SUPPLEMENT.

K. JAMES I. OF SCOTLand.

JAMES AMES Stuart, a King of Scotland, the First of that name, who being taken prisoner and brought to London, where he was educated in all kind of liberal and accomplishing Arts and Sciences, proved a great proficient in all; and particularly left recorded memorials behind him of his perfection in music and poetry.

WILLIAM GRAY.

William Gray, an elegant writer (if we may rely upon the testimony of Balaus), of several things in English verse, in the reigns of King Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary.

LADY JANE GREY.

Lady Jane Grey, the daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, far more happy in her learning wherein she took wonderful delight, and her

fine vein in poetry, for which she is by many highly commended, than in her being proclaimed Queen of England, which however, after a very short time of enjoyment, brought her to an untimely end,

LADY BACON.

Lady Bacon, one of the four daughters of Sir Anthony Cook: the other three were the Lady Burleigh; the Lady Russell; and Miss Killigrew of whose genius in poetry, whatever hath been known extant, there is the testimony of a grand author; viz. Sir John Harington, who in his Allegory upon the 37.th Book of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, gives them all a very large character for learning; and particularly for poetry: and of one of them he cites Verses sent from Cornwall, to her sister the Lady Burleigh, being then at Court, to use her utmost interest that her lover might not be sent abroad upon an Embassy, which was intended.

MILDREDA, LADY BURLEIGH,

Mildreda, one of the fore- mentioned four daughters of Sir Anthony Cook, and wife to

Lord Burleigh, who with the rest of her sisters is equally commended by Sir John Harington and others, both for her learning in general, and in particular for her vein in poetry.

LADY RUSSELL.

Lady Russel, one of the four daughters of Sir Anthony Cook before-mentioned.

MISS KILLIGREW.

Miss Killigrew: see the Lady Bacon.

LODOVICK CARLISLE..

Lodovic. Carlisle, the author of diverse formerly not unesteemed and not yet totally forgotten Tragi-comedies; as the two Parts of Arviragus and Felicia: the Passionate Lovers, in two Parts; Osmond the Great Turk, or the Noble Servant, a Tragedy.

ANTHONY BREWER.

Anthony Brewer, a contributor to the English Stage by his Lingua;- Love's Loadstone; and The Country Girl, comedies; - The Lovesick King; and Landagartha, tragi-comedies; and Love's Dominion, a pastoral.

WRITERS OF LATIN POETRY.

Josephus Iscanus, or Joseph of Exeter, the very first (of the Moderns both in time and fame) of Latin Poets among the English; who accompanying King Richard the First in his Expedition into the Holy Land, had the better advantage to celebrate as he did, the Acts of that warlike Prince in a poem entitled Antiocheis. He also wrote 6 Books De Bello Trojano, in heroic verse; which as Camden well observes, appears to be no other than that version of Dares Phrygius, into Latin verse, which hath been generally imputed to Cornelius Nepos.

Michael, surnamed the Cornish Poet, a notable Rhymer in Latin verse, in the time of King John and Henry the third; out of whose Rhymes for merry England, as Camden calls them, several passages are quoted by the same Author in his Remains.

Henry Bell, a Collector of the Customs under King Henry the Fourth, out of whose Sa

tire in Latin verse against the Exchequer officers of that time several passages are quoted by Camden.

Gaulfrid; one of our modern poets; for he was contemporary with Joseph of Exeter. He is mentioned by Chaucer, in his description. of Chaunticleer the Cock being carried away by Reynard the Fox, with great veneration for his Elegy upon King Richard the First, out of which, being in a more judicious Latin strain than was the usual custom of those times, diverse verses are quoted by the learned Camden in his Remains.

Godfry, Prior of Winchester, an old English poet, as he is reckoned by Camden in his Remains. He is indeed a borderer between the Ancients and Moderns; for he flourished about the year 1100.

(Again Phillips adds.) He was an Epigrammatist in the reign of Henry the First, very much admired by Camden, who in his Remains takes pleasure to quote several of his Epigrams, and commends Winchester likewise for a Nursery of Men excelling in the poetical faculty, adding that the very Genius Loci doth seem poetical.