the eighth year of queen Elizabeth; married Catherine, daughter of sir Henry Knevet, knight, and died

in 15693.

Puttenham, in his Arte of English Poesie, 1589, has registered Henry lord Paget on the list of courtly makers, noblemen, and gentlemen, of queen Elizabeth's owne servauntes, who have written excellently well, as it would appeare if their doings could be found out and made publicke4."

Peacham, probably from this slight intimation, has ranked Henry lord Paget with the earle of Oxford, lord Buckhurst, &c. above others, who honoured poesie with their pennes and practise in the golden age of Elizabeth, which produced such a world of refined wits and excellent spirits, whose like are hardly to be hoped for in any succeeding age 5.

His lordship's name has not found a place in Ritson's Bibliographia.]

3 Dugdale's Baronage, tom. iii. p. 391.

WALTER DEVEREUX,

EARL OF ESSEX,

[DISTINGUISHED by suppressing a rebellion in the north, but more perhaps for being father to the celebrated Robert earl of Essex, has been pointed out as the author of "A godly and virtuous Song" extant in Sloan MS. 1898; and of "The Complaint of a Sinner, [made] and sung by the Earle of Essex upon his Deathbed in Ireland," and printed in the Paradise of daintie Devises, 15762. On comparing the pieces thus referred to, I find them to be the same production which has been transcribed for insertion, from a third copy in the Harleian MS. 293, where it follows a relation of the sickness and death of "Waulter, the noble earle of Essex and Ewe, earle marshall of Ireland," where he died of "a laske, called dysenteria, on Frydaie the laste of Auguste," A.D. [1576]3.

• Ritson's Bibliographia Poetica, p. 188, where the reference ought to be, Sloan MS. 1896.

Three things, says Lloyd, undid this earl: 1. That he could not imagine he was to be ruined by his advancement: 2. That he never mistrusted an oath: 3. That he never considered as princes, so favourites, have many eyes and long hands. No sooner understood my lord of Leicester Essex's disposition, but the better fool Pace could tell his fortune, begging of my lord at his departure the making of his mourning; and adding, "You and I have done for this world." Obs. on Statesmen, &c. of England, p. 307.