree of Boners Idndred, by the rolnde and jad^mcnt of many poc. a man of a great house, long before tlie cap- tiTtte of Babilon. Baatarde Edmonte Savage, beyng a great lubberly acfaoiar, was supposed to be the sonne of one Boner, which was the son of a Jnggler, or wild roge, which was the son of a villaine iogrosse, which was the ■on of a cutporse, which was the son of Tom of Bedlam, Ac. — Antictirist Uie son of the Devil, of iniqoitie, and perdition, the cause of all ignorance, iofldelitic, aimonie, tteason, idolitrie, peraecntion, rebclLioo. wicked assemble, and Anally, ererlastinit damnation. Then. A prayer to the holy Tlrinitie tcsinat ignorance of Ooddes worde and wolves."
1671. In this year a printing press, with a fount of Irish types, was provided at the expense of queen Eliu^th, ana sent over to Dublin, under the care of John Kerqey* and Nicholas Walsh,f and the first book printed in Ireland in that character, was a catechism written by John Kemey, and printed about this time, "A copy of this rare and curious little volume is in the Bod- leian library." — Cotton.
1671. About this time, Henry Stepbens the Second, published the second impression of his Thesamtu Grtecus, upon which occasion several epigrams were composed ; the following one by Theodore Beza, makes special allusion to those two kindred works, by which Robert and Henry Stephens were respectively distinguished.
THESAURUS GREEK AND LATIN.
The Auaonian Maae*,t aheltericaa before.
With RoBKRT found a refuge kind of yore.
Lol Hbnrt DOW the pious act renewa.
And entertaina each wandering Grecian muse.
They for a race by bcncfita endear'd.
An everlasting edifice have rear'd.
Enjoy then Stkhiexs',1 the boon they give ,
In fame's imperishable records live t
Ye Muses too of Greece and Latium, Join
Your praise with theirs — your home with theirs coml>ine j
And you, the Muses' votaries, court their smile
Henceforth, in that onited domlciie.
1671. The art of printing was introduced into the lowit of Stirling, or Striviling, by Robert Lekprevik, whom we have already noticed as a printer, at Edinburgh : while resident at that place he printed several works, and from thence removed to St. Andrews ; and from thence re- turned to Edinburgh.
1572, June 1. Ovid's Elegies, in three parts, was burnt at stationers' hall, by an order from the archbishop of Canterbury, and the bishop of London.
- jolm Kemey was treasurer of St. Patrick's chorch,
Dublin, and was educated at Cambridge. He died about ISOO, and was buried in St. Patrick's.
t Nicholas Walsh, chancellor of St. Patrick's, Dublin, waa first bishop of Waterford and Lismore, and in 1577, was translated to Oaaory. He was stabbed with a skeine, or short sword, in his house, at Dublin, by a man named James Dullard, whom the bishop had cited for adultery, December u, 158s. He was buried in the cathedral of Kilkenny, Dullard was afterwards executed for the crime.
t The Muses are certain fabulous deities among the pagana, auppoaed to preside over the arta and sciences; for this reason it is usual for the poets, at the begliming of a poem, to Invoke these goddesses to thetr alil. Sir Isaac Newton talis us that the singing women of Oaiila were celebrated in Thrace by the name of the muaea j and that the daughtera of Plerlus, a Thradan. imitating them, were celebrated by the same name. It has been asserted by some ancient wrltera, that at firat they were orUy three in number) but Homer, Hesiod, and other profound my. thologists, admit of nine. In hia /fjrmn to Apollo, Homer says,
"By turns the nine delight to slog."
The following passage, translated from Callimachua, expresses the attribute of the muses in as many lines : —
"Calliope the deeds of heroes sings ; Great Clio sweeps to history the strings; Euterpe teaches mimics their silent show; Melpomene presides o'er scenes of woe ; Terpischore the flute's power displays , And Erato gives hymns the gods to praise; Polyhymnia's skill inspires melodious strabis ; Urania wise, the starry course expUdns ; AndgayThalia'a glasa points out where folly reigns.
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