Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford Edward Littleton, lord keeper Littleton 316 .... THE NOBLE AUTHORS OF ENGLAND. MARY, COUNTESS OF ARUNDEL, DAUGHTER of Thomas lord Arundel of Wardour, married first to Robert Ratcliffe, earl of Sussex, and afterwards to Henry Fitz-Alan, earl of Arundel, as may be seen in the preceding table. She translated from English into Latin, "Sententias et præclara Facta Alexandri Severi, Imperatoris;" • [I am informed by Mr. Lodge, that the father of this lady was not lord Arundel of Wardour, but sir John Arundel of Llanherne, in Cornwall, representative of the elder branch of his family. She died Oct. 20, 4th and 5th of Philip and Mary; as appears by an inquisition taken the 30th of April.] and dedicated it to her father. Extant in manuscript in the king's library3. "De Stirpe et Familiâ Alexandri Severi, et de Signis quæ ei portendebant Imperium." From Greek into Latin "Selectas Sententias septem Sapientum Græ corum." "Similitudines ex Platonis, Aristotelis, Senecæ, et aliorum Philosophorum Libris collectas." Dedicated to her father". Learning had now taken a considerable flight since the days of Edward the fourth. Sir Tho mas More mentions it as very extraordinary that Jane Shore could read and write. [This lady's dedication to her father, before her collection of Similes from the Works of the ancient Philosophers, &c. is here added from the manuscript mentioned by lord Orford5; and entitled "Similitudines eximiæ ingeniosissimæque, ex Platonis, Aristotelis, Senecæ, et aliorum Philosophorum Libris collectæ." The filial respect it conveys is most pleasing. 3 Vide Casley's Catalogue, p. 169. • Vide Tanner's Biblioth. Brit. p. 50, and Casley ubi supra. 5 Reg. MS. 12 A. iii. "Intelligo, pater honoratissime, ex omnibus libris, quos hactenus perlegi, paternum nomen apud omnes etiam ethnicos in summo semper honore atque reverentia habitum fuisse. Quod cum ita sit, quanto studio atque observantia ego tuum paternum nomen colere atque venerari debeo: qui me ab incunabilis non solum paterno amore complexus es, verum etiam bonis literis informandam tradidisti. In quibus etsi parum adhuc profeci, tamen putavi fuisse officii mei, aliquod specimen ingenii mei dominationi tuæ hoc novi anni initio dare: quo saltem aliqua ex parte tibi debitam meam observantiam præstarem. Atque etsi hæc, quæ verti ex Anglica lingua in Latinam, tenuiter et inculte transferuntur: spero tamen nihil posse dari a me dominationi tuæ gratius, nec etati meæ aptius. Nam sunt admodum egregia dicta gravissimorum prudentissimorumque philosophorum, quibus scio dominationem tuam ut accipias in bonam partem pro solita tua bonitate hæc mea inculta, ac puerilia scripta, quæ exercitationis causa in Latina verti. "Filia tua dominationi tuæ deditissima, "MARIA ARundell." The same volume contains a Latin version, "De Stirpe, et Familiâ Alexandri Severi, etc.; and this is followed by " Responsum Alexandri Severi ad Literas Gordiani Senatoris," signed "Johannes Radcliffus filius tuus, &c."] HENRY, LORD STAFFORD, SON and heir of Edward, last duke of Buckingham, was restored in blood and to part of his lands, but neither to the title of duke, nor to the dignity of lord high constable. Nothing is related of him but one incident, which discovers that he was proud, without feeling pride equal to his birth; for having lost such exalted honours, he stooped to dispute precedence with the lord Clinton, in the reign of Philip and Mary and lost it". We have of his writing a treatise called— "The true Difference between regal and ecclesiastical Power, translated from the Latin of Edward Fox, Bishop of Hereford, and dedicated to the Protector Somerset." Printed by William Copland. In the dedication, he exceedingly praises Henry the eighth for establishing the Reformation; and with the simplicity of that age, tells the duke, "that reflecting on the usurpations of the Roman clergy, he bethought him of thi • Dugdale in Stafford. |