James Howel, Eſq;
A Gentleman born at Abermarlis, in Caermarthenſhire, in South-Wales, 1594. the Seat now of a worthy Gentleman of the Noble Name and Family of Cornwallis, he was at Sixteen ſent from Hereford-School, to Jeſus-College, Oxon. In the Year 1618. he was ſent beyond Sea, by Sir Robert Manſel; he travelled the Low Countries from Italy, &c. was employed by King James, in Negotiations in Spain; was Secretary to the Lord Scroop, when he was Preſident of the North, &c. He writ and tranſlated Nine and Forty Dooks: He died about the Beginning of November, 1666. and lies buried on the North Side of the Temple-Church, with this Inſcription over him on the Wall; Jacobus Howel, Cambro Britannus, Regius Hiſtoriographus, in Anglia primus; qui poſt varias peregrinationes, tandem Naturæ Curſum peregit, Satur Annorum, & famæ Domi, foriſq; huc uſq; erraticus, hic fixus, 1666. He writ One Play, called,
The Nuptials of Peleus and Thetis, a Maſque and Comedy, 4 to. 1654. Acted at Paris, by the French King, Duke of York, Duke of Anjou, Henrietta Maria, Princeſs of Conti, with others of the Nobility there. The Author tranſlated it from an Italian Comedy. The Plot is taken from Ovid’s Metamorph. Lib. 11. and Catulli Argonoutica five Epithalamium.
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Thomas Jevorn.
A Dancing-Maſter and Player, was a Man of uncommon Activity, liv’d in the Time of Charles and James the Second, writ one Play, intituled,
The Devil of a Wife, or, The Comical Transformation, a Farce, 4 to. 1686. Acted by their Majeſties Servants, at the Queens Theatre in Dorſet-Garden. Taken from the Story of Mopſa in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia.
