Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Maschiart, Michael
MASCHIART, MICHAEL (1544–1598), Latin poet, born in St. Thomas's parish, Salisbury, in 1544, became scholar of Winchester College in 1557, and a probationary fellow of New College, Oxford, 29 Jan. 1560, and perpetual fellow in 1562. He was admitted B.C.L. in 1567, and licensed D.C.L. 13 Oct. 1573, and was made an advocate of Doctors' Commons in 1575. In April 1572 he was appointed by his college vicar of Writtle in Essex, where he died and was buried in December 1598. Wood calls him ‘a most excellent Latin poet of his time, … an able civilian, and excellent in all kind of human learning;’ but it seems doubtful whether the ‘Poemata Varia’ attributed to him were ever published. Camden quotes from him a description of Clarendon Park, near Salisbury (Camden, Britannia, Holland's translation, 1610, p. 250).
[Kirby's Winchester Scholars, p. 134; Coote's Civilians, p. 52; Foster's Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714; Wood's Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, i. 673, 738; Wood's Fasti, pp. 179, 194; Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, vi. 618; Boase's Register of University of Oxford, i. 268; Britton's Beauties of England and Wales, xv. 189; Antiquitates Sarisburienses, 1777, p. 238.]