[Footnote 3: Collins's peerage, 519.]

[Footnote 4: Ib. 519.]

[Footnote 5: Rapin's History of England, p. 437.]

[Footnote 6: This nobleman suffered death for a plot to recover the
liberty of the Queen of Scots.]

[Footnote 7: Rapin's History of England, vol ii. p. 617.]

[Footnote 8: Rapin'a History of England, vol. ii. p. 630.]

[Footnote 9: Chron. 2d edit. p. 596.]

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THOMAS CHURCHYARD,

One of the assistants in the Mirror of Magistrates. He was born in the
town of Shrewsbury[1] as himself affirms in his book made in verse of
the Worthiness of Wales. He was equally addicted to arts and arms;
he had a liberal education, and inherited some fortune, real and
personal; but he soon exhausted it, in a tedious and unfruitful
attendance at court, for he gained no other equivalent for that
mortifying dependance, but the honour of being retained a domestic
in the family of lord Surry: during which time by his lordship's
encouragement he commenced poet. Upon his master's death he betook
himself to arms; was in many engagements, and was frequently wounded;