He is author of the following works;

Epiftola de Cafparo Scioppio, Amberg. 1638, 8vo. This Scioppius was a man of reftlefs fpirit, and had a malicious pen; who in books against King James, took occafion from a fentence written by Sir Henry Wotton, in a German's Album, (mentioned p. 260.) to upbraid him with what principles of religion were profeffed by him, and his embaffador Wotton, then at Venice, where the faid fentence was alfo written in feveral glass windows, as hath been already obferved.

Epift. ad Marc. Velferum Duumvir. Auguftæ Vindelicæ, Ann. 1612.

The Elements of Architecture, Lond. 1624, 4to. in two parts, re-printed in the Relique Wottonianæ, Ann. 1651, 1654, and 1672, 8vo. tranflated into Latin, and printed with the great Vitruvius, and an eulogium on Wotton put before it. Amfter. 1649. folio.

Plaufus & Vota ad Regem ê scotiâ reducem. Lond. 1633, in a large 4to. or rather in a little folio, reprinted by Dr. John Lamphire, in a book, entitled by him, Monarchia Britannica, Oxon. 1681, 8vo.

Parallel between Robert Earl of Effex, and George late Duke of Buckingham, London 1642, in four fheets and a half in 4to.

Difference, and Disparity between the Eftates, and Conditions. of George Duke of Buckingham, and Robert Earl of Effex.

Characters of, and Obfervations on, fome Kings of England.

The Election of the New Duke of Venice, after the Death of Giopvanno Bembo.

Philofophical Survey of Education, or moral Architecture.

Aphorifms of Education.

The great Action between Pompey and Cæfar, extracted out of the Roman and Greek writers. S22d. Chap. of Gen. Christmas Day.

Meditations {

Letters to, and Characters of certain Perfonages. Various Poems. All or moft of which books, and Treatifes are re-printed in a book, entitled, Reliqua Wottonianæ already mentioned, Lond. 1651, 1654, 1672, and 1685, in 8vo. published by Js. Walton, at the End of Sir Henry Wotton's life. Letters to the Lord Zouch.

The State of Christendom: or, a more exact and curious Difcovery of many fecret Paffages, and hidden Mysteries of the Times, Lond. 1657, folio. Letters to Sir Edmund Bacon, Lond. 1661, 8vo. There are also several Letters of his extant, which were addreffed to George Duke of Buckingham, in a Book called Cabala, Mysteries of State, Lond. 1654, 4to.

Journal of his Embaffies to Venice, Manufcript, written in the Library of Edward Lord Conway. The Propofitions to the Count d'Angofciola, relating to Duels.

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GERVASE MARKHAM.

Gentleman who lived in the reign of Charles I. for whom he took up arms in the time of the rebellion, being honoured by his Majesty with a captain's commiflion *. He was the fon of Robert Markham, of Cotham in the county of Nottingham, Efq; and was famous

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for his numerous volumes of husbandry, and horfemanhip befides what he has wrote on rural recreations and military difcipline, he understood both the practice and theory of war, and was efteemed an excellent linguift, being mafter of the French, Italian, and Spanish languages, from all which he collected obfervations on hufbandry. One piece of dramatic poetry which he has published, fays Mr. Langbaine, will fhew, that he facrificed to Apollo and the Mufes, as well as Mars and Pallas. This play is extant under the title of

Herod and Antipater, a tragedy, printed 4to, 1622; when or where this play was acted, Mr. Langbaine cannot determine; for, fays he, the imperfection of my copy hinders my information for the foundation, it is built on history: See Jofephus. Mr. Langbaine then proceeds to enumerate his other works, which he fays, are famous over all England; of these he has wrote a difcourfe of Horfemanship, printed 4to. without date, and dedicated to Prince Henry, eldest fon to King James I. Cure of all Diteases incident to Horfes, 4to. 1610. English Farrier, 4to. 1649. Mafterpecc, 4to. 1662. Faithful Farrier, 8vo. 1657.,. Perfect Horfemanship, L2mo. 1671. In Hubandry he published Liebault's le Maifon Ruftique, or the Country Farm, folio, Lond. 1616. This Treatife, which was at firft tranflated by Mr. Richard Surfleit, a Phyfician, our author enlarged with feveral additions from the French books of Serris and Vinet, the Spanish of Albiterio and the Italian of Grilli and others. The Art of Husbandry, first tranflated from the Latin of Cour. Herefbachifo, by Barnaby Googe, he revived and augmented, 4to. 1631. He wrote befides, Farewell to Hufbandry, 4to. 1620. Way to get wealth, wherein is comprifed his Country Contentments, printed 4to. 1668. To this is added, Hunger's Prevention, or the Art of Fowling, 8vo. His Epitome, 12mo.

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&c.-In Military Difcipline he has published the Soldier's Accidence and Grammar, 4to. 1635. Befides these the fecond book of the first part of the English Arcadia is faid to be wrote by him, in fo much that he may be accounted, fays Langbaine, "if not Unus in omnibus, at least a bene"factor to the public, by thofe works he left be"hind him, which without doubt perpetuate his "memory." Langbaine is lavish in his praife, and not altogether undefervedly. To have lived a military life, which too often engages its profeffors in a diffipated courfe of pleafure, and at the fame time, make himfelf mafter of fuch a variety of knowledge, and yield fo much application to ftudy, entitles him to hold fome rank in literature. In poetry he has no name, perhaps because he did not apply himself to it; fo true is the obfervation that a great poet is feldom any thing elfe. Poetry engages all the powers of the mind, and when we confider how difficult it is to acquire a name in a profeffion which demands fo many requifites, it will not appear strange that the fons of Apollo fhould feldom be found to yield fufficient attention to any other excellence, fo as to poffefs it in an equal degree.

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Ived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth and King James I. He was an actor, as appears from the evidence of Mr. Kirkman, and likewife from a piece written by him called, The Actor's Vindication. Langbaine calls his plays fecond rate performances, but the wits of his time would not permit them to rank fo high. He was according to his own confeffion, one of the most voluminous writers, that ever attempted dramatic poetry in any language, and none but the celebrated Spaniard Lopez de Vega can vie with him. In his preface to one of his plays he observes, that this Tragi-comedy is one preferved amongst two hundred and twenty, "in which I have had either an entire "hand, or at leaft a main finger." Of this prodigious number, Winftanley, Langbaine, and Jacob agree, that twenty-four only remain; the reafon Heywood himself gives is this; "That many of "them by shifting and change of companies have "been negligently loft; others of them are ftill "retained in the hands of fome actors, who think "it against their profit to have them come in "print, and a third, that it was never any great "ambition in me to be voluminously read." Thefe feem to be more plaufible reafons than Winftanley gives for their mifcarriage; "It is faid that "he not only acted himself every day, but also wrote "each day a fheet; and that he might lofe no time, many of his plays were compofed in the tavern, on the backfide of tavern bills, which may be the occafion that fo many of them are "loft" That many of our author's plays might

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