ted to Walsingham secretary of state.

A light Bundle of lively Discourses, called Churchyard's Charge 1580,
dedicated to his noble patron the Earl of Surry.

A Spark of Friendship, a treatise on that writer, address'd to Sir
Walter Raleigh.

A Description and Discourse on the use of paper, in which he praises a
paper-mill built near Darthsend, by a German called Spillman.

The Honour of the Law 1596.

Jane Shore, mistress to King Edward IV.

A Tragical Discourse of the unhappy Man's Life.

A Discourse of Virtue.

Churchyard's Dream.

A Tale of a Fryar and a Shoemaker's Wife,

The Siege of Edinburgh Castle.

Queen Elizabeth's reception into Bristol.

These twelve several pieces he bound together, calling them
Churchyard's Chips, which he dedicated to Sir Christopher Hatton. He
wrote beside,

The Tragedy of Thomas Moubray Duke of
Norfolk.
Among the rest by fortune overthrowne,
I am not least, that most may waile her fate:
My fame and brute, abroad the world is
blowne,
Who can forget a thing thus done so late?
My great mischance, my fall, and heavy state,
Is such a marke whereat each tongue doth shoot
That my good name, is pluckt up by the root,

[Footnote 1: Winst. 61.]

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JOHN HEYWOOD

One of the first who wrote English plays, was a noted jester, of some
reputation in poetry in his time. Wood says, that notwithstanding he
was stiled Civis Londinensis, yet he laid a foundation of learning at
Oxford, but the severity of an academical life not suitng with his
airy genius, he retired to his native place, and had the honour to
have a great intimacy with Sir Thomas More. It is said, that he had
admirable skill both in instrumental and vocal music, but it is not
certain whether he left any compositions of that sort behind him. He
found means to become a favourite with King Henry VIII on account
of the quickness of his conceits, and was well rewarded by that
Monarch.[1] After the accession of Queen Mary to the throne, he
was equally valued by her, and was admitted into the most intimate
conversation with her, in diverting her by his merry stories, which he
did, even when she lay languishing on her death-bed. After the decease
of that princess, he being a bigotted Roman Catholic, and finding the
protestant interest was like to prevail under the patronage of the
renowned Queen Elizabeth, he sacrificed the enjoyment of living in his
own cou