The Lives and Characters of the English Dramatick Poets/James Howell
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.