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‘A Defiance to Fortune. Proclaimed by Andrugio, noble Duke of Saxony, declaring his miseries, and continually crossed with vnconstant Fortune, the banishment of himselfe, his wife and children. Whereunto is adioyned the honorable Warres of Galastino, Duke of Millaine, in reuenge of his wrongs vpon the trayterous Saxons,’ London, 1590, 4to. Copies are in the Malone collection at the Bodleian, and at Britwell; a second part was licensed to Abel Jeffes in 1592.
‘Our Ladys Retorne to England, accompanied with saint Frances and the good Iesus of Viana in Portugall, who comming from Brasell, ariued at Clauelly in Deuonshire, the third of Iune 1592;’ a pæan upon the capture of a Spanish ship, London, 1592, 4to. The only copy known is in the Britwell Library.
‘Newes from the Leuane Seas, describing the many perrilous events of the most worthy deseruing gentleman, Edward Glenham, Esquire … with a Relation of his Troubles and Indirect Dealings of the King Argere in Barbarie,’ London, 1594, 4to (British Museum).
‘The Trumpet of Fame: or Sir Fraunces Drakes and Sir Iohn Hawkins Farewell,’ London, 1595, 4to. The only copy known is in the Britwell Library. It was reprinted at the Lee Priory Press, with a preface by Park, 1818; it celebrates in homely decasyllabic verse the departure of Drake and Hawkins on their unsuccessful Porto Rico expedition.
‘Pheander, the Mayden Knight; describing his honourable Trauailes and hautie attempts in Armes, with his successe in loue. Enterlaced with many pleasant discourses …;’ printed by Thomas Creede, London, 1595, 4to; an imperfect copy is at Britwell; a ‘fourth’ edition, with a slightly modified title, 1617, 4to, is also at Britwell; and another edition, 1661, 4to, is at Bridgewater House.
‘Honovrs Conquest, wherin is conteined the Famous Hystorie of Edward of Lancaster, recounting his Honourable Travailes to Jerusalem …; printed by Thos. Creede,’ 1598, 4to; in the Douce collection in the Bodleian.
‘Haigh for Deuonshire. A pleasant Discourse of sixe gallant Marchants of Deuonshire,’ London, 1600, 4to; this is a shameless plagiarism from the ‘Six Worthy Yeomen of the West’ of Thomas Deloney [q. v.] The only copy known is in the Britwell Library (see an article by W. B. Pye in the ‘Western Antiquary,’ February 1885).
‘The Most Royall and Honourable Entertainement of the Famous and Renowmed King, Christein the Fourth, King of Denmark … who with a Fleete of Gallant Ships arrived on Thursday the 16 day of Iuly 1606 at Tylbery Hope …’ London, 1606, 4to (Huth Library; reprinted in ‘Harleian Miscellany,’ ix. 431, and in Nichols's ‘Progresses of James I,’ vol. ii.).
‘England's Farewell to Christian the Fourth, Famous King of Denmark,’ London, 1606, 4to; dedicated to Sir John Jolles, sheriff of London (British Museum and Huth Library; reprinted in ‘Harleian Miscellany,’ ix. 440, and in Nichols's ‘Progresses of James I,’ vol. ii.).
‘A True Relation of a most worthy and notable Fight, performed … by two small Shippes of the Citie of London: the Vineyard and the Vnicorne … against Sixe great Gallies of Tunes,’ London [1616], 4to. The only copy known is at Britwell.

[Notes kindly supplied by Mr. R. E. Graves of the British Museum; Hazlitt's Handbook and Collections and Notes; Hunter's Chorus Vatum (Addit. MS. 24488, p. 336); Huth Library Catalogue; Bodleian Library Catalogue; Ritson's Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica; Ames's Typogr. Antiquities, ed. Herbert; Lowndes's Bibl. Manual. (Bohn), p. 2103; Watt's Bibl. Brit.; Brit. Mus. Cat.]

T. S.

ROBERTS, HENRY (d. 1876), architect, was a pupil of C. Fowler, and was also in the office of Sir Robert Smirke [q. v.] In 1824 he gained two medals of the Society of Arts. He designed in 1831–3 Fishmongers' Hall, in 1835 Camberwell grammar school, in 1844 the first railway station erected at London Bridge, and in 1846 St. Paul's Church, East Smithfield. He was architect to Lord Shaftesbury's Society for Improving the Dwellings of the Working Classes, and designed many buildings for this purpose in St. Giles's, Theobald's Road, and elsewhere. He also interested himself in the housing of the poor in Belgium and Italy. He died at Florence in April 1876.

[Dict. of Architecture; Illustrated London News, iv. 76, viii. 321; Civil Engineer, vi. 403, 454, xxiii. 237, 325, 373.]

C. D.

ROBERTS, Sir HENRY GEE (1800–1860), major-general, born at Chosen House, near Gloucester, on 18 July 1800, was second son of William Roberts, M.D., by Margaret, daughter of Roynon Jones. He obtained a cadetship in the East India Company's service in 1818, and on 11 April 1819 was commissioned as lieutenant in the 13th native in-