"He goes over the story of the lives of Henry Peacham, a scholar of Charles I.'s time; of Andrew Boorde, a physician of an earlier date; of Parson Henry Smith, who was a popular preacher favoured by the famous Lord Burleigh; of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes; of George Abbot, who was Archbishop of Canterbury before Laud; of the poet Cowley; of Thomas Coryathe the traveller, the wanderer of his age, who visited the court of the Great Mogul; of Sir Thomas Overbury; of Sir Henry Wotton, the diplomatist, and of the humorous author of the Anatomy of Melancholy. This is a goodly company of single gentlemen, and Mr. Fox writes of them with well-digested learning, and with a judicious admiration which makes what he has to say always interesting."—Scotsman.
The Life and Times of Richard Badiley.
Vice-Admiral of the Fleet.
A Biography of a great Puritan Seaman.
By THOMAS ALFRED SPALDING.
Demy 8vo, 15s.
"It is not only a sympathetic reconstruction of a personality well worthy of the British Navy at its best, but a dramatic and convincing presentation of a very striking and hitherto almost unknown episode in the history of the first Dutch war.... Mr. Spalding tells the whole story of Badiley's proceedings in the Mediterranean in a very vivid and attractive manner, and the thanks of all students of naval biography are due to him for the life-like portrait he has drawn of a gallant, but forgotten seaman."—The Times.
A Royal Rhetorician.
(James VI. I).
Edited with introduction and notes By R.S. RAIT. Fellow of New College, Oxford. Fo. cap 8vo, 3s. 6d. net.