hand in the Antwerp disturbance, and was under sentence to
be executed as a spy when he was saved by the intervention of a noble
lady. This experience did not deter him from joining in the defence of
Zutphen in 1572, but this was his last campaign, and the troubles of the
remaining years of his life were chiefly domestic.

Churchyard was employed to devise a pageant for the queen's reception at
Bristol in 1574, and again at Norwich in 1578. He had published in 1575
_The firste parte of Churchyarde's Chippes_, the modest title which he
gives to his works. No second part appeared, but there was a much
enlarged edition in 1578. A passage in _Churchyarde's Choise_ (1579)
gave offence to Elizabeth, and the author fled to Scotland, where he
remained for three years. He was only restored to favour about 1584, and
in 1593 he received a small pension from the queen. The affectionate
esteem with which he was regarded by the younger Elizabethan writers is
expressed by Thomas Nashe, who says (_Foure Letters Confuted_) that
Churchyard's aged muse might well be "grandmother to our
grandiloquentest poets at this present." Francis Meres (_Palladis
Tamia_, 1598) mentions him in conjunction with many great names among
"the most passionate, among us, to bewail and bemoan the perplexities of
love." Spenser, in "Colin Clout's come home again," calls him with a
spice of raillery "old Palaemon" who "sung so long until quite hoarse he
grew." His writings, with the exception of his contributions to the
_Mirror for Magistrates_, are chiefly autobiographical in character or
deal with the wars in which he had a share. They are very rare, and have
never been completely reprinted. Churchyard lived right through
Elizabeth's reign, and was buried in St Margaret's church, Westminster,
on the 4th of April 1604.

The extant works of Churchyard, exclusive of commendatory and
occasional verses, include:--_A lamentable and pitifull Description of
the wofull warres in Flanders_ (1578); _A general rehearsall of
warres, called Churchyard's Choise_ (1579), really a completion of the
_Chippes_, and containing, like it, a number of detached pieces; _A
light Bondel of livelie Discourses, called Churchyardes Charge_
(1580); _The Worthines of Wales_ (1587), a valuable antiquarian work
in prose and verse, anticipating Michael Drayton; _Churchyard's
Challenge_ (1593); _A Musicall Consort of Heavenly harmonie ... called
Churchyards Charitie_ (1595